Grooverjr

I thought it was Dean then decided that I had always got it wrong and didn't check. Thanks for letting me know as I am allergic to wild boars 🤣

Veering off topic somewhat but speaking of men of their time, is that The Hairy Cornflake at the beginning of the 'My Generation' clip? I only remember him from his 80s iteration but he looks a bit more aggressive there. As a London lad the only time I have been genuinely scared in a pub was in the Forest of Dene in about 1995. A few mates went down for a weekend and we went into a pub where, in my memory at least, everyone looked like that - almost as if they were still in black and white. They made sure we had all bought a drink but had not had time to take more than a sip or two before they told us to do one if we wanted to leave with legs intact. We assumed it was thier way of getting free beer so finishing someone else's drink / cigarette / food became known as 'doing a Dene' for a while.

Thanks for this - I had never seen it. Fantastic. That's what a tight, creative, musically very accomplished 4 piece can be at its best. Always better live for me and I'm not a big fan of their studio stuff in general but even there Moon's drumming just jumps through everything and smacks you in the face.

All the entrances will be covered by CCTV and it's not that easy to slip a bass under your jacket so nobody is going to steal it without being very easily identified. As such I'd think they are probably safer in a hotel room then just about anywhere else.

I find it's much easier to keep the tightness on the skippy pedal in the verses of COTG with a pick. I'm not a big metaller so don't have that kind of stamina and I start to fall out of time a bit after a few minutes with the fingers. Or it may be because it's one of the very few tunes I still play from when I was a teenager with a pick (but without a clue 😆). As for the best Geezer lines, for me it's Paranoid pretty much from start to finish. From that noodling at the start of War Pigs onwards it's consistently great. The killer tone, the ability to squeeze soooooo much heft and feel out of just pentatonics and R 5 O and the way his parts weave so perfectly with the guitar and drums. Stellar stuff.

It's more of a winter drink, isn't it?

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. 🤞