Never to be confused with my favorite euphemism for the tenor sax, that being "The Bitch Whistle"!
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Never to be confused with my favorite euphemism for the tenor sax, that being "The Bitch Whistle"!
Bitch Whistle...great band name!
That’s one fancy looking bass! I like bowling ball colors. Buying workshop tools and finishing products never seems to end.
Some call a harmonica a lickin’ stick.
Before I tell my little ol' story about how I came to be the er, um, musician I am today, I'll just attach these little ol' musical snippets of where I am musically, today, probably somewhere between these extremes: Masterful or WTH is he doing!
Bass Noodles #1367 and #1235 Copyright © 2016 Jeffrey P. Scott All rights reserved.
I’m thinking that it would be interesting to trigger software synths with a bass for this type of music.
Telling your parents that you want to be a progressive musician.
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Ours was the same. All silver-plated metal. Heavy. Agree about those bottom notes, but I think it was just my eyeballs vibrating in their sockets.
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My own experience in band and also in the company of my older sister (11 years) and her orchestra friends taught me there are very definitely personalities drawn to different instruments. And a bazillion jokes so old they have hair on them. I know, for example, don't kiss the French horn player.
I was in the woods at sunup this morning, using a pocket saw on a dead tree branch that was a hazard on a path. Along comes a police dog, he started giving me heck with relentless barking. Pinched by a police dog I thought. Maybe it was where he likes to go.
I know that one...won’t repeat it here.
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Before I tell my little ol' story about how I came to be the er, um, musician I am today, I'll just attach these little ol' musical snippets of where I am musically, today, probably somewhere between these extremes: Masterful or WTH is he doing!
Bass Noodles #1367 and #1235 Copyright © 2016 Jeffrey P. Scott All rights reserved.
Rickenbacker, eh?
Cañadian?
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Okay that is all pretty cool and no idea how you did it 
Too late!
Those tracks are one bass, live, no overdubs.
Big room or bog room reverb?
Who you asking? If me, did what?Okay that is all pretty cool and no idea how you did it
Strymon Flint. Fun pedal.
I vaguely remember doing some of this before, but here we go. Started on piano at age 7. The usual-Thompson books, etc. At about 14 y/o, my dad(a saxophonist/arranger-not his main gig)got me lessons with a jazz pianist who brought me into the world of lead sheets(fake book I)and chord symbols. Meanwhile, at ~11 y/o, I started with the 'squeak stick'[clarinet]for about a year, then switched to bass clarinet(YAY!)and the saxes, mostly tenor and baritone, which got me through junior and senior high plus 2 years in the All-Miami Youth Symphony.
In 1964 I joined the Navy after passing the audition for the Navy music program. This involved boot camp from 12/1/64 to ~ 2/12/65.(BOOO!)and playing in the recruit marching/ceremonial band. Then off to the USN music school-everybody has to go, not so much for music as the military part of being a sailor. In ~November of 65, 17 of us were formed into what was called a "Unit Band(#186)" to be assigned to some very large, gray boat-in our case USS Yorktown(CVS-10).
We left San Diego in early '66 for deployment in the Gulf of Tonkin, visiting ports in Japan(Yokosuka and Sasebo), The Philippines(Manila, Cebu, and Subic Bay/Olongapo), Thailand, and Hong Kong. During that cruise we played many "people to people" concerts for the locals at each port in addition to our shipboard duties.
We were back in San Diego for 6 months(6/66-12/66)doing shore based ceremonial stuff and then shipped out on the USS Hancock to Japan where we were flown to Subic Bay to join the USS Enterprise(CVAN-65)for another 6 month 'cruise'. During this time I bought a cheap-o Beatle Bass copy from one of the Filipino bands in Olongapo-I'd been interested in learning bass in, like, forever. It was a POS, but something to get started on, I guess.
After we returned stateside, I was assigned to the USN band in Charleston, SC, still officially on sax/clarinet. Our assigned UB/tuba player lived about 20 miles off base and didn't really wanna come in-or stay-to play a one hour O/Club cocktail party, so I worked with our very good piano man to do those gigs. I could watch over his shoulder, see and hear[I always had a good ear for bass]what he was playing, and provide bottom. At first, I was kinda 'oom-pah'-ish in my bass lines but as I got more comfortable with where the notes were on the neck, I got to be a little "fancier".
I separated from the Navy in November '68 and came home to Miami and fairly quickly hooked up with a coupla local rock bands on either sax or bass, depending on what was needed.
From '70-'72, I played in a 'message' band doing jr. and sr. high school concerts, mostly on keys, sax, and flute.
After that, I joined a band(?)out of Kewanee, IL, on bass. It was a disaster on which I bailed pretty quickly.
Back in Miami, I again found work with local rock bands, including one very good 7-piece Chicago/BS&T group and one 10-piece Spanish Show Band. Neither lasted long. People didn't wanna pay that many musicians-even then.
I then got a contact to join a band playing standards and light rock. It was another short gig-1973 to 1985(!!), mostly 4-6 nights a week in Miami country clubs, restaurants, and hotels. Through that time my bass, sax, and flute chops steadily improved. This was pre touch of arthritis and tooth loss. We knew a ship(sp) load of songs, plus at the hotel, we had to read shows-w/o a rehearsal, just a 15 minute 'talk through' for a 45 minute show. Challenging.
All during this time, I had p/t truck driving gigs for "beer money". In '85, the music biz in Miami changed drastically, and I switched to f/t truck driving(18 wheelers)and p/t music-most Saturdays, some Fridays too.
I kept up that schedule 'til 2007 when I 'hung up' the driving gig and retired. I then found the original iteration of the band I currently work in-with a coupla personnel changes over the years. And still found occasion to play in a community concert band and a coupla big bands, which kept my reading skills fairly current.
That is, until this past March, when everything came to a screeching halt. We still get an occasional gig, but have lost ~60 that were booked but have been 86'ed.
Here's hoping 2021 doesn't suck as badly as 2020.
Interesting career, I haven't done a gig since Feb or March, i play everyday to either YouTube or Sirius XM though, I was sitting down to play along with SiriusXM and though I'd check in here first.
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Ten years old is when everyone in band cries the blues because the key has four sharps. And what's fun is I really don't give a hoot with a bass!
Before I tell my little ol' story about how I came to be the er, um, musician I am today, I'll just attach these little ol' musical snippets of where I am musically, today, probably somewhere between these extremes: Masterful or WTH is he doing!
Bass Noodles #1367 and #1235 Copyright © 2016 Jeffrey P. Scott All rights reserved.
I think you covered both! I really liked the second one.
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