So here I am, just about five months into my contract, and doing my first transatlantic crossing. They have warned us to make sure we have ways to kill time because of the amount of boredom on sea days. For most departments, sea days are…
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What kind of amps have you seen bass players use? I was thinking of using my Acoustic Image Clarus with a Markbass Traveler 102P. Small and light is good, right? Would a 2×10 bass cab…
How do you make a career out of playing music? This is one of the most common questions I get from the young, aspiring professional musicians I teach at L.A. Music Academy. It’s a difficult question to answer, because every pro musician has a unique…
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It’s the second day of this cruise, and we are already seeing improvements. The old MD is back, and H. is a lowly sax player again, and nothing more. The one thing we aren’t happy about now, is that H. got away…
On Sunday afternoon, I made it to Rome. I was to meet with my ship in Civitavecchia the next morning.
I was put up by the company in the Airport Hilton, which, what they told me, was only a five minute walk away. Well, yeah,…
So, I really wanted to write about the positive aspects of being a cruise ship musician. So far, I can’t. I just finished my first cruise. It was really rough. This isn’t to discourage anybody from taking such a gig, but I do want to…
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