Bass shot of the day

Double Bass Originally uploaded by krakow81 Here’s a great shot of George Lyle playing double bass with the Tight Meat Trio, a free jazz ensemble, at the Hive, GUU, Glasgow, on Saturday 24th, February 2007.

The Heart of an Orchestra Contractor

My recent interview with the always entertaining and anecdote-filled Justin Locke prompted me to poke around his site in search of more amusing tales.  There, I found this post about ways in which musicians woefully misrepresent themselves to orchestra...

Reconstructing the Bass Blog!

People reading the bass blog on their Google Reader (or other RSS reader) won’t probably be noticing anything strange at the moment with this post, but folks reading this on the DoubleBassBlog.org site will notice that everything looks….different!  I...

Mr. T loves World of Warcraft

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...

Massive blog outage

Blogger, my oh-so-flaky web host, seems to have been down for a good long while tonight, so my apologies to folks trying to access the blog.  I am planning on moving the site to WordPress very soon (maybe in the next few days), which would allow for a lot more...