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Just popped round to buy Tim’s Markbass 102p cab. Had a good natter about all things bass related and came home with a lovely cab, great condition and all easily done. Much appreciated mate!

I had a live video from 1984 called “Does Humour Belong in Music?” and Scott Thunes is playing bass on that, looking delighted to be there!

I usually take just one bass for most pub gigs. One of the bands I play with involves two basses for different tunings, and they double up as each other’s spares. I last broke a bass string in about 2006 onstage, which prompted a long intro and some banter from the singer while I replaced it. No big deal.

1985 was right at the start of me getting properly into music and a year before I started learning bass. But thanks to my older brother I became very well acquainted with: Iron Maiden - Live After Death Scorpions - Worldwide Live Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain Asia - Astra WASP - The Last Command Kiss - Asylum AC/DC - Fly on the Wall Maiden, Kiss and AC/DC in particular became the core of what I was into as a teenager.

I can vouch for the Fender Mustangs being good versatile short scales.

I remember seeing Adrian live with the ASAP donkeys years ago and really liking it. I’ll def check out this new album.

I was out with my nine year old lad last week. Walking past one of his school friends houses I spied a Fender bass headstock of some sort in the living room. The family walk past our house to the park most days so I got chatting to the dad who it turns out is the bassist. He’s been using lockdown to get properly into it while his daughter is learning guitar. Used his time a bit more wisely than me then.

Looks tremendous - good work!

I bought mine above all cos it was the bass I liked most in the shop at the time - it wasn't even that ancient then! I remember there was another which looked indentical, but was a plank. Mine wasn't bought as a vintage collectible - it's a nice instrument, which just happens to be old now. Hence my comment that i wouldn't go out of my way to get another vintage instrument for its own sake. I've played some lovely modern basses which I'd have happily bought if I'd missed out on my old one.

I've owned a 1970 Fender Precision for the last 27 years. It's a working, gigging instrument that looks its age but has been well cared for. Does it play nicely, feel good and look cool? Yes it does, and I love it. Would I go out of my way to buy another one? Not really, given the cost nowadays. It is very good, and it's a vintage bass, but I wouldn't say it's automatically good just because it's a vintage bass, or that other, newer, basses aren't equally good in their own way.

Anything by Pulp.

Good for swing.

Mine are so roadworn they even have the skid marks.

I remember pretty clearly most of the TOTP stuff from 1990. It wasn’t the sort of thing I was listening to by choice but was the soundtrack to many of our teenage drunken evenings up the local park causing mischief...

Sold my Yamaha TRBX505 to Lawrie - paid promptly, good comms and no probs. Glad it’s gone to a good home. A pleasure to deal with.

I have those exact things, and can highly recommend....

I’ve got to the stage where I’m really happy with my main gear, and unless I sell any of it (which I won’t) I can’t afford anything more of the same quality. So I’m stumped really. Lockdown has made me realise I’ve got all the gear I’ll ever realistically need, as a semi-pro player with a day job and family and with my fifties lurking on the not too distant horizon. On a positive note it’s taken the anxiety out of the whole process now I appreciate what I’ve got, rather than worrying about what I haven’t.