A painful tale from a reader: Dear Jason, Inspired by stories of bass destruction in your blog, and especially Adam’s latest story, I felt an urge to share my own personal trauma. A few months after I bought my first bass, I was on my way home from a gig as a...
From the archives–a story about a very strange little man who managed to disrupt a massive concert hall filled with people. Also includes a video version of the story. Have a good wekend! Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog » Blog Archive » Flowers for Linda...
A friend of mine from my student teacher training program at DePaul once told me a painfully funny (to me, at least) story from his middle school student teaching days: A bassoonist by trade, this student teacher had been assigned to strong music program in a very...
I can’t seem to keep from getting stuck playing percussion in the most random of situations. And I’m bad at it! As a non-percussionist, you might think that something as “simple” as whacking a drum or banging a chime is trivial (percussionists...
The submission date has now passed for the gig story raffle for the Upton bass pickup, and we’ve gotten a bunch of great gig stories as a result! I’ll put the remaining ones out this week and announce a winner (picked randomly from the stories entered) at...
