Carping about Cartage
Yazan: Jason | 22 July 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: bass, freelancing, travel
While digging through my old e-mail recently, I came upon this snippy exchange between management and musicians regarding compensation for cartage. This is the sort of thing that really makes my blood boil–cartage is compensation paid to musicians who must load a lot of gear in and out of a venue. The philosophy behind this [...]
Summer festivals – a good deal?
Yazan: Jason | 07 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: advice, freelancing, travel
Adaptistration blogger and Inside the Arts mastermind Drew McManus recently put out a post about summer music festivals that really caught my eye. In this post (dated 6/27/08), Drew writes: Unlike regular season positions, music festivals have an added bonus by offering their exclusive location as an added incentive to performance and travel pay. Add [...]
Justin Locke: Art of the Crazy Gig Story
Yazan: Jason | 02 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, videos
Justin Locke has gracefully made the move from the hardscrabble world of freelance music into his current occupation as corporate speaker and author, and he’s got enough tales from his time in this often wacky business to keep you entertained for days. We interviewed Justin on the Contrabass Conversations podcast, which was extremely fun–check it out [...]
Best of the Blog
Yazan: Jason | 01 July 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: blogging
It’s been a great year of blogging for me personally, and I’m really excited to have reached the phase of development for both Contrabass Conversations and doublebassblog.org that I’m at currently. We’ve got a large daily readership (we were pushing 2000 daily page views for these sites plus Arts Addict during the spring) and a [...]
The Art of Slowing Down
Yazan: Jason | 25 June 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: photography, travel
Though this post’s title could easily be tied to a post about slow practice or something like that (which would make a good future blog post!), I’m actually referring here to the deliciously laid-back summer schedules that I’ve managed to get away with for much of my freelance career. While I have certainly had my [...]
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