[Dixielandjazz] Cloddish bass players

[john petters]

Butch said
> My personal favorite was a guy who turned up his bass amp to a deafening
roar

Yes isn't it amazing that the band can start a one volume level and within a
chorus the amped up will start twiddling. Dynamics these days is about knob
twiddling, it used to be about playing the instrument louder or quieter.
Dynamics these days means start loud and end up deafening.....
John Petters
Amateur Radio Station G3YPZ
www.traditional-jazz.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Butch Thompson
Sent: 07 September 2004 01:17
To: djml
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Cloddish bass players

On 9/4/04 1:48 PM, "dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com"
<dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com> wrote:

> (My favourite is the bass player who yells loud enough for the paying
> customers to hear, what an idiot the piano player is).

. Then, when he didn't know the changes on "Edelweiss," he left the
volume up there and screamed at me to give him the changes.  I  couldn't
raise my voice loud enough to be heard.  It didn't occur to him to turn his
level down.  Instead, he kept screaming back at me, "What?  What?"  Amazing.
And this in a club where some of the people were actually listening.  Well,
listening to him, anyway.

Butch Thompson 


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