Man.about.Tyne

Spirits in the material world - The Police

P2 Vatican Blues - George Harrison

Little red courgette- Prince

Smells like teen spirit- Nirvana

Walking by myself - Gary Moore

Black or White - Michael Jackson

Curly (tail) - The Move

Upside down - Diana Ross

Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold

Enigma Variations - Elgar

Third stone from the sun - Jimi Hendrix

Never going back again - Fleetwood Mac

Twistin' the Night Away - San Cooke

Paper Plane - Status Quo

Hip to be square - Huey Lewis and the News

Several influences already mentioned but couldn't leave Norman out.

Lieve hemel, een echte Nederlander! In de jaren '80 heb ik een paar jaar in Haarlem gewoond. Ik wou dat ik terug kon gaan...

Put it to the side of you so that it’s not playing directly back at your soundboard. I’m assuming you’re using your double bass and this is just feedback.

Well that headstock doesn’t look a million miles away from my first ever bass in all its glorious 1980’s pointyness! I’m thinking rebodied onto an old neck… maybe

Use conventional music paper and play in the spaces…

No, it's a PITA! I have two Sandbergs and I agree with you about the bridge and the strings - rumour is that they are GHS Super Steels. Anyway, the bridge... I played around endlessly with the bl**dy thing until it's right and I'm never going to touch it again. Good luck!

Johann Sebastian Barbie - never, in a million years, will I understand what his fingers are doing.

IQ or shoe size?

Sadly at the opposite end of the price spectrum… https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/products/thomastik-infeld-jf324h-jazz-flatwound-hofner-bass-strings-43-96 Get these Hofner-specific version JF324H rather than the regular medium scale, JF324 set because… 1. The winding taper is thinner and more suited to wrapping around tiny winding posts (and getting through the 2mm holes) found on those 60s bases. 2. The “H” set have a 96 gauge E string where the regular set has a 106. I’ve not tried the regular set myself but lots of folk complain that it’s horribly unbalanced with the other strings. I have tried the 96 set and they’re great.

https://www.andertons.co.uk/gretsch-g2220-electromatic-junior-jet-bass-ii-short-scale-black-walnut-fingerboard-shell-pink?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces Gretsch in shell pink?