Tom Capasso Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Yes, and we should make sure we smack down anyone that pisses us off Flank - I agree that the deathwatch is morbid. Some people are more deeply touched by death than others, so I often just let those threads run their course without posting (you might say that I skip adding to them without hesitation). The recent example was someone that was an entertainment figure of significant enough note that most knew who she was. If people start posting everytime anyone passes, the mods will have to step in, but in general the deaths of non-musicians are recognized and gone fairly quickly. The best antidote is the ever-deepening discussion of subjects that fit our interest (gad - I almost used the term "mission"). I'd rather read about Erik's bass amp on a trapeze then Paris Hilton, so that's what I comment on. Beating a dead horse still makes it jump, only now it's for the wrong reason. Tom Quote www.stoneflyrocks.com Acoustic Color Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 This is awesome...I keep getting calls for classical gigs that pay well! A graduate of the NE Conservatory who used to play with me in the Boston Civic Symphony (who recently dropped out because she was getting too many paying gigs that conflicted with the schedule) has been passing on whichever gigs she can't play to me. I've already had to pass two of them off to other bass players I have on my sub list! Man I hope this keeps up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 That's awesome, davio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Yeah, I might have to drop Civic as well next season. It was good to keep me playing regularly after I moved to town but I've been making enough connections through it that I don't know if I need it anymore. It's starting to feel more like work than play anyway...which is no good if it doesn't pay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 It's starting to feel more like work than play anyway...which is no good if it doesn't pay. Time to bail on that. When it stops being fun it is time to move on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Here's a blog about my jazz group in London - you guys know all this stuff anyway but just in case - http://philwbass.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/the-lv-project/ Quote http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cthulhu Fhtagn Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 I'm moving to Boston. They have better gigs and better CL posts. I would be happy to be on Davio's sub list, or even his sub-sub list. My Musician's Forest profile clearly states that it's over when it stops being fun. Quote Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cthulhu Fhtagn Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Now that Eastern Washington has become somewhat respectable as a place of fine vinticulture (that's wine makeing), Little wine shoppes are popping up everywere. A lot of the larger wineries with substantial tasting rooms are creating "vino notte" complete with overpriced hor d'vours and live music. Now, jazz lends itself well to the wine snob crowd since most wine snobs don't know what they're talking about, jazz, being very subjective (especially improv) is just as subjective and allows the wine snob to now also act as a "jazz snob". Now, it don't really matter to me much, but everyone (the venues) are trying to get into the "wine, cheese, jazz and salmon spread on artisan demi-baguette" act. And it appears they are using the part time college student to book the acts. This person typically knows about as much about booking as they do about the wine they're serving - they read the tasting notes out loud. "This is our 2006 Char-Donny". They post on CL, don't leave phone numbers, don't respond to e-mail enquiries and now I see (Saturday Morning) that their act bugged out and they are looking for a replacement for three sets and $200 total for the night. Lowball gigs, horrible acoustics, no place to set up, employees standing around having a conference every time you ask "Can I put this here?", no "point of payment" contact, Hell, I'm hard pressed to find adults half the time. Maybe I should drop my gig and hire myself out to three or five wineries as a booking agent. I know all the jazz guys in town anyway, what the hell. Quote Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moot Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Greta idea Sonny-Jim. You could do the same thing the current guy is doing - keep half the $$ and pay the band peanuts and wine. I would like a 5% fee for coming up with the idea. Quote "He is to music what Stevie Wonder is to photography." getz76 I have nothing nice to say so . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Come on, come over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 On another subject: I'm about to leave for the gig with the funk band. Load-in is @ 5:30. This should be fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moot Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Uh-oh. Quote "He is to music what Stevie Wonder is to photography." getz76 I have nothing nice to say so . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cthulhu Fhtagn Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Too many strings. Quote Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Uh-oh. Purty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 So many things... I got my URB back from a bass player in the Boston Symphony who does repairs. He plained my fingerboard, put in a new sound post, adjusted the cut on the top of the bridge to fit the new finish of the fingerboard, set the bridge properly, put a new tail piece wire on and fixed the endpin which was starting to tilt at a dangerous angle. All for a steal at $150! REALLY looking forward to playing it tonight! Gig with the disco band went amazingly well. The Tri112L was a dream as was the fantastic sound guy the BL hired (their regular if the venue doesn't have sufficient PA & sound guy). BL asked me to be their regular sub since they haven't had the best of luck with bass subs in the recent past. Also asked if I'd consider taking the gig on full time if/when the current bass player moves away this Summer. They gig ~3x/month...and get paid better than I ever have as a band member. Only catch is I have to come up with a disco name. Current band members are: Linkavitch, PiXi StiX, Buck Nasty, Ebop, GingerSNAP, Disco Moto, Professor Spoon, Gold Fingah, Honeychild, Doc Voodoo, Siter Nancy and Sammy Funkenstein (who warned me to come up with something before they give me one since he put it off until they started calling him S**t F**k for lack of a name...which evolved into Sammy Funkenstein because of the initials). Maybe time for a thread about that... Picked up a wicked cheap Boss Bass Synth pedal off craigslist. I don't know if I'll get too much use out of it but I had fun playing with it for all of one intro at the gig. I can resell it for an extra $20 if I end up not wanting it. My Bassman400 head is now the heaviest piece of equipment I own at 45 lbs. I actually whined a little when loading and unloading it. What's happened to me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b5pilot Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Uh-oh. Nice! Quote Lydian mode? The only mode I know has the words "pie ala" in front of it. http://www.myspace.com/theeldoradosband Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moot Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Davio - you could do the old porn name game. The name of your first pet and the name of the first street you lived on. My Bassman400 head is now the heaviest piece of equipment I own at 45 lbs. I actually whined a little when loading and unloading it. What's happened to me? It's obvious. You've gone wuss. Quote "He is to music what Stevie Wonder is to photography." getz76 I have nothing nice to say so . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizzo9247 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Gig with the disco band went amazingly well. The Tri112L was a dream as was the fantastic sound guy the BL hired (their regular if the venue doesn't have sufficient PA & sound guy). BL asked me to be their regular sub since they haven't had the best of luck with bass subs in the recent past. Also asked if I'd consider taking the gig on full time if/when the current bass player moves away this Summer. They gig ~3x/month...and get paid better than I ever have as a band member. Only catch is I have to come up with a disco name. Current band members are: Linkavitch, PiXi StiX, Buck Nasty, Ebop, GingerSNAP, Disco Moto, Professor Spoon, Gold Fingah, Honeychild, Doc Voodoo, Siter Nancy and Sammy Funkenstein (who warned me to come up with something before they give me one since he put it off until they started calling him S**t F**k for lack of a name...which evolved into Sammy Funkenstein because of the initials). Maybe time for a thread about that... Happy McSlappy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Davio - you could do the old porn name game. The name of your first pet and the name of the first street you lived on. "Silky (a white mouse when I was ~3) Seventeenth" doesn't really work for me. My next option has some potential, though: "Silky Central." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moot Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Just go with "Silky". Or Gruuve . . . Quote "He is to music what Stevie Wonder is to photography." getz76 I have nothing nice to say so . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Or Gruuve . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b5pilot Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Captain Taint Punch Quote Lydian mode? The only mode I know has the words "pie ala" in front of it. http://www.myspace.com/theeldoradosband Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 ...could go with "Minty Fresh" and always cary some Tic-Tacs in a shirt pocket...or get a green pickguard... That just came to mind because Minty Fresh is the name of a character in a very funny book I recently read. Maybe I could even find a mint green suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 John Mellencamp artical on the current state of the music biz. Interesting read. It's funny but it almost seems as though he indirectly blames part of it on "urban" music in paragraph 3. It also seems funny that this comes from someone that was told to change his name to Cougar so he himself could be marketable. Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Capasso Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Air Davio? Crockett? better yet --> put bNb on the job to get you a name. You'll have a thousand in no time. Congrats on winning the gig! And nicely nicely on the repair. And it's "planed", not "plained". Tom Quote www.stoneflyrocks.com Acoustic Color Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b5pilot Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 John Mellencamp artical on the current state of the music biz. Interesting read. It's funny but it almost seems as though he indirectly blames part of it on "urban" music in paragraph 3. It also seems funny that this comes from someone that was told to change his name to Cougar so he himself could be marketable. It's funny how he started talking about country music which in my opinion has pretty much fallen the same way the other forms of pop music have. I don't hear a lot of diversity anymore as the majority pretty much sounds like warmed over Eagles. It's all pretty cookie-cutter and they are as interested in the bottom line as any other form. Then again, I guess that's why they call it the music business. Quote Lydian mode? The only mode I know has the words "pie ala" in front of it. http://www.myspace.com/theeldoradosband Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moot Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 I've always been a Melloncamp fan and have covered lots of his songs in different bands. He is a good song writer who is occasionally brilliant. I still strum and sing his stuff in my living room. When you hear him talk you get the feeling that although he is saying he got free of the trap and went back to his roots, he isn't as far out of the bubble as he wants you to think he is. Quote "He is to music what Stevie Wonder is to photography." getz76 I have nothing nice to say so . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 And it's "planed", not "plained". Um...yeah...that...no..."plained" - lacking ornament, free of extraneous matter, free of impediments to view. That kinda works too...wait...what? That's what happens when I post before coffee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottomgottem Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 John Mellencamp artical on the current state of the music biz. Interesting read. It's funny but it almost seems as though he indirectly blames part of it on "urban" music in paragraph 3. It also seems funny that this comes from someone that was told to change his name to Cougar so he himself could be marketable. It's funny how he started talking about country music which in my opinion has pretty much fallen the same way the other forms of pop music have. I don't hear a lot of diversity anymore as the majority pretty much sounds like warmed over Eagles. It's all pretty cookie-cutter and they are as interested in the bottom line as any other form. Then again, I guess that's why they call it the music business. He seems to talk about "country music" as if it came from somewhere outside the music industry to fill the roots music void created by the abuses and short-sidedness of the corporate offices. But the country genre is a big player in the same game, and suffers, in my opinion, from the same symptoms as pop, rock, hip-hop, etc... Maybe more so. Quote My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. ~Liberace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Interesting opinion. There is a lot of sense there. It's kind of an alternative to the grow your own audience/engage with them socially viewpoint I'm always banging on about. Personally I've always thought performers and improvisers have been undervalued and under-compensated as compared to songwriters and composers Quote http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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