Silvia Bluejay

Brilliant. Thank you Gareth (and Bob).

Ohhh yess!

[quote name='zero9' timestamp='1346155253' post='1785845'] Although I'm left handed, I 'forced' myself to play right handed when I started playing bass, for the same reason that I though it would be difficult to find a good selection of left handed instruments. [/quote] Although that may have been inevitable at the time, I really hope that, now and in the future, an ever-increasing number of lefties will choose to play the correct type of guitar/bass, as that will allow the market to grow and lower prices and increase the availability of models. Having been taught to write with the "wrong" hand (my right) by mistake, and having hated the results for the whole of my life, I simply could not have forced myself to do the same on bass, and would not wish that on any other lefty, TBH...

I have a friend who, around 20 years ago, got a pick from her guitar hero - Yngwie Malmsteen - and actually had it made into a silver necklace she wore for most of the 90s Rock on! \m/

Many of us are deeply indebted to Basschat for practical help, moral support of a musical kind and also friendship and moral support of a more general kind. I'm trying to redress the balance by dedicating some of my time to help with our Twitter account, and I also made a couple of donations in the past few months (although I haven't sold or bought anything second hand so far). [quote name='charic' timestamp='1346149234' post='1785744'] Although Clarky sending me a pick from my favourite bassist is strongly stuck at the forefront of my mind every time I see it so a special thanks to you dude [/quote] David Ellefson? Or who else? Can we see a pic please?

So he started by building for himself only, then progressed from there. Double kudos. One of the reasons why I didn't take up bass guitar when I was in my teens (late 70s) was that there were no lefty instruments that my family and I knew of for buying, in Florence at the time.

... or even [b]with[/b] electric drills, to wind other Telecoms nerds up Coming over with a pack of six (for you) and a glass of fruit juice (for me)

Lovely basses. Does he build exclusively left-handed models or is this his dedicated lefty website? Either case, kudos to him.

Telecoms Nerds Of The World, Unite (in that corner) I guess I'm on my way to joining you there...

This thread is getting a bit unsettling, what with me having to model a set of strings and the mods having to shed their clothes altogether...

It is indeed, Paul. I'll be there with the guys. Would be great to see you if you can make it!

Another thumbs up for the Chromes (have them on both my 5s). But also loving my Thomastiks on the fretted 4. Good job, Kenny, now enjoy!

Marco and Verb, haven't I met you somewhere before? (Yes, the Warwick forum...!) Welcome both!

LOL I was going to suggest that those who had problems should try to ping the site, then thought better of it As I said in one of my previous messages, it does look like they're doing work on the host(s) but trying not to take them all offline at the same time (thankfully!).

We are having reports that some users can't access BC at all today, on PC or iPhone. It's working fine on my PC, though.

Yup. And not necessarily at peak times. Perhaps there's some ongoing work on the host servers, with some of them being taken offline in turn. The site's speed seems normal today, so far.

Would a few Dell computer deals help?

Hello Si, and welcome to Basschat and to the low end! You won't regret either move

I can't help you because I only own a real DB in my dreams for the time being, but I'm bumping this in the hope someone among our experts can give you an adequate answer.

[quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1345826855' post='1782147'] I'm quite lucky that my wife likes being married to a musician She often posts things on facebook like 'I'm sleeping with the bass player after the gig tonight!' Just need to work out what band he's in and give him a slap lol [/quote]

[quote name='noelk27' timestamp='1345821153' post='1782035'] You can rely on a bass player to lower the tone. [/quote] As is their duty

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1345825330' post='1782113'] women don't like it ya know, i was touring Germany when my 1st daughter was born... Ooh dear,didn't go down well [/quote] As I said, if your other halves [b]purely[/b] dislike you guys being musicians, then they are the wrong women for you. If, instead, there is a different type of grudge behind it, and they are simply using music as an excuse to express their displeasure at the way you treat them (be they wrong or right in their belief), then it's a different kettle of fish.

[quote name='yorick' timestamp='1345824538' post='1782101'] I'm giving up live music next year, so I can have my life back. After 32 years in bands, no holidays etc, losing girlfriends. Time for a break. [/quote] Maybe try to find a happy life-music balance, as opposed to quitting altogether? And if you're losing girlfriends purely because of being a musician, you're clearly hanging with the wrong women...

I would try and lighten up a bit, B, this is the only jokey thread on this subforum, really, as per Ped's request: [quote]You can simply throw your hat into the ring by saying ‘Hello’ or you can post something double bass related, be it interesting, funny or just weird.[/quote]