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039 - In Conversation with Will Lee - Pocket Central

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast Will Lee talks about his love of The Beatles and what it’s like to be one of the world’s first call session players. Will Lee is absolutely essential listening for any and every bass player. He is the kind of bassist who makes everything look easy. After rising to prominence as one of New York’s top session players, Will has played for the likes of James Brown, Steely Dan, The Brecker Brothers, Chaka Khan, Mike Stern, Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, George Benson, Kool & the...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how's it going? Skoy from Scottspaceessons.com and I'm back with another episode of the SBL podcast.

0:07.0

Now today's is a little bit different because it was actually a live interview that some of you may have come along to.

0:14.1

We did invite a few select people to come along to enjoy this live interview and it's with the one and only will Lee.

0:22.4

I know a lot of you will have heard of Will Lee before.

0:25.6

He was a bass player on the late show with Dave Letterman for, well, forever.

0:33.3

He's also played with Patty Austin, George Benson, James Brown, Hiram Bullock, Gary Burton,

0:41.4

Mariah Carey, Shaka Khan, Art Farmer, you know, you get the gist. He's played with a lot of,

0:48.2

a lot of great artists. And within the bass community, he is, you know, everybody knows Will. He's a serious, serious player.

0:57.6

And we are so lucky to have him here on the SBL podcast. Now, as I said, it is a little bit of a

1:04.1

different one today because it is, it's been taken from a, like a private live thing that we did.

1:10.2

And a lot of people came along so the audio isn't

1:12.4

as good as it normally is but hopefully you'll put up with the with the audio because will is

1:19.4

dropping some serious knowledge bombs as you'd expect now if you're listening to the podcast

1:25.4

on iTunes I'll send you all of my bass love

1:27.5

if you subscribe and leave a review, as that really helps us get the word out about these

1:32.3

interviews, guys. And I really think there's so much to be learned from listening to great

1:37.1

bass players, such as the guests that we have on the show. And if you're listening to this

1:41.4

anywhere else other than Scott's Bass Lessons.com, make sure you shoot over to the site and check out the show notes for this episode as I've put some fantastic videos up.

1:50.8

Now, if you're completely new to Scott's Bass Lessons.com forward slash toolkit.

1:58.3

Okay, scotsbaceless lessons.com forward slash toolkit.

2:01.6

That puts some really cool video resources that you can download on there and check out,

2:06.1

like a base buyer's guide.

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