Archive for August, 2007
Bass Humor: 23rd Psalm
Yazan: Jason | 30 August 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass humor
This is an oldie but goody. If anyone knows who wrote this please let the rest of us know. 23rd Psalm For Bassists The Lord is my drummer; I shall not rush.He maketh me to lay out in tasteful places;He leadeth me beside cool meter changes;He restoreth my “one”.He leadeth me in the right repeatsFor [...]
Petty Frustration in the Music Biz
Yazan: billharrison | 27 August 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized
There was no just cause for me to be short-tempered with the parking ticket attendant on my way out of Navy Pier this evening. But I gave him a hard time in classic “kick the dog” mode. I was venting my pent up anger from the four hour gig I had just suffered through plus [...]
Exciting new developments for the fall
Yazan: Jason | 23 August 2007 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, podcasting
As I pack my bags and put the finishing touches on the next two week’s podcast episodes, I’d like to take a moment and let people know about several new projects we’re cooking up for the fall here on the blog and for the Contrabass Conversations podcast:Podcast Developments Double Bass “Lessons” from Andrew Anderson – [...]
An encore to end all encores
Yazan: Jason | 23 August 2007 | 3 Comments
Categories: orchestra news, videos
Double bassist John Floeter just sent me a link to this completely wild video from the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra playing Bernstein’s ‘Mambo’ from West Site Story. This Venezuelan youth orchestra makes American orchestras look….well…lame. I’d love to see one of the orchestras I play with doing these moves! Something tells me that’s not going [...]
Paradise on the Pacific
Yazan: Jason | 23 August 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: blogging, podcasting
We will be leaving tomorrow for our Kauai wedding and honeymoon, so I will be dropping off the online radar until early September. During that time, Phillip Serna will be regularly updating the bass blog, so there will still be blogging activity here. I will be setting up the comments so that I don’t have [...]
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