Graham

In all honesty, I think most couriers are much the same and positive or negative experiences have more to do with your local depot for that courier than the overall quality of individual couriers. For example, at work we refuse point blank to deal with UPS if we can possibly avoid it, but I know in other parts of the country they're fine.

Yeah, looks brilliant. To be fair though, if I can sneak out that night it'll be to see Bossk and God Is An Astronaut in Brighton

That line-up at The Roundhouse on Sunday is insane

Yes, I was trying to work out the benefit of this instrument 🥴 Except possibly to his chiropractor's profits

I saw Wolves In The Throne Room a couple if years ago and they had three guitars, no bass and a keys player. Got to say, it worked really well

I really liked the last Deftones album, much more so than Gore or Koi No Yokan......but then Vega was a big part of that, it felt like they'd given him a lot more space creatively.

Yikes That implies they've had to change some componentry because of material shortages, and the new designs have pushed the units out of CE compliance.

Pupil Slicer and Godflesh tonight, as I am sadly not in Glasgow watching them both

Oh John, why did you have to get, and then need to pay for, a divorce? The Getaway was quite interesting, I still go back to it, in a way I certainly won't with this. It sounds like four friends had an enjoyable afternoon jamming and persuaded a label to spend large sums of money turning it into a record. The band seem like they're having fun, but most of the riffs sound like they were rescued from the Stadium Arcadium discard pile. Couple of decent songs and Flea's lick at the start of Poster Child is *chef's kiss* but overall it's 73 minutes of inoffensive, if immemorable material.

As it's four years since Caleb Scofield died, some of his best work

Also look VOLA up anyway, as they slap

Green Day - Dookie This album always reminds me of being 15

Do you need to go down an octave? I think some bands with 8 string guitars will have the guitar and bass in the same octave, but just different timbres. A pal of mine who writes this sort of thing was telling me about it, means you get more definition in the bass sound and a low F# is so low not many speakers can reproduce it anyway.

The lacquer on the neck goes really nicely with the sunburst

United By Fate is one of those albums that always takes me by surprise, I forget how good it is, put it on and it blows me away every time.

As all this reminded me how good it is, I just bought the new Quicksand album - great stuff https://quicksandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/distant-populations

https://consequence.net/2022/03/sergio-vega-leaves-deftones/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-consequence&utm_content=later-25203537&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio I think this is a mistake by Deftones and one they'll come to regret. Based on Vega's statement and singer Chino Moreno's Instagram post, he seems to have been treated pretty poorly. Vega's playing - particularly on the most recent record Ohms - was excellent and he seemed to bring a lot to the table. Perhaps the band don't care and he did nothing but play notes as directed by others, but it seems unlikely. Still, the last Quicksand album was very good, so hopefully we'll get more of that.

I'm really bad for this, Cave In are my favourite band, but I got into them when they were on hiatus, back together now so that's good. The Dillinger Escape Plan are another, liked them when they were together, after they split got really into them and they're a top five band for me now. I reckon if I'd heard The Downward Spiral around the age of 20 then Nine Inch Nails would have been a huge band for me, I only really started listening to them a couple of years ago though. Napalm Death, Converge, Faith No More, Judas Priest - all bands that took me far longer than it should have done to give them a go.

It's not often I've owned the object of folk's desires, but I had not one, but two of those - the first one fell off it's stand and fractured the neck, claimed it on insurance and bought a second. Very good basses if you can get over the 12th feet inlay and like the very shallow neck profile. The electronics were a bit weak, but could be easily upgraded

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come I'm as habitually late to the party as ever and finally got round to listening to this album which is widely (and fairly) regarded as a classic. Hearing it now, reminds me of when I finally got round to listening to At The Drive In - clearly excellent and has influenced many others as I can hear how it's sound has trickled down to many later bands.

I saw Rolo Tomassi last night in London with Pupil Slicer and Heriot in support. Heriot were great, not heard much by them but really good crushing hardcore. Pupil Slicer were really why I was there, I've been a big fan since they released their debut record last year and did not disappoint. Chaotic mathcore with some excellent bass playing, lovely to hear a Modulus Flea in the wild too. Then Rolo came on, I'm a bit late to the game with them as they've just put out their sixth album and I've only really got into them the last couple of years, but they were sublime. They were everything I want from a band at the moment, the comparison doesn't quite stack up but I'd call the a cross between Muse and The Dillinger Escape Plan and are now firmly ensconced amongst my favourite bands. All in all, an excellent night out

I've been working on bass for a grindcore album, after a mate who I see once a year at a festival asked if I wanted to play on it. I've not done original music for the best part of a decade and have found the process to go something like this: Sure, I'd love to play on your album These are cool songs, quite quick though, I'm sure they'll be fine This is cool, okay I got this Hang on. No, I do not have this I am bad and should not be allowed at music That's......better? I can't hear the difference between good and bad anymore Nope, that's out of time .....and that's out of tune.... And that's just plain wrong Jesus, he's not a bassist and his bass part is much better I need to email him and tell him I can't do this Oh. That works I think this is good? Timing sounds about right? I think I'm happy with this I've now uploaded to Dropbox and will await feedback from the songwriter

All very on brand for UPS, not sure if it's happened recently but at work we used to regularly have their drivers turn up demanding cash on delivery for the imports they were delivering - same deal as your buyer. Goods-in would point out (again) that they don't have cash, we'd paid the import duty by deferment and that we have a credit account with UPS. Most courier firms are hard to deal with, worse since Brexit/COVID, but in our area at least, UPS are by far the worst.

Neurosis- Live At Roadburn