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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Dark days in London town.
May 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
C’mon, joke’s over, Boris didn’t really win, did he?
Oh shit, yes he did. A victory for disillusionment, celebrity and the power of the protest vote. He’s not even a convincing tory.
The animosity towards Ken is startling, and he’s largely brought it on himself of late by behaving as though he was born to rule. His […]
Tags: Rant - Politics, Spirituality, etc.
Londoners - don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
April 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
It’s the London Mayoral Elections tomorrow, and our chance to choose between the different flavours of turd on offer… As much as I think Ken has overstayed his welcome, the idea of Boris as London mayor is too horrific to consider. Not because of his affable buffoonery, but because of his horribly reactionary politics. He’s […]
Tags: Rant - Politics, Spirituality, etc.
Thoughts and Questions on Originality.
April 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Been having some fantastic conversations with creative people of late on the subject of originality. It’s a subject that seems to lead to wildly different comments and responses from creative people, but rather too often seems to become deified or fetishised to the detriment of the resultant art.
With solo bass being such a niche musical […]
Tags: Musing on Music · bass ideas · tips for musicians
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 […]
Tags: journalism
First Podcast recorded… available ASAP.
February 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
I’ve just finished my first joint podcast with Jeff Schmidt - we recorded it via Skype, and talked for about an hour about lots of musical things (we both were expecting it to get all political/religous but it didn’t this time - it’s going to be a series, so there’s plenty of time for that!)
Jeff’s […]
Tags: Geek · Music News · Musing on Music · tips for musicians
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 […]
Tags: Random Catchup · cool links · the future of music · tips for musicians · website recommendations
A rare moment of god-botheringness on the blog…
June 15th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Rant - Politics, Spirituality, etc.
More on Friedman…
November 17th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Rant - Politics, Spirituality, etc.