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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features a continuation of our interview with double bassist François Rabbath plus some music from U.K.-based bassist Leon Bosch. You can check out episode 16 of the podcast for the first part of this interview with François, and detailed information for both guests is available in the show notes [...]

Here’s a great shot of an Octobass. I originally found this on the TREsBASSES MySpace profile page.
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In response to my recent gig story Bugs Bunny is my Mortal Enemy, bassist Don Mincher sent me this tale about a painful gig experience:
Your Bugs story and related “intestinal problems” conjured up one of my bad scene gigs many years ago. I was to play a casual combo gig on bass guitar [...]

Charles Noble just gave my car fire story a plug over on his blog Daily Observations. Thanks, Charles! One of the cool things about blogging is how this content lives on over the months and years. Daily Observations is an excellent music blog, and I’d encourage folks to check it out.
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Drew McManus just wrote up a post featuring my entire ‘Road Warrior’ series on his excellent blog Adaptistration. Thanks, Drew! He pointed out that this series would be useful for orchestra management, giving them a perspective on what life for members of their orchestras is really like. You can check out Drew’s [...]

Here’s a fun bass video featuring some low-end Super Mario themes:

This video reminds me of a fantastic video from flutist Greg Patillo featuring some Mario music. I blogged about Greg and his project with my IRIS Orchestra colleague Eric Stephenson last month.

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A sad-looking double bass sits unwanted in a tiny room in Saltash.net Community School.

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The next episode of Contrabass Conversations will feature the second (and final) part of our interview with double bass virtuoso François Rabbath. As in episode 16 (our first part of this interview), you will hear Rabbath’s interview interspersed with clips of him performing various works from his repertoire. I am really looking forward [...]

This video of the Van Goëns Scherzo with Julien Mathias on double bass and Michiko Ishii piano is worth checking out. It unfortunately has about 30 seconds of wildly unstable camera phone gyrations, but the video quality is fine once the piece actually starts. I always think of Gary Karr whenever I hear [...]

Bassist Kirsty Matheson recently sent me a link to this excellent article about Louisiana Philharmonic principal bassist David Anderson. Dave is also the principal bassist for the Britt Music Festival, and I got to play in that orchestra with him for a season several years ago. He’s an awesome guy, a great bassist, [...]