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I’m guessing this would be possible as a custom build, you just need to ask them.

Over The Hills And Char Away - LZ

Welcome to the Club - Joe Welsh

You’re Moving Out - Carol Bayer Sager

The single coil selection on the shorty ‘Ray (neck facing coil) gets quite close to a P tone.

I barely pick up my long scales any more and I've become disenchanted with fretless too. Shorties with speed bumps is the way for me at the moment. I'm seriously contemplating selling my 2 Maruszczyk custom builds (33") and my Rob Allen MB2 (35")!

I’ve not used them myself, but the Loxx system looks like it might not stick out as much as Schaller or Dunlop https://bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Loxx_Locks.html Conversely, you might try a non locking solution such as the D’Addario/Planet Waves elliptical strap pin https://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Waves-Elliptical-End-Pins/dp/B005FKF3L6 I have these on a guitar and they’re rather effective and low profile.

The Casino is an easy one to pick up as it’s reasonably loud acoustically, due to its hollow body, so is more responsive without having to plug it in. However, swap out those pickups pronto, as they’re not good at all. I fitted a pair of Artec P90s and, despite the low cost of the Artecs, the difference is like night and day. Because of the difference in the height of the treble pickup on the Casino, you may need to source a shim to raise it to the correct height for even output between the two, unless you reuse the original covers. Sorry for the guitar talk, as you were.

Swede Child Of Mine - G&R

Earlier today (much because Planet Rock is so sombre at the moment), I dug out the live recording that came with the 40th anniversary edition of Moving Pictures. Damn that's a fine live album!

Nothing to see here, move along.

My favourite bit on that album is Devin Townsend shouting, “Shut up! We know you can play,” priceless. 😂

I suppose that’s the mark of the session player, easily overlooked. But yeah, he’s a monster, much like Nathan East, who I forgot too. Here’s a player we’ve overlooked so far - Bob Glaub.

Tony Levin Pino Lee Sklar Sean Hurley Chuck Rainey

The Pass is the one for me. The first chords are hairs on the back of the neck time.

Aah, I might be getting confused with Vapour Trails.

Clockwork Angels has some great tunes on it but I find Nick Raskulinecz’s mix awful, a complete mush with little separation. IIRC there was a remix of Snakes & Arrows that was warmly received, as the original release suffered from the same mushy mix, I hope they do the same for CA.

Rush’s Presto and Roll The Bones are both seen as dreadful by a lot of the Rush fanbase. However, whilst not maybe their best, I find them both very pleasing and better than some of their other albums.

Arrested for Driving While Blind - ZZ Top

Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed - Thin Lizzy

Flush - Queen

Wakeman’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth is marvellous (or at least I used to think so, it’s been a while since I listened to it) and Six Wives is quite good too (previous, bracketed statement applies again). King Arthur wasn’t nearly as good, IMO and doing it on ice was whimsical in the extreme, although this may have been done to distract the audience from the less than stellar music and performance (some of the singing was woefully pitchy IIRC).