Graham

That sounds amazing

Yesterday's listening Doldrum - The Knocking, Or The Story Of The Sound That Preceeded Their Disappearance (black metal) Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? (Post-hardcore) Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked For Death (Singer songwriter)

This one might be fun for on here Flea's best performance was the first Mars Volta album

Holiday listening day 2, didn't get to as much as was packing and actually getting away with my wife, and more importantly, without the children. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum (post-hardcore/space-rock/metalcore/grunge.....whatever) The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works (mathcore)

Yesterday's holiday listening was Botch - American Nervoso (mathcore) Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race (death metal) Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory (mathcore/prog) Helms Alee - Keep This Be The Way (psychedelic tinged post-hardore) System Of A Down - System Of A Down (nu-metal) Live Burial - Unending Futility (death metal)

Love a jazz bass, my main is a Lakland DJ5, I find the 70s pickup spacing works really well for me Also, my favourite recorded bass sound is a jazz

I just use a Lakland Jazz 5 for the entirety of our covers set - standard covers band stuff. Between hand placement, two volumes, a tone and amp EQ I can get pretty much whatever tone I need. I bring a spare, but it stays in the car unless I need it. Sure, I might like to change it up at some point in the future, but I can't think of many situations where a five string jazz would be inappropriate

A bit niche, but The Graves era of The Misfits is just as good as the Danzig era

Bill Bailey in Brighton on Wednesday doing his En Route To Normal tour It was absolutely brilliant, incredibly funny from start to finish, plenty of great musical parts and we had amazing seats so a great night

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