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The SBL Podcast

058 - In Conversation with Nathan East - From Sideman to Solo Artist

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

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast we catch up with one of the most recorded bass players in popular music. Nathan East has performed with such a huge number of all-time greats, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Quincy Jones and Eric Clapton, that it’s hard to sum up the impact he’s had on popular music. His funk-fueled bass work added the sparkle to Daft Punk's 2013 hit single, 'Get Lucky'; he sings, he doubles on upright and electric bass, has received an Ivor Novello Award for co-writing the Phil ...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how's it going? Scott here and I'm back with another episode of the Scott's Bass Lessons podcast.

0:06.0

And today we have got somebody really, really special with us, somebody who is considered one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music.

0:16.4

They've recorded with, well, pretty much everybody you can think of, but just off the top of my head,

0:21.5

guys like Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, Joe Satriani, George Harrison, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder,

0:31.4

Toto, Daff Punk, Herbie Hancock, is that enough for you? Probably. Anyway, so today's guest is none other than Nathan East, who is obviously a legend, a legendary bass player.

0:46.5

And today is sitting down with Nick over at the Scots Bass Lessons podcast studio, we'll call it that.

0:54.0

And we're going to be digging into stuff with Nick in just one minute.

0:57.4

Before we get into the interview,

0:59.3

I also want to give a quick shout out

1:01.4

because we've got some really, really great courses

1:04.5

coming into the membership over at Scott's Bass Lesson soon.

1:10.2

A lot of you will already know that we've been over to New York

1:12.8

and recorded a ton of courses over there

1:14.7

with some great, great bass players.

1:17.5

You know, guys like Steve Jenkins, Damien Erskine, Coddy Wright,

1:20.7

Rufus Philpott, Jonathan Marin, Rich Brown.

1:23.9

You know, just a heap of great bass players.

1:26.1

We hooked up with them over there and we recorded

1:28.5

full courses for them now over the last few months we've been in an editing frenzy let's put it that

1:35.2

way at demac and gav here at the sbl headquarters have been uh yeah just editing like heck and trying

1:42.7

to get all this stuff ready for you guys.

1:44.4

And I'm happy to report that it is finally coming together and we're about to start releasing them into the membership over at Scottsbacessons.com.

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