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I was just working on adding to my bio, when I started to think of some of the people that I have encountered while playing music. In my experience, musicians have a bad reputation -- being a diva, making unreasonable requests, one ego-maniac and glory-hog after another. Unfortunately, I've ran into a number of people that seem bound and determined to keep the reputation alive. But what just struck me as I was typing is that I have been rather lucky as of late.
Most of the people that I have met through music have been really quality people. Nice people, the kind that you want to help out and that would help you out in return. I really have been blessed in this regard. I know that playing music with, well, jerks, tends to suck the joy of what should be an otherwise peachy experience.
The other weekend, I was at Bassists In Front. Which, by the way, was a great time. A dozen or so bass players hanging out, making music. They even talked me into getting up and playing for a bit. Anyway, after we all played individually, we did a jam session with about four bassists at a time. And it struck me: bass players are almost uniformly willing to share, to reach out to other musicians. In my experience, much moreso than other kinds of musicians. Maybe it's something about being primarily a supporting musician, maybe it's something completely unrelated, I don't know. Just my observation.
Posted by Casper at November 4, 2003 10:33 PM