Solo Bassist
Jamming in the studio on a regular saturday afternoon. All pure improvisation. Cristobal had samples of drum loops and sound effects and he was playing them live with his mixing console. I was laying down some experimental bass lines on top of it.
Enjoy!
Sometimes in life, you just have to reconsider who you really are. What are your dreams, your goals. Working on a paying job, even if it’s cool, even if it brings you a lot of knowledge, if it doesn’t help you achieving your dreams, or if you deeply feel you don’t belong there anymore, well you may consider yourself to quit.
I was working for Apple for almost 2 years now. Yes it was really cool, but my main goal is to play bass, to experiment this instrument, update my website, interact with fans, do shows, jam with my band, learn more on Music Technology, become an IT engineer. Apple can’t help me on that anymore.
Peace Apple, it was fun working for you.
Now I’m going to use all this amount of crazy hours working at a huge company on my bass playing.
Plus, I have to build a lot of solo bass sets for my upcoming shows.
You only live once. Why would you want to waste your energy in something that doesn’t help you fulfill your dream?
So you probably know my musical idols being Flea, Victor Wooten, Manring, Frusciante, etc etc. But I never talk about my other idols, mentors. People that are good at spreading original ideas, being creative, helping artists, and influencing me on my way to think, my way to see things in life, giving me a new perspective, my bass playing and on all my creative stuff.
Here are a few:
Derek Sivers: Cd Baby Founder. Entrepeneur and musician, Derek started CdBaby as a little hobby to help his friends to sell their music online. He sold the company 2 years ago for 22 millions $. He gave the majority of the money to musical education and only kept the minimum amount to survive. Derek holds a powerful and informational website where he posts alot of tips to help musicians with their art. He has an interesting blog and alot of books recommendations. You can check him out here: http://sivers.org/
Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss wrote a popular book called 4-Hour workweek. One of my favorite book ever. He gives alot of tips on how to quit the 9 to 5 regular day job and focus on your passion and earn an income. This can apply to any artists, entrepeneurs, buisness managers etc. He holds a popular blog where he posts alot of tips on many random stuff in life like: How to hold your breath for 10 minutes, how to gain 34 Lb of muscles in 4 weeks, etc etc. You can check out his website here: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com
Hugh McLeod: Cartoonist, blogger and author of the incredible book Ignore Everybody. He his a direct, straight to the point artist who give us advices on the real life of an artist. Interesting tips on how to create a lifestyle with the use of our art. Check out his website here: http://gapingvoid.com
Seth Godin: The world’s Marketing Guru. Seth is a powerful speaker. He holds one of the most popular blog on this planet and write EVERY DAY some incredible advices for any marketer, artist, boss, entrepeneur etc. Here are my favorite books from him: The Dip, MeetBall Sundae and I’m now reading his most recent book: LinchPin. You see all his wonderful books here: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/books.asp . And read his blog here: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/. I would recommend you to subscribe to his mailing list. So each day when you wake up, you will receive a daily blog post.
These are my biggest influences.
Louis Johnson Slapping The Sh*t Out. Too much treble in my opinion, but damn. So cool.
