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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:28:09 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Contrabassaholics Anonymous...
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comHi, my name is Grant Green, and I'm....
completely nuts, but you already knew that. ;-)
Last Thursday, my new gig bag arrived. I've been hauling Eb and Bb contras
to rehersals, along with the bass sarrusophone, stands for all of them, and
music. Got to be a bit ... cumbersome. Finally decided that some
simplification was in order, so I had Altieri Bags
(http://www.altieribags.com) make me a double contra gig bag. It holds
*both* Eb and Bb contra simultaneously. It's also about 5' long. I've
revised the contrabass clarinet page to include a couple pictures of
it. At the same time, the page was getting a bit long, so I split the
octocontralto and octocontrabass information onto a separate page, now at
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/octobass.html.The bass sarrusophone made its concert debut last Friday, at the American
Conference of Bands concert in Salinas, CA. The program ended up with only
one "bass sax" work (March Op. 99 by Prokofiev), which doesn't have a
particularly prominent bass sax part, but I wasn't about to pass up the
opportunity. Certainly generated a number of inquiries ;-) I understand
that the concert was recorded on CD, tape, and video, and I assume is
available from Moran Recording Services, Inc. (15119 Redwood Street, Omaha,
NE 68138, 402-894-0017). The forms left on our stands listed tapes = $9,
CDs = $14, video tape = $18, and I *assume* that the general public can
order them. If I got my facts straight, Don Moran is a fellow subscriber
here (Don, did you come all the way out here from Omaha?), and promised to
get a few good shots of the sarrusophone in action. I guess, if nothing
else, you'd get a few good shots of me puffing on various horns, and
scowling at the music when my not-so-warmed-up reed didn't respond right
away... ;-)Also finally have pictures/closeups of the bass sarrusophone, which I'll
try to upload in the next day or so.Enjoy!
Grant
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Grant Green gdgreen@contrabass.com
http://www.contrabass.com
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:20:00 -0400
From: "farfl's house" <farfl@idirect.ca>
Subject: www.contracurse.com
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 08:47:59 -0400
> From: William Welch
> Subject: Re: [Contra digest]
> Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com> I had asked a Chinese friend of mine what the ancient curse was and he
> didn't know. When I told him your response (May you live an interesting
> life), he said that it didn't sound like a curse to him. As he put it:
> "May you and your wife enjoy longevity" Now that's a real curse!
>
> BillWow....I read the list description again and again, and it still looks the same to me, yet somehow it's turned into "contracurse.com".
-Lederman---------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:20:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: bj914@scn.org (John Micheal Bush)
Subject: Re: condensed
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>>How does one go about subscribing to the digest version of this list,
>>in exchange for all of the single messages that are being received now?
>
>Well, the easiest way is to send an email that says "Grant, would you
>switch me to the digest version?" ;-)If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you switch me to digest too? I
have spent the past hour checking email, and I am still 40 messages
behind. Information overload and all. Thank you Grant!John Bush
--
Imperial Space Cowboy
But, good Lord, what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmetic if
I have my own reasons for disliking them, including the one about two and
two making four! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
---------------------------------------------------------Subject: Re: Contrabassaholics Anonymous...
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:22:58 -0700
From: jazzman <jazzman@bayarea.net>
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comGrant Green wrote:
>Hi, my name is Grant Green, and I'm....
>completely nuts, but you already knew that. ;-)
>
>Last Thursday, my new gig bag arrived. I've been hauling Eb and Bb contras
>to rehersals, along with the bass sarrusophone, stands for all of them, and
>music. Got to be a bit ... cumbersome. Finally decided that some
>simplification was in order, so I had Altieri Bags
>(http://www.altieribags.com) make me a double contra gig bag. It holds
>*both* Eb and Bb contra simultaneously. It's also about 5' long. I've
>revised the contrabass clarinet page
>(http://www.contrabass.com/pages/cbcl.html) to include a couple pictures of
>it. At the same time, the page was getting a bit long, so I split the
>octocontralto and octocontrabass information onto a separate page, now at
>http://www.contrabass.com/pages/octobass.html.Man, I am SO jealous. I hate carrying those things around, especially
since I tend to be playing four or five instruments at once.>The bass sarrusophone made its concert debut last Friday, at the American
>Conference of Bands concert in Salinas, CA. The program ended up with only
>one "bass sax" work (March Op. 99 by Prokofiev), which doesn't have a
>particularly prominent bass sax part, but I wasn't about to pass up the
>opportunity. Certainly generated a number of inquiries ;-) I understand
>that the concert was recorded on CD, tape, and video, and I assume is
>available from Moran Recording Services, Inc. (15119 Redwood Street, Omaha,
>NE 68138, 402-894-0017). The forms left on our stands listed tapes = $9,
>CDs = $14, video tape = $18, and I *assume* that the general public can
>order them. If I got my facts straight, Don Moran is a fellow subscriber
>here (Don, did you come all the way out here from Omaha?), and promised to
>get a few good shots of the sarrusophone in action. I guess, if nothing
>else, you'd get a few good shots of me puffing on various horns, and
>scowling at the music when my not-so-warmed-up reed didn't respond right
>away... ;-)Sounds pretty cool.
Syd Polk
jazzman@bayarea.net http://www.bayarea.net/~jazzman
"Let the music be your light." -- Dave Edwards, KUHF-FM, 1982---------------------------------------------------------
From: MIRIAMDON@aol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:01:18 EDT
Subject: Re: Contrabassaholics Anonymous...
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comIn a message dated 4/15/99 5:30:00 PM Central Daylight Time,
gdgreen@contrabass.com writes:<< The bass sarrusophone made its concert debut last Friday, at the American
Conference of Bands concert in Salinas, CA. The program ended up with only
one "bass sax" work (March Op. 99 by Prokofiev), which doesn't have a
particularly prominent bass sax part, but I wasn't about to pass up the
opportunity. Certainly generated a number of inquiries ;-) I understand
that the concert was recorded on CD, tape, and video, and I assume is
available from Moran Recording Services, Inc. (15119 Redwood Street, Omaha,
NE 68138, 402-894-0017). The forms left on our stands listed tapes = $9,
CDs = $14, video tape = $18, and I *assume* that the general public can
order them. If I got my facts straight, Don Moran is a fellow subscriber
here (Don, did you come all the way out here from Omaha?), and promised to
get a few good shots of the sarrusophone in action. I guess, if nothing
else, you'd get a few good shots of me puffing on various horns, and
scowling at the music when my not-so-warmed-up reed didn't respond right
away... ;-)
>>
Yes Grant, I did travel all the way from Omaha for the ACB convention. My
company and I travel from coast to coast recording concert and marching
bands. Sort of a fun gig actually especially when the bands are as good as
yours! In those rare moments at home I play in three community bands and am
band manager for one of them. I play contra bass and contra alto clarinets,
and sometimes baritone sax(I am looking for a bass sax if anyone has one they
are not using much!) and have been reading if not talking much on this list
for three or four months now.All the info above about tapes and CDs is true( thanks for your order Grant,
it arrived yesterday). If anyone else is interested in seeing Grant(and the
rest of the band) in action or hearing a really fine band, give me a call or
send in an order.Thanks
Don Moran
Moran Recording Services
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:15:35 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Off-topic: Blatweasel!
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comThis really isn't on-topic, but calls to mind a thread that ran, what, a
year ago? Perusing ebay, I ran across another use of the term
"blatweasel", this time applied to a mellophone. See
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=91650971...Grant
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Grant Green gdgreen@contrabass.com
http://www.contrabass.com
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