Marco Rodi

It’s really hard to live with your art. I mean, living ONLY with your art. Many people in this world have a natural gift when they are born, and some of them decide to practice it as a surviving solution. Painters, trumpet players, hockey player, any kind of prodigies. But, only a few of them will have a good income. I think 3/10 people will have a good income. And that is about 30 000$ a year. And you have to be lucky. You have to in the right place at the right time. There are other people who are talented, but CAN’T practice ONLY their art in their life. Like me. I know I’m a good bass player, I can get alot of attention, but I just can’t ONLY play bass. It sucks. Plus I’m a solo bass player. Not many of them can make a living out of that. I would love to create my own band. I would be the one who writes the songs, and a drummer and a guitar player will play along my weird bass lines. The thing is, I cant sing. So the guitar player or drummer will have to, or it will be an instrumental project. And I dont really have the time, I work 9 to 5 and I have night courses.

But being in a succesfull band…. I think I could handle doing that. Tours, gigs, press, interviews… I will only play bass, but I will travel, meet people etc. So I dont know. There are a part of me which says that I HAVE to do something big with my bass playing. I dont know what. I believe in destiny, but I can’t just sit on a chair and wait for some cool to happen.

Bah, we will see what’s going to happens next.

Peace out duddies duddidanetties

I cant really sing. Thats why I play bass.
I can’t really play drums. That’s why I do percussions sound with my bass.
I can’t really talk into the microphone and explain my songs. Thats why I translate my words to the sound of my bass.

I tried to play bass with my teeth. It hurts.

Linkin Park is coming next friday. its too expensive. But I really want to go. Maybe ill go there and try to buy some tickets at the scalpers after the show begun. I hope they will cost 10$.

Oh and The Red Hot Chili Peppers did a 30 minutes show ALL IMPROVISING without anthony, and it will feature on the upcoming Chad’s Smith Drum Lessons DVD. yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Its cool I just learned how to do this you know, this little line on any word.

I find this cool.

” The worst artist’s enemy? It’s is ego.” John Frusciante

I realized that one of the hardest thing to do as a musician is to Find is own sound. It’s normal for everybody to get influenced by their idols, to copy their style, to play the songs they like, no matter what we do, we took it from somewhere. But to actually mix some influences in a way to create a unique sound, it can take years to achieve. I am slowly starting to create mine. When I started playing bass, I was mad because no matter what I did, I sounded like Flea. Then I realized that he was my ONLY influence. haha. So I started to open my mind and listen to any form of sound I could. 6 years later, I realized that no matter what I listened, Flea stayed my main influence but with John Frusciante. So many people are telling me by emails that I created a weird mix of Flea and John’s playing. Thats cool. But still, i’m feeling it. I’m feeling that I am coming up with something. We will see what happens next.

And I dont like studio sessions. I love to jam and to play live and to improvise and to explore and experiment but when comes the time to reccord to let people listen to what I play, I dont like that. Thats why Im doing alot of YouTube Session Time hehehe http://www.youtube.com/propea