Sam Bass

when The Sinners Choir trio consisting of; Terry Wilkins playing bass, Adam Beer-Colacino playing guitar/scratchboard and Adam Warner playing drums, begin their performance at Rex Jazz and Blues venue by taking requests from the audience. Similar to The New Orleans and Chicago Styles of Jazz, the banjo is replaced by the guitar, and several of their songs incorporate elaborate introductions and endings. Throughout the…

The concert I went to see was Phil Vassar at the Millersport Sweet Corn Festival. It took place at 8pm in Millersport, Ohio on September 4, 2015. I never seen Phil before, and I’ve heard many positive things about him before attending. I heard that he has written various songs for many other famous artists. Two artists in particular include Tim McGraw and Jo Dee Messina during the 1990s. I also heard that Phil likes to interact with the crowd during his shows to make them more interesting. As…

even poking holes in the speakers with pencils. Well before before loud overdrive/distortion effects became main staples of rock, distortion was used on electric guitars in blues. It was more subtle and in order to emphasize harmonics and enrich the bass tone to add great sustain sounds. Because vintage blues recording artists had little gear to choose from, increasing power supply to the amp driver was helpful. However, this created a very unique sound that is difficult to emulate without…

people believe the first guitar amp was a fender, however some research suggests it was a ford, made when an electrolytic capacitor tube was made with a built in power supply that was now able to be plugged into walls. These amplifiers had terrible bass and treble and the only controls allowed for treble boost and were usually under 15watts. When the Kinks guitarist plugged one amplifier into another in the 1960s, the discovered the first distortion effect and from then on, fuzz boxes were…

insouciant bass drives. Without wasting time, Scott whips up playful phrases packed with hot patterns, having supportive sax-bass fills in the flank. All that jim-jam ends up in a bass soliloquy turned into odd-metered groove, which serves as a lush pavement for Hogg’s explorations.…

Liz Holt, Barry Fife and Shirley Hastings are three characters from Strictly Ballroom, who are artificial and believe their actions, either good or bad, are for the greater glory of dancing. It could be said that Liz Holt is ambitious, prefers to stick to the rules and will do anything it takes to win. After Scott and Liz loose at the Warathas State Championships, she tells Scott that she does not give a shit about his new steps. She wants Pam Shorts, Ken Railing’s dancing partner to break both…

Music is the international medium that can link both mind and soul. From sophisticated, well drawn out classical music, to drums and rocks in Aboriginal tribes in Africa, music is a natural and seemingly God-given talent we all possess. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent,” it is supernatural yet so uniquely human simultaneously (Hugo). Music elicits response; one main response it draws out is in-depth analysis. As popular as music is, music…

ensemble that had Victoria Batta on flute, Joseph Buschatzke on guitar, Benjamin Purper on electric bass, Daniel Murphy on…

Drum Corps is my passion, something that I love to do, and it has changed my life. Drum corps is a less known sport/art, that has evolved and grown in the past 44 years. It has affected me differently depending on when it was. My views on some things changed since I was actively there, but I would not want to lose that time for anything. Drum corps is an activity that I feel very strongly about, as well as the group of people that form the community, joining and doing it has been one of the best…

had to choose vs one person or another? In “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant" by W.D Wetherell, the narrator had to decide between a bass and Sheila Mant. In the “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the narrator had to decide between her daughters to give one of them their grandmothers quilt. Both narrators had to make decisions that choose either one person or the other. The narrator from the “Everyday Use” Dee, Maggie, the narrator from “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” make decisions and…