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The SBL Podcast

063 - In Conversation with Michael League - Raising the Bar

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

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast we chat to the man behind the award-winning Brooklyn-based collective Snarky Puppy. Always pushing the boundaries with an unbending work ethic, Snarky Puppy are tighter and better oiled than ever before. Inspired by Michael League’s earth-shattering bass playing, their recorded catalogue grows more impressive from album to album. And now Michael’s back with a newly formed project called Bokanté, which looks set to shape the next phase of instrumental world music.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how's it going? Scott's Bassessons.com and I'm back with another episode of the

0:05.1

SBL podcast. And today, today, we've got an awesome guest. Somebody I've been really wanting to get on the podcast.

0:12.1

We've got Michael League from the, well, you know them, snarky puppy. He's actually right in the

0:18.0

middle of a European leg of the snarky Puppie tour at the minute.

0:21.6

And he's going to bring his up to speed, or you up to speed, with all things Snarky Puppie,

0:25.9

how the band adapt to each venue, how he handles life on the road, and all about his gear.

0:30.7

Including, check this out, super exciting, his new signature amp from Mark Base,

0:36.5

and his new vintage P-base, boom.

0:39.6

Got a love of the P-bases, but he's also going to talk about his new band called Bacante,

0:45.2

in which he plays baritone guitar.

0:47.8

And at the start of the podcast as well, we thought it would be cool as she was there.

0:51.7

We jumped on with Malika, who is the lead singer from the new band Bacante as well.

0:56.8

And she's going to, and actually she was on the family dinner record as well. You should, guys,

1:01.1

if you've not heard family dinner from Sanaki Puppy, check that out. Like, after you've listened to this podcast,

1:07.0

check out family dinner from Sanarki Puppy. blow your mind and malika the singer is on that

1:13.2

record as well and as i've mentioned as well she's in the michael's new band be can'te and she's

1:18.9

going to be talking about what it's like working with mike so we're going to have five minutes with

1:23.2

malika and then we're going to go straight over to mike to check out all things. Snarky puppy.

1:29.6

As always, guys, I'd love you to review the podcast on iTunes if you haven't already.

1:34.8

And also, if you're, you know, if you're into what we do here at Scotts Bay Sessions,

1:39.3

make sure you check out the Academy as well over at Scottsbacessons.com.

1:42.7

It's the ultimate online base school.

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