Archive for August 2007
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Bass Humor: 23rd Psalm
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 His [...]
Petty Frustration in the Music Biz
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 [...]
Exciting new developments for the fall
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 - This [...]
An encore to end all encores
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 [...]
Paradise on the Pacific
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 [...]
Four bass players playing one instrument
Yesterday I posted a video sent to me by Peter Szczepanek featuring Stringfever (a U.K.-based string quartet) playing Bolero on one cello all at the same time.
After asking when bass players would try the same thing, Márcio Domingues from Portugal [...]
Just wrapped up an interview with Donovan Stokes
Double bassist, electric bassist, and Shenandoah Conservatory bass professor Donovan Stokes and I just wrapped up an interview this afternoon. Donovan is a very creative bassist and composer who was feature on Episode 13 of the podcast. Expect to hear this interview in mid-September, along with some more great double bass playing from [...]
CBC Facebook group mushrooms in size
The podcast group on Facebook is really taking off! Thanks to everyone who has joined–it is a really cool way to interact with readers and listeners. Feel free to invite anyone to join the group (you can do so from the right sidebar on the group page, and they don’t have to already [...]
Podcasting from Hawaii…sort of
Although I will be taking a real break from the blog for the rest of August (I’ll be back in early September), I have put together two podcast episodes which will be “magically” appearing while I’m gone. One will come out this Sunday morning (8/26) and one next Sunday (9/2). These will not [...]
Negotiations heat up in San Antonio
Drew McManus is following the ongoing San Antonio Symphony negotiations in his usual excellent fashion. San Antonio Symphony President and CEO has made several unfortunate recent public statements regarding these negotiations, include references to the musicians and their union as two separate entities and outlining complicated budgetary solutions. Drew writes:
Green’s email message is [...]
