Count Bassie

This is really cool.

Nowadays in the USA we just basically steal it off the Internet. I only hear about streaming and downloads nowadays. I still like to go into a record store, but that's not the mainstream. Now it's like a retro-novelty thing.

This seems to be unfortunately true. It's part of the same current that feeds our lately emergent hard-right movement, also unfortunate- but I don't wish to go there. American cover bands often want to be a jukebox rather than exercise their own signature on a tune, partly because they think the audience wants that- I find myself guilty of that and lately have striven to put a new spin on a thing rather than cop the bass line, getting technical about details and nuance. What have *I* got to offer?... Being a jukebox takes the fun out of the experience on both sides of the mic. Anyway I am not a big fan of American pop, but I do like rock n roll. I find Nickelback very annoying, but give me some Supersuckers, deep-track ZZ Top or Cheap Trick's first record, there you go. But there's definitely an angle with Brit rock/pop that goes by/over the head of an American dive-bar audience. The cultures are pretty different. There's a good percentage of knuckle-dragging, flag waving mindset here. On the other hand we do have blues and early rock and roll history, it's our backyard... My .02.

Life takes you down the river... Have *not* gotten to this! But this coming week I've got an appointment with a friend's panel saw...

Plywood this weekend, and a trip to my friend's panel saw.

Well. Just now getting into this! There will be progress/completion pix...

This dude is a character. I think it's funny the way he laughs after playing a passage! Kind of a kook, but it's a pretty good review. I'd watch another I suppose.

No. Do it.

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This. You should be able the make a sound that inspires the bringing forward of your voice. Then, right, what this guy said. 😀

You seem to have successfully addressed a 'quality of life' issue. The tension of making music needs to be rewarding, for all the reasons we know. Well done! Go on and break a leg!

@Sonic_Grooveokay duplicate comment, I can't seem to work out how to delete it. Lol, I feel a little like a non-playable character in a video game trying to participate...

...and thank you @Sonic_Groovealso for the correction... And I didn't know that was Lee Sklar on it, alright.

That's right! I always do that... Thanks for the fix

The bassline from 'Spectrum', by Herbie Hancock. That's a pretty cool steal.