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even more crazy gig stories

Yazan: Jason | 22 June 2011 | No Comments
Categories: blogging

Boy–I wrote a lot of these back in the day! They’re throwing knives at us in the pit! – No matter how you cut it, pit musicians are an easy target for falling debris (whether confetti, props from the stage, or even singers sometimes!). After all, we are crammed shoulder to shoulder in a small [...]

more classic gig stories

Yazan: Jason | 21 June 2011 | No Comments
Categories: blogging

More stories from years past: The Babbling Conductor – I’m skating on thin ice with this post! The classical music world is surprisingly small, after all, and anydisparaging talk about conductors, even in the most anonymous terms, is likely to trickle back to the source. Ripping Off Your Teachers – When I was getting started [...]

Classic Gig Story: My Car Caught Fire and Exploded!

Yazan: Jason | 17 June 2011 | No Comments
Categories: blogging

Hmmm… it’s June 17–I wonder what I’m doing right now?  Probably not sitting in front of the computer (which is why I’m putting this out early and not letting the blog sit fallow for a couple of weeks): My Car Caught Fire and Exploded! – In what may quite possibly be the worst gig story [...]

fun Google juice facts about doublebassblog.org

Yazan: Jason | 18 May 2011 | No Comments
Categories: blogging

Every once in a while (and ever more infrequently during this busy period of life, unfortunately), I get a kick out of doing a little Google searching and seeing what terms cause my blog to pop up really high.  Here’s a list on which I’m on the first page and the number ranking on that [...]

great “chicken little” summary from Drew McManus

Yazan: Jason | 17 May 2011 | No Comments
Categories: blogging

Adaptistration blogger Drew McManus put out a post highlighting a lot of interesting dialogue within the cultural blogging sphere=–check it out: It seems that a number of folks throughout the culture blogging community are taking issue with what could perhaps best be described as the Chicken Little Think Tank, or the group of voices within [...]