I got a call from a one the more beastly governor’s school jazz band graduates who needed a bass player for a gig on thursday. The gig is nothing special for him, but a sudden fount of anxiety for me. I turned him down. I am so out of shape on the bass that the [...]
These days, it doesn’t take long for someone to expose you as a phony, but because it happens so often, we don’t really care:
Dan “Larry The Cable Guy” Whitney
Stacy Ferguson
Notice how both of them speak perfect English.
While we’re on the subject of Fergie, most people my age know that the single “Fergalicious” was just a [...]
If you play arpeggios over any II-7 to V7 changes (two-fives), placing a passing tone (a scale or chromatic note) on the 4th beat will always resolve either up or down (and sometimes it can do both) into a chord tone of the next chord.
Let’s say we’re playing G-7 to C7:
Gm7——-|C7——- |Gm7—— |C7———|
G Bb D [...]
This is one of several posts I made about the technical college I attended from 2005 to 2007. This one got ome of my friends who work there into a little trouble. Even though the damage is done and I feel that what I said was warranted but I have decided to remove the name [...]
Alright that show was pretty darn fun. Granted I wasn’t having as much fun as the half-dozen weirdoes dressed up as Smiths-era Moz, or the 40-something Moms who came dressed like they were in high school again (in a word, shameful), or tattooed waifish boys who knew every lyric to every song and left their [...]
Going to see the Pope of Mope tonight. As much as I have come to enjoy Morrissey / The Smiths’ music (and I’ve been kicking a screaming the whole time getting there) I really am looking forward to attending the show to observe the real fans in the audience. While I do expect to see [...]
