Silvia Bluejay

I imagine you may prefer to start naming your basses something - not necessarily a woman's name - when you've got more than one of the same type, e.g. fretted 4. Unless they all have different model names which you can remember, that is. As I said above, my first three basses initially had male names. Why male? For the same reason that you guys think of your basses as female: you get into some sort of cosy physicality with your instrument, and you often describe it as looking sexy, so thinking of a bass as somehow belonging to the opposite sex probably comes reasonably natural to a straight musician, I imagine. I've never been able to refer to any bass as "he", though, unless in a tongue-in-cheek way. The reason why I stopped that naming thing is that, at least at the moment, each of my basses is different from all the others, with no doubles except my student bass ("Barry"), so I don't need names to tell them apart, saying "the fretted 5" will suffice.

Thanks James - just tweeted the above to BC's followers. Keep up the good work.

I now have the book, and I'm slowly working my way through it, not because it's heavy going - it's actually well written and entertaining - but because I've been and am quite busy. I may take a while finishing it, but I'll get in touch when I'm done, and send it over to you if you're still interested.

*feels very dizzy*

OMG Mark I can't stop looking at your avatar now...

Very cool!

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1359218863' post='1951788'] Maybe they're referred to as "she" because they are beautiful and curvy...I read somewhere that Bernie Goodfellow took years perfecting the shape of the Rumour because he wanted it to have the curves of a women (look at the headstock motif). As a rule I don't name my basses though my Warwick Dolphin was called "Philippa" - obviously!! [/quote] Good grief, that's a poor lass being impaled by a bass guitar...

See above...

When I refer to my basses nowadays I call them "it", but when I only had three of them I gave them male names. Now that there are seven of them I just say "the upright 5", "the fretless 5", "the 4" etc. with the exception of my student bass, which I don't play any more but still cherish, which goes by the name Barry (don't ask).

I'm waiting for Ben Jonson to log on any moment now...

Fie, fie, fie!! Urgh. As a lover of minor keys, and a trad metal fan, I can't bear to listen to that Metallica track, and also hate the others posted here, I'm afraid. There's one 1960s song that I learned twice because I have MP3s of the released version - in A major - and of an earlier vocals-drums-guitar-bass-only demo version in E minor. Guess which I like better

Good to hear that, Simon. It goes to show how many different opinions there can be of the same piece of work. Just to remind those who are following this thread, Jack and I started this this other thread: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/192946-jerry-scheff/page__hl__jerry%20scheff"]http://basschat.co.u..._jerry%20scheff[/url] quoting Jerry's reply to our criticism. It makes for a very interesting read.

[quote name='William Shakespeare' timestamp='1358770547' post='1944594'] Good morrow, most fine noble bass brethren, permit me this small foreward Which shall be well winged with my chiefest horse. I didst chance upon this most wonderous place whilst searching for to purchase a five-string bass lute And find great humour and comradeship in this group Varying from most humble squire, to wisened sage, to mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! Mine own youthful folly was to pluck contrabass in consort within a band of William Byrd tribute minstrels. The rum group of minstrels didst surplus the mead 'till they're craniums would strike the very dais itself! I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick: if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves. I come, in kindness and unfeigned love. William [/quote] Sir, I believe that we have already exchanged pleasantries in the Status Updates section - however, allow me to repeat my welcome to you. I was talking to my Florentine friend Dante Alighieri the other day, and he is sending you his regards too. He's not a member on here yet, as he's still struggling with the signup process, but I understand he is going to give it another go when he's done proof-reading the Inferno.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1358717444' post='1944066'] [/size] [size=4]You mean because you're an anti-capitalist socialist..?[/size] [size=4]Yours pretending not to understand, [/size] [size=4]Mark x [/size][size=4] [/size] [/quote] Heh... being [i]left-handed[/i] is probably a little more effective against GAS, I reckon...

That, and NAMM is approaching, with all those shiny new models of everything being introduced to the eagerly awaiting market... Being a lefty saves me from some GAS, but not enough to stop my credit card itching.

Oh my, I had to google "Kala U-bass" as I really wasn't sure exactly what the hell that thing might be. Personally, I'd prefer the Ampeg...!

Thank you Garey - that will delay my GAS for a little while, then

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1358501741' post='1940221'] A gentleman is a bassist who knows how to slap, but chooses not to. [/quote] YAY! Same goes for a lady

Heh...

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1358453409' post='1939603'] [url="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4718779/TriumphLite01.jpg"]http://dl.dropbox.co...iumphLite01.jpg[/url] At £879 that Triumph seems very good value for money [/quote] Curious to know if a. a lefty version exists and b. the price will be the same as the righty version, as per all other Warwick models.

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1358452968' post='1939592'] Thumb?!? Or do you mean Triumph? [/quote] Ah, well spotted, thanks. Triumph. Corrected

Garey, will the Rockbass Triumph be available left-handed too? The blurb doesn't specify, as far as I can see. I'm not in a hurry to gain another upright, but I'm gassing, so at the moment this question is mostly out of curiosity Thanks for all your help and info!

Thank you, Jim - this idea is looking better day by day! I'll tweet this thread some time tomorrow - er, today in fact - and keep BC's followers up to date as and when each next step happens.

*offers Rick his coat, then hugs him*

*blows Rick a raspberry*