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Old 04-07-2009, 02:00 AM
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Hi, I'm Arturo Baguer. Originally from Miami but grew up in NY. (Queens, LI, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island) Been freelancing 30 years or so. Play double bass and bass guitar. Travel, teach, gig etc.

Moved out to the country with wife and cats and basses. Love Hard Bop, New Orleans music, Fats Waller, Jazz Messengers, Doug Watkins, Blues, Folk, old country, R&B, Texas, Sonny Clark, Hampton Hawes.
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Old 04-07-2009, 03:09 PM
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Arturo, you are warmly welcomed!
I have to ask, since you have been in Scandinavia and all, did you ever have a semla? They are quite the rage on this forum. Maybe you will see. I try to make them as internationally well-known as the fabulous grits of the South East.
Yes, nature is nice up here! Cities are maybe not as nice. Tromsö is good for being Norwegian, though. Cities in my native Sweden ain't exactly my cuppa either. I'm a country guy, like you!
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Old 04-07-2009, 05:24 PM
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Hi Artie-I think you might have subbed for me in my Jimmy Weston's days. 'Tis a small world. Welcome to the forum.
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Old 04-07-2009, 08:21 PM
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Arturo, you are warmly welcomed!
I have to ask, since you have been in Scandinavia and all, did you ever have a semla? They are quite the rage on this forum. Maybe you will see. I try to make them as internationally well-known as the fabulous grits of the South East.
Yes, nature is nice up here! Cities are maybe not as nice. Tromsö is good for being Norwegian, though. Cities in my native Sweden ain't exactly my cuppa either. I'm a country guy, like you!
Hi Arturo.
You must remember that, where E. Joel comes from, they don't get night time for six months. E. Joel last slept in October.
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Old 04-07-2009, 10:16 PM
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Welcome Arturo. Miami is the home for my long, long time favorite pro football team. I've been a Dolphins fan since 1970.

One thing to remember - there are lots of folks here that are FOS - and I'm one of them. I'm sure that you've already figured out who some of the others are. But, we have a lot of silly fun, usually. Take Bill E. Joel for example. He's already tried to convince you that semla is better than grits. Now, you and I both know that just ain't so. Then Richard will try and pass kiwifruit to you. Imagine that!

Enjoy the ride.
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Old 04-08-2009, 03:26 AM
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Hi Arturo.
You must remember that, where E. Joel comes from, they don't get night time for six months. E. Joel last slept in October.
No, that's not correct! I last slept on the second last Sunday; that was the day when day and night are as long, remember? I wouldn't wake all winter; there's nothing to see here then! Now it's still winter, but at least the sun is up.
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Old 04-08-2009, 02:41 PM
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No, that's not correct! I last slept on the second last Sunday; that was the day when day and night are as long, remember? I wouldn't wake all winter; there's nothing to see here then! Now it's still winter, but at least the sun is up.
I love rain - we don't get snow in Wainuiomata, but I love rain. I'd probably love snow too, but we don't get it.
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Old 04-08-2009, 02:53 PM
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I love snow. But the 2 things in life that we don't have "down here" that I wish we did are snow and grits.
Yea my friend, I have those same 2 wishes for you and yours.
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Old 04-08-2009, 02:55 PM
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Snow is good. Back home in Sweden, where the global warming has made the winter disappear almost completely, half the year is a rainy, endless anti-season. In that case, rain is nothing I really enjoy, as I don't enjoy anything. Summer rain is usually refreshing, though. Up here, the winter is so long that it leaves no room for spring, and even the fall is rather short. It's either summer or winter up here - good concept!

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Old 04-10-2009, 04:49 AM
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Hi, I'm Arturo Baguer. Originally from Miami but grew up in NY. (Queens, LI, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island) Been freelancing 30 years or so. Play double bass and bass guitar. Travel, teach, gig etc.

Moved out to the country with wife and cats and basses. Love Hard Bop, New Orleans music, Fats Waller, Jazz Messengers, Doug Watkins, Blues, Folk, old country, R&B, Texas, Sonny Clark, Hampton Hawes.
Hi Arturo! I´m Nils Palm from Sweden! Sounds a lot like myself. Freelance since over 30 years and still counting. Play (upright and electric), teach and write.
I moved from Stockholm to the countryside some years ago with Wife, 5 kids, 1 Newfoundland, 2 cats and a rabitt...... and a bunch of basses. Take care!!!
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Old 04-10-2009, 06:30 AM
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Torsåker? Nice place! Maybe one day we'll be neighbours.

I have a brother named Nils, and palms have recently been discussed in the Bull pit. Talk about parallel lives!

Anyways, it's good to see a fellow semla eater around here. Tell me, do you prefer them in hetvägg or without?
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Old 04-10-2009, 06:52 AM
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No hetvägg around here! (My wife prefers it that way though.)
I´m a straight ahead kind of guy, Black coffee & wolf down ....ready!!
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Old 04-10-2009, 06:58 AM
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No hetvägg around here! (My wife prefers it that way though.)
I´a straight ahead kind of guy, Black coffee & wolf down ....ready!!
A sign of a perfect semlabreak is the powder sugar on ones nosetip!
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Old 04-10-2009, 09:50 PM
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Not to hijack, but has anyone on Ken's forum besides me ever been to Jokkmokk in February?
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Old 04-11-2009, 04:11 AM
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No hetvägg around here! (My wife prefers it that way though.)
I´a straight ahead kind of guy, Black coffee & wolf down ....ready!!
A sign of a perfect semlabreak is the powder sugar on ones nosetip!
And the cream in your moustache!!
I guess I'm the sophisticated man, then. I like tea, to the extent that I might say no if I am being offered some cheap supermarket quality. Mabe I am a lot like your wife. I hope I am still male, though - ought to check that out later.

Steve, man, Jokkmokk is the place, or so I've heard. Did you hear Jokkmokks-Jokke play? It was always too far from Värmland... but I've been to Rokkmokk!
And of course, now I've spent almost a whole winter (it's not over yet...) in Tromsö. North is nice.
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Old 02-15-2012, 02:03 AM
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I'm very bad at keeping up with forums so a belated thank you to all who are so welcoming.

Nils, I was in Sweden and Finland in Aug. Played 3 mardi gigs in Stockhola at Akkurat and a few festivals in Nasaker, Lulea and a couple other smaller towns I can't remember. I enjoyed taking the "fast" train heading north. Countryside was beautiful.
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