Shaggy

Strangely enough, many many many years before the Internet, when I was 16, I wrote a letter to NME (or possibly Sounds) asking exactly the question as the OP. B@stards never printed it.......

Still ill - Smiths

You little thief - Feargal Sharkey

Fool to cry - Rolling Stones

Lush - the best Gibson paint colours IMHO, should have done ages ago......

Orgasm addict - Buzzcocks

Dancing with myself - Billy Idol

Na Na is the saddest word - Stylistics

Very collectible, especially with name artist recordings. I’d say worth putting up on eBay (where most collectors would search), or on Gumtree / Facebook. If you just want rid for pennies; any local vintage / antique shop would probably take them, or they’d go like hotcakes at a car boot sale. That’s what happened to most of my vinyl LP’s when we moved house and “She Who Must Be Obeyed” made me get rid of them - they sold instantly, and later on I saw MY LP’s being sold at the other end of the car boot sale with a 1000% markup........grrrrrr

LA Woman - Doors

Sailing on the seven seas - OMD

I think it was a Hondo, and Bruce Foxton started with an Ibanez Ric-alike.

Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Paul Simon

Atom heart mother - Pink Floyd

The Banana Splits were the original furry prog rockers of course - I think they were Vox endorsees back in the ‘60’s; confusingly the hippy lion bassist’s bass looked suspiciously like a guitar, but seen sporting some sort of Jazz bass in the recent movie spin off......

(It wasn’t, I tell ya.....) Before you accuse me - Bo Diddly / Eric Clapton

Love in a void - Siouxsie & the Banshees

The shadow of love - The Damned

Eye in the sky - Alan Parsons Project

Lol don’t worry Chris, when you’re ready I have a Mesa Diesel 1516 cab with your name on it...... Yup, I don’t think you could find a pleasanter spot for a meet up than the Harbourmaster on a sunny day. All well cheers, likewise hope alls well with you, Mrs Beedster and the Beedster gals

Diolch yn fawr! 🙂 Did I buy it from you John? I recall a meet many years ago in Carmarthen.......

It's a Warmoth, specifically with a neck pocket routed to take a Fender neck (the Epi one is slightly slimmer), and original p/up routes were for P/J. (you could order any format / facing you liked). Unfortunately, I think Gibson have now stopped Warmoth making them.

Good score and great project Maude; I once saw the guitar version of this which had the body totally covered in textured faux snakeskin! It seems to be a feature of German basses and guitars of this era that the strings run almost parallel from nut to bridge, such that there is very little taper on the neck. I had a Framus Grand Star jazz guitar just the same. Or maybe it was a European thing?

Lol, thanks for saying so bassaussie, but if you look at the build diary sub-forum you’ll see projects far more ambitious than mine, there are BC-ers who are proper luthiers........