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RE: Steel Drum Life: Island music bass for a highly respected city official’s memorial and then a surprise percussion request. Part 1 of 2.
Omg, I'm always intrigued with how steel drums sound.
Do you actually play or you just came across one?
I can play “lion sleeps tonight” and a few chord changes. I know the notes on it, chromatic scale, and I can play a few basic key scales. So, to answer your question, no, not really. I play bass for them. I maintain domain over the bass frequency range. I also lock-in with the other musicians and create a groovy check and balance on the song’s pulse.
I’m around them a lot, once sold them for a local tuner too. I should be better on one, but blah blah should should... I get lots of creative freedom/satisfaction as bass player.
For a memorial service, it seemed rather upbeat based on the video you uploaded.
The wife of the departed wanted it to be more of a celebration atmosphere for the public. She hired us and knows us from past celebrations. The burial, funeral, and viewing stuff was a separate event too.
Don't they do supper, happy, parade like celebrations for funerals in New Orleans?
I hope my funeral is at a pinball arcade that serves sushi. The entertainment would be Los Panchos and a cat petting zoo.
I wouldn't know, but I like the idea of celebrating the life that lived then moping about.
me too :)
I refuse to go to Cry parties. I just believe that we that are left behind don't understand that death is not what we think it is.
I believe that death is like when a acorn falls from an oak tree. It looks dead we think it is dead but it is full of life. Can we tell what the acorn will produce when it is "Planted" no we have no idea. I believe its the same with us when we are "Alive"we are just a seed fallen from the tree and until we are planted ( buried in the ground dead) we will never become what we really are.
I like that @iamstan. Nothing dies... just changes form.