Seek Out Those Witchy White Women

A lot of people will say that, musically, playing for—and specifically, in my case, playing bass for—kind of a witchy, rich white woman who’s all about soulfulness, vibe, and spirituality is a huge pain in the ass. And I will completely agree. It is, in fact, a humongous pain in the ass. They are very good talkers and horrible listeners. They know what they want, but they don’t know how to do any of the things to get there. And they expect the world and are generally completely thankless from an acknowledgment point of view. My pitch to everyone is that these are perfect conditions under which to work. Because if you can figure out how to get your stuff done happily here, you are ready to do music. Recently, I left a situation, but said I would help. Prepared backing tracks for a gig and sent them off early. They did not open these tracks until rehearsal, realizing that there were three or four tracks missing, which I didn’t know. So I got a text from rehearsal, and within about 15…