Grooverjr

Well after dropping 600 quid on the skirt I'd asume you'll be going shoeless, pantless and everythign else-less!

Lovely - I toss them up, you hit them out of the park! 😆 I'm overdue a watch of Tap, actually. I recently rewatched Fear of a Black Hat (the Hip Hop version of Tap - equally funny) so it's definitely time to smell the glove again.

Wear the trousers and then you will at least have somewhere to keep a cucumber/ mini baguette in case you get peckish 😵‍💫

I bought my first bass amp with cash made by stuffing stamped addressed envelopes (kids, ask your parents) with *** slimming section's diets, so I won't have a word said against that very fine publication. On topic, I have a number in my head where it becomes not worth selling and I would rather keep it, but generally I want it gone and am prepared to take quite a big hit on most stuff. There's only Fartbook here in Mexico, really, and I have been dealing with so many tyre kickers with bass stuff and bike stuff I have been trying to move on before we up sticks again. I price stuff below market rate and clearly list prices etc. and all you get is people asking the price and if you will drop it to them half way across the city for free or take staggered payments. It's soul destroying but if that happens at a fair price I can sort of understand why people try to put a slice on top to cover the aggro.

Yeah, I quite like them. Not into relics in general but these are quite cool in their way. I expect the novelty would wear off pretty quickly.

Just because most people have small hands or more advanced fine motor skills there's no need to discriminate 🤣

It's a thing. I did it. I have big hands and don't get on with the tight string bunching at the nut of a J neck, but I do like the J sound. It's great. When my fretless P neck gets here it will become a fretless P neck on a J body. I also, unlike the advertiser, have a bag or suitcase to hand in. It's a gator hardcase.

Luckily I have 2 coats 🫣

I'm pretty sure they are all way better than Mr C. He didn't even programme the drums for The Prodigy. I'll get my coat

Mexico City to York. For a Vigier (and a funeral, but that would spoil the story)

Went from mind-boggling when I read the thread title to ear-boggling when I clicked on the video. Great stuff, a rabbithole down which to disappear!

Nice idea. You could call it Feck 🤣

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.