Silvia Bluejay

Some shots from the band's show at Surya on 25th May: [url="https://flic.kr/s/aHsjXT8sdN"]https://flic.kr/s/aHsjXT8sdN[/url]

We'll create a dedicated thread in due course, and I'll pin it, and make sure everybody hears about it

Thanks It's now proudly sporting a set of Chromes, but I haven't seen a single moment of sunshine to take some decent pictures. The "new-style" Warwick bridge is awesome, however

Last Saturday's gig at The Fox and Duck in Richmond: [url="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejay_my_photos/sets/72157644873567844"]https://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejay_my_photos/sets/72157644873567844[/url]

New Warwick Corvette 5 - provisional photos, to be updated once I've replaced the rounds with D'Addario Chromes, and as soon as the sun deigns to shine on my flat for a little while and give me enough natural light for a decent bass-porn photoshoot...

Duly tweeted

We're working on it! In the meantime, come along to the Herts Bass Bash on 6th July

Another Spice of Life gig, last night, 16/05/14. [url="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejay_my_photos/sets/72157644712498324/"]https://www.flickr.c...57644712498324/[/url]

I would recommend getting a proper lefty EUB as opposed to converting. However, I have done both - I converted a cheap HB from righty to lefty (flipped the bridge upside down, filed the bridge grooves so the strings sit correctly, filed the nut, reversed the spacing bracket, etc.) and then I also bought a lefty 5-string upright (NS NXT5). Converting a righty isn't hard, but the job needs to be done properly or you will hit some niggles deriving from the work - strings buzzing, dodgy action, etc. Having a professional do the work will obviously help, but also add to the total cost.

If you guys prepare some text to go with a selection of these photos, I can create a blog entry and publish it on Bluejay's Music Blog (under your names, not mine). You could create a photobucket subfolder with a choice of the best from the pics you posted above, and email me a word file with the text, and I can do the rest

Guys and gals, I've created a Facebook event for those of you who "do" Fb - it's here: [url="http://www.facebook.com/events/533703606734652/"]http://www.facebook.com/events/533703606734652/[/url] I'll be using the event as a reminder, sharing it periodically, but if you're on FB and plan to attend, please join the FB event too, as well as adding your name on this thread. Thanks!

Second gig was at Water Rats at the end of April [url="https://flic.kr/s/aHsjXnvmDQ"]https://flic.kr/s/aHsjXnvmDQ[/url]

I saw the news on BBC online yesterday, and I'm sure it says "something" about Metallica, or about Glasto, but I can't quite decide exactly what I grew up (and then grew old!) with Metallica as [b]the[/b] heavy metal band, and always saw Glasto as an indie/lightweight/totally uninteresting festival (the opposite of Donington in its heyday), so this news is now upsetting all my prejudices! I guess I better concentrate on Megadeth, then

You have already listed most of what is available... usually EUBs don't sound remotely like DBs and that's a fact of life and the price to pay for portability. Your list doesn't include KK baby basses, which have a pleasant, traditional look but are smaller and have the advantages of EUBs. Since they're all built to customers' specs, "native" lefty isn't a problem. I play an NS Design NXT5 - native lefty, bought new from Thomann - and a reversed Harley Benton, the cheapest I found when I wanted to experiment with turning the bridge upside-down and filing the nut. Feel free to post your question in the DB/EUB forum too, there are some veritable fountains of knowledge there

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1398772364' post='2437395'] The answer was along the lines: 'We will be getting these in stock but we don't know when or how much they will cost. . .' [/quote] I'd like to try a 5-string set on one of my Warwicks too, so please keep us posted if you receive the new strings, Barrie

Happy TU80 user here Although it sometimes struggles with the low B on my 5ers, then again so do clip-ons. The trick is to wait until the reading stabilises.

Bump! And tweet

Re-post this under General Discussion too, with a call to all Scottish metalheads. It has worked (with the BC Baton) before

And as far as I'm concerned, when I was a young metalhead I didn't at all mind seeing ads with gorgeous, long-haired, (scantily) leather-clad men wielding pointy guitars or basses. Hetfield, Hammett, Mustaine, Bello, Sheehan, Vai, and so on, were all good looking in their heyday. The only difference was that we knew they could play those instruments.

Women and guitars. That's another can of worms waiting to be opened, but this isn't the correct place. With the concept of the role of women in music there are so many facets that can be observed, what with the idea of empowerment through seduction vs. sexual exploitation etc., that any controversy about left-handed discrimination would pale in comparison.

Sounds brilliant. Is anyone keeping track of attendees or should I do that?

I was gassing for one of those the other day - in fact, the other night, before going to bed. Only, I'm after a 5-string fretted Corvette, and they only have the black model I'm after (lefty) with passive electronics. I'm not keen on the other colours/wood combinations offered, at least I'm not until the next fit of GAS has the better on me!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1398332692' post='2432916'] There she goes again!! [/quote] But seriously, whenever I tweet a blog or a link, its statistics go through the roof! I see this when I tweet my own blogs. Also, you'll notice a quick, substantial increase in the number of "views" on those BC threads I tweet about. So this social media lark does help to spread the word.

Your database is probably simply skewed towards bassists who play right-handed, whether lefties or not. I was one of the people who visited the website and clicked on that gorgeous lefty Carvin! Several times. Then I clicked on my online banking thingy, looked in, got scared, and had to close the Bass Gear tab before it was too late...