[dba-Tech] Playing bass - was Re: Why I just destroyed my cell phone

[Rocky Smolin]

Playing music - the most fun you can have with your clothes on. :)

Would it work better for you to play left handed? 

I played a u-bass a few months ago.  With those thick rubbery strings? The conga player in my Cuban band had one and brought it to a jam for me to try.  Amazing!  It had pretty high quality bass sound when amplified - very impressive. A Kala?

I came late to this bass thing - like you.  But I switched to upright a couple years ago from electric - playing rock and blues.  Much harder than electric.  But right for the genre.

But I play standards - don't play anything I can't whistle or sing in the shower. So no stuff like Coltrane.  Just what they call straight ahead.  It's different but it ain't so difficult.

But I'll play anything (musical whore). Played Dixieland for a few years until we...well...disbanded.

I'm bass in the house band at a local coffee house this Sunday - a Woody Guthrie tribute. 

http://www.brick15.com/

https://www.brick15.com/event/woody-guthrie-tribute/


I got my start playing out through a Meetup site - met a lot of musicians that way.  Check it out in your area.  Then you can go play with people.

R

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 8:08 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues; jwcolby at gmail.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Playing bass - was Re: Why I just destroyed my cell phone

Rocky, I too am playing bass.  I have a majorish mangle in my fretting hand / arm from a motorcycle accident back in 1986 (in San Marcos as it happens), and as a result can't get good supination of my left arm / hand.  But... I can play this little thing called a U-Bass.  I am absolutely loving it.

Not playing in public (yet) but I am playing to songs on my phone, streamed via bluetooth to my little bose speaker.  Things like

Exile - Woke Up in Love

Asleep at the wheel - Coast to coast

Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel

Eva Cassidy - Wade in the water

Robert Plant - Killing the blues (almost as good as Rolland Salley's
version)

and many others, mostly of the blues / country genre.

Not really good enough yet to go do the jazz stuff, but workin' on it.  
So much fun.

On 10/26/2016 12:05 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I like it!  I'm playing stand-up bass in the house band (just me and the drummer/owner) at a coffee house called Brick 15 in Del Mar on Sunday.  It started by a couple we're friendly with.  He's got a nice roster of talent coming in and people are competing to do Deportee. :)  Should be a hoot!
>
> https://www.brick15.com/event/woody-guthrie-tribute/
>
>
> So in addition to Martin I'd like to add Woody Guthrie, if that's OK with you.
>
> R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On 
> Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 8:47 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Why I just destroyed my cell phone
>
> Rocky,
>
> You certainly struck a resonant chord with me. When I am out in the world, increasingly rarely, I most definitely do not want to be interrupted by a cell-call. Even when I'm at home, I don't want such interruptions, unless from recognized numbers.
>
> Physical mail is easy enough to deal with -- just toss it in the trash bin.
> But for some reason, I keep receiving emails from web sites offering free sex-chats with Chinese, Russian, Czech, Hungarian and other ethnic women.
> The up-side is that at least they recognize that I'm heterosexual. But even though I spam them, they keep coming. I don't know how they find me, and why they think I'd pay money for net-sex with some stranger, but I don't know how to stop all this. I mark all these emails as spam but that doesn't seem to help.
>
> On the other hand, someday, sometime, I would love to make music with you.
> My instrument is tabla, which actually might be redundant with bass, 
> but maybe with a guitar and a violin we could make something work. 
> What the hell, let's toss in a banjo! As irt happens, I know a 
> virtuoso player, Steve Martin -- a very gifted player. Wait, I didn't 
> mean that I know him personally, just that I've seen him play and he 
> is incredibly gifted. So I'm going to continue with this fantasy that 
> you're on bass and I'm on tabla and Steve is on banjo, and we're going 
> to invent a new genre called Country Eastern Jazz. ☺ ​ 
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