Grooverjr

It's odd how experiences with what should be the same service differ so wildly. I use Wise all the time and never have an issue. Sent money to loads of places and only ever had one bounce back, which was not thier fault. Rates are very good, money moves quickly. However, I do have a Wise 'bank' account and transfer directly from that so that makes things much easier. Transferring e.g a thousand pounds with Wise compared to HSBC would be roughly 40 quid cheaper overall as FX is better and fees are lower. Again, this may be because I am a customer. Their CS is decent as well. Someone nicked a card on its way to me (my sister foolishly sent it in the normal post to Mexico, with predictable results) and used it at some dodgy retailer and I got an easy refund. I also made a mess of setting up a transfer before I set up the account and they never got the inward transfer but I explained it via email and they didn't enforce the fine I'd agreed to when signing up. Anyone who needs to send money overseas reasonably regularly, I'd recommend setting up an account, shoving a tenner in it then having it there ready for when you need to do the transfer. Of course, saying this will probably jinx it and the money I'm sending to my mother in law in Boliva will go walkies. 🤞

Best, my custom ACG that looks and feels absolutely amazing and keeps on giving me more and more amazing sounds. It is also the only bass that has given me anything other than a horrible deadness with the Nordymute, which must be the worst purchase: gets in the way, has no adjustability and the rubber smells nasty. Although it was officially a present so maybe it doesn't count, in whichcase it's the Peavey T40. Black and maple, it's my favourite looking bass ever - it's got a real Star Wars Imperial aesthetic to it. I was very excited when it turned up and the neck's amazing - all the joy of a maple P neck but with a flatter fretboard - but I just can't get it to sound right for me whatever one of the gazillion settings I try and the body contouring is all wrong so it digs into my ribs.

Maybe it's Devant-Garde?

I've just done the same thing of finding out about him through an article and going to the album. Very much enjoying it although there are a few duds on there. Blues is an absolute showstopper, though. Maybe the best new thing I have heard this year (new as in new to me and released this year).

For the supermarket or for the German industrial niose? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_Organisation

I have a real problem with not being able to concentrate on anything if the background music is awful so I can sympathise. I worked at the Pinnacle Records distribution factory after leving uni in 1996. They had Virgin Radio on the speakers. The same 10 dad songs, in the same order, every hour. With mostly the same ads in the middle. I didn't so much mind getting up at 5am and coaxing my 20 year old Cavalier into life in the frost, or the mindlessness of the work, or the terrible pay but that playlist made me want to burn the place down. Rotterdam, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Peaches (not the Stranglers), You're Gorgeous, Everything Must Go were definitely in there and I hate them all with a passion. Luckily I got another job after about a month so I avoided permanent brain damage.

Not sure, but I think Stoner Metal is the best if you want to get a lean-to

But he is also just one letter away from being a winter olympic sport! Like my mate Ike Skating

Wikipedia confirms. I saw him play several times when he was in Lush. Can't remember him...must have been looking elsewhere on the stage.

Could any shed felters name the bassist from Felt? I'm going for the one on the right

I've finally got round to taking a couple of pics of what was, one upon a time, my first bass. It started life as a standard 1982 (I think) black MIJ Squier Jazz. I got it in 1988 when my dad bought it for me. I was 14 and in my first band doing your standard blues and rock covers but I loved JJB so while it wasn't a P at least it was black. Mod 1: Paint Graduated from that to a thrash band in 1990 (I think). Their old bassist was very good, fingerstyle and I was not so good and mostly pick so there were uncomfortable Burton / Newsted comparisons in the air. What to do but style it out? I had a friend who was pretty artistic and she said she'd custom piant my bass. I had no money but I did have a few pots of paint from the old days painting my Dungeons and Dragons figurines so I gave them to her, along with the bass and a couple of stencils that came free with a PWEI 12 inch and some of my favourite comics. She came up with the genius idea of pouring the paint on then using a matchstick to scrape it off and leave the black showing through. Unfortunately, she also took forever and I had to take it back for a gig before it was all done so there is an unfinished Freak Brothers by the neck pocket - poor old Franklin never got his hat. It also got some dings and scrapes along the way but I still love the effect today and it reminds me of being a teenager. I'd say it's likely to divide opinion and most people will probably hate it but I'll bet there's nothing else like it anywhere. It also goes well with the floor in the pics! Mod 2: Pickups I didn't play from about 1994 to 2020. Too busy moving around all over the place. Come the pandemic, my son was bored and I remembered that my old bass was still in my Grandma´s loft. I dug it out and amazingly, given it hadn't been in a bag or box, it was still in pretty good nick. Local luthier gave it the once over, new strings and my son's going to become the bassist I never was. Except he put it away after about a week, so I picked it up and started noodling and re-caught the bug. I got hold of a little amp and soon realised the old pickups were a bit weedy so got some Quarter Pounders and now it was making a proper noise, especially the neck. It also reduced the buzz somewhat. Mod 3: Neck and Hi Mass bridge. Tried a few other basses, started learning how to play properly and realised that, for me, a J neck is just too cramped at the money end. I also really love the look of a roasted maple neck. A roasted maple P neck came up on BC so I bought that and a hi mass bridge and some new tuners while i was at it. A couple of the old tuners had bent being whacked against things like van doors, ceilings, amps, the rhythm guitarist's head etc. When I took the old neck off I found a little sliver of wood taped into the pocket which must have been the factory shim. When I got the P neck in, it took a lot of playing around to get the action right. I even took it to a local luthier in Mexico who made it worse (it came back convex) and charged me for the privilege. Eventually I realised that lower tension was the way to go and dug out an unused set of rotosound tapewounds that I ended up not using on another bass. The nut was already cut for some very beefy strings so they sat perfectly and I was able, with a bit of shim cutting and lots of truss rod jiggery pokery (heel adjust truss rods - just no!) to get the action decent at about 2mm at the 12th fret. And now, it's the perfect old jazz and reggae bass. It makes a lovely noise and plays very nicely. The action being a bit higher than I would normally have helps with some upright slappy noises (technical term) and neck pickup with a bit of distortion gets a nice Flabba vibe. It's not light but it stays at home so no real issue with that. It's literally just the body, wiring and pots / cover (took the nobs off when the paint was done) that are original. Obviously not up to the levels of most of the mods in this thread but it's changed with me and I love it just as it is.

That's definitely a coloured pickguard. I'd say get the bass you want and have it painted by an artistic friend. That way it's unique and you can have whatever you want incorporated into the design. I have a bass that was pianted using paints for lead figurines 30 years ago and it's still good. Not Rasta, defintely not 'pretty' but I'd bet it's the only bass that combines PWEI, Freak Brothers and Epicurus the Sage and I wouldn't change it for the world.

I can only dio 5. Don 'Felts' Felton: Northumberland's finest Andres Terciopelo: specialist Mexican cartel tunnel felter, but he cut his teeth on the sheds of Monterrey - all three of them) Shedrack: Biblical felter, thrown into the fire for refusing to see to Nebuchadnezzar's garden man cave. Vanessa Feltz Mark 'Shedders' Shedford: did all the sheds for his Madness bandmates. I heard Suggs had a particularly tricky multi-storey one.

He's alright, yeah. Squire, on the other hand, could hardly look more bored! If people have paid the least you can do is pretend to be interested. Liked the song, though, and was not aware of the album so I'll go and have a listen.