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Me (66) gigging last week.
Me (66) gigging last week.
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Senior Bassist (55+) Appreciation Thread (Post Pics)
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Me (58) gigging a month ago. Is 55+ senior now? Or just vintage...
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Losing faith in humanity...one call at a time.
Last year at 61.
I remember the days when 55 WAS the "senior" age for all the discounts and such. Seems like that line keeps moving up.
March this year at 66, Hey it's hot out here in Florida.
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- Chuck Sher publishes my book, WALKING BASSICS:The Fundamentals of Jazz Bass Playing.
At the Jazzschool in Berkeley, fall 2019. I was 63 at the time.
Good thing none of us ever goes above the fifth fret! 
Oh, don't jump to that assumption.... ;-)Good thing none of us ever goes above the fifth fret!
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Not really an action shot, but here is one between songs of me and my good blues buddy, Kim Mason, in May 2019. I was 70. I played my Drake Custom fretless 4 string that night. Kim loved that bass. He died from COVID in November, 2020. A huge loss to the Des Moines, Iowa music community, RIP, my friend.
One of my favorite stage photos of Kim and me.
I was 64 in this photo from 2012.
One of my favorite stage photos of Kim and me.
I was 64 in this photo from 2012.
- Dec 21, 2007
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- Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones
In the studio @ 69 With my trusty 64 Jazz.
Last Sunday's gig. We don't get a lot of light back there in instrumentalist's row - what you see is pretty much par for the course:
