Recently jamAntics has been experimenting with the style of music we play. We call the new version "organtics." All i need to do now is fix my upright bass and we will be good to go.

Yes, an upright bass. I am psyched about it too. Unfortunately, a little while ago I was grilling on my front deck, as I often do, and playing my upright bass, which I dont do enough. As I took my food off the grill for eventual insertion into my mouth, I heard a bang and a crash (included with these sounds were a couple twangs).

The beautiful, resonating, tasty and, perhaps least important but most relevant, expensive bass, had been blown by  a black-throated wind off my porch, down the steps, to crash into many pieces on the cement.

It was the worst day of my life.

Recently, though, Jordan introduced a possible glimmer of hope. Perhaps my friend will be resurrected from certain doom to make an appearance at an upcoming show. Perhaps not.
 


Comments

Barbara Burgess

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:00:18

My son plays the Upright Bass...so I think it would be an interesting attribute to the Jam...even if on occassion as invited guest player...afterall you got the fiddle ( small version of the stringed mastrocity!)...anyhow...I have a personal connect to the upright bass.. we go way back when my son was 9 and now hes 28...and to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra- principle bassist Volkan Orhan who won a National competition, came to the US from Turkey...and was a student of Gary the guy who destroyed his bass onstage- I forget his last name...but famous Bassist nevertheless....( Im not happy about that- destroying the bass on stage) ..but Volkan ended up being my son's instructor from age 9 to high school..studying at Hart School of Music in CT- collaboration with the community division of Simsbury schools...so ya..bass is cool. it is an ENDANGERED Instrument which makes it SPECIAL..specially if you electrify it.........like Jordan w the fiddle....whatever...it will be GREAT...cause the Jam will make it so....!

 



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