Steve Lawson has been one of the most inspiring and creative solo bassists to come out of the UK in recent years. His solo albums and collaborative projects have been the talk of the world-wide bass community and have drawn enthusiastic reviews in the press. His latest album ‘Grace And Gratitude’ finds him […]
Interview - from BassRocket.com (Jan 2005)
May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Review - Conversations (Loopers Delight)
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
“From the beginning of the first track’s languid fretless, grooving, melodicism it’s a feast of inventive looping. Hey, and it’s so lush and “pretty” that my wife doesn’t even ask me to “please turn it down” — which has got to be some kind of a first for a ‘”looping” CD.
Jez Carr’s spare, pointalistic pianisms […]
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friends and inspiration
May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Stevie Stuffs
Pillow Mountain Records - My record label
Recycle Collective - My monthly looping/improv gig 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 […]
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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, 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 bass around in an […]
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Photos from last Sunday’s Milton Keynes Solo Bass Night
March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Steve Lawson
Originally uploaded by Documentally
Here’s are some fantastic photos taken at the Solo Bass Night in Milton Keynes last Sunday by Christian Payne.
Christian is a really great photographer, photo journalist, documentary maker and new media junkie. His latest film about displaced Iraqis living in Jordan is vital viewing.
Anyway, enjoy the rest of the photos of […]
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futuremusictalk.com launched…
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
A couple of months back, Sarda came up with the idea of an aggregated blog bringing together lots of the different thinkers writing about the future of the music industry. My ‘future of music’ posts are up there alongside fab thinkers and writers like Gerd Leonhard and Andrew Dubber.
…which I guess means I ought to […]
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Early Christmas presents - your virtual gifts here…
November 20th, 2007 · No Comments
It’s something we’ve done in a small way over in the forum for a couple of years, but I thought I’d copy it over here as a comment thread this year - giving Christmas presents is often expensive and perhaps almost as often, pointless. You spend ages trying to find something that is adequate as […]
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Mike Watt gets it right (or why Econo-touring is the way to go!)
November 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Punk bass Godfather Mike Watt has an expression for low-budget touring - he calls it ‘jamming econo’ (the recent film on the history of his seminal band The Minutemen is called We Jam Econo).
As a solo bassist, I don’t really have much choice but to jam econo - it’s not like I’m at the big […]
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‘Too much music’ - further thoughts on filters.
November 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
As I’ve said here recently, part of the problem with the notion of limitless downloads is the basic flaw in thinking it to be a good thing.
There’s never been an easier time to record and release music as a band or solo artist - anyone and her mum can get Garage Band or Audacity and […]
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A couple of alternate views from people who think giving music away is a good idea…
October 20th, 2007 · No Comments
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