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The SBL Podcast

062 - In Conversation with Colin Parkinson - Inglorious

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

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast we meet the man pulling the bass strings with UK breakthrough act Inglorious. Colin Parkinson has found himself in a surreal situation that most bassists only dream about, joining a band that’s already being billed as a shrine to classic rock. Larger-than-life frontman Nathan James of TV talent show The Voice fame joins Colin onstage, and while the young bass prodigy may seem like an unassuming addition, his calm demeanour, technical ability and attention to detail have mad...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how you doing?

0:00.8

Scott here from Scott's Bassessons.com and I'm back on with the SBL podcast.

0:23.3

Everybody's looking at me in the room because I'm recording this. I've got Jeff Chalmers, Philman, Gavin D.Mack. Give everybody a shout out, guys. Go y' yo, y'all. All right. Carry on, talking between yourselves. Anyway, we're back with another episode of the SBL podcast. and today we've got Colin Parkinson on.

0:22.9

He's banned inglorious. If you're into Audio Slave or Soundgarden, you've got to check

0:31.0

these guys out because they're really, really fantastic, and they're actually going to be

0:34.3

releasing a new album on May the 14th. So we're going to be talking about that in this podcast.

0:39.7

And also, they worked with a bunch of producers on the first album as well,

0:43.6

including Neil Klett Fairclough, who is the bass player for Queen now.

0:47.5

So in the podcast, we're going to talk to Colin about that, his gear,

0:52.0

and being on tour with the Winery Dogs as well last year, which was a big

0:56.1

thing for Colin because he's a huge Billy Sheehan fan. Now, if you're listening to on this on iTunes,

1:02.8

I'll send you all of my base stuff if you subscribe and leave a review, as that helps us get

1:06.3

the word out about these interviews. And I really think that there's so much to be learned from

1:09.8

listening to great bass players, such as Colin,'s how you know you get your bass player to the

1:15.1

next level by listening to guys that have done it before and then taking what they've done

1:19.1

and applying it to your own story. If you're listening to this anywhere else other than scotsbassessons.com

1:24.3

make sure you shoot over to the website and check it out because in the show show notes, I've put a ton of cool videos of calling in there for you. Just go to the website, scotsbacetessons.com, and in the top navigation, you will see podcasts. Click on that and then you will find all the podcasts that we've done. If you're completely new to Scott's Bass Sessions, you're going to want to go to Scott's Bassessons.com forward slash toolkit because there's a heap of cool resources in there

1:49.4

for you to download a base buyer's guide, how to get gigs wherever you are in the world, a really

1:55.5

cool strategy for that, backing track library, a ton of cool stuff, so just go to scotsbacelessns.com forward slash toolkit for that.

2:03.0

And then remember, guys, if you're an academy member at Scott's Bass Lessons,

2:05.9

you can actually watch the entire video version of this interview as well,

2:09.3

as you can watch all the other interviews that we've done as well via video.

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