Marco Rodi

Hello!

3 weeks ago I bought my dream pedal: Rc-50 BOSS LOOP STATION .

Man, it’s way too addicting. I love it so far. Before I had the mini loop pedal RC-20: .
It was good, it lasted me 4 years. But the thing that was bothering me, was the fact that I could only build loops one on top of each others. I couldn’t create separate loops.

The new RC-50 can . I can build 3 separate loops at the same time. Switch, stop, play any of them LIVE when I’m playing. I love it. I also have 100 built in drum loops. AMAZING drum loops. Not cheap electronic keyboards one. I mean real mp3′s drum loops with pure quality. I completely HATE a metronome. I find it way too robotic, useless and boring. With these drum loops, I am happy to follow the rhythm .

The other thing that I find absolutely amazing, is that the pedal has a USB port. So you can IMPORT any WAV files you want in your pedal. Any drum loop, guitar line, bass line etc. And save it on a loop. So when you are on stage doing a solo, you simply have to press on a loop port with your foot and the instrument will play. You can also EXPORT your created loops!!!! Let’s see you are practicing and you found a cool loop pattern with your instrument. You just have to plug your computer to the pedal and import that loop pattern IN YOUR COMPUTER!!!! How amazing is that!!! My computer is getting filled with a crazy amount of ideas hehehe :p.

The sound quality of the pedal in general is way better than my OLD loop pedal. It was less noise, less distortion. Off course, you don’t really notice it on a live show but if you are alone in a room with both pedals, you can clearly notice the difference.

In case you didn’t know, you can check out my first solo bass video using that new pedal HERE.

You can see a complete detailed description on the pedal HERE. The pedal cost around 700$. My old pedal cost around 300$.

Me doing some WaltDisney songs. I really dont know why, these melodies came into my head. The beginning is the sound of a Stampede of animals. One from Lion King and the other one is form Aladdin.

I got my electric drum sunday yessssssssssssssssssssssss. I’m going to post some videos of it soon. pretty soon. The possibilities of making some cool music are huge with this little toy. hehhee.

Saturday I went to the tattoo store and the dude made a sketch of my future tattoo on my shoulder. I love it so much. It’s really cool. It’s the red hot chili peppers logo with 2 wings side by side.

I bet that most of you people love the red hot chili peppers but have NO CLUE about what their logo means. hehe. Well, their logo: has several meanings.

First, it was designed by Anthony Kiedis really quick because they had to sign their first reccord and they didint have a logo at the time. So the managers asked them about a logo right away. So he drew it in like 1 minute.

For him, it was the Star of Affinity. The way we naturally connect with people with this strange and beautiful feeling. Did you ever noticed, there are people that you really dont know, but you feel connected to them. And there are others that you know them for years and you just can’t get along with them. It’s not because you hate them, it’s not because you have nothing in common, you just dont FEEL them. This is affinity.

And you can see a similar logo on ambulances:

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Because for them, it means the symbol of Positivity.

So even if RHCP is my favorite band and they gave me the big boost on my musical career, Affinity and Positivity are my day-by-day life. I always think positivly to avoid stressing for nothing. And I’m not really a person who rationalize stuff and situations. I always follow my interior feel. Even if it’s weird, I will follow it without thinking too much.

So that tattoo represents alot to me.

Oh yeah, here are 3 videos of my bass playing you probably didin’t see yet.

Yooo

Tonight I’ll probably go to the music store and by myself an electric drum. This one:

I want one to start recording music. I have a cheap drum but I can’t reccord with with because I have no microphone and my basement is really huge so the sound will be crappy because of all the echo.

With an electric drum, I can record it directly from my computer, play with headphones and the coolest part is: I can send some sound to my loop station. SO, i can do a funky drum beat, reccord it on my loop station, pick up my bass and JAM. yesssssssssssssssssssssss

Oh yeah, and saturday i’m going to make my Red hot chili peppers Tattoo but only with Water Paint. Just to see what it looks like. And if I really really really like it, I will have to go to some doctor just to check if I CAN get myself tatooed because I have a really weird skin that reacts to GLUE. When I but a plaster, or some strong glue on my skin, it turns all red and I cant stop scratching it. I dont think that Ink has something to do with Glue but anyways, just to make sure. Not to have one arm missing so I cant play bass anymore hehe.

Oh yeah and JUNE 22th Motley Crue is coming to montreal!!!!! I saw them last year with aerosmith and it ROCKED. Their music is really bad but they are the band with the most powerful rockstar image ever and I respect that. At their last show, Tommy Lee gave a bottle of Jack Daniel to the first row on the floor and said: ”I want to all of you to have a snap of my Jack Daniel!!!”. The second guy took it and CHUGGED IT! THE WHOLE BOTTLE! ALl of their shows are fun. it’s like the 80′s rock.