What do we Talkbass Doublebassists all look like?

[FractalUniverse]

uhm...that's cool, my accupuncturist was an old lady and she wasn't that good!... i might try it someday in the future, but alternative medicine it's too damn expensive down here.

and by the way i have injuried myself doing things that are not related with playing the instrument itself, at least that's what i think, cause i have good e-bass technique according to my teacher.... and i'm also supposed to have good piano technique..... the problem happened when i started travelling with my amp, and i must say, that i did some stupid things..... and back on topic, i'm studying the possibility of the surgery alternative.

[Steve Killingsworth]

I'm the one with the bass.

[bassgeek]

Here's a pic of me playing with Dizzy Gillespie

[Marcus Johnson]

I'm hopin' that tip jar filled up a bit as the night progressed...all I see there is the "seed money"

[bassgeek]

Actually, that might have been towards the end of the night! This gig was at a DEAN and DELUCA Wine Room...the type of place where the requests were along the lines of "Do you guys do any Fourplay or Boney James?". You know, real jazz. We call the seed money "bait".

[BenderR]

When you end up with less "bait" than you started out with, that's the definition of a bad night.

As far as the Fourplay or Boney James issue even that could be worse. I once took a friend and an acquaintence to hear Paul Warburton & Dale Bruning play and the acquaintence called the very cool jazz that was being played that night "dinner music". I was ready to scream.

I guess that the forces of musical darkness have succeeded in convincing many among the unwashed masses that funk, fusion and smooth-jazz are "real" jazz. I don't hate any of these kinds of music (except smooth-jazz which I hate with a passion) but I mind it when it is represented as being jazz. I mind it a lot more when these genres are said to be "real jazz" displacing the standards and jazz tunes we all love from their rightful place.

The worst insult I ever got was from a smooth-jazz loving friend. A fellow that thinks Yanni is the greatest composer since Mozart (no kidding). He said that I was ahead of my time because the music I played over 30 years ago was (in his opinion) smooth-jazz. My retort was that in fact it was real jazz but that it sounded like smooth jazz becuse I wasn't playing it very well. The strangest thing about it all is that he never understood that he had insulted me.

[Steph Dawe]

smooth jazz

Define smooth jazz.

Preferably with some examples.

[Marcus Johnson]

Here's some discourse on smooth jazz;
http://www.smooth-jazz.de/what_is_smoothjazz.html

But for me, it's a form of music that compels me to find a rusty icepick, coat it with the anthrax virus, and shove it really deeply into my eardrum, twirling it around until my eyeballs bug out.

But that's just me.

[Steph Dawe]

Originally Posted by some maniac who doesn't like smooth jazz. ;)

But for me, it's a form of music that compels me to find a rusty icepick, coat it with the anthrax virus, and shove it really deeply into my eardrum, twirling it around until my eyeballs bug out.

But that's just me.

[T-Bal]

I don't know what's worse, listening to it or reading about it. Luckily, I don't have to do either.

[BenderR]

Making certain that your digestive tract is empty beforehand I would suggest going to Amazon.com and playing some Kenny G. samples. This is also useful if you ever need to induce vomiting.

Originally Posted by stephdawe04

Define smooth jazz.

Preferably with some examples.

[Steve Killingsworth]

Originally Posted by stephdawe04

Define smooth jazz.

Saying smooth jazz to these guys is like saying George Bush to an average group of Hollywood stars.

[Marcus Johnson]

Originally Posted by T-Bal

I don't know what's worse, listening to it or reading about it. Luckily, I don't have to do either.

Amen! I didn't read it either, just found it on Google.

To me, a lot of it sounds unfinished, like "Adult Contemporary" music that need to go back to the studio for a vocal track. Some of it also sounds really dated to me. It just sounds really overprocessed.

I just tuned into a "jazz" fest broadcast on BET yesterday...the first artist featured was Freddie Jackson, a good contemporary R&B singer. So I thought, all right, I'll see what comes up after the commercial. Up next was Bebe Winans, an excellent gospel singer. I don't really care what the music is called, but I felt like listening to some jazz. I ended up turning on Cirrus radio.

On a positive note; Arturo Sandoval is coming to Maui this weekend

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by HAD HAIRSPRAY

Awww....you're so CUTE! This is much better than the ponytail look.

Are my aging eyes playing tricks on me, or are you standing in front of an accordionist? If so, you could have done a better job of blocking the infernal thing from the camera, no?

[Marcus Johnson]

You can look....but you better not touch.....

[rockness]

Here I am, participating in my favorite pastime..daydreaming and taking my eyes off the music...

[Steph Dawe]

Here I am, participating in my favorite pastime..daydreaming and taking my eyes off the music...

My drummer and I pull faces at each other.

[Ed Fuqua]

Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald

Awww....you're so CUTE! This is much better than the ponytail look.

Are my aging eyes playing tricks on me, or are you standing in front of an accordionist? If so, you could have done a better job of blocking the infernal thing from the camera, no?

No, not an accordian. It's one a them ee lektrick keyboards. Which gets used even when there's an actual piano in the same room.

I would have blocked the keyboard, but I was too busy hiding my giant hammy hands from the camera...

[olivier]

Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua

I was too busy hiding my giant hammy hands from the camera...

Last time we shook hands someone had to call the EMS

[Wil Davis]

I thought for a moment that Ed had been photographed at "Ryles" in Cambridge…

- Wil