Misc

Here's the quick and easy stuff.

MUSIC
You can listen to samples & purchase my CD - HERE

VIDEO
You can watch some videos of me performing most of my pieces HERE

CONTACT
And if you'd like to share a question or comment - you can drop it in the comments section of this post - or just e-mail me directly

jeff at beautiful-bass dot com

Thanks!

--jeff schmidt

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 07:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

why?

go there.

sign up.

post the inanities of your daily life.

find other people to follow.

watch as interesting things start to happen.

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 02:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Bit of geekery to share with you. I read (skim actually) lots of blogs.

About 2% of the stuff I skim/read is stuff I feel compelled to share.

So I've added a LINK BLOG over on the left. These are posts I've found on other blogs that I really like.

Only the last 10 links are showing in the side-bar, but there's many more behind that. Topics are stuff that interests me - tech, media, music, marketing, business, space/astromomy/science, politics, philosophy, religion, humor, serious stuff, frivolous stuff etc...

Don't read too much into why I might have posted an item. I post stuff I agree with and support and stuff I disagree with and think is stupid - as long as it strikes me in some way.

Good luck figuring out which is which. ,-)

Direct link to the whole thing HERE

And for the truly daring - an RSS feed

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 11:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Left to your imagination is what it was I was searching for when I found this.

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 12:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Continue reading "It is right to give thanks & praise . . . ." »

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 01:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Interview with SNL Cast members Fred Armisen & Andy Samberg about a new SNL Digital Short making fun of Iranian Prez Ahmadinejad.


Q: So, Ahmadinejad...What did you think of his visit in general? Did you think Columbia should have invited him to speak?

Andy Samberg: He shreds and pops. (laughter)

full text - http://allday.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/05/398460.aspx

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 12:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Got them back today - unharmed as far as I could tell - have not plugged them in yet. But it's a relief to have them back.

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 11:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I say "finally" because I've always known probability says it WOULD happen.

You just never know when or how.

But I am sans basses right now.

Yesterday I joined my fellow Bass Extremes Solo Bass Contestant Zuzo Mouasswer at Victor Wooten's Bass Nature Camp just outside Nashville.

We were the "special feature". Dennis Chambers was the "special" the day before - Mike Gordon is the special today. Pretty sweet company!

Zuzo and I each played a set and took questions - very cool and a lot of fun. Well okay - not COOL - its was 95 degrees and humid as hell. I'm seriously not accustomed to that kind of weather.

We played outside under a pavilion - but still - HOT!! This is camp after all.



Oh yeah - we played through . . . .(imaging me curling my brow and scruntching my nose) Bass Amps.

They were standard fare SWR/Epiphani head and 4x12 cab. They sounded like poo to my ears - but I'm used to playing through just plain loud clean power into the PA and monitors.

Anyway - it's VICTOR WOOTEN'S BASS nature camp - not the Jeff Schmidt show. ,-)

We both had flights out of Nashville in the 5 o'clock hour so wew rode to the airport together. Total side note - but it was great to hang with Zuzo again. He's an amazing player who does things on bass that will totally warp your mind. He's also a great guy - living in Boston now for 2 years while attends Berkely for Film Scoring.

Continue reading "It finally happend TO ME!" »

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 08:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

On a scale of 1-10

Gear = 1

Friends & Hang = 10

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 12:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Part of my day job @ KFOG is producing the live recordings of artists that come into the radio station's studios. Every year we assemble about 15 or so of the tracks from the previous year - and release it on CD (limited run) All proceeds benefit San Francisco Bay Area Food Banks.

Continue reading "Day Job kudos" »

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 01:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I don't want to blog about politics - too much bullshit to go thru - too many personal identities wrapped up in mental positions.

But if you're at all interested in the NSA Gov Spying on you thing - the infamous hacker Kevin Poulsin posted on the Wired Mag Blog instructions how to run a simple trace on a website to find out if it's traffic is being routed to the NSA.

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 03:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I couldn't exactly let this day go by without posting.

Continue reading "6/6/06" »

Posted by Jeff Schmidt at 12:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I just wanted to have a post at the top of the page without profanity in it.

,-)

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