Bassfinger

I have the biography too, which is actually quite vague and doesn't even mention from where he obtained the mirror, and doesn't actually contradict me. In addition, the book was written decades after his death, so the author was clearly unable to ask to the man himself. The tale I told was a radio interview with Lynott himself which I heard with my own wee ears (Caroline? It was decades ago, obviously). He may, of course, have made it up.

One of Phils girlfriends left him, and after she'd gone he found some of her belongings, including a mirror from her budgie cage. He attached it to his bass in the hope she would see it at a gig and come and talk to him. She never did, but the reflections from the spots in the smoky venue made the audience think he had a lazer on his bass. This gave him the idea to have an all mirrored bass made, but this proved too much. He settled on the middle ground of a mirroed scratch plate.

Not all cheap basses are crap. My cheap Gear4Music bass was fine...once I'd given it a fret job, fitted some Entwistle pickups, slipped on some decent strings and set it up properly. After that it sounded and played ok 😄

I take it you chaps know the story behind the origin of Lynott's mirrored scratchplate?

I'll walk home from the pub after Christmas lunch.

I was hoping for a Gary Glitter number 1.

Their hearts are full...iof what?

Toto at the Royal College Hospital. Steve Lukather was just brilliant. Alas, their bassist didn't die during the performance so I wasn't called up on stage as an emergency replacement. Only played 2 gigs this year, a pub and a working men's club, This Saturday's performance in a very busy pub at a nearby town is liable to be the best now the rest of the lads realise that my fingers need to warm up a bit before I can play My Sharona, so that's been switched to third on the set list.

Valentino's got a P bass shop, And what her takes he gives for what his got, And what he's got he says he has not, Stole from anyone. It's not that Fender misses much, Or even that they lost their lucky touch, It's just they charge way too much, And you know that it's wrong.

500k pots, control plate, and vintage style knobs ordered. Also have some Dunlop style strap buttons heading my way. Once that's lots done then all that remains is a tasty set of flatwound and she's ready for action.

You can indeed, but, as aforementioned, only if there's a risk of consumer confusion. It can't be done just for the sake of it. Actual fakes, ie, items so closely resembling the original that they are intended to deceive the observer into believing they are the real McCoy, are a different matter entirely, and outside of the scope of my above treatise.

I'm playing on Saturday night. Anyone asks for a Christmas song and I'll just tell them I'm hindu.

Eddie Hitler plays pretty good for a man with a prosthetic left hand.

I don't hate him, I just think he's behaviour was really rather pointless. I'm not the crispest shirt in the wardrobe, but even I can tell the difference between a real one and one of broadly similar styling: Everyone knows the far Eastern jobs are far Eastern jobs. No one anywhere, ever, has believed one was the other. No one - that I can see - is trying to pass off far Eastern job as the real thing. No one buying a far Eastern job for £90 is liable to be in the market for a real Ric, so it's not as if any business is lost. You can't trademark a shape unless there's the risk of consumer confusion - no one outside of a mental institution is going to confuse a 90 quid plank for a 1900 quid 4003S - the 1800 quid sized hole in your wallet is a teensy giveaway. Even leaving aside the 1800 quid price difference, Stevie Wonder could tell at a glance that they're not very alike. So a lot of chest beating for no other reason that he could. In fact, just like a kid who is toid he can't have a sweetie, reading all of all this has made me want one of the far Eastern jobs just to poke him in the eye.

Fantastic bit of kit, but that ks nothing more than profiteering of the back of Lynott and Lizzy fans. Were the great man alive I'm sure he wouldn't allow those sorts of prices associated with his name.

And who can forget the classic antipodean anti war anthem?

Not that I'm in the immediate market for one, but if I were that sort of behaviour would have me looking at another brands wares.

Fortunate Sun, Creedence Clearwater revival. In fact, everything CCR did was blummen brilliant.

Yep, you'll need to upgrade your Precision to a Jazz.

With his hands in that position he looks like he's about to grope someone.

His Wife is actually called Albert Hall.

Just to upset him I'd have whipped out my trusty pick.

Alas, my basses aren't interesting. I stole the first one from a hobo while he was drunk, and I'm building the 2nd myself using parts I smuggled out of the factory in my lunchbox.

I can't see how mastering different types of instrument, or different flavours of the same instrument, is anything but awesome.