Silvia Bluejay

The Dogs were back at the Red Lion in Isleworth last night, after a hiatus. It was a fun gig with a great audience. Full album here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskDpykWm

New venue for the Dogs last night - the Walton Working Men's Club. There were a lot of laser beams and stage lights! Whole album here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskzK5t5P

Fantastic. Sooo cool! As Mark says, absolutely go for it.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1467973853' post='3087668'] So, is it still a problem if an artist has a laptop, tablet or screen of some sort in front of them? I'm interested in views. [/quote] They'll still look crap in photos...

Besides being abysmally uncool, music stands usually screw up any photos you may take of the band that try to show anyone that's not the frontperson. Fie, fie, fie!!!!!!!

The band were back at Kew Market on Sunday 3rd, where the temperature was a little bit more agreeable than four months ago. They had a friendly audience, and one totally mesmerised young fan Full album here: [url="https://flic.kr/s/aHskCGWBdq"]https://flic.kr/s/aHskCGWBdq[/url]

That bass is pure bling! It won't be to everybody's taste, but that's the point, I think.

Semi-acoustic gig at a private function yesterday afternoon. We dodged the rain - just - also thanks to our state-of-the-art waterproofing system. Note the tarpaulins on the pedalboards!

Thanks Mick - I've also published the blog as a note on Facebook, so if we don't grab Clarky's and Nige's attention on LinkedIn, we'll ambush them on FB

Excellent stuff, thank you Hilary and Mick. The blog is now published! (Apologies for taking this long) - check it out here: [url="http://wp.me/p2ZbyY-vO"]http://wp.me/p2ZbyY-vO[/url] As always, let me know about any errors and omissions.

Halfway House in Barnes again last Saturday! http://flic.kr/s/aHskCZigvK

King Ralph were at the Hanwell Carnival 2016 on 18th June; first half of the gig with flautist Keith Waithe, second half just as a the trio.

Tweeted to Basschat's followers. Good luck, Alan.

[quote name='blunderthumbs' timestamp='1466534834' post='3076622'] This link you have posted is just a discussion about the origins of the SGC Nanyo and not people posting their pride and joy. [/quote] Yes it is. Read it properly. It's currently 13 pages long.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/697-obscure-musical-backwaters/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/697-obscure-musical-backwaters/[/url]

Facebook event now up! [url="https://www.facebook.com/events/295792247422880/"]https://www.facebook.com/events/295792247422880/[/url]

Neither does Quo's Parfitt, according to the Standard. [url="http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/status-quo-s-rick-parfitt-in-serious-condition-after-suspected-heart-attack-a3273871.html"]http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/status-quo-s-rick-parfitt-in-serious-condition-after-suspected-heart-attack-a3273871.html[/url]

Photos - being photoshopped as we speak. Blog - will be ready quickly once I have the photoshopped pics online. I have four pics of Chris, which he'll be welcome to download from the blog if he likes.

Unplugged acoustic basses never seem to be loud enough, due to their small size. In my experience, the D'Addario Chromes are some of the brightest-sounding flats available; for a more zingy sound you may have to move to rounds, in particular to phosphor-bronze. Bear in mind that, in that case, you'll also have to put up with more finger noise.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1465468530' post='3068473'] Oops. [/quote] Makes no difference in practice! The Zoom has a brilliant microphone too. [quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1465470020' post='3068492'] I know. We only have to listen to you playing 'Happy Birthday' to know how excellent the sound is! [/quote] You should have been there...

Thanks Jack. Both the videos were recorded with your Zoom Q2. I'm happy that the sound is good here. Basschat received a few disparaging comments on Twitter about the previous video, the pedal shootout, where a constant hum could be heard. I had to point out that the hum was what we heard in the room, and it wasn't added to the mix by the camera.

I have now uploaded Nick (Doctor of the Bass) Smith's talk about SimS pickups. Still working on the photos from the bash. http://youtu.be/OvwumLSkXzU

And here we finally have some pics of Mick's mystery bass as given a new lease of life by Andy

As per my post on the other thread, we now have the entire shootout video, 25 mins long, here: http://youtu.be/8swPdmfrP0o