Silvia Bluejay

I think you need to click on Manage on the top right hand corner. The resulting screen should look more or less like this: Scroll to the bottom of the Manage Page column and choose Settings, then Notifications, and you'll end up on the screens in my previous post.

I do receive notifications on my main pages, and only on the website, not on the phone or email. This is what it looks like at my end on the computer. Alternatively, you can download the Facebook Messenger app on your phone, and it will allow you to switch between your personal inbox and that of your pages, and will ping for each new message on any of the accounts.

You don't need anything at all to register, except give them your bank details to pay money in. If you earn enough from music to pay tax, then it's up to you to self-assess - Event UK has it in its terms that it's a payment bureau, not an employer and therefore has nothing to do with tax.

Signing up is no big deal. I've been a member for years but never, ever got a gig out of replying to their emails. We have gigs at a couple of pubs that pay through them later in the year, and that will be the first time we have any dealings with them.

Looks like it! In any case, I don't think we necessarily want to replace like for like, but knowing what they are is useful. Thanks

A rather tatty-looking set with light purple silks at both ends. 🤔

Roger Sadowsky told me his family is of Polish origin, so his name should, in theory, be pronounced 'sadovski' (with the stress on the 'o'). He himself says Sa-dow-ski and I'm fine with that. D'Addario is pronounced Daddahrio (Italian surname). Di Marzio is pronounced Deemartsio (other Italian surname) Fodera pronounce their name with the stress on the 'e' but, in theory, the Italian surname should be stressed on the 'o'. I prefer the former. Aguilar - Dave Boonshoft was impressed at my Spanish pronunciation ('agheelarr' with the stress on the last syllable), but said that that was the (Mexican) surname of his former business partner, with whom he no longer works, and as time went by he got to accept the Americanisation. At least Bartolini is - well - 'bartolini' (other Italian surname)... 😄

IIRC the strings supplied as standard by NS on their uprights are D'Addario Hybrids, in order to be reasonably useful to all kinds of buyers of the EUB. I think most experienced players recommend choosing a set of arco-friendly strings (and there are lots of differences among those as well) if arco represents the bulk of your playing. I almost exclusively do pizz, so I'm afraid I can't be of any help in this case.

Does the war in Ukraine imply we should forget about, say, violence in the street or the climate emergency? Or anything else that we find intolerable and worth fighting against? Do we only have space in our brain for being appalled at a limited number of unsettling, unfair or downright horrible happenings? If that's the case, could we please have a list of currently acceptable topics to be appalled by?

I tend to find most of such banter extremely tedious, because I'm old and I was alive and in my teens in the 1970s, so nothing much offends me any more. This kind of stuff does occasionally still p!ss me off, however. I've said this before - try imagining a similar situation to that described by the 'joke' or 'banter', and replace the female with a black person or a gay person, and see if telling or laughing at such 'joke' still sounds acceptable to your ears. Most of the times it won't.

Doesn't it depend not just on the type of gig, but also on your role in the band? Of course for plug-and-play gigs where backline, PA, lights and sound engineer are provided, it's just a matter of carrying an instrument, a lead and a tuner. When the gig is in a pub or club and the stage (or corner by the gents') is bare, that's another matter entirely. For our main band @Happy Jack and I carry absolutely everything except the drumkit. PA, backline, desk, cables, microphones, bass guitar and double bass, all stands, lights, recording equipment, cameras, band banner with name and logo, plus the frontman and his two guitars and combo. We also always carry spares for most of the above - although not for the frontman... 🙄 😉

I've moved it, as it still has more to do with Build Diaries than any repairs. I'll be keeping an eye on that website, as a spectator rather than a builder.

Should I move this to Build diaries perhaps? It's a pity they only seem to deal with 6-string guitars as opposed to basses.

It may again be something to do with the server running out of disk space, and some functions either struggling or having been deliberately switched off for the time being.

Not true, we would take equal notice, as below:

Well, I imagine for us lefties there are a lot of impossible desires if we're after basses with slightly less common colours or combinations of hardware etc. and we can't afford/don't want to order a custom build. For instance, last time I looked, this simply wasn't available in LH, full stop: And don't get me started on LH double basses (not electric uprights, they are usually OK). You learn to live with the situation, and it keeps your GAS under control.

We heard you the first time @christhammer666. As discussed above, in certain contexts - although not Join My Band or similar - the ad would definitely fall foul of the law, but that isn't the main point we're looking at.

Agreed. And that started me thinking, and mentally doing my usual substitutions. No women in the band. No blacks in the band. No whites in the band. No Asians in the band. No LGBT in the band. No non-Brits in the band. No over-25s in the band. No under 60s in the band. Etc. Pick and mix those you're comfortable, or feel uncomfortable, with.

LOL. Gee, I wonder why? Typical pub and club stuff is there to entertain the punters. They want something they can sing along to and dance to. If you want to be booked, and to get an audience, that's what you've got to do. He's making it clear that he's favouring the creative point of view. Fair enough. As for the rest of the ad, he has his own ideas of what he wants, and again fair enough. The whole ad would completely put me off, anyway, irrespective of my gender or indeed his.

I think the main point of the law is that there has to be a good reason for excluding one or more sections of the population from applying for a certain job. It works across the board, with race, gender, sexuality etc. I can live with that, without necessarily crying "woke".

In this country, such an ad may, in certain contexts, be illegal, as falling foul of the Equality Act.

I would ask, if you're curious. There may be acceptable reasons - as mentioned above, perhaps the band(s) they mainly cover are all-male, or they want to target a mostly male market. I think we've mentioned before, on Basschat, that it appears some bookers aren't happy with, say, a band with a female lead, because they think it's going to be all about emotional, "girly" stuff. Sometimes they have a point. If, instead, they mean they wouldn't want a woman on bass, then I'd really be curious to know why. I'd also be curious to know why if the opposite was happening, a band not wanting a male bassist.

I imagine you will have checked Gollihur's information, but if you haven't, this is the relevant page and you can ask him questions via email, despite the fact you couldn't buy the bass from him even if you wanted to (it's out of stock).

My Eminence has a sound post and a bass bar, as normal for a DB, albeit obviously in proportion. I'm not sure if the sound post can actually be moved or is glued, I can't tell. As you note, the bridge is adjustable for action; also, both the fingerboard and the bridge are as good for bowing (should you wish to) as those on any DB. If you expect the unamplified sound of an Eminence to match that of a DB, you'll be disappointed, as it simply doesn't have the size, so it doesn't project as well as a DB and it can't be as loud. Amplified, though, it's fine. My pickup is a Realist, again like on many DBs, only smaller so it fits the Eminence bridge. I wasn't happy with the steel strings it had on from the manufacturer, so I swapped them for Silver Slaps. YMMV.

And, to continue with the 'random things Youtube does' theme, I've just noticed three new subscribers, all of them from here (thank you!). I'm sure that at least two of you did not press the button right now, but did it days or weeks ago. The Dynamites channel's subscriber count has just gone up by three, but I've only received notification of one new subscriber. Apologies again to all of you who subscribed after reading this thread - only a minority actually get notified to us. 🤔