Silvia Bluejay

Time for some more photos, to catch up with current Dogs activity. The Tabard, Chiswick, beginning of December 2017 The following night at the Prince of Wales, Wimbledon The Fairway, Ruislip, mid-December 2017 The Old Hall Tavern in Chingford on 30th December 2017 New Year's Eve at the Red Lion Little Missenden

First part of blog finally out! https://wp.me/p2ZbyY-C1

I'm guessing nobody will be interested in a lefty NS Design NXT5, but if any of you are, let me know and I'll bring it.

Argh, the Dogs are gigging in Shepperton on that day! Have a great gig, and keep us posted for the next one.

Some pics I took at the Basschat stand! MacDaddy, Ped, Tina (Mrs Ped), Charic Transistorbassman (Roger), MacDaddy, Charic And MacDaddy demos his Snapdragon folding bass:

Here is HJ and the MarkAudio systems in action.

We have NO prattish guitar players in the band.

I think we came dangerously close to WTFDYTYPAYP while testing, this morning.

Yes!! Look at that image carefully

Nit-picking. And a pat on the back to @skelf too, who was there all weekend.

It was great to see you on both days, Kevin. And we left with such a huge amout of MB GAS we didn't need to use the train to go home, we just floated!

There was a person walking around holding a sound meter and marking the quiet and noisy periods of each hour with an air siren. Having said that, once you've yelled at a stand telling them to turn down, unless you stay there all the time to check, they'll turn up behind your back. When I say 'they' it may very well be YOU (not you personally, EZ) who crank it up because you want to hear yourself and you don't realise how loud you are, even in the absence of volume wars (which is an often-used excuse by those who actually start them, rather then being drawn into them).

Makes sense in theory, but probably not easy in practice, unless the company is relatively large. If the company is just one luthier, or a handful of luthiers, who do almost everything by hand, the prices of their instruments will be boutique. To offer a cheaper range they'll need to decide to have the components shipped in from, say, the Far East, get a dedicated person to assemble them in their workshop, do the QA and sell them at a lower price. That leads to a different business model, so it has to be a conscious, calculated decision not every luthier is happy to take. Edit: and perhaps then they'll start having even cheaper models built from scratch in the Far East, etc. That shifts the focus from low-volume, hand-made to a larger, more mass-produced business, and will need a restructuring and the influx of exclusively business-minded people into the company.

Undoubtedly to everyone's utmost surprise, I've got a pic of the whole bass. Edit: click on it to see it in full resolution.

Plus a lot of money to develop them, if you didn't do it yourself (which I only did for B&W on my Dad's home-built equipment)

The field for entering discount codes is on the ticket page, at the top of the ticket choice list, and you have to enter it FIRST. Having said that, the online ticketing system only worked in advance of the show, so now it's door only.

I took 800 (eight hundred) photos of LBGS 2018 Day 1, which comfortably beats my NAMM record of a month ago. I'll be there again today, with Happy Jack, who won't tolerate staying for the whole day, but will be around for a few hours. Say hi if you spot me/us!

There is a Basschat table in the entrance hall, next to the Chowny stand (which was empty today but hopefully not tomorrow).

Excellent! The show is already busy but probably busier tomorrow.

Also @skelf, will you have a presence at the show? If I don't see either of you guys - or indeed your stuff - I'll make sure to re-post the photos I took at NAMM.

Oh no, Steve! Will you be there tomorrow maybe?