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Two of the best Fender playing/sounding basses I have owned have been signature models - JMJ Mustang and Roscoe Beck lV. I’m not interested in buying basses because of the endorsement, it’s all about whether or not it’s a good instrument.

I Dream of Wires - Robert Palmer/Gary Numan

Hare - Graham Central Station

Right Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue - The Ramones

& bienvenido.

Only once you've been through the, "Something sounds wrong. What's wrong?" loop and other members of the band have given you 'the look'.

War Pigs - Sabbath

I don’t dislike Ed, in fact, I quite like some of his stuff. As you say, this gives us all hope, when we inevitably drop a clanger. My favourite was forgetting to reset the D Tuner from the previous song .

Warm Wet Circle - Marillion

Ayr on a G String - Bach

Dancing in the Dartford - Bruce

Mud on the Tires - Brad Paisley

Rip Her To Shreds - Blondie

Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler

Hot Stuff - Donna Summer

Night shift - The Commodores

Lithium - Nirvana

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Gigs? Oh yes, I remember those. After packing up, the last thing I wanted was a post licensing hours, grease fest. I’d drive straight home and maybe munch a few sweets from the car stock (yeah, I know, a post licensing hours, sugar fest) and maybe have a something plain, like a piece of bread, once home, whilst catching up on Basschat as a wind down.

I have found that modifying stock basses helped me define exactly what I want from a bass. My 2 custom builds feature many of the things that I tried out on stock basses earlier (D-Tuners for example) and not the things that didn’t work out as I’d hoped. However, upgrades to stock basses rarely increases the worth of that bass if and when you come to sell it, it is not a sum of its parts, sadly, although they might help sell it to someone who likes the changes. On the whole, I think it’s best to keep the original parts and put them back if you sell it on and sell the modifications separately (or keep them for your next project). It is this way that you might see a ‘sum of its parts’ resale value.

Onwards and upwards!