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  1. Silvia Bluejay
    I've just received an email confirming that the show is going ahead. Most importantly for out-of-town visitors, they add: " If you hold a Saturday ticket and wish to use it for Sunday instead (or vice versa), you are welcome to do so."
  2. Silvia Bluejay
    [Off Topic] Vixen were a good band, but they ended up bankrupt because nobody - rock audiences or record companies - appeared to take them seriously. Things began to change when Courtney Love and Hole crashed on to the scene. Never liked that band, but she was so defiant and in-your-face that, in the end, the music world was forced to get used to female musicians, and from then, there was no stopping the process. [End of Off topic]
  3. Silvia Bluejay
    I think it was just a matter of ignorance or mental laziness. Until a few years ago, there were a lot more (musically clueless) mothers of male bassists than there were female bass players, especially middle-aged ones, and sweeping generalisations in shops and society at large were rife.
  4. Silvia Bluejay
    I had that in my late 20s - early 30s when my normal clothes were jeans, leather jackets and a few studs here and there. At the time I wasn't a musician, just the girlfriend of an equally metalled-up guitarist, but the attitude in those music stores that saw themselves as 'upmarket' was exactly as described above. (Slightly OT, when I bought my first home in this country, 20-odd years ago, we had to scrub up and look 'smart' to go to the estate agent, even after paying the deposit: they otherwise simply didn't believe a word I said and couldn't take me seriously - and I was a cash buyer!). After getting into playing an instrument, my main problem used to be sexism in music stores. 'Middle aged female looking at basses' almost always triggered either the dreaded 'Is it for your son? Can I recommend this/that?' or 'That's a *bass* guitar, are you looking for one of those with 6 strings instead?'. Thankfully, I haven't experienced that anywhere in the last few years, and I was never patronised at Wunjos in Denmark Street, for instance.
  5. Silvia Bluejay
    Currently it's snowing in London, temperature around -1°C. Transport for London has a website and an app you can keep an eye on, and at the moment it's not looking good: https://tfl.gov.uk/
  6. Silvia Bluejay
    I didn't see him last year or the year before, and if he was around, he certainly wasn't to be seen/heard slapping at any stand I checked out.
  7. Silvia Bluejay

    Finally - NAMM Bass blog! See here: https://wp.me/p2ZbyY-Av

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    2. Silvia Bluejay

      Silvia Bluejay

      Thanks Steve! It was great fun to be at the stand with you guys, and seeing how much interest the basses were creating. :)

    3. Passinwind

      Passinwind

      Thanks Silvia, it's great to see the show from another perspective. Except for Chowny, I barely even looked at any of the other booths you featured in Part 3. You are looking for lefties, I am only really interested in unlined fretless ones, which are surprising uncommon IME.

    4. Chownybass

      Chownybass

      Our SWB Fretless is now unlined and unmarked ;-) Just saying.

  8. Silvia Bluejay
    What he said! They usually have a couple of lefties among the myriad righties.
  9. Silvia Bluejay
    All will be revealed! There's something new about that uke as well And the usual million photos will be taken and published.
  10. Silvia Bluejay
    LOL thebass uke and Takamine have been at that bash before, and are welcome! Long scale they ain't, though. We must find a way to bow the Takamine properly, and all will be well in the world.
  11. Silvia Bluejay
    All long-scale aficionados welcome, whether electric or acoustic! I'm looking forward to the meetup.
  12. Silvia Bluejay
    Last year's Herts bash was scheduled for the weekend of our wedding, so we couldn't help with organising or spreading the word, or indeed attend ourselves. Maybe, for the slightly smaller bashes (as in, compared to the South East one), the optimal frequency is every two years rather than every year. Leave 'em wanting more, and make 'em positively long for that cab/effects/strings shootout!
  13. Silvia Bluejay
    Ah, sorry for immediately starting to gripe, no prob at all.
  14. Silvia Bluejay

    New blog entry in the NAMM series - general views: https://wp.me/p2ZbyY-Ae

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    2. Passinwind

      Passinwind

      Very cool to experience the show through a first timer's eyes and ears. It would have been nice to put a face to your blog, but as usual I was pretty much just completely overwhelmed, between various demands for my time and the need to just chill out from time to time. I did manage to connect with Sibob for a couple of minutes though, at least.

      Looking forward to part 3.

    3. Silvia Bluejay

      Silvia Bluejay

      Yeah it was a very intense experience! I met a few Basschatters but I knew there would be more in the crowd. I didn't spot Sibob, though. What booth were you working at, @Passinwind?

    4. Passinwind

      Passinwind

      Silvia, I has a few things on exhibit at Marco Bass Guitars, Hall E, booth 4211. We were next to Marleaux, Fibenare, and Ken Smith, and right across the aisle from AC Guitars and the rest of the boutique builder's collective. We had a crazy busy booth for all of the three + days I was there, and as I was leaving on Sunday morning one of our endorsers was playing on the big outdoor Plaza Stage, rocking a bass with one of my new prototype preamps in it. For me it seems to get more intense every year, and I think a lot of that is related to more and more people knowing me by face.

  15. Silvia Bluejay
    Clicking on my name > Profile takes me to a blank page. A few minutes ago I got this error message too:
  16. Silvia Bluejay
    Sorry no idea. Righty equivalents seem to be around for $1700, though.
  17. Silvia Bluejay
    Yes and no, as I think is clear from my post. At first play it doesn't seem to be particularly suitable to my petite frame, hence my trouble getting to grips with it. I want to have another, more thorough look at the bass itself, spending more time with it in a less busy and noisy environment, at the first opportunity.
  18. Silvia Bluejay
    Not sure what you're talking about - their website looks fine to me. It's http://baby-bass.com/ though, with a hyphen. The contact page is here: http://baby-bass.com/contact/
  19. Silvia Bluejay
    Forgot to post on this thread the link to my blog entry about the lefty Dingwall! It's here: https://goo.gl/YaqoHB
  20. Silvia Bluejay

    First blog entry about NAMM 2018 - checking out the new lefty Dingwall: https://goo.gl/YaqoHB 

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    2. Silvia Bluejay

      Silvia Bluejay

      Thanks Mick! I think we'll hold on with the birthday present for the moment, because my main problem with any bass that's not a Corvette or a Bass Collection is the size. That Dingwall is slightly bigger than Jack's 5-string Mike Lull (35" scale) and I find that uncomfortable to play too. Maybe when I grow up... ;) :D

    3. MikanHannille

      MikanHannille

      This is what I just needed being a chap of a small stature. I think I'll struggle the same way as you do. But I'm still willing to give it a try.

    4. Silvia Bluejay

      Silvia Bluejay

      Absolutely - do try it. You may surprise yourself! :)

  21. Silvia Bluejay
    Oh, forgot to say, welcome to the forum, Tom!
  22. Silvia Bluejay
    Happy Jack and I visited Bass Direct a couple of years ago and loved it. I agree with Finndave about the lack of Fenders - personally, I didn't miss them. Fenders are so bloody ubiquitous everywhere else, that having a place where they're not abundantly represented is worth a visit for that reason alone.
  23. Silvia Bluejay
    I've moved this ad to the correct forum, Paul. Good luck.
  24. Silvia Bluejay
    OK I'll lock this thread then, guys. Thanks.
  25. Silvia Bluejay
    He was absolutely charming to us in that context, and that's what we are reporting about. We did not raise the topic of Basschat "bullying" or his company's copyright-defending tactics, and wouldn't have wanted to.
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