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Another for Dunlop Tortex 1.0 here. I like to attack the strings! Now use the same shape for guitar but a thinner gauge, 0.5 or 0.6.

This. Also worth trying out your local auction house. I've picked up some decent stuff at mine for ridiculously low prices. The hammer price for a left handed Harley Benton VT Series Telecaster was £26. Even after fees that work out at about £33. Got a couple of Strat copies too for around £20.

Works fine on my PC 👍 And, having listened to it, you're clearly as mad as a mushroom 😁

Merry Christmas, tunesmiths I've recorded a version of the Pink Panther theme using the arrangement that the superb Russian surf-pop band Messer Chups use on their track Pink Pantheratu. Mine contains very little of the guitar dexterity of their six-stringer Oleg. He's fantastic. I'm not. Used a Strat copy, a Westfield P bass copy, a Vivlex delay pedal and a Roland Cube amp. Drums by MT Drums through Ableton. Recorded in Wavepad and Audacity.

How do they sound without Huey? Is the new fella up to the job?

Call me crazy, but I always thought that the Rutles sounded a lot like the Beatles.

This always went down well when we did it. Not hard, just fun.

Slim Smith & The Uniques - Build My World Around You. Had this playing as we signed the paperwork when we got married.

The Temptations have had a couple of mentions already. Here's another one, with a belting Bob Babbitt bass part. Plus, there's Melvin Franklin's basstastic delivery of the line "and the band played on".

Somewhat inspired by the 'Motown basslines' thread, I stumbled across this.

...great, innit?

Sounds familiar... 😁 ...as does this...

This video has a pretty good explanation of James Jamerson's methods and has a PDF attached with his 'cheat code' exercise. Might be useful?

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Jackie Mittoo.

You are Milli Vanilli and I claim my £5.

"It's a holding track", 'e sez. Yeah, holding on to top spot all the way 😁 Bravo, that man 👏 another top tune!

Don Drummond.

About time I got my skank on again.

The ingestion and subsequent description of the effects of mind-altering pharmaceuticals has had a pretty good run at various points along the lyrical landscape. For more information, listen to jazz, psychedelia, acid house and most of Hawkwind's output.

Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning? International Asbestos Testing Laboratories? Eh?

Magic people, voodoo people.