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I would hope so! But PM me if you'd like us to exchange numbers so you can check with me on the day, to be sure we haven't all left by that time. Choice between the two suggested places for the meetup still open, as we don't know what the weather will be like. Watch this space...

[quote name='dc2009' timestamp='1337023853' post='1654278'] Hi Garey. Welcome to the forum, hopefully you'll enjoy your time here. I hope this doesn't sound too harsh, but it seems like you work for the perfect department to take this on board! I'm a big Warwick fan and have owned many. I recently had to unlike the Warwick and Framus facebook page because you guys were clogging my feed with so many posts. Firstly, I didn't appreciate the Warwick page getting combined with the Framus one, I don't play guitar and I don't want to subscribe to any information about it. Also I know what the Warwick range is, I don't want advertising for it every day in my social media feed! Hopefully this feedback will be useful to you guys! Dan [/quote] What dc2009 said. I've had to "Hide" your Warwick and Framus page on FB, which I'm sure is exactly the opposite of what you guys wanted to achieve.

LOL please don't stop this, it's too entertaining

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1337014649' post='1654040'] What, like issuing a formal apology for slapping? [/quote]

That weekend is fine by me. I really hope the bash won't be moved to the following weekend (6-7 Oct), as I won't be in the country and would have to miss it!

LOL this thread is fantastic. Kudos to iCastle for not losing his cool, for making the audience happy, and also for considering doing it all over again! I'm sure you're going to like it Incidentally, I don't mind jazz and I positively like fusion.

Welcome Garey. A thank you - and thumbs up - to Warwick for catering so well for left-handed bassists, not just those with the money to buy a "real" Warwick but also those who can only stretch to a Rockbass. Good stuff. It's great to be able to get most models in both RH and LH versions and with no surcharge, and usually no extra waiting time. Keep up the good work.

As I said, I'm up for it, transport permitting. Quit room fine by me, even if I have no particular vices to get rid of (I don't smoke, slap, listen to hip hop/nu-metal, etc.) Slap room I won't enter. Cooler only needed if summer actually arrives eventually (which is by no means guaranteed). Cake, tea and coffee welcome.

For my most recent purchases I've dealt with Jessica Wilson and Cristina Szlopp there - both extremely nice, and both of them remembered the female bass player from London!

They reply to emails with a delay of at least 24 hours, even if you respond to their reply within 30 seconds - so the delays mount and mount and it takes a few days to do something that in this country would be solved in minutes. But I can't fault them on the phone, not just for sales but for customer service as well. They all speak good English, some of them are clearly native, so language shouldn't be a problem.

In my experience they are crap on email but super-efficient on the phone. Get thee on to skype and talk to them.

I tend to notice either the melody - usually only if the singer is awesome, say Halford, Dio, and similar - or the bassline - as in, I start humming that, not the melody, and I will recognise the song by its bassline the following time I hear it. It usually takes me a few listens before I manage to appreciate the song in its entirety. I have known drummers describe a song only through its rhythm, and heavy metal guitarists describe a song via a succession of memorable riffs. I reckon that most musicians apply some sort of "filter", i.e. they concentrate their attention on their main instrument while listening to a new song. I know that, as a musician, I now do just that to a far higher degree than I used to when I was only a keen listener.

oooooo can't wait!!!

Welcome AJ! Switching from guitar to The Mother Of All Stringed Instruments is a good move Good gear too. Next, you'll find you want a 5-stringer of some sort

I'd missed this thread! Fantastic, and full of good humour. I haven't got any pic of me playing any of my basses, as I don't play live, so here again is one that some of you may have seen on ped's recent Show Us Your BC Merch thread. I'm wearing Happy Jack's t-shirt pinned with hairclips at the back.

Good to know you had fun! Love the photo - and you play double bass in the band! I really want to check you guys out.

That is one beeeeeautiful R**********r!

Heh. Good to know there will be no slappers. Me and Shell no slappers, Sir. Cake, tea and coffee, on the other hand...

Oh, wow, that sounds brilliant! Count me in!

That sounds lovely and i'm totally up for it!

The reason why we decided for a Saturday was that Sunday public transport is pathetic, and those who have to travel a long way to get home would be in trouble. Hopefully we'll be able to organise more meetups after this one.

I want to be there too, when the next one comes! Will try to read this thread from the start, to see what the bash is about Edit: Aw, hope there will be some other lefties? Otherwise there's no point in me lugging one of my lefty babies around - I could just come along sans instrument and stand there and smile and perhaps serve tea?

Couldn't make it tonight even if it was closer, I'm afraid. But please keep us posted on your future gigs!

I tend to be a bit sentimental about the gear I own, and I don't think I would consider getting rid of any of my basses, no matter how cheap or expensive they may be. They are all different - as in, fretted or fretless, 4 or 5, upright or guitar, and a new acoustic bass guitar is due soon - so I have no "doubles" sitting in a corner gathering dust. The only bass guitar I don't play anymore is my student bass, my very first instrument (bought as part of a combo with amp for around £60 a few years ago!), but I cherish it for the memories, and it will continue to be part of my music family like the others.

The D ang G strings on my two active Rockbasses (fretted 5 and fretted 4) have the same "characteristic" to a certain extent, and I found it very noticeable - and a bit irritating - at first. However, the D and G strings now sound practically as good as the other strings, after I put on D'Addario Chromes on the 5 and T-I flats on the 4. I had already raised the pickups slightly under the D and the G long ago, but I don't think that made a lot of difference. My fretless 5, which has passive MECs pups and D'Addario Chromes, doesn't have and never had the problem at all. Edit for clarity: I'm talking about the raw sound, as I don't use any effects at all.