Silvia Bluejay

I think we're talking about deleting information from topic titles after selling/withdrawing. That's what seems to be most irritating to users and problematic for searches. The actual text of the advert is indeed up to the seller, but once again, it would make everybody's life easier if enough information was given to start with, without requiring a series of PMs or posted questions.

I spent half an hour this morning going through the first 25 pages of Basses For Sale, locking sold threads AND re-instating subject lines that had been changed to just "Sold" or "Withdrawn". Guys, we mods can do that, and will do that - usually, but clearly it hadn't been done in those instances I worked on today. But do show some consideration, not just for us mods but for your fellow Marketplace users too, and DON'T DELETE THE EFFING SUBJECT LINE in the first place. I know that some of you think that leaving the info in the post is good enough, but it isn't, as searches are quicker if they scan thread titles only. To those of you who delete the whole bloody lot, title and text, when they sell or withdraw, well, just stop it. Stop it immediately. Thank you.

There's a previous, similar thread that may also be of interest.

That assumes people will take notice of the air horn. There was one at the LBGS last weekend, but nobody seemed to stop playing when they heard it.

Same here, see the other LBGS thread!

It was definitely a busy and, at times, highly confusing day. Thank you @mangotango and all the others who stopped me to say hi, comment on what was going on, talk about Basschat, check out the left-handed basses on show with me. That's one of the reasons I enjoy going to the show, no matter what its organisational failings may throw at us. Speaking of which, did anyone else receive an email this morning 29/09/19 with the subject line 'Final Call for Advance Tickets to the London Bass Guitar Show'?? No, it's not a fake message or a scam, the source for the familiar-looking HTML message looks very much like it's coming from the real thing. (Text here.) It's only, erm, at least eight days too late to be of any use. 😮

Their Facebook page gives this address: Unit 20 Old Surrenden Manor Rd, Bethersden, TN26 3DL Ashford, Kent. Event here.

That means there were a number of young visitors who are already excellent bassists. That A Very Good Thing.

Incidentally, and this confirms absolutely everybody's complaint about noise, I've just reviewed my audio-only recordings of the day, and the ones I took at the Luthier/tone Zone, despite placing the Zoom audio recorder as near as possible to one of the speakers, are almost painful to listen to. Only good for transcribing for a written article, if BGM needs them, but I would not want to subject anyone to a listen. What an utter shame.

Was your daughter the blonde girl also playing bass with headphones at the Stonefield booth, and putting all of us to shame with her chops? If yes, hats off.

Far too late, sorry. I don't think we're arguing among ourselves either, are we? PS Refers to @cetera's post.

LOL!! I'm sticking with the OCD theory, and I'm having an episode, after I've counted the other threads. I'm confused enough as it is, I won't touch the Merge button! 😮

No fewer than FOUR other threads in this subforum on this year's show. This is the fifth.

I think it's just because we've got another - or is it two other? - thread(s) on this year's show in this subforum, and we're a bit OCD about it all? (I certainly am...)

I have found my bag of popcorn...!

Haha! Where's my bag of popcorn?

It's a discussion. It should be about the show. It has been placing too much importance on talking about not going to the show, not actually having been there. Interesting as it might be, that's not a review. Doesn't matter now, as I said. I doubt the organisers will be checking this thread every 5 minutes - they got the general idea and have a lot of work to do.

Which is not helpful at all, but there you go. I guess Joel has got what he needed out of it and may or may not check back to see if there's any more bickering going on.

Very true. I'll be banging on about it at every opportunity I have to talk with BGM and the organisers about that. This is a review thread, not a general chat; it is here for talking about how the show actually unfolded and what problems it had. That has nothing to do with whether the show makes money or not.

Come on guys, we're not being aggressive, we're reminding you that this is a review thread and that, strictly speaking, those who haven't been belong to the other LBGS show, not giving us their opinions here. The organisers want to hear from those who were there. They already know the main reasons why people decide not to attend. What they need now is constructive criticism by those who DID attend.

Up to you really, did I mention your name even once?

You can't only have names from rock and pop - Patitucci is much more of a star than several other 'big names' we've had, but he's a jazzman, innee, so too technical, too out there, etc. so that doesn't count, does it? Incidentally, when one of the household names of bassdom, John Taylor of Duran Duran, attended the show a few years ago, people still found reason to complain for the opposite reasons to Patitucci's presence, that is, because apparently his talk was swamped with former Duranettes, so he didn't play much bass, he didn't talk much technique, and chose to reminisce and present his book instead. They can't win, can they?

So Paul Gilbert and John Patitucci not big enough names? Bless.