Jean-Luc Pickguard

Here comes the rice - small faces

Its my chapati and I'll cry if I want to - Lesley Gore

I'm waiting for the naan - Velvet underground

meat on the ledge - fairport convention

I liked my sunburst one so much I bought a white one as well. The spec on epiphone.com states that they are now being made with an indian laurel fingerboard, which won't be as good looking as the blackwood tek used on the earlier ones which resembles bazilian rosewood, and as it doesn't shrink/expand with the seasons, makes the bass immune to fret-sprout.

T-bone shuffle - T-Bone Walker

Oh man, I really want a bassoguitar now

Tiger, my friend - Psapp

Albert Tatlock - The Skids

suck it & see - arctic monkeys

Five feet high and rising - Johnny Cash

suburban bathers - the residents

Dark night blues - Blind Willie McTell

Wouldn't that only be the ones playing a left-handed keyboard?

yes - i originally bought my first one to sweeten the tone of my washburn electro acoustic guitar which is probably what it is designed for. When i tried it with the dean pace it was a perfect addition as the pace doesn’t have any eq built in. I made the mistake of demoing it to the chap who came to buy the pace and he liked it so much he insisted that I throw in the pedal with the bass. I then had to buy another as a replacement.

If you're looking for something inexpensive, try a Behringer ADI-21 acoustic amp modeller. I used to use one with a Dean pace EUB. It has a very good sounding EQ & can work as a DI box.

I've successfully used poundland superglue as an infill for finish chips like this. That was on a black instrument so I used black permanent marker to touch up the missing colour first.

I'm the opposite. I like that buying secondhand means that *if* I ever do sell on a bass (or guitar) I will probably be able to recoup the initial investment. I recently bought a secondhand Fender vintera mustang (guitar not bass) in mint condition for a little over half the cost of a new one. When it arrived it did feel like I was playing someone else's guitar as the strings were heavier than the Fender 09s I prefer and the action was a bit higher than I like. I changed the strings & gave it a full setup to get the action as low as it would go without buzzing, and also added a tiny disc of leather to the end of the trem arm's grubscrew to prevent metal on metal contact which caused it to gradually work loose. Now the guitar definitely feels like mine and—my telecasters are probably feeling a bit neglected.

Nothing to do with noise, but in the mid 80s when I was living with my parents, a neighbour accosted me as I was leaving for work to complain that our cat had been 'going' in her garden. I didn't know how to respond to this so I said I would "have a word with her." The neighbour seemed to be happy with this response and never mentioned it again, even though I never actually discussed the matter with the cat.

I'm pretty sure the green 'vintage overdrive' one will be a tube screamer clone, but I'm not so sure about the black 'ultimate overdrive.' I might consider getting one of these instead of a mosky 'black rat' if I can find confirmation that it is a Rat clone. This chap who posted this review seems to be pleased with his pink pocket metal pedal, but he issues a valuable warning about the rough edges of the aluminium housing.

nice one! & the dice knob looks great.

An added bonus of using the copper tape is that it also discourages slugs from entering the control cavity via the jack socket and making a slimey mess of your pots.

Yeah, I bought that. Instead of sending it via a courier, they’re getting the Queen to deliver it on foot.

I had a Goldtone Irish tenor banjo for a while, along with a Warren Ellis electric tenor guitar and an Ozark acoustic tenor guitar. I experimented with a few tunings on these instruments and settled on D G B E - the equivalent to the top four strings of a regular guitar, also known as Chicago tuning, and the same tuning most often used on a baritone ukulele. The chords in this tuning were very straightforward for my clumsy fingers to learn and play. I no longer have these instruments as I rekindled my relationship with my six string guitars which had been neglected, as well as my tenor ukuleles (G-C-E-A), and I reached the limit of my brain's capacity to learn and compartmentalise three different sets of chords without getting confused.

The diamond hard apples of the moon - the nice