Silvia Bluejay

Similar problem here with RB Corvette 5 fretless with lovely, bright D'Addario Chromes. I now use a compressor, which for my home-practice-only work (I don't gig) sounds fine both in headphones and on my practice amp. I have two other Rockbasses with active pickups, and they don't need a compressor, although they still sound good if I do use one with them.

I'm actually [i]subscribed[/i] to the gigs subforum, which means I get an email every time someone posts a new thread. That's dedication, huh? And yes, I've been to quite a lot of gigs by BCers' bands. My problem is the lack of own transport, which means I have to miss a gig if it wouldn't be safe or possible for me to get back home on my own.

Bump. Even if it may be too far to travel for some BCers, others may be able to attend.

So am I, how weird...

Tweeted. Thanks Chris.

They still have a banner ad on this site. Would be worth finding out if yours was an isolated incident - if not, I think potential buyers should be warned. Edit; I mean warned by the admins, not you, ead, you've done your bit.

In fact, it's being rather hit-and-miss. Now back to the error message. I'm just pointing this out for the admin team, since the blogs contain advertising.

Now appears to be back and works fine

I've just clicked on the Blog tab and got this: [b] Error establishing a database connection[/b] [b] Internal Server Error[/b] The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

My browser (FF 18.01, Win 7 Pro) is displaying BC's home page with the message "Failed to open the RSS feed." under the Basschat Blog heading in the right-hand column. It may be a temporary glitch, but I'm just checking if it's only me or it's happening to all of us.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1359398792' post='1954217'] I,ll be there about 12.30 with a stonking hangover, so if you will all keep the noise down, that will be much appreciated! [/quote] Try telling that to the slappers

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1359397870' post='1954192'] It looks as though there will be a BC stand of sorts - mainly an area with our poster and meeting times written up so that you can all meet there. I don't think I'll be at the show unfortunately due to family commitments that weekend but Bluejay has offered to help organise the stand. Leave it to the ladies to sort our us bloody blokes, eh. I'll make an official announcement when I know what's happening for sure. Cheers ped [/quote] Thanks Chris! I'm going to play around with a few ideas for a couple of posters, get them ready for the show, and then I'll be at Olympia early on the Saturday and set up the corner, unless the whole project gets shelved in the meantime. The idea would be for us to have a list of meeting times between masterclasses, so that we can gather at the BC point throughout the day without necessarily having one of us sit there all the time and miss the action.

Thanks for that, Shelley. I haven't got a ticket for the Sunday yet, but that may change if we manage to get a dedicated BC corner at the show. (In that case I'll need to be reminded who among you guys - or which stand - sells tix with no handling fee...!) Who else is going to be there? add yourselves to the list! \m/ \m/

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