Clarky

Regarding Good Friday, I pointed it out to the friendly lady organiser, Bree, and she said: "Easter comes early next year! I hadn't noticed that, thanks for pointing it out. I guess it could go two ways, with some people happy to have the holiday already in place. Unfortunately it's the time we have allocated for the Bass School so we'll have to make the most of it!" I am pencilled in for this course

PS, I just spotted that March 29th is Good Friday. Don't know if that makes it easier or harder for folks to attend

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1354641107' post='1888595'] If Ped & Kiwi are not making a profit from running Basschat, then they bloody should be. That is not intended to be in any way humorous or sarcastic, I am being deadly serious. I like the idea of a future in which Basschat continues to exist, in much its current form, for a very long time. The best guarantee of that is if we can find a way to make this a more rewarding experience for them. I am constantly amazed at the number of posts right across this forum that assume that we all have a God-given right to enjoy Basschat for nowt. Single annual fee works best for me. [/quote] Couldn't have put it better, Jack PS, I virtually never visit the classifieds - compare and contrast that with my number of posts. I find its like a separate website and to me thats a bit sad. S'why I say single annual fee

Or indeed a useful prop for Jake the Peg

He's also back to his 'microbe of relief'

Being owned by me devalues a bass

Can I add a rather belated congrats Charic - sounds like a fantastic evening

Trailer (link below) is quite intriguing but ultimately frustrating as it sets up the song, with a cool pulsating bass line, but never quite gets to it. Still, I'm looking forward to this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK59GDfWvsg&feature=youtu.be

Love it! Best of luck finding someone with the requisite ability

Another trade with BassChat stalwart and all round good egg, Jack

[quote name='sarah thomas' timestamp='1354458915' post='1886129'] Clarky - I'm longing to meet Boris Johnson with a bass.. [/quote] If I attend, I plan to make my entrance with double bass in hand on a zip wire

Hi Sarah, I had a similar email and also asked about non-residential attendance (being since I am a Londoner). Bree said "There would be a day rate if you wanted to commute to and from and that would be about £100 less than the quoted fee. Lunches, snacks and tea would still be included for you and we would be able to provide parking at no charge."

OK, I've sent the contact person (who posted the FB advert) a copy of this thread to indicate there is interest from several BCers, depending on price. Hopefully they will come back to me with rough pricing info soon

I emailed and they said they were trying to get an idea of approximate demand first, so I don't think they have a price yet (I did ask)

[url="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151282301008164&set=a.10150654335163164.416756.180920218163&type=1&theater"]http://www.facebook....&type=1[/url] Would love to attend but doubt I will be able to given work and limited holiday allowance Edit: I might just use up some of my holiday allowance on this anyway

When you put withdrawn in your title, a friendly mod removes it. Happened with my Jaco fretless last week. If you search for your deleted thread, it does come up but highlighted in a different colour

Nice story and cool that Colin Greenwood obviously has bass playing heroes too!

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I apologise for my last post, much more verbose than my earlier one

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I just emailed Bass centre who (I think) have Elites made for them and will post up what they say. Hope its more helpful than Rotosound's spokesperson!

Best reply ever from customer relations at Rotosound: [font="Calibri"][size="3"][font="Calibri"][size="3"]"I know nothing about these strings ….. Sorry" [/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][font="Calibri"][size="3"] [/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][font="Calibri"][size="3"] [/size][/font][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][font="Calibri"][size="3"] [/size][/font][/size][/font]

I've emailed Rotosound to ask when they are expecting to release them and will post their reply on this thread when I get it