On freelancing and auditioning

John Floeter put out a great post on his bass studio blog recently about his thoughts and observations on freelancing and auditioning. This post is quite relevant to many of my writings about the freelance business (which you can find under my Articles link).Here are...

Bass shot of the day

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Weekly Bass Blog Wrap-Up

Doing a weekly wrap-up is something that I have been thinking about for a while. I got the idea from Lorelle VanFossen’s blog Lorelle on WordPress, an excellent blog about blogging (of great interest to me–probably not so much for most bass blog readers)....

Angry airport rant from Phillip Serna

I just received this story from bass blog contributor Phillip Serna documenting an infuriating experience at the airport with this viola da gamba. It is quite fitting that I got this story just a day after putting out the first part of my Basses, Planes, Trains, and...

Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Part 1 – Cabs

This story also has an audio and video version!___________I hate driving. I am also a bass player. This is a problem. As I watch my violinist, flutist, and clarinetist colleagues getting off of the train outside of a gig while I circle frantically for a parking spot...