Jean-Luc Pickguard

Father's Got His Glasses On — Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra

French (Fries) Kiss — Lil Louis

Charlie's Enormous Mouth — Frank Zappa

Return To Sender — Elvis

Come Into My Sheep — Nick Cave

If you can source a spherical balloon with a diameter of 6.12 feet, fill said balloon with 162 cubic feet of helium and attach it to the bass, you should find that most, if not all of the weight is relieved.

Discovering Japan — Graham Parker

If the bugera can pump out 1000W, why does it only have a 200W speaker? Am I being thick? (if so, it won't be the first time)

I went for simplicity & low weight in my previous band so gigged with a single Schroeder 1212L. My current band already owned an Ashdown stack when I joined, so I use their cabs, an ABM210 & an ABM115, with my own Ashdown ABM600 Evo iv which I bought as their existing evo ii had a few quirks.

Alien Orifice — Frank Zappa

Not sure I'd risk buying a bass from aliexpress, but the Lekato WS-60 wireless system I bought from there is excellent, and can be used in mono or stereo mode to take advantage of rick-o-sound (on a real 4003)

Whole Lotta Rosie — AC/DC

While you're in there, your future self will thank you if you junk the existing socket and replace it with a switchcraft or pure tone one.

The only time I was propositioned after a gig, I had to politely decline the offer in question saying, "I'd love to, but I don't think my wife would be too happy about it"

Lozz, this design is on a black Gildan 5000 shirt. If you want to double check the size, there's also a link to a pop-up size guide on the page below the size selection drop-down.

Something similar is available on my online apparel shop, bassthing.uk https://bassthing.uk/shop/tshirts/bass-benefits-t-shirt/

Return To Sender — Elvis

Feet Like Fins — Cocteau twins

I have just uploaded a new version of the band name generator. This has probably around 10× the number of words as the first version. Due to the size of word list, rather than doing everything using javascript in the browser, this new version does all the clever stuff on the server in PHP. This means it is less likely to crash the browser. There is still some work to do before it is officially launched— notably I need to go through the word lists and remove a lot of the crappy/obscure/archaic words. Currently I'd say the app is a fair bit less useful than the previous version due to there currently being a lot of crappy words in the source lists, but once I have edited the lists down, it should improve.

Does something like this come with a case, and if so, how the hell would you carry it? Its a bit of silliness like Elwood's multi-stringed beast in ZZ Top.

It's a fake of a fake.

It appears to be aimed at the kind of people who think smoking would make them look cool.* *it doesn't — it would make them look like they stink.

Quartz Going On — Marvin Gaye

Only A Prawn In Their Game — Bob Dylan