Double Bass David Friesen & Glen Moore

[Bruce Lindfield]

Que? they all had to use the're own intruments all the time? a bit precious no? I appreciate all DBs can vary enough to put you off a little but - ah well.

If I was in that situ I'd have said sod it and reached for a bg - I get twtichy like you say !

Sorry if I'm taking this off topic - but yes everybody hung on to their own instruments apart from TB Member Howard K, who 'borrowed' Simon Thorpe's (one of the tutors) DB on stage - and then proceeded to bleed all over it, as he had been playing BG all week !!

I have yet to hear what Simon thought about this....

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

I think it was fine, and a nice change...but it definitely was different. I think that Jamey wanted the diversity. I will say that in the bass master classes Dave did a nice job of blending volumewise with the rest of the basses when we were playing duos/trios with the other faculty.

Yes, in a previous years one of the DB tutors asked me to turn down a bit in the bass class...

One of the interesting things about getting 5 or 6 DB students together is the differences in volume you notice...?

 

[greg garrison]

i was lucky enough to have a brief private lesson with david friesen about 5 years ago in colorado. the concept of spirituality in music did come up, but i didn't get a "conversion" kind of vibe from him. i did spend alot of time thinking about the conncetions between a musician and some higher power after my time with him, though. he is a wonderful player- check out "four to go" (i think that's the right name, i'm on the road- no access to my cd's), with alan jones, gary barrone, and john gross (again- i think that's all correct)- great open ended freebopish stuff.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

I'm glad to hear support for David since my original post. I only saw him twice, the second time being the event that I mentioned earlier. He's a great bassist, to be sure. I must have caught him on a rare bad night, and that was a loooong time ago. Let's face it.... there are a lot of shady occurances in my past as well, and I wouldn't want people to judge me in 2005 for something I did in 1982.

The duo with John Stowell was fantastic. They really had their own sound, and very nice compositions. John's neo-Jim Hall approach worked very well with David's melodicism. The arco work was amazing.

 

[Francois Blais]

I saw him live in 1985, at Le Domaine Forget, here in Quebec.
He was in duo with Paul Horn, and played the Oregon Bass.
Amazing evening!