MrCrane

Excellent choice. My daughter got one of these when she was 8 and it took her all the way to Grade 8. (Nowadays she just raids my collection) 😀

Yes, but according to Adams, the '69 isn't referring to 1969

Little Drummer Boy. Partly because it's sickeningly twee, but mainly because of it's association in my mind with Ian Brady & Myra Hindley https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/chilling-recording-shocked-the-court-133705.html

[Bernard Wooley]Can you actually go downhill from rock bottom? [/Bernard Wooley] 🙂

And now we know why delivery drivers run away without knocking. 🙂

Make sure you replace the screws in the same hole they came out of. I’ve heard of case where screws of differing lengths have been used.

Danny Thompson Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen James Jamerson Dee Murray Jack Casady Kenny Gradney Kenny Edwards Joe Osborn John Entwistle Bob Babbitt 'Duck' Dunn Rod Clements Richard Davis Rick Danko

You could try asking on the Tokai Registry site. https://www.tokairegistry.com/

Rubber Washers 3.99 for 12 on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0026WZB7W/ref=pe_3187911_185740111_TE_item

Hold my beer.

Fairytale of New York for pretty much the same reason.

You can also add Rod Clements of Lindisfarne onto the list.

Pah! Amateurs! Last set of strings I bought cost £218. (Admittedly they were a set for an Upright 🙂) For a bass guitar, the last set I bought cost £50 (Thomastiks) but that was in 2014 and they're almost broken in by now.