February 28, 2007

Well hello, first of all …

Well hello, first of all …
I don't know if you knew, but …
I tried to create my blog by the name of «uprightbass», but that was already taken.
So I played around a little bit (and found a lot of pages that had little or nothing to do with the bass-related subject, plus a few useful) and this —
«uprightbassist» — is almost it, so that's where I'll lay my hat for some time …

As a besides, the headline and the quote at the beginning is an attempt to translate an opener line issued by the German comedian Rüdiger Hoffmann:

Ja Hallo erstmaaal …
Ich weiß nicht, ob Sie's wussten, aber …
But I guess you have to see him (below: his appearance at “TV total”) to appreciate that. There is also a Wikipedia Germany entry about that Rüdiger from Paderborn. All that is German only of course.