NancyJohnson

viii) Gold hardware. ix) Short scale basses. x) Not a fan of body shapes where the top matches the bottom (ie Gibson EB3). It worked with my old Travis Bean, but generally no). xi) Natural/oiled finishes. xii) Mudbuckers. xiii) Oh, headless basses. I'm sure I could hit 20 by lunchtime.

OK, here goes: i) I'm really not a fan of the Jazz/Precision shape. Or Fenders generally. ii) Sunburst finishes generally (especially sunbursts where the colour goes from black to yellow). iii) Maple fingerboards. iv) Hi-gloss finishes that look like furniture. v) Terrible headstock design (ie Cort, Sandberg, Chowny, G&L). vi) Anything with a single pickup (I'm just of the opinion that a twin pickup set up is way more versatile tonally). vii) 'Does it come with a hardshell case?' If the answer is 'no', then well, no. There's probably more.

Bit of a guilty pleasure considering the stuff I usually listen to. Marina and the Diamonds. I find this difficult to pigeonhole; I really like the vocal delivery. I watched a bit of her set at Lollapalooza in Chile over the weekend and it was quite brilliant in a look-at-me-I'm-bonkers kind of way.

Realising the flippancy of my initial comment, I guess my current favourite is this. It's great for recording, it's very easy to play and just makes me want to play better, if that makes sense.

They're all great. If they weren't, I wouldn't own them.

I think the thing that threw me initially was that it wasn't posted on the 1st. Oh, well. It's a great pity it wasn't genuine.

There was a Hamer Quad bass on e-Bay that I missed (simply because it wasn't titled correctly. That one has yet to resurface.

The started 1992/93 and did a couple of albums and a brace of EPs/singles before a very acrimonious spilt around 1998. There's a decent recent interview on YT which purports to cover everything about the break up, but I'm not so certain. Louise Post (the dark haired one) kept the band going for a few years, but the Resolver and IV albums were a little lacklustre; Nina Gordon (the blonde lady) did a couple of solo albums, They patched things up 2013/14 and did a crowdfunded album ('Ghost Notes'), which is on general release. Always liked them.

It was £1,700 or thereabouts. Black. Just like the one Jeff Ament uses.

I missed a Hamer 12 string bass a few years ago. Often think about that one.

Queen. The Who. Led Zeppelin. Umm.

There's been a few posts here and there about whether they'll fold or continue and speculation as who would take over on drums if they chose the latter. I can't even begin to imagine how they would fill the void Taylor Hawkins has left but I do strongly believe that if they choose to continue, Dave Grohl is so adored by their fans that if he gives the new guy his seal of approval this would lead to an almost unanimous acceptance by fans.

I'm listening to Veruca Salt. Mature ladies with guitars. What's not to like?

Driving west out of London, me and the drummer would always stop at a McDonald's on the A40 in the middle of the night. I've read Fast Food Nation and I'm while vehemently against eating this rubbish, we were always energetic live and your body is just craving fuel to get you home. I haven't eaten anything like this for three or four years thankfully.

Never let your singer count you in. Interestingly, never let the singer decide when a song should end, either. We'd delight, while the singer held an arm up like Elvis, in deciding when to stop during a long ending. Sometimes we'd just stop, other times he'd throw his fist to the floor and we'd be letting the ending carry on. Oh, the hilarity.

Despite the obvious junk that seller hawks, he does sell an awful lot of stuff.

I'm very much on a Johnny Thunders/Heartbreakers groove at the moment.

Stuart Hill, Shudder To Think STT rhythm section went through two excellent drummers (Adam Wade/Jawbox and Kevin March/Dambusters) and the clip below features the quite wonderful Nathan Larson on guitar. This unedited clip from MTV's 120 Minutes is pretty awesome.

I love sitting here reading this. Can't say yet.

Johnny Thunders/The Heartbreakers - Live At Max's 1 & 2. 5/5

Thread resurrection! Generally I skip the adverts that You Tube push up, but I sat through a whole one for the Aclam Smart Track board. I'll admit that despite only running two stomps (a dUg and a Geddy 2112DI) I was intrigued with the Aclam. Never owned a Pedaltrain, but I did have a Temple Board; I hate that there's a necessity to stick anything onto pedals that cost a small fortune. Question is, do I really want/need another board just to carry two pedals, a PSU and a couple of ABY boxes? Answers on a postcard.

I think @skankdelvarraised all the salient points (with the exception of the prostitutes). I've been playing long enough and am old enough in the tooth to see this is not going to be a get rich quick/cash cow thing; it shouldn't impact on my day job and I don't see touring on the horizon. I could see them playing second or third on the bill at Rebellion. If I lived in East Landaan, I'd feel more excited about it. The main thing here is the travelling, expense thereof and the loss of my recovery time (weekends). I can record from home. I'm already shattered most of the time and this will just contribute to that. As things stand, I'm just waiting for the phone to ring, so to speak.

I'm not going to go into specifics, but last weekend I was asked whether I'd like to take up bass duties in a band fronted by someone from a band I adored in the 80s/90s. I saw them maybe a dozen times...Hammersmith Odeon was probably the biggest place, but they played bigger. They were on TV a lot, loads of albums/singles. I'm a little conflicted here, on the one side there's the positives (playing, creating etc.), on the negative it's two hours each way to the studio (other side of London from me), I'm not entirely sure what the timetable is (gigging/recording), so I need to firm this stuff up. I'm not even sure I want to do another band.

I had a set of black tapewounds donkeys years ago, possibly Rotosounds (back then there didn't seem to be many alternatives). I eventually unwound the tape and to my delight, revealed rounds underneath. These sounded infinitely better and for that reason, I've stuck with rounds ever since.