Silvia Bluejay

Inspiring stuff indeed. We had ended up at the Triumph Brewery almost by chance after asking if there were jam nights in town, and we were blown away by the quality of the musicianship there. (When we went back the following night we also met and admired double bassist Jason Fraticelli and drummer Tony Flagiello, among others.) The jam night has moved away from Triumph since then. Nah, I didn't get up, Funkgod - I wouldn't remotely have been good enough to even simply stand on the same stage as those guys, let alone play with them. Conveniently, there was no left-handed bass to be borrowed, so that was my excuse... I'll have to do a search on jam nights in London and see if I can come up with something. From what I understand, Elliott isn't looking to walk into a large-scale paid gig, only to play a bit with like-minded musicians and make a few friends this side of the pond.

I met Elliott at a popular jam session evening in Philadelphia last March. He has just let me know that he'll be in France at the beginning of December and would like to stop in London if he can find some performance opportunities. So I need the great Basschat collective help - any ideas we could explore? This is the man: [url="http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/levin-elliott-shalom"]http://www.jazz.com/...-elliott-shalom[/url] [url="http://simpletone.com/pacman/artists/elliott_levin/"]http://simpletone.co.../elliott_levin/[/url] Thank you all in advance for any help

That bass is a complete and total turnoff to me. Horrid.

The Junkyard Dogs @ The Black Horse, Greenford, 01/11/13 [url="http://flic.kr/s/aHsjLMK5wu"]http://flic.kr/s/aHsjLMK5wu[/url]

Tweeted!

It's my pleasure, Myke - and thanks

Yup, great tone, great response, and thank god there's such a brilliant alternative to the intolerably boring P-sound.

The one I played at their NYC custom shop - a normal Corvette 5 Standard, 2012 model I think - was small, thin-necked and not too heavy (although Warwicks aren't famed for being featherlight, unfortunatley).

Ha! Thanks!

I'm getting the impression that Warwick are concentrating on their US market, as well as their German home market. When I spoke to the reps at their LBGS stand last March they actually said they were going to try and improve their position in the UK market - but I imagine they will also have to stop demanding that resellers stock a large number of extremely expensive models no-one can afford before allowing them to become distributors. I only have Rockbasses but the Corvette 5 GAS hasn't gone away. So far I've only bought new (from Thomann, when Sterling was strong against the Euro). Then again, I'm a leftie and most of the time have no second-hand choice. Unfortunately the Warwick_Official account here on Basschat, previously run proactively and helpfully by Garey, has been dormant since he left the company.

Thank you

Here's another immigrant who's celebrating the 20th anniversary of her landing in this hallowed country with a one-way ticket in her hand, and exactly two years since joining Basschat. (And I started playing bass when I was over 40.) Welcome Aalam, you're certainly not alone here, from any point of view

It's two years on BC today for me, folks! Aren't I doing well! A huge thanks to the whole of this community for changing my life for the better. Here's to many more yearly updates to this thread!

Wrong instrument - but other than that...

Fantastic! And congrats for the Phil Campbell support slot - make sure to post photos and vids

Thank you guys! It's an absolute pleasure to take and then select the photos of our events

The impression I got from accessing the site (both full and mobile versions) from my tablet is that the Go To Last Post button/blue circle isn't that resposive. In other words, it's not that I fail to hit it the first time - it's just that it ignores my touch until I hit it a second (and sometimes a third) time. I know that that may be due to my tablet being really crap and slow etc., then again, maybe not.

Not working for me.

I didn't receive a notification for your post, though, Chris. I've just gone through the uncheck-save-check-save routine once again and, hopefully, if it's fixed, it will now work.

Thanks Ian! I'm feeling a bit lost without my reminders and alerts

The Junkyard Dogs @ Ye Olde Swan in Burnham, 26/10/2013 (Halloween 1970s-themed night) First photo of set, link to complete set below. Entire set here: [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejay_my_photos/10532516723/in/set-72157637039977536/lightbox/"]http://www.flickr.co...77536/lightbox/[/url]

Real photo album, on Fb but open to everybody, including those not on FB: [url="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.734276006586138.1073741829.407912292555846&type=1&l=e761c5217f"]https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.734276006586138.1073741829.407912292555846&type=1&l=e761c5217f[/url] I'll upload a few of those pic to the Dogs' pinned thread.

Not receiving any notification at all despite following the uncheck-save-check again suggestion.

YAY!! Excellent. Tweeting the new developments as we speak.

OK, time for this pic of his & hers again