Jean-Luc Pickguard

A bunch of t-shirts and stuff from bassthing.uk. Although it’s my own website, the items are printed to order by the supplier, so I only have a few of the shirts currently.

Bow Tie Daddy — Frank Zappa

The Idiot B@stard Son — Frank Zappa

Bury A Friend — Billie Eilish

You YesYesYes — The Residents

Willy — Joni Mitchell

Hands Off — Betty Everett

Scratch My Sack — Slim Harpo

More of a preference than a predjudice, but I tend to go for modern reissues of basses that were available in the mid to late sixties. My main basses are my three JMJ mustangs, but I also have another pair of mustangs, two epi thunderbird vintage pros, a gibson non-reverse thunderbird, a Guild Starfire II, and a Danelectro Longhorn. The Hohner B2A tends to stay in its case.

Bald Head — Professor Longhair

I used to have an epi pro v t-bird. The black box is the active preamp. What is the other end of the red wire connected to? Can you post any pics to show clearly what it looks like?

Gobbin' Girl — Frank Zappa

Death or Grolly — The Clash

Catarrh Man — Elvis Presley

Stinkfist — Tool

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat — Charles Mingus

If you want some roundwoundish zing but with the feel of flats, you can't beat Ernie Ball Cobalt flats. I use these on my thunderbirds, and have just put a short scale set on my squier jag shortie. All of my mustangs have d'addario chromes.

The Peeper — Hank Crawford

These d'addario versions are good. Fender & Ernie ball also have their own versions in various colours — I have all three types plus no-name ones & a few old Grolsch ones. The D'addarios seem slightly easier to get on & off than the others. in red: https://amzn.to/3uQ2wRB or black: https://amzn.to/4a2C9rT

Bee Bop — Charlie Parker

My Fretless Precision bitzer has a nut I made out of a fake ivory chopstick which works as well as any nut on my other instruments.

Its a Squier Affinity with a fake decal and a shítload of aftermarket parts. A photo of the back of the headstock showing the serial number is conspiculous by its absence.

Doing a nitro refinish and fitting hipshot tuners to such a cheap & cheerful bass seems like overkill to me.

When choosing a book, make sure you get one with those little pictures that tell you where to put your fingers

The Electrocutioner — The Residents