Marco Rodi

Live day by day to the fullest like it was your last one.

Is something I’m currently trying to do. I am sick of always saying: Oh, I would like to do that but if I regret in the future? If things don’t turn that way? In the future, in the future… Fuck it.

Nobody can predict the future. Even if we have an illusion of what it may be, exemple: When I will be 30 years old, I would like to have a wife and 2 kids.

Even if we think that, it dosent mean it will happen. So we have to live day by day to the fullest. It’s easy to say, easy to think, but not always easy to do.

In the past 2 months, this is what I’m doing and I’m so incredibly happy by doing that.

I am officialy getting a kick ass tatoo on my shoulder. Here it is:

Well it will only be the red hot chili peppers logo and the wings. The logo will be on my shoulder and the wings will spread on my upper-chest and upper-back. It will be SIIIIIICK.

That Tattoo is like the summary of my life until now. It represents the fact that because of that band, I learned bass, I learned my passion, and they made me realise and accomplish some of my dreams. Their music is like the sound of god, and the more I focus on music, the more I spread out my wings to reach my goals and dreams in life. I am conpletly in love with Flea’s and John’s improvisations, jams, ideas, creativity and so inspired by them. It’s been 9 years now that I listen to their music non-stop.

Before, I wanted a tattoo of Flea and John on my shoulder but I change my mind because:

1- It’s too risquy to make an artist draw 2 faces on your shoulder, it will deform in years
2- It’s too expensive
3- It’s too specific as a tatoo…

Mine is more generalist, I can associate it with many many things.

I met the tatoo artist and she’s really cool. She will first draw the tatoo on me only with Water Paint, just to see if I like it or not. If I don’t, I won’t do it. I will do it in the best tatoo place in montreal : Adrenaline Tattoos

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2 weeks ago I went to chill in Toronto. I bought like 200$ of music stuff. Cd’s, books, Dvd’s, t-shirts. But I will talk to you about this DVD: Tommy Emmanuel: Live at Her Majesty’s Theatre Ballarat

It’s really really really good. I’m trying to find the right words to describe his talent but it’s hard. He’s the type of musician who can easily spend 10 hours per day practising without stopping, he did this when he was young until now, and now he’s 53 years old… so his level of virtuosity is completly insane. It’s like Victor Wooten but with 998765 hours of more practicing. In the dvd, he plays a complete solo set show in a beautiful theatre. There is a guest girl who will sing in 3 songs. He does everything in that show. Tommy sings, hit his guitar, plays tam tam on his guitar, slap his guitar, scratches it, its insane. He’s so nuts on the guitar that most of his guitars are all broken like this:

I’m really mad, he is coming to montreal in May but all the tickets are sold. They sold out in like 2 days… who the hell knows tommy emmanuel here in montreal????

I really admire Tommy Emmanuel for the fact that he keeps his passion still alive and intensively after all these years, its really hard. I guess these are the purest musicians who are really born with this sort of magical talent.

ps. I just noticed that everytime I talk about a new thing I bought, my reviews really SUCKS. haha

Yo

I completly changed the design of my website. If you don’t see it, just go to www.marcorodi.com and click the refresh button on your internet page. And I added some buttons in my blog page. Just look up, on top of the banner ”Marco Rodi Blog” there are all the links to my website.

Friday was my solo show. It was ok. I was playing at a Latin Dance Festival. So people who were there wanted to dance all night. So it kind of awkward for them to see a solo bass player on stage doing some weird sounds.

But they enjoyed it. They were talking really loud during my set but I was expecting it. And it was funny because there was latina girls who were Latin-Dancing during my set haha. And I talked alot between my songs. Normally, I’m so shy onstage that I only want to play bass and leave. But now I have to start talking to the crowd just to make an extra connection with the audience.

I did a really cool Rap/Bass feestyle with my cool rapper friend GreatOne. Click Here to see the little jam.

I also uploaded one of my recent solo bass show Outro. Watch it Here.

So I threw an add on myspace looking for musicians to start my own band. Are you a local musician from montreal who wants to be part in my new band? just drop me a line marco@marcorodi.com

Yesterday I started to write some new bass lines. I think it will be for my upcoming band or for my Freestyle/Rap upcoming project.

I’ll keep you posted on that!

peacio io

I’ve been writing alot of blogs lately eh?

Since lately I have no life exept going to work and school at night ( thank god it ends April 25th ), the good part is, I have alot of money so lately i’ve been buying alot alot alot of cool stuff.

I finished my collection of John Frusciante’s solo reccord. These were the ones I was missing:

I bought some cool books about music:

and bass strings offcourse:

Yesterday I practiced bass for 45 minutes. I practiced my for my show and let me tell you, my fingers are hurting so bad. It seems that with school and work I have less time for my bass and yesterday I saw the results for practicing less. The majority of my songs are really technical so I cant just sit there and wait to go onstage without practicing telling me ” Ok I know the songs”. I need to always practice to make my fingers confortable onstage. Yesterday my fingers were hurting so bad. They still hurts. I don’t want to bleed again onstage. Blood will dirty my strings and I will have to change them. 2 years ago, it was always happening. I was always bleeding onstage. hehe. I bet many rockers are doing it on purpose to have a cool badass rockstar image but I never planned to do so.

and FUCK. its been 3 weeks i’m waiting for the video of my last show. They said they were gonna send it to me 1 week after the show. mannnnnn I want it to post it on youtube. ok im off. gonna go back to work.

ps. People say I look like JONAS????? I dont see the ressemblance at ALL.