Story Time: Cabs – Video Episode

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 not, you click here to subscribe for free–all the cool kids are doing it) you’ll be getting this episode in the feed soon. If you have problems playing this video, you can also watch it in the bass blog video player in the sidebar of the blog.

Talk about layers on top of layers! Now there is a video version of this story, an audio version, and a text version. This is the sort of thing that I really enjoy putting together, and I hope that you enjoy watching it. I’ll be adding both and audio and video player to the original story, so that folks can choose which of the three methods of presentation (audio, video, or text) they most prefer. I’ll be doing the same thing with my other crazy gig stories over a period of time, so expect to see more projects like this coming down the pipes soon.

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October 24, 2007 · Filed Under Contrabass Conversations, bass, bass videos, crazy gig stories, humor, podcasting

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Story Time with Contrabass Conversations launching this week

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 to create a whimsical story show with music, ambient noise and effects, and songs related to the content. I started the Contrabass Conversations podcast because this was the topic that I knew the most about, and there was a dearth of audio and material in a regular episodic format for this subject, but in the back of my mind I’ve always been kicking around the idea of how to incorporate some of my own stuff in this project (apart from hosting it, producing it, and the like).

Anyway, I finally worked up the guts to try this sort of thing, using some of my favorite crazy gig stories as material and adding sound effects, musical backing tracks, background noise, and other production elements to make little (around 10 minutes) lighthearted tales from the blog. I’ve been having a grand time putting these together, and although I make no promises as to the frequency of these audio tales (they take a lot of work!), I shall try to put them out at least somewhat regularly. Once I wrap up a story, I will also put a player on the related story page here on the blog, so that folks can click the player and listen along as they read the story and check out the photos.

These episodes will be called Story Time with Contrabass Conversations, and the first story to launch will be Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Part 1: Cabs. Expect My Car Caught Fire and Exploded! to follow soon.

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October 15, 2007 · Filed Under bass, blogging, humor, podcasting

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Weekly Wrap-Up

I spent the past two weeks performing with the Grant Park Symphony. This has been a real treat for me, both musically and personally. The GPSO is a great ensemble, and we played a lot of excellent repertoire, including Beethoven 2, Mahler 5, and the Firebird Suite. Bass blog readers will actually be familiar with many of the bass players in this section. Most of them have contributed ideas, photos, videos, or interviews to the blog at some point. Check out a funny photo of this bass section trapped in an elevator here. (elevator photo and Millennium Park photo courtesy of John Floeter)

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This week we released the second part of our interview with Guy Tuneh plus music from Brian Bromberg and Nam Chi Vu. Guy’s interview has been received with overwhelming enthusiasm from many listeners. We have received hundreds of comments from people expressing their positive reaction to Guy Tuneh, and this feedback is greatly appreciated! Check out the episode here (CBC #33).

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We also featured our second Contrabass Conversations video episode,this time with the excellent bassist Ranaan Meyer. Ranaan performed the Czardas by Vittorio Monti on his episode, and it was a real thrill to get to feature him on video! We have another video episode from Ranaan coming up here shortly as well as the rest of our audio interview with him. For now, check out the video episode here and the audio episode here.

Click here to check out our first CBC video episode featuring none other than Guy Tuneh!

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We also released the third part of This Crazy Business this week, this time focusing on how addictive music performance can be. Check out the complete series here–we’d love to know your reactions.

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It is now possible to do a very fast and accurate keyword search of the podcast, then start playing from any occurrence of that keyword. Simply enter your search term into the EveryZing widget on the left, and you’ll get what your looking for as quickly as if you did a Google search.

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This week marked the launch of Bass Musician Magazine, a new publication available at www.bass-musician-magazine.com, and one in which Contrabass Conversations will be a regular feature. Check it out!
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We released the next part of the Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles featuring tales of woe regarding plane travel. This is the first in an extended series on double bass plane travel on the blog, so stay tuned for more of this content.

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This week we featured music educator Peter Tambroni on Contrabass Conversations. This episode was a lot of fun to put together, and is should prove to be a valuable resource for bassists everywhere. Check out the episode here.

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Keeping with the travel theme for the week, we also put out a double bass flight experiences survey this week. If you haven’t taken the survey yet, please check it out and add your data to this project.

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If you are looking for double bass sheet music, please check out the Bass Blog Sheet Music Store. We will be expanding this section of the blog to include double bass wheels, stands, cases, and other accessories, all with brief reviews of the gear offered.

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This week featured the second part of This Crazy Business, my new series about life as a working musician. Unlike Road Warrior Without an Expense Account (which is about being a freelance musician), this series is about life as a musician in general.

If you’d like to read the 50 or so more substantial articles and stories that are featured on this blog, just click the Articles link just below the Contrabass Conversations banner.

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I also wrote a post for the great photo blog Dark Roasted Blend (one of the 100 most popular blogs on the Internet). This post has drawn a lot of attention to the bass blog here, and it was also mentioned on Neatorama, another extremely popular blog.

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