Some Bass Humor

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Last summer at a Wenatchee, Washington, Bluegrass Festival, I met this Lady Bass Player named Vicki Vance. She is an awesome character , plays a mean bluegrass bass, and had the coolest bass cart she had fabricated out of an old golf cart I think she had got at a thrift store. Anyhow, she showed me some bass cartoons she had worked up. She told me to keep checking her website ( http://www.vanceart.com/ ) because she was going to have a humorous bass section. I recently checked her website ..... sure enuff ... there are the cartoons. This is a quote from Vicki's site:

ANNOUNCEMENT: I have created an E-BOOK called "10 Reasons TO PLAY AN UPRIGHT BASS and 10 Reasons TO NOT PLAY an Upright Bass." For any musician, this is a critical, life-altering decision and hopefully these drawings/photos should help considerably in weighing the Pro's and Con's of purchasing an upright bass.

Check it all out ... it's big-time fun . Surf around her whole website because there are various bass areas with photos, etc.

http://www.vanceart.com/wearethequotbottomlinequot/

[Jake deVilliers]

I had the good fortune to camp next to Vicki and Eddard at Darrington three years ago and have subsequently run into them at Toledo and Mt Hood (RIP).

Really great people and happy to have been able to help get Vicki's bass set up in a playable manner.

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Originally Posted by Jake deVilliers

I had the good fortune to camp next to Vicki and Eddard at Darrington three years ago and have subsequently run into them at Toledo and Mt Hood (RIP) .... Really great people and happy to have been able to help get Vicki's bass set up in a playable manner.

That's great Jake ..... I haven't been to Darrington .... was going to make it last year but when the time came I decided gas prices and butt-time in my truck were both too high considering I was driving from Montana. Thanks for helping Vicki with her bass ... it probably needed some TLC ! I see you are from BC .... one of my favorite bands that I have seen 3 times here in Montana is John Reischman & The Jaybirds. Wonderful "non-traditional" bluegrass band. Trisha plays the bass and sings so well .... it can bring a tear to a glass eye .

[Jake deVilliers]

Darrington is a great festival with a broad enough spectrum of players that just about everybody can find jamming.

The Texas fiddle players have their zone, the swing people are down on the flats and etc.

The Jaybirds are a really good band.

I used to play guitar with John & Nick with Tammy Fassaert on bass in a band called "Kootenay Loop" and with Trisha and her sister Cathy Anne Whitworth in "Tumbleweed". "Tumbleweed also included Chris Stevens on guitar & banjo and Michael Heiden on fiddle & mandolin.

We should probably have a TalkBass beer garden at Darrington or maybe Mt St Helen's.

Do you come/go to Wintergrass?

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Originally Posted by Jake deVilliers

The Jaybirds are a really good band. I used to play guitar with John & Nick with Tammy Fassaert on bass in a band called "Kootenay Loop" and with Trisha and her sister Cathy Anne Whitworth in "Tumbleweed". We should probably have a TalkBass beer garden at Darrington or maybe Mt St Helen's. Do you come/go to Wintergrass?

Very Good Jake ! You must be an excellent flatpicker to hang in with musicians of that caliber. I have Tumbleweed's "Living in a Country World" and "Weedgarden" ..... great CDs with nice mixes of "up north" bluegrass and country that a guy from South Alberta (Montana) like myself can appreciate.

I just gotta get to Darrington one of these years .... real sorry I missed Cherryholmes Family there last year. I haven't been to Wintergrass yet. My big mid-winter adventure for the past 2 years has been The River City Bluegrass Festival in Portland Oregon. Long 1500 mile round-trip winter drive but very worth it. Check out last year's line-up on their website ... incredible.

The line-up included Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Quartet, David Grisman, Laurie Lewis, Emmylou Harris with 3 of the originals from Seldom Scene, Longview, Rhonda V & The Rage, John R & Jaybirds, Larry Sparks. You might want to check it out for next year ... a very well-run festival (with a Beer Garden !). There were so many good double bass players ...... Todd Phillips, Tom Gray, Larry Dee Sparks, Dennis Crouch, & Mickey Harris. David Grisman's 16 year old son kicked butt on the bass. Bryn Bright with The Rowan / Rice Quartet blew me away with her awesome "jazzgrass" bass work. I got to attend bass workshops by Marshall Wilborn and classically-trained Andy Moritz (Cadillac Sky) .... both are amazingly good players and fine human beings. Maybe see you there next year.

[war_n_peace]

Originally Posted by Bob Knebel

ANNOUNCEMENT: I have created an E-BOOK called "10 Reasons TO PLAY AN UPRIGHT BASS and 10 Reasons TO NOT PLAY an Upright Bass."
Check it all out ... it's big-time fun .

This one made me laugh the hardest...