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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2019 11:21:24 GMT -5
"Big Bottom" was his stage name, a fabulous bass player, just came over to visit with me on his rounds (He is a big time building contractor here on Long Beach Island NJ). He longer plays bass but his son is a fantastic local musician (as well his #1 carpenter/builder) and the son plays around town in the clubs. Anyways Billy is his given name and he was an excellent bassist, neither of us were educated musicians, but we actually did musically well together.
I haven't seen him in 30 years or more but we reconnected like it was yesterday. We played in 2 bands together; The Brant Beach Blues And Boogie Band, and The New Children of Jazz, both of them jam bands. We did some covers but we drifted as far away from the recorded versions as we could without making the tunes unrecognizable. And many times we would just start out on a single idea and morph it into who knows what and who knows where for another 5 minutes. Billy and I were so in tune with each other musically that we could drift it one way or another and within a beat or two, & the other one would have the new time signature or new key in seconds, and usually the rest of the band would follow easily. That style did not go over well with the drunks in the clubs, but we were always applauded by the musicians in the bunch who understood what we were doing.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 27, 2019 9:42:02 GMT -5
That's cool when you can do that. I now live around the block from where MY old bass player lived, but no longer, and attempts to locate him didn't work. Haven't seen him since the early '70's shortly after me and my EX got married('72). He was a cool kinda guy and we got along great musically( same tastes and interests) and have no idea what he might be up to these days. All the other past bnd members are in the wind somewhere, just got a hold of the drummer shortly after my wife died, had some fun catching up,but gave him my number and haven't heard from him since. I get tired of that shit. I make an effort to keep in touch and nobody reciprocates. Then if I do the same, THEY get pissed that I'm getting "snooty". Whitefang
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