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Hello, Gary.

Hello, Guy. How are you? I'm all right. I'm all right, Mr. Hancock.

We're back here again.

Hello to everyone. And thanks for putting us at number one the other week.

That was very, well, both weeks.

That's very nice of you.

Yes.

We can take some time off and get back and you're still keen.

That's really fantastic.

I was reminded, Gary, sorry, this is not really appropriate of anything,

but I was reminded of what I think is quite a funny story the other day. Someone got in touch with me about getting rid of a Steinberger bass that they had, but a particular type of Steinberger bass, not the stick one. It was one that had a body and I used to have one of these. And there was a period in the early 90s when there were lots and lots of headless bases

you know what I mean which where the neck ended at the end of the fingerboard right

it was a big thing and I had this base and I gave it to the base center to sell because I knew

you know one would want to buy the base center was this amazing Aladdin's cave in whopping, huge great shop, just sold bases. It's now an online business. It's great. But it just shows how big a thing base was back then. But I thought no one's ever going to buy this thing. And they called me up one day and said, really sorry, God, but someone's nicked your base. So we'll have to give you the insurance. I was like, brilliant. And it turns out they'd had a rash of thefts of headless bases.

And eventually this guy got caught.

And they went around to his, police went round to his flat.

And he's just got this flat full of headless bases.

He doesn't play the base.

He's got no interested in it at all. He's also got no underworld connections. He's got nowhere fencing them. So he's just stuck with that house full of headless bases. For the simple reason, he'd figured out a way he could nick them, which is because they don't have a head, if you get a big carrier bag, you can put the body in the bag and have the, have the, have the, have the, have the, have the, have the, have the neck go up your arm. So he just went, stole about 50 bases for no reason. I've never liked the look of those bases. I don't like the look of those guitars that do that. Who play at those kind of things? Didn't Nick Kershaw sort of... It was a very muso thing because... It's because very often it was a graphite neck, wasn't it? And it's because they basically didn't think out of tune. Because the string went through the bridge at the end. And it wasn't wrapped around anything so the tension was linear and everyone's just

aesthetically they're just one up from kitas aren't they i think they just don't look balanced

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