EssentialTension

Surely the question ought to be: 'Am I good enough to play a cheap piece of sh!t and still sound great?'

Scale length = 2 times the distance from fingerboard side of nut (or centre of zero fret) to centre of twelfth fret. Distance of bridge saddles from nut (or zero fret) will vary slightly from scale length (as given above) due to differential of intonation on each string.

Very nice, but I say keep the tort.

More what you might expect and very nice too:

Whatever small difference one might possibly detect, it would be unnoticeable in a band situation.

"Payment: Cash" I don't think so.

As well as their own material, Lake Street Dive are very good at other people's songs.

Bridget Kearney also played with Joy KIlls Sorrow:

The only time I have needed to 're-nut' is when I tuned a bass BEAD with a 125 B string.

Fender Precision, LaBella 760FL strings, foam. NS WAV4 EUB, can't remember what strings. Both straight DI. One overdub on Lakland Skyline Decade, GHS Precision Flats, no foam, also DI'ed

Very nice.

Wouldn't 'My Love' be Denny Laine on bass and McCartney on piano? As for out of tune, I'll have to listen to it. EDIT: The studio version does sound dodgy.

Jimmy $avile tribute?

Gold lamé?

John Lennon, another very effective rhythm player. Also Nile Rogers

Clarinet and/or tuba.

My son's old band had a percussionist who also played melodica, or Jah pipe as they liked to call it. Great sound.

Always one or more of these. Looking wrong is as bad as playing the wrong notes.

I may have several heath isues but, nonetheless, I have come to terms with the fact that I expect to die by scooter on a pavement.

Ivory Embassy with two creamy cousins - all now gone to new homes.

I didn't express myself very clearly. I should have said: Before you set the witness point at the bridge saddle, relax the tension on the string and let it settle before retuning and then setting the witness point. This avoids a twist in the string that will prevent it from ringing properly. That is one way in which a twist can occur. Always wind the machine head and don't twist the string around the tuning peg by hand.

I particularly like the black one.