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Best - probably my secondhand MIJ Fender Mustang bass. Bought initially out of curiosity but has quickly become a mainstay and my go-to bass. Very likeable. Worst - not actually worst, but certainly my least used, would be a Boss bass overdrive pedal. Really wanted one, had all sorts of ideas to use it, and then after a couple of goes just relegated it to the back of the drawer. Turns out I don't really use overdrive after all...maybe it's day will come tho.

Never. I've been playing 30 years+ and gigging regularly for about the last 20 and i've never had an amp die. I've had them making farting noises and clearly not quite right, but i've managed to get thru the gig well enough and got them repaired. I do have a little DI box so i really should take it with me to gigs...

Yes definitely add No Brexit to my list too. I'll raise that to seeing Trump removed from office too.

Four-bedroom house with a large leafy, south-facing private garden and room for an outdoor hot tub. A small holiday home in France (south or southwest somewhere ideally), again with a grassy, sunny garden or patio area. A studio room at home, and some time to read the manuals in peace. A French passport. A resident nanny to take the kids off my hands from time to time.

To echo the other posts here, the string tension should normally feel lower on short scales than on long scales. I've got a 34" precision, and a 30" mustang, both fitted with La Bella flatwounds (both sets are 43-104 gauge) and the Mustang strings feel significantly more bendy than the Precision. Then again, both basses are nicely set up too which helps. Well done on your purchase tho - Mustangs are brilliant little basses.

I've switched to lighter basses over the last few years (40 is now a distant memory...) and annoyingly the two basses I'd been using that were dead heavy were also great sounding ( a P and a J bass ). But a bit of trial and error has ended up with me having three basses now all under 3.9kg and all big and full sounding, regardless of their weight. Weight is one thing, but not everything.

A red tort pickguard for my mustang bass. It ain't gonna happen but it's what I'd like. Can't justify spending £60+ on it tho.

A bit of peace and quiet hopefully.

Balls. That's horrible. I'm in Leicester so I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Ah I love JC basses. I had a 2007 goldtop one until i sold it this summer to fund a Fender Mustang bass. The neckdive was spectacular, but yeah i used a 3.5inch wide rough suede strap which went a long way to reining it in. Lovely sounding thing TI flats on it. Great bit of kit, and got me noticed on stage too!

I've dropped off my Schroeder 1210 for a once over with a techie and hauled out my Aguilar GS410 for a practice instead. I barely use it as not doing gigs that big nowadays, and was thinking of selling it. However, I had forgotten how great it sounds, and it's such a good match for my LM3 and MiJ Mustang with flats. Sure it ain't a valve head and huge cabinet. But it sounded warm, articulate and really punchy and snarling. V nice indeed. God knows what my neighbours made of it!

I used an Orange AD200B head and Ampeg 8X10 cab at a festival a year or two ago. What a sound. But I'd never be able to carry that around, or really want to.

Ah man that's awful. You have my sympathies as some one who has also previously had their gear nicked. Its an unusual bass and ill def keep my eyes peeled. Fingers crossed

Yep in the last couple of years I've had an Epi Jack Casady and an Epi Gary Clark Jnr signature Casino, and they've both been incredible value guitars.

Hmm I understand - I'm afraid I think your guitarist sounds like a prat.

I don't understand why you aren't working out the parts yourself tho - why do you need him to tell you how to play the songs correctly?

Absolutely. I got excited then I saw these for a split second before my eyes realised there was something wrong with the control plate and extra pickup. Nice option to have, but a standard USA Mustang would be ace. Damn. I'll have to make do with my perfectly lovely MIJ Mustang instead.

Ive played the same bass for 24 years but can't be considered by any stretch to have had a glittering music career!

Took a bass off over my head onstage in Derry and smashed it straight into the lighting rig above me. About 25 years ago after seeing a Mr Big gig I decided to try supergluing three picks together like a clover and sticking it to a drill. Too impatient to let the glue dry properly I fired it up, splattering the bass with little beads of superglue which I never managed to remove. Oops. If anyone out there owns a black Charvel model 1 bass with mystery little bumps all over the front, that's the reason....

Rory Gallagher's battered strat?

I'm also pretty sure that Steve Harris's (Iron Maiden) P bass now is the same one he's used since the early 1980s. The one that's currently West Ham coloured is the same one that used to be the metallic blue sparkle/mirror pickguard one from around Live After Death tour in 1984/5, which itself was a refin of the white one with black pickguard he used from around Number of the Beast onwards. I might be wrong tho. It does happen.

Malcolm Young and his Gretsch guitar. Used it throughout his career from the early days when it was red and white, then stripped back to natural wood.