Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

My long list of podcasts that I listen to daily generally provides me with some much needed levity in my day.  Thanks to one of Leo Laporte’s podcasts (Net at Nite, if I remember correctly), I found passiveaggressivenotes.com, a hilariously funny site containing wonderfully snarky passive aggressive notes left by roommates, stores, and [...]

As the profile of www.doublebassblog.org continues to rise, I have noticed a great deal of extremely amusing spam sites linking to here and scraping content. Now, for folks unfamiliar with content scraping, the term refers to someone (or some nefarious scraping robot script, more likely) copying posts off of popular blogs, then posting [...]

 

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This week, we bring listeners a very entertaining and interesting interview with Justin Locke, author of Real Men Don’t Rehearse, a book filled with wonderful anecdotes about his life in the music business. Justin was a freelance double bassist in the Boston area for nearly two decades, working regularly during that time with [...]

I was thinking recently about a funny and masterful prank pulled by the principal bass of a very high-quality orchestra while performing Mahler’s First Symphony several years ago.  Now, part of this piece utilizes offstage trumpets, and this particular prank revolved around these musicians.  Mahler was a big fan of the offstage instrumental sound, as [...]

This is completely non-bass related but tons of fun.  This commercial featuring Mr. T promoting World of Warcraft is especially fun for folks familiar with either WoW or the great Mr. T himself.  It’s good to see that he doesn’t take himself too seriously, especially as I recall last year’s blog post about Treat Your [...]

One can’t help but have their interest piqued by the title of Justin Locke’s expose about the inner workings of the music business.  Real Men Don’t Rehearse is the exact sort of book I love to read–witty, lighthearted, yet insightful and full of valuable lessons that those outside the music industry are likely to [...]

We’re celebrating Thanksgiving in the United States today.  I’m going to an all-vegetarian dinner myself tomorrow (and I’m not a vegetarian!), which should be an interesting way to celebrate.  Thanks for checking in with the blog, have a great holiday, and stay tuned for much more double bass content this and every week!

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Ever have a day that goes from bad to worse in a real hurry?  Well, I sure did a few years ago, and although I’ve now told this story in text and audio form, I just couldn’t resist putting it together as a video.  Actually, this is more like an animated slideshow than anything else, [...]

Totally unrelated to bass (but that’s OK, there are still only 35 total cat posts out of nearly 2000 posts on this blog!), but this cat is awesome. I love talking cats.

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This is the audio rendition of a tale that most regular blog readers have probably read the tale of my car explosion before–if you haven’t, you a follow along as you listen to this. This is a tale of a night that went from bad to worse in a big old hurry, and it is [...]