The here and now... and what and why

Complacency is a trap. At least that’s what I was thinking when I up and left the comfort of a Yankee prep school gig, where I taught music, amongst other things, for 28 years. There was also that life long career as a composer, musician and artist.

First, it was a year in St. Thomas, USVI, working as a reporter and shooting photography and then, a year in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Time passed.
More time passed and a year back in the Athens of America followed by a hasty return to Oaxaca where it is all happening.
A couple of years in San Sebastian Etla and now, just down the road in San Pablo Etla. Life is good.

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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo
The view from Corazon del Pueblo

The hereafter re me

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Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler

Monday, November 8, 2010

You want me to put that where?


I think Freud called it "piccolo envy."  As a pianist/keyboardist, I always had to lug tons of equipment to gigs.  Hey man, I was in a lot of groups because I had a van or truck.  Drummers face the same problems, but nothing like upright bassists.  I remember seeing them wheeling their instruments down the streets with a wheel instead of a bottom peg.

So I smiled when we came out of a wonderful meal at our favorite restaurant in Etla and saw this guy loading his bass into or onto a mototaxi.  Actually, they were figuring out what to do with it.   Like all bass players, he was very friendly and posed for this pic with a big grin on his face.
 
I like the strap.  I bet he wears the bass while playing it, kinda like a guitar... make that a big guitar.
Looks like they came up with a solution.
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