Grooverjr

Beck is a bit like Weller for me: not that into most of it but a couple of albums are among my absolute favourites. Sea Change is a stunningly beautiful and introspective record and given when he made it shows he has only ever been interested in the music and not the money. Modern Guilt is also amazing start to finish. Chemtrails is on my list of 'things to play when I am a grown up bassist'. A brilliant bassline but just too much for me to remember and some fingering changes that just don't move how I would want to move.

Nope. I remember going to Kensington Market quite a lot in I'd guess about 87/88 but mainly trailing after industrial goth girls so we would have been looking at different stuff. Well, I was looking at them but they were looking at things in purple and black! I know American Classics because a mate of my dad's who was well into his clothes went in there sometimes on the way to Stamford Bridge but I was that bit too young to have any money to be looking properly. I grew up in Sidcup so Kensington was a bit of a trip and you had to pay for the tube. Covent Garden or the Soho were just a jumped train to Charing Cross so we spent more time up there. You've got me all misty-eyed now.

Too cool for me. I was a devotee of Flip of Hollywood in Covent Garden. The jeans were expensive but they had some great old work shirts and I seem to remember getting some Carhartt trousers there (but the memory isn't what it was so I may have imagined that). I definitely bought my 6th form school 'suits' from there in 1989 - 50s sports jackets, shirts with absurd collars and some very interstingly-cut trousers. All for the price of a Fosters or Top Man shiny number. I must have looked an absolute case but I loved it. About 5 years ago I was in a micro-pub with a mate and some guy recognised me as ´that kid from school who had the crazy vintage gear' and said he had always thought I was really cool. So someone liked it. Admittedly that someone was drinking on his own on a Wednesday night, but you take what you can get, I suppose!

Not at all - I'm very happy to carry on with long stories with various plot twists about old basses. There's enough trash talking in the real world and I come here for a bit of a break.

And now this is much more like a BC thread - gone on a complete tangent! Interesting story, though.

Thanks. Those are the ones I found on an old Squier bridge I have but it's too big!

They are madness. I've used various converters and it's definitely a 3. I counted the number of threads on the screw at 14 and it's 3/8 inch long so that comes out as 37.3 tpi so it would be 3-36 or 3-40 possibly. Still can't find anything online locally. I'm resigned to just trawling round the guitar places with the saddle and the screw I have and trying to find one that fits. I've also asked the guy who sold it to me as he is a big vintage dealer and may have some lying around.

You lucky, lucky people. I am resurrecting this thread! I just bought a 1976 Kramer so it has to be imperial and I need a grub screw for the very unusual offset saddles. It is (drumroll please) 3-32 or 3-36 according to my measurements. I expect m2.5 and a pitch around 0.7 in metric would do the job as at that size the difference is so minimal. So I checked your useful links provided and.....nothing. I'm in Mexico so everything is imperial anyway and can't find anything here either. I really don't fancy a trip to the old centre where all the guitar shops are but I don't think I have a choice. Moral of the story....don't buy really old stuff!

Bought an audio interface from Sam. Super easy, super quick postage, top stuff all round. Nice one!

Late to the party, but bought a pedal from Ben last year. Top bloke, dealt with my daft questions and postage requirements like a gent. Pedal was in perfect nick as well!

Off to see BADBADNOTGOOD tomorrow night. Only found out about the gig yesterday and I'm pretty excited. Always making interesting music and as it's Mexico City i expect they will have some cool guests and Chester Hansen puts down some lovely lines so having a good bassist is always a bonus.

The problem with this stuff is that it can get a bit samey. Good if you're driving or want background but not really something to get deeply into. Agree the bass lines are fun but they also tend to get a bit repetitive.

It can happen.....Ped fell out of love with his Vigier Passion, and now I am in love with it. I have no idea how you could ever fall out of love with something so wonderful but it just means others get to love it, I suppose. I like playing the field but I have never had any desire to own a Ray. They look good and all but sonically don't really do it for me.

I'm definitely into it. I wouldn't put TC and Arc Du Soleil on the same genre, myself but it might depend on what TC tracks are on the playlist. I expect you'd find it easier to find people to play Arc de Soleil style stuff as that is in the Khruangbin / Glass Beads camp and is more clearly instrument based. TC is more of a hangover from the 90s with that kind of deep electronic production but also more reggae influenced than most. If it's that lush electrónica / reggae mix you might find a band but I couldn't say where, sorry. If you like TC you could try Sofa Surfers and an album called The MIssing Two Weeks by Spectre as similar stuff.

If you are desperate you can take the neck off and put the body in your hand luggage case and bubble wrap the neck and hold that like a souvenir. I did that with my fretless a couple of months ago and it worked a treat! I have used a box that is 126 x 42 x 15, so well above the allowed dimensions, and it was fine. I have also used Hiscox and other hard cases without an eyelid being batted. On various airlines. I don't think anyone wants to get the tape measure out, they are more worried about weight. I would risk it, smile and feign ignorance!

I think Trump put a tariff on metal, so it's now too expensive for Americans to use a European bass for that purpose.

That statement sounds a lot like the one our CEO read out on a big call recently when he basically said we were skint and loads of people would be losing their jobs but that 'leadership' would be open and honest. Complete and utter cow's turd! If you have to insist in that way you've already lost most people. Well done to Ped for keeping them well away from here!

That's lovely