Silvia Bluejay

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1417202463' post='2618240'] Yeah thats pretty bad, but when you're over 50yr you are not welcome in music shops. Seems to make young sales people very uncomfortable! [/quote] That's not my experience, I must say. Might be because I'm usually helped by middle aged salesmen, who are most of the times happy to forget the initial sexism, if they had any, when they realise I too can talk technical (at least up to a point). Or maybe they've seen me post on here, and know who I am!

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1417181410' post='2617875'] the classic one was "if you come in I'll get one of the guys to play a right handed one for you" [/quote] "Oh, you can't eat wheat? Then I'll have this huge plate of pasta, while you watch, and let you know what it tastes like" I'm resigned to not finding lefty models in shops, so I tend to buy new, and often online. As a consequence, I haven't got any horrid customer service experiences to tell, except for the odd sexism episode ("You're looking to buy for your son?" or "Waiting for your boyfriend, love?").

Consider switching to flatwounds? I did that a few years ago and never looked back, to the extent that I gave away all the round sets I had lying around.

Hello and welcome, Ken! And also welcome into Basschat's Lefty Bass Players Contingent! We have a couple of forum sections dedicated to our basses - feel free to join us there too

First gig at The Ash Tree in Ashford - the band was competing with the sport being shown on TV with the help of lots of smoke, lights and lasers! [url="https://flic.kr/s/aHsk2U8RG9"]https://flic.kr/s/aHsk2U8RG9[/url]

There was a Basschatter who wanted to contact - or perhaps actually contacted - Billy to ask him to attend next year's show... looks like his wishes are coming true! Great stuff! \m/ \m/

Entire thread tweeted!

Expect something like this:

Excelent work, thanks for this, bjelkeman - will tweet the blog to BC's followers later this morning

Tweeted

Thank you for that reply, guys. I think the effort towards a less noisy environment will have to be a concerted one, with everybody pulling their weight, or it won't work. And yes, if there is a UK Lefty Guitar & Bass Show, count me in

I hold MK personally responsible for making slapping acceptable and, for a time, even cool. He needs to make amends!

Bump - it's tonight.

Excellent review, Ted - thanks a lot.

Haha, I so agree with that. LBGS guys, the single massive improvement you can make to the show is seriously enforcing the 45 minutes to the hour (or whatever proportion is deemed appropriate) silence rule. Nobody seemed to do that on any of the previous years, and loud slapping and excessively high volume were constant, and that is costing you the goodwill and custom of many, many potential visitors.

And one cracker of a gig it was too! [url="https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5BkMPY"]https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5BkMPY[/url]

More A-framing to be spotted while the Dogs rocked the Halfway House in Barnes on Saturday 15/11! [url="https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5BkMPY"]https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5BkMPY[/url]

Tweeting this as we speak

I agree, Alun. I think the organisers will have to have a re-think about the cost they set for stands. Presumably the venue charges the organisers a fixed fee for hiring the area and its facilities, so it would make more sense to attract a larger number of exhibitors by charging affordable prices, than making a booth so expensive that only a smaller number of high-end, wealthy exhibitors can afford to exhibit. The paying punters would prefer more variety and a higher number of vendors, obviously.

Yay! Thank you! I've edited the caption

I'd love to try the new LaBella Low Tension too. The "normal" Bellas are to hard on my fingers. None of the shops we visited in NYC in the summer had LTs, either on a bass for us to try or even simply to buy as a shrinkwrapped set. I have used Thomastiks on my Corvette, and I love them, but sometimes they can be too floppy even for my little hands, and either require a truss rod tweak to avoid buzzing or some care to avoid digging in when I play. I know what Si means when he mentions gauges - the Thomastik low B is huuuge (and doesn't fit in the bridge of any of my Rockbasses), so that can be a problem. But the sound of TIs is awesome.

Forgot to comment on this and say that a Jazz bass comparison would probably get my vote rather than a pedals test. Either test would be great, though, as this is all stuff that needs to be done live and can't be recorded properly (at least not with my equipment), so a bass bash is the ideal setting.

Tonight from 8:30pm. New management at the pub, but the music goes on big time. Hope to see some west Londoners there [url="https://www.facebook.com/junkyarddogslondon/photos/a.407921932554882.111973.407912292555846/959610754052661/?l=0145036b2d"]https://www.facebook.com/junkyarddogslondon/photos/a.407921932554882.111973.407912292555846/959610754052661/?l=0145036b2d[/url]

Thank you Zero9! Caption edited. And thank you all for reading

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1415980752' post='2605836'] Silv, there were 5 rigs in the hall [/quote] I probably didn't catch them - they must have been gone or moved to the theatre by the time I went back in there for a second set of photos