So Susan set up a play date for me with one of her coworker's husband. (Yeah, I know I'm mixing the whole blind date/play date metaphor.) He's a guitarist that's been looking to start playing with people again, so Susan hooked us up.He came over to the house last night, and we jammed for a little while. I guess it went ok, but, man, I sure felt like a feeb at points. When he started going through
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Posts by entropyman
i'm still not so good at blind dates
Herbie, my apologies
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So this is probably not really news to anyone except for me.Way back in the 80s, my first exposure to Herbie Hancock was Rockit. I didn't really like the song, and so it tainted my impression of Herbie Hancock's music and talents.For some reason, I picked up one of his early albums, Takin' Off, and my opinion started to change. Shortly thereafter I picked up Maiden Voyage and again was impressed.
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collaborate!
John has posted video and audio of Eric Cook drumming. Now he's looking for collaboration on making beautiful music.Here's his livejournal entry and the project page for this endeavor.I plan on trying to do something worth sharing, but we'll see.
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funky
We went to see Gnappy last night. They're a funky jazz band, and they can really get down.They played a bunch of stuff off their new album Unloaded, which is worth checking out, as well as a some standards and covers. They played a smoking version of Miles Davis' All Blues, which really got the crowd pumped. And how can you go wrong with a extra funky version of the Sanford and Son theme worked
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randomness
I really like itunes. I like its smart playlist functionality a lot. But today as I was listening to stuff on random playlists, I kept hearing songs I had just recently heard. So I got to looking around at how others were using their playlists and found some useful suggestions about creating play lists to limit songs to ones played more than a certain time ago or with a play count less than som...
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beautiful basses
Tonight, Bass Emporium held a clinic with Jens Ritter of Ritter Basses. He talked about his design and construction philosophies and answered questions and of course, showed off his basses.Man, this guy makes some incredible looking and sounding basses. I'll admit that I probably couldn't comfortably pull off playing some of his less traditional designs, but there's no doubt that he makes interest
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