Ready to Groove?

Konnichi wa,
Welcome to my blog!
In case you didn't already know, the Bass in "Bass'n'Taiko" refers to bass guitar - not a fish; the Taiko refers to the Japanese word for drum, as well as the style of drumming made popular by Kodo and many other groups.

I've been playing bass guitar for nearly 30 years, and have been studying taiko drumming with Odaiko New England for about 7 years (I had a 2-year taiko'ing hiatus to finish off my degree). More to come about both of these activities - in fact, much more.

I maintained a blog in a Yahoo!"360" account from August, 2008 through early Spring, 2009. Unfortunately, the 360 account suffered some strange occurrences (and my blog even disappeared for a couple weeks at one point) and I encountered difficulty in maintaining it and adding new entries. When I finally managed to access everything again, I salvaged all of my blog entries before the 360 pages and blogs were sent to the online equivalent of the Great Gig in the Sky (which happened in early July), so I have installed them here - with their original post dates.

I'll do my best to get caught up on events between March '09 and now.....as they say, "stay tuned".