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!

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.

Haha just found this:

Me back in 2005. I went to see Victor Wooten show and I was so shocked by his performance that when I got home, I practice 12 hours straight and slept the full next day. I talked to him for like 5 minutes about how his music influences me. He’s so down to earth. haha Good Memories.