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Rejoining Emusic’s subscription download service.

March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Steve Lawson's Behind Every Word album, for MP3 download on emusic.com, screengrabI just started my subscription to Emusic again. Emusic is one of the biggest site for indie music download sales, and works on a subscription model, so you pay for a certain number of tracks a month. I get 50 tracks for £11.99, I think.

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friends and inspiration

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Stevie Stuffs
BeyondBassCamp - Monthly Bass Masterclasses in London
Steve @ MySpace - My MySpace page.
Steve @ Last.fm - my last.fm artist page.
Steve @ YouTube.com - lots of videos!
Steve @ FaceBook.com - find me on facebook.
Steve @ ReverbNation.com - loads more music to listen to.
Steve @ iLike.com - click the ‘ilike’ button on there!
Steve @ Twitter.com - [...]

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Timeline and Trivia

May 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

Musical Equipment Used
- Modulus Graphite Basses (6 string fretted and fretless and 4 string fretted), A Rick Turner 5 String Renaissance ‘Amplicoustic’ fretless bass, Mark Audio powered speakers,  Accugroove bass cabinets, the Looperlative LP1 for looping, Lexicon MPX-G2 for processing, an E-Bow+, Bass Centre Elites strings, East-UK preamps, Evidence Audio cables. And I carry my [...]

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The Musical Mechanics of ‘Feeling’: Wordless Story Telling

April 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Right, here’s a blog post I promised on Twitter at the beginning of the week, but have only just got round to writing. Here were my original ‘tweets’ -
solobasssteve “Blog post idea - the musical mechanics of ‘feeling’: ambiguity, journey, wordless story-telling and narrative/soundtrack quality…”
solobasssteve “Gifted singers routinely sing like they’re still discovering the unfolding [...]

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Tags: Musing on Music · bass ideas · cool links · tips for musicians

Michael Manring and I on video…

February 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s another video from the gig in Santa Cruz - this one is of Michael Manring and I. It’s the second half of a REALLY long improv, and goes through about 5 or 6 big changes of direction, all seemlessly transitioned, thanks to the magic of the Looperlative.
Michael and I have been playing together for [...]

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David Sylvian at the RFH

September 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments

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Wonderful 3-part half hour interview with David Torn…

August 10th, 2007 · No Comments

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Euroblog #5

October 26th, 2006 · No Comments

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up too late

November 19th, 2005 · 1 Comment

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Reasons to be blogging, Part Three

July 5th, 2005 · No Comments

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