Jean-Luc Pickguard

Benylin and the Jets — Elton John

Born To Be Wildebeest — Steppenwolf

The Sold Out Artist — The Residents

Nice one — Thanks! Downloaded, installed and working in Logic Pro

Commotion — Creedence Clearwater Revival

Dead Man's Autochop — The Specimen

Fuggem. You're not happy. Find/form a band that respects your time better.

I'm Cuttin' In — The Inspirations

It’s no good putting the warning on the pcb. I never noticed it and was bunged up for weeks.

Déjà Vu — Crosby Stills Nash & Young

Bronze Coins Showing Genitals — Andy Partridge & Harold Budd

Just had a look at the basses on the Andertons website. If I wasn't so into my JMJ mustangs I would be seriously gassing for the custard coloured telebass. The Vintera II mustang basses have the wrong tuners — they have the Gotoh GB10 type with the undersized string post, as used on the CIJ models rather than the lovely lollipop hipshot HB7 of the original vintera and the JMJ.

Andertons have posted a video - looks like it only covers the guitars rather than the basses, but I'm watching it now

Trombone Cholly — Bessie Smith

Sounds like they should have set a reserve, but didn't as it would cost them an extra 4%.

Resurrection Shuffle — Ashton, Gardner & Dyke

Bummer In The Summer — Love

That low E string doesn't want anything to do with the fingerboard does it.

Thats a thick ol' bit of ebony.

Yes — Sounds like a fret polish is needed. One way to do this which is inexpensive but can be a little messy is to use 0000 steel wool which is safe to be used on a rosewood fingerboard if you go with the grain, but always use a steel fret mask or masking tape on a lacquered maple board. If you do use steel wool, also mask off the pickups as the magnets can attract the little bits of steel wool that break off

Déjà Vu — Crosby Stills Nash & Young

Short and Curlies — The Rolling Stones

It Snot Unusual — Tom Jones

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da — The Police

I don't get on with active basses — I much prefer passive, but when I used to regularly play an active one I came up with an idea to get around this issue. I never built it, but the design would have been a short length of cable with an inline switch in the middle, a stereo jack plug at one end, and a mono jack socket at the other. The cable from the amp goes into the socket, then when plugging the jack plug into an active bass with the switch set to off the battery in the bass stays off until the switch is set to on. I never bothered to build it as it was easier to just unplug the blummin' bass when it wasn't in use. While typing this up, it just struck me that this could probably be better built as a pedal with a footswitch where the amp connects via a mono cable and the bass via a stereo cable.