The "Fed Up" sessions.
 
This double CD represents Jair-Rohm and my most extensive collaboration to date.  Since the dawn of the second decade of the 21st century we have been involved in ensemble collaborations in England, Germany and New York.
When live collaborations were off the table due to the pandemic, I launched a daily subscription series entitled The Head of Books.  This was a play on The Book of Heads, a collection of solo guitar pieces written for me by John Zorn, and a deliberate nod as it was a comment he made to me that helped inspire the series: "We can't travel but we can still be creative."
 
Subscribers to the Head of Books basically received a new guitar solo every day.  It was best described in the blog of Sergio Amadori as "a way of maintaining contact in insecure times." Musicians who received the solos were encouraged to make free use of them in their own creations. Some did, none as extensively as Jair-Rohm who before long began presenting me with a huge collection of duets. Almost every one of them presented a different way of dealing with the original material.
 
Though I indulge in jokes about bass players and like to say "I don;t need no steenking bass player" in imitation of the Treasure of Sierra Madre banditos, the title of this CD evolved out of one of the solo titles, Fed Up With the Baltimore Airport. Jair-Rohm got in the habit of identifying the tracks he sent under the first few words of each title plus of course "with bass." So there we are, Fed Up With Bass.
 
 
Eugene Chadbourne, Greensboro, North Cackalacky