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Creative blogging.

June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was recently invited to contribute to a blog on a site called Creative Choices - the focus of the site is resourcing and encouraging people either in or looking to transition to employment in the creative sector. So a few us social media monkeys have been co-opted to blog about creative things. It’s a […]

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Tags: Geek · journalism

One from The Vault - interview from BassRocket.com

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments

In the process of transferring my website over to this lovely shiny new format, I removed a lot of dead links to reviews and interviews that were no longer online. Fortunately, I knew a few of the writers, and so was able to get hold of transcripts of the original interviews direct from them.
One […]

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Tags: Music News · cool links · journalism · site updates

Bruce Cockburn interview from Nov ‘99

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Back when I was writing for Bassist magazine in the late 90s, I mainly used interviews as a chance to meet up with my musical heroes. The bass ones were easy to sort out, but on a couple of occasions I used the magazine connection to interview my guitar playing heroes as well, and did […]

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Tags: journalism

Critical, pragmatic, self-belief - an artist’s life-blood…

February 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Had a lovely morning giving a lecture/masterclass at the ACM today. It was extra-fun because I was given a topic I hadn’t spoken on before, but was given it at too short notice to have time to prepare so I had to wing it. And it went great, at least from where I was stood […]

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Tags: Rant - Politics, Spirituality, etc. · journalism · tips for musicians

Lee Sklar interview from Bassist Mag, Oct 99

February 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

One of my favourite things about going out to NAMM each January is getting to see Lee Sklar - if you’re a bass player you obviously already know who he is. If you’re not a bassist, you might recognise Lee as the guy that played bass with James Taylor and Phil Collins who looks like […]

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Tags: journalism

Steve Rodby interview from Bassist Mag, Aug 1999

November 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Steve Rodby was, without a doubt, one of the nicest people I got to meet when writing for Bassist mag. Along with Michael Manring, Lee Sklar, Jimmy Haslip and a handful of others, he was one of the interviewees that inspired me as much by his personality, grace and enthusiasm as by his wise words […]

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Tags: bass ideas · journalism · tips for musicians

Doug Pinnick interview from March 1999

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: journalism

John Patitucci interview from Jan. ‘99

October 6th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: bass ideas · journalism · tips for musicians

Tony Levin/Trey Gunn interview from ‘98

September 29th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Musing on Music · bass ideas · journalism

The first interview I ever did for Bassist magazine…

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Musing on Music · bass ideas · journalism