Silvia Bluejay

Bump! And tweet

Re-post this under General Discussion too, with a call to all Scottish metalheads. It has worked (with the BC Baton) before

And as far as I'm concerned, when I was a young metalhead I didn't at all mind seeing ads with gorgeous, long-haired, (scantily) leather-clad men wielding pointy guitars or basses. Hetfield, Hammett, Mustaine, Bello, Sheehan, Vai, and so on, were all good looking in their heyday. The only difference was that we knew they could play those instruments.

Women and guitars. That's another can of worms waiting to be opened, but this isn't the correct place. With the concept of the role of women in music there are so many facets that can be observed, what with the idea of empowerment through seduction vs. sexual exploitation etc., that any controversy about left-handed discrimination would pale in comparison.

Sounds brilliant. Is anyone keeping track of attendees or should I do that?

I was gassing for one of those the other day - in fact, the other night, before going to bed. Only, I'm after a 5-string fretted Corvette, and they only have the black model I'm after (lefty) with passive electronics. I'm not keen on the other colours/wood combinations offered, at least I'm not until the next fit of GAS has the better on me!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1398332692' post='2432916'] There she goes again!! [/quote] But seriously, whenever I tweet a blog or a link, its statistics go through the roof! I see this when I tweet my own blogs. Also, you'll notice a quick, substantial increase in the number of "views" on those BC threads I tweet about. So this social media lark does help to spread the word.

Your database is probably simply skewed towards bassists who play right-handed, whether lefties or not. I was one of the people who visited the website and clicked on that gorgeous lefty Carvin! Several times. Then I clicked on my online banking thingy, looked in, got scared, and had to close the Bass Gear tab before it was too late...

LOL I never implied you in particular had a large belly! Honest I just thought that it might be more comfortable for someone with a large belly. Not sure about the strap button position, as I didn't notice any difference when I tried the Corvette and the Streamer in the Warwick shop. They definitely are heavy basses, though, which may have something to do with back/shoulder pain.

Going off-topic for a moment, the scalloped body on the Streamer is one thing I don't like! It makes it unnecessarily thicker - unless maybe the player has a large belly? I'm perfectly fine with the flat Corvette and Fortress bodies, which are only shaped for comfort at the top. So it really is a matter of personal taste.

Since you got no replies I'll offer what little info I can. I have three Rockbass models from 2005 to 2007. All have MEC pickups and one of the basses, a fretless Corvette 5, is passive. While the active pickups (in my Fortress 5 and Corvette 4) are fine in my opinion, I find the passive MECs a bit poor, TBH. As I said, I'm talking about Rockbasses as opposed to real-deal Warwicks "with a W on the headstock", which are far awesomer ( ), so this info may well be misleading; I hope this bump will get you some more relevant replies, at least.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1398178279' post='2431235'] +1 My main band (The Junkyard Dogs) is lucky enough to have Bluejay doing this stuff for us. [/quote] I'm good at online-pestering unsuspecting fans and followers... That blog is good stuff and I'm tweeting this thread as we speak!

I second Rudy and Sam Ash, and would add the Warwick custom shop in the East Village for sheer GAS

On my desktop I have Adblock on all sites except Basschat. On my Android tablet I do without Adblock after I tried it out last year and it messed up my OS. Anyway, to get back to the dating adverts, some of them may read the cookies on your hard disk but others appear out of nowhere. This is a still relevant status update which I posted on my Facebook profile back in mid-January: [quote]I've deliberately left the marital status field empty on my FB profile - for lack of a "None of your f**king business" option - so it assumes I'm single and shows me dating ads with photos of men. Then I log on to Basschat and I'm welcomed by GoogleAds with photos of single women waiting for my call. My BC account has a gender setting and knows I'm female, by the way. I wish the internet could make its mind up on whether I'm straight or gay. And then p*ss off and leave me alone! [/quote]

The first Kareña gig with her current backing band - including Happy Jack on upright and Junkyard Dogs/SE Bass Bash drummer Paul on cajon - was at Charlie Wrights last weekend. [media]http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejay_my_photos/sets/72157644143894193/[/media]

I opened this thread thinking it was about our Bilbo!

Yay! Brilliant stuff! We loved every note of the gig and stayed to the end, we didn't want to miss it

What you say makes perfect sense to me.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1397687825' post='2426604'] Don't worry Silvia, it was only £150 extra off the, already heavily discounted, price - if you called we'd take £200 off! [/quote] I will if it's still there when I'm slightly less completely skint...

Gorgeous. I'm jealous - I want a lefty 5 string DB too.

And a Tony Iommi signature guitar, of course

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1397671281' post='2426353'] Just for fun I slashed a hefty amount off the price of a lefty bass today to see if it might generate any interest [/quote] Link please Barrie?

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1397653065' post='2426068'] I am so glad that you posted this ... I didn't want to have to be the one to do it! Although I think you'll find that "left hand dexterity" is an oxymoron. I can see where you're coming from, but I don't play a R/H bass in a R/H fashion because I am right-handed (which I am, by the way) and it feels more natural or better that way. I play a R/H bass in a R/H fashion because that's what I was presented with when I first picked up a bass - or, more accurately, when the 12-year-old me picked up a guitar for the first time. If that 1970's guitar had been L/H and I had been shown how to play it L/H it would never have occurred to me that maybe my right hand would be better at plucking, while my left hand would be better at fingering. Even as I write that, I still can't think why being right handed OR left handed should make one hand better at either plucking or fingering. Our primate ancestors by and large did very little of either ... [/quote] OK, so here we have people who say the plucking hand should not be perceived as the dominant one; therefore lefties can play a righty instrument with their "better" hand in the correct place. Yay. So,why isn't that true of righties then? Why isn't there an absolutely massive demand for lefty instruments, if you guys' "better" hand, the right, is more suited to the fretboard? Don't say "because there are not enough lefty models" - we've established that demand drives the offer, and there are a lot of righty players out there. If that myth was true of lefties, it would be true of righties and they'd have found a way to get manufacturers to help.

We'll have to get a nice screen to shroud the bass's identity in mystery...

All played by the same person and on the same rig, with the same settings, probably. That sounds intriguing, and I've tweeted your post