Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I’ve been successfully resisting the urge to blog about cats for some time now (though you can find many a former cat post of mine–including videos of my kitties taking a stroller ride-under the cats category), but this post from gigglesugar was too much to resist.
Here’s a video of Lynea Lattanzio, a trained vet [...]

I’ve got another little tale about what happens when cats and basses collide. Most bass players seem to love cats, and many have similar tales of feline mischief.
One of my colleagues was over at my place playing some bass quartets a few years ago. His extremely large bass had a beautiful lion’s head scroll, [...]

One of my colleagues was over at my place a few years ago, and we were geeking out in true double bass fashion, playing duets, working on excerpts together, and getting into deep discussions about gear.
He and I left for lunch, leaving our basses out of their cases. We had a good time, got back, [...]

We’ve had a lot of heavy posts here on the blog recently, and though I usually save this sort of stuff for Friday, I thought that some head banging kittens were the perfect thing for a beautiful June day. Maybe I’ve got kittens on the brain after taking my cats out in their stroller every [...]

We’ll be releasing a feature with bassist, composer, and conductor Peter Askim tomorrow on Contrabass Conversations, so stay tuned to this for some delightful music and commentary, but in the meantime, check out a few of the fun morsels we’ve uncovered this week:
Here’s a great LOL cat from blogging maven Robert Scoble. These little fur [...]

I’m feeling the urge to get a theremin after seeing this video. I remember how fascinated my cats were by Lyric Opera bassist Andy Anderson’s lion’s head scroll. Just imagine how insane they’d get upon encountering this fascinating instrument!

I’m trying to make sure and post something light and fun every Friday, and this video certainly fits the bill.  Paul and T.J. have the sort of dry humor you’d expect from engineers, but they are absolutely hilarious in this video, breaking down exactly what social implications result from having one cat, two cats, three [...]

My cats (my big orange male cat Dan, in particular) get quite frisky after eating their cat food.  The following scenario happens all the time between these two–Angel gets stuck in a corner on her back while Dan repeatedly bats at her.

Dan, the big orange cat you see in this photo, often comes up to me with some mysterious scratches on his little pink nose. Care to guess how he got them?

My wife showed me this surprising video of a lion being affectionate toward a Colombian woman who rescued him. She found him malnourished six years ago and they’ve been together every day since then. Though trying this with a regular lion is definitely a bad idea, this is a sweet video that reminds [...]