Ace The Bass

"Ace The Bass" is an autobiographical sketch about a boy growing up in the small town of Cheney, Washington, during the 1940's and 1950's who became a successful professional bass player and public school music teacher. This is a compilation of anecdotes and stories about amusing and significant events throughout the lifetime of Kyle M. Pugh, Jr., the author of this book, who is a retired music educator and an active professional musician in Spokane, Washington. The stories are all real about pleasant remembered happenings, many of them humorous, as a kid growing up during his school-age years and on into adulthood. This is an account of many incidences relating to a multi-faceted lifetime of interests, particularly music performance and teaching, family, friends, travels, trains, model railroading, and ham radio. Many Spokane area professional musicians, some of whom are no longer living, are remembered and mentioned.The chapters contain stories about growing up, family gatherings, the time the cat ran through the Thanksgiving dinner, sitting on an exploding firecracker, being cursed with having perfect pitch, playing music gigs, the Spokane World's Fair Expo '74, early photography and operating motion picture projectors, growing up with no television, CB and Ham radio, travels and flying, camping, all of our cats, and much more.This book is a good easy read. 150 initial copies with a second printing have already been sold. Many folks have responded who said that they have enjoyed reading the book. Some of the readers mentioned that they were impressed about how the many dates, venues, people, and places had been recalled and included in the writing of this book.