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[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1358355327' post='1937684'] Seriously, the place is overrated. [/quote] Only bits of it are - the rest is simply awesome [I wasn't born in London, or even in this country, so I'm not biassed - just truthful.]

Only in spirit for now - but sooner or later my curiosity will have the better of me, and I'll organise a holiday for the purpose Have a great, profitable time there and keep us posted!

Aw, how harsh of you - it's their 30th anniversary model, and I want one! (Can't have one though - despite being cheap, it's only sold in righty versions.)

I have so Liked the company on FB - as myself for the time being, but I might be tempted to log onto FB as BC and do the same

[quote name='jaydentaku' timestamp='1358157135' post='1933796'] [/quote] I don't mind this! And the bass clef detail is cute...

[quote name='Warwick_Official' timestamp='1358269450' post='1936041'] Yes, we've got quite a few new products for 2013! Rockbass Star Bass, Rockbass W bass, Rockbass Triumph Lite, Rockbass Corvette 32" Medium Scale 5-string, Rockbass Dark Lord, the Warwick Streamer CV, BC 10 combo amp, LWA1000 Class D amp head, WC210 cabinet, and WC810 cabinet! (On the Framus side, we've got the Panthera 8-string guitar, 27" scale!) Everything is up on the website, but will be officially debuted at NAMM 2013 soon! [/quote] I remember enquiring, in a PM through the Warwick forum, about the existence of a Rockbass version of the Triumph some time ago... at the time the person who replied to me said there was no plan to develop one. Since I couldn't - and still can't - afford a "proper" Triumph, let alone a lefty one, I finally went ahead and bought an NS Design NXT5 at the beginning of last year. Now this Triumph Lite, if offered in a lefty version, is opening a new set of possibilities, yum As for the "W" bass, it's a 30th anniversary one-off model, is it? I'm sure it's a good-humoured tribute, not something that aims to steal the market from beneath high-end models nor a sneaky way to try and enslave us all through advertising...! And - Garey, I so wish I could be at NAMM too. Maybe one day. Please keep us all posted about it on here and on the Warwick forum.

Grr, stop right there, you guys - you're giving me huge GAS, but for my sins I can only look at and touch 99% of double basses - and Jack's Ampeg Baby - without being able to play them. The remaining (lefty) 1% is still proving elusive Ad, I've obviously bookmarked your blog

Note to self: tweet tomorrow. And this is also a bump

Erm... any news?

For ease of cross-reference, the participants thread is here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/196563-bass-relay-participants/"]http://basschat.co.u...y-participants/[/url] I will tweet the relevant topic again when things are under way. Thanks again, Jim.

If I can add my tuppence, I think we should collect for BC rather than for charity - after all charity begins at home etc. and the site is in dire need of cash.

[quote name='yepmop' timestamp='1358076770' post='1932586'] If photos (at hand over or being played) are taken, are we going to pin them to a separate area on this site? also, if we do it for charity, which one? my choice would be cancer research. This idea seems to really gained momentum [/quote] I guess someone could collect all the photos and write a (photo-)blog to publish on here, and also spread the word about it on FB and Twitter.

I've just tweeted this thread and will tweet the "real" one periodically, when the relay is up and running. Thanks Jim, looks great fun!

I think it's a nice idea! I obviously can't take part (lefty + don't gig) but I'd be happy, for instance, to take photos of local BCers gigging the bass, if that may help

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1357914806' post='1930529'] It might be a sad reflection of the state of my existence but additionally Basschat has now become the lens through which I view the world. If I want to find anything out I come onto here first. If it is in the news and worth reading, it is on here. If it is for sale, it is on here. If I (rarely) am bursting to say something, I do it here. [/quote] I don't see that as saying anything sad about your existence - rather as giving praise to Basschat as a community.

I'm not sure my actual bass playing has improved since I joined 14 months ago, but that's entirely my fault - I'm still a bedroom bass player who is learning and playing favourite songs along the record, and that's presumably not going to change for quite a while. That was my plan all along - I never picked up a bass with a view of finding a band and playing in public, I only needed to find some solace in a new activity. That aside, I arrived here from the Warwick forum, therefore I was already in full GAS and in possession of two (Warwick) bass guitars and one upright. I also had some general technical knowledge I gained in my previous life as "the guitarist's woman and occasional roadie/tech" . What Basschat has given me in abundance is renewed confidence in all things bass and all things musical in general, and enticed me to try new types of bass (5-string upright, acoustic bass guitar, fretless bass guitar, and hopefully, sooner or later, a real DB), and a fantastic first port of call for queries of any type, including off topic ones if I were so inclined. All the above still pales into insignificance when compared to the way the actual people I have met through this forum have changed my life for the better. Some of them are now my best friends and immensely important to me. Since this last point is off-topic on this thread, I'll save you my waxing lyrical about it! The only thing I will add is that meeting such great new friends has also given me opportunity to go and see many bands (their own or simply their favourites) I either didn't know about or was only a casual fan of before. That has to count as progress from the point of view of bass playing and music in general.

That's making me feel dizzy...

Good God, there was I, thinking in Latin and understanding "muliebrous" as deriving from "mulier" (woman) and therefore just meaning "womanly" or "pertaining to a woman's shape". Sigh. Jack, will try to think how I would describe taking off my leathers in Latin. I fear it would have a - totally inappropriate in this context - military connotation

Welcome, Dr, from the spirit of 1978 (as in - disco fan) and the spirit of the 80s and early 90s (as in - trad metal fan). And 34 years in a band is unfeasibly cool! Join the fun on here, this is a great community. PS If you're near London, you might like to come to the London Bass Guitar Show in March, Megadeth's David Ellefson is one of the guests!

I'm sure it's common sense to assume that the shape of the player's body influences the type of bass that feels right to them. That's the whole point of this thread, after all, even if it started as a female-centric topic.

Still better than taking them off inappropriately...

Heh. spent most of my life as a younger woman wearing leather miniskirts, jackets, hats (à la Klaus Meine of Scorpions), stiletto boots... All still there and a little too large for my present frame, but one day I'll have a Rockstars themed do and dig it all out, and possibly take clothes in appropriately

LOL that's more or less what I look like - I think she might possibly be 5'2" like me. My Corvette is smaller than that seemingly humongous thing she's playing, then again she's wearing platforms here

Take a look at these two threads on here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/195846-which-tuner/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/195846-which-tuner/[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/156472-clip-on-tuners/page__view__findpost__p__1895650"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/156472-clip-on-tuners/page__view__findpost__p__1895650[/url]

LOL that's the way we like it