029 - In Conversation with Rich Brown - Making The Bass Sing

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🗓️ 20 June 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In today’s podcast we’re talking to six-string virtuoso Rich Brown! Rich is a really classy player and certainly knows his way around a bass better than most. Having chosen to explore plenty of musical tangents, which have seen him dabble in many different genres, Rich has appeared on countless recordings ranging from jazz to funk to latin to traditional Asian and Arabic music.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, how's it going? Scott again here with episode 29 of the SBL podcast and today I am
0:06.1	lucky enough to be joined by the amazing Rich Brown, one of my favourite ever bass players on the planet.
0:13.7	I've been into his playing for so long and the first time I heard him he was playing with
0:18.9	Andy Milne's Dap Theory which was just such a killer band.
0:22.7	Check them out online on YouTube.
0:24.3	In fact, I'll put this all in the show notes for you and links to Richard's site and things like that.
0:28.3	But he's played with Andy Milne's Dap Theory.
0:31.2	He's played with guys such as Vernon Reed.
0:33.5	He played in the Steve Coleman Five Elements band.
0:36.3	Just an absolute killer player.
0:38.7	And he's got a really unique vibe as well and feel on the base.
0:43.2	You'll hear us talk in this interview how a lot of people think that he's playing fretless when he's not.
0:48.2	He's playing fretted.
0:49.1	So he's just got a really unique vibe going on.
0:52.1	And he's got his own albums out as well.
0:55.6	I should also mention that.
1:02.3	And on top of that was nominated for a Juno Award this year as well, which is very, very cool.
1:08.1	Now, before we get into the interview, I also want to say thank you for all the kind words that have been coming in,
1:11.4	all the emails that we've been getting, Facebook messages, all the messages that have been coming in about the free issue of iBase magazine that we sent
1:17.8	you just a few days ago. Marcus Miller was on the cover. It was just, it was really great just
1:24.3	to put that out to you guys and just, you know, get some feedback about what you want the magazine to be.
1:29.4	Because obviously, I-Base magazine is coming into the Scots Bass Essence family and it's going to be something that we're doing month on month.
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