Jackroadkill

What a difference 16 hours makes - I've been listening to Vengeance by New Model Army this morning and Stuart Morrow's bass playing is crazy, frenetic, odd-sounding and chuffing brilliant.

Probably The Clash's London Calling. The bass sound of Guns Of Brixton is worth the price of entry alone.

Last year the top floor was set aside for bass (and the performance area, I suppose, which was full of widdly guitarists and their 12,000 pedals, but we don't talk about them). I'm hoping for the same this year.

Yeah, I might as well wish to see the Beatles, really.

I'd give my right ball to see Kyuss.

Very true; the best guitarist I've ever known was a (mostly) functioning smack addict and he ruined every opportunity he ever had, burned through a fabulous collection of vintage guitars and ended up living in his parents' shed at the age of 40 due to his addiction. He finally went clean in about 2000, I'm glad to say, and has had a much better time of it since then. Where his talent could have taken him I don't know, but I do know exactly where heroin took him.

Piles Davis Booby Vee Nick Drape Slit Pickens Cat Lower Joel Ramone Pose Carreras

Meter, Paul and Mary Mr. John Grace Flick Bevellers Wrong Tat Stevens Moundgarden Fuzzcocks Buddy Gut Bream City Film Club My Lying Bride

My Humps - Black eyed Peas.

Shite, if I'm honest! If I hear of anyone who needs two bass players and some craziness I'll send them in your direction!

I just want to get a band formed again. It's eighteen months since my last (and favourite) band folded and I'm keen to play gigs again.

It'll be similar to mine, then. Mine's late 1990's and it's a beast.

It's not for sale, but if you still need one I'm happy to lend it to you in the medium/long term.

My main regret about not playing guitar any more is that my Sheraton just lives under my bad, waiting.

Maybe this should become a BC tradition - everyone with an Elf gets a turn at putting it somewhere odd in December and posts a picture. Hang on, this is BC - visits to A+E would become commonplace, so maybe scratch that idea!