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Possible

kb — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:00:28 +0000

One of those astonishing conversations I would have with folkies, back when I was working that side of the street, was when one of them would tell me that the casual bigotry that is behind some humour is essential for those jokes to work. Oh they would do backflips and handsprings in order to get that little piece of nonsense to be true...

Plural

kb — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:00:31 +0000

I don't know why this confuses some people. Question: What is the plural of bass?...

Swing

kb — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:00:37 +0000

Hey friend, how's your day? I'm still recuperating from the drive and the gig this past week. I'm managing to get a few chores done so I don't feel the day is a total loss...

Conditioning

kb — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:36 +0000

Well, it’s Tuesday, so I need to decide whether I’m going to the session. I think so… mind you I’m feeling like I don’t know any songs. I mean apart from the 14 in the show. But aside from that, I guess I need to make a bit of a decision some time soon. If [...]

Something About the Bass

kb — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:58:58 +0000

Well, my friends continue to be good for me. In particular they continue to find reasons for me to get out. I think I've told you about getting out to a session on Tuesday nights. Nice place in Fergus, pretty normal as far as these things go, and pretty special too in its way. Folks are nice enough to let me thump along on the bass for much of the night, but they cut me no slack and play in all the challenging keys. Then comes the moment when I'm trying to figure out the bass part to that song I know, except I don't know it in C-sharp minor, and someone takes that as a cue to begin a conversation with me...

Downbeats and Other Expectations

kb — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:25:22 +0000

It was nice to get together with a fellow musician the other day. We weren't rehearsing, we weren't figuring out a project, we weren't working on anything in particular. We were just having a visit, and we got to talking about playing. Was particularly good because it was two bass players talking. Well, okay, I had my guitar with me as well, but that was just for when we got bored, or if one of us wanted to try something we'd been talking about groovewise while the guitar kept the pace...