Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Bass blog contributor Benjy sent me a link to this video of Orca the cat demolishing a roll of toilet paper.  I’ve definitely seen my cats do this kind of thing, although not to this extent!

Incidentally, I checked the archives before putting this video out on the blog, and the last time I put [...]

This is the video version of my recent Story Time with Contrabass Conversations episode about cabs. It’s…well…..sort of a video, anyway. Check it out and see. I have taken various photos and put them together in a kind of slideshow/documentary/video podcast episode. If you’re a podcast subscriber (and if you’re [...]

I stumbled upon this blog post over the weekend, discovering a very funny Van Halen video from early October, 2007.  Apparently, the synthesizer in the opening of the classic Van Halen tune ‘Jump’ started playing at 48K instead of 44.1 K, causing a….bit of a problem when the other instruments came in.  Eddie Van Halen [...]

Welcome to Story Time with the Contrabass Conversations podcast! This new venture was inspired by the great podcast Digital Flotsam (along with a healthy dose of This American Life), and it features me narrating my story about fitting basses in cabs, along with topical songs, sound effects, and more.
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Last week I put out some fun Photo Booth photos of Elgin Symphony bassists Tim Shaffer and Scott Rosenthal.  Well, I got in on the action earlier this year as well, just before interviewing Scott for Contrabass Conversations:

I love Photo Booth!

Ever since I got into podcasting, I have been itching to do what I’m launching this week.  My original idea for starting a podcast was something like a combination of Digital Flotsam (if you haven’t heard this show, stop what you’re doing and check it out–it’s fantastic) and This American Life–in other words, I wanted [...]

New York Magazine did a very amusing spread last week about The Most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time. One of my personal favorites is this clip from 1965 chastising Time reporter Horace Judson (who looks horribly uncomfortable) about…well…let me know if you figure out what Bob’s talking about!

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This video defies description. It is an hour long double bass performance/speech/dramatization featuring double bassist Dean Ferrell as Captain Tobias. This is a one person show of epic proportions–strange, compelling, and totally hilarious.
Dean Ferrell went to school at Juilliard with Greg Sarchet, studying with David Walter, and also working with Bert Turetzky. [...]

It’s video Friday here on the blog this week! I found this adorable and amazing performance of a Taiwanese English class through a recent Boing Boing post. Although utterly hilarious from a native English speaker perspective (especially given the MC Hammer soundtrack), it is obviously a total blast for the kids and a [...]

Kenneth Woods posted a link to this extremely fun video on his blog recently. Checking it out, I noticed that it has been viewed around 3.4 million times already, so I’m a little late to the game with this! But, if you’re an old man like me and things take a while to [...]