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The SBL Podcast

075 - In Conversation with Uriah Duffy - Super Sideman

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

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast we track down top US bass player Uriah Duffy… For many years, Uriah Duffy has remained the ‘bass players’ bass player’, working with artists ranging from Whitesnake, CeeLo Green, Christina Aguilera, The Family Stone, Toni Tony Toné and Alicia Keys. As a seasoned sideman, producer and musical director, Uriah’s ability to leave his own musical ego and stylistic preconceptions at the door has proved essential. While his trademark grooves and outstanding musicianship are at th...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how's it going? Scott here from Scott's Bassessons.com and we are back for another episode of the SPL podcast. If you have any clonking in the background, by the way, it's Gav making a coffee. Give me a shout, Gav. Yo, yo, yo, yo. Anyway, today, guys, we've got an awesome guest. We've got Yuriah Duffy with us. Uriah is, well if you've not heard of him,

0:21.0

he's an absolute killing

0:22.9

base player and right now he's

0:24.8

coming. we've got Uriah Duffy with us. Uriya is, well if you've not heard of him,

0:21.0

he's an absolute killing bass player and right now

0:24.6

he's currently on tour with Fantastic Negrito

0:27.6

who has just won a Grammy for the best

0:30.4

contemporary blues album. So we're going to get the lowdown on that

0:33.8

gig but we also find out about Uriah's musical

0:36.4

upbringing, the classic rock influence of his dad who was a guitarist. Uriah was actually named after the band Uriah Heep as well, and his brother is called, Yes, after the band, yep, you've got it, yes. Anyway, you find out all about that in this podcast, and he goes on to tell us about how he turned down a scholarship at Berkeley and instead moved out

0:55.2

to California and how he's made, you know, made a name for himself out there. He's played with

1:00.1

some amazing play, mainly amazing bands like White Snake, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, you know,

1:07.3

you know, kind of speaks for itself really. Anyway, so I'm going to hand over to Nick and this week's guest, the awesome Uriah Duffy.

1:14.5

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the SBL podcast here today with Uriah Duffy,

1:19.1

who is one of my favorite bass players right now.

1:22.2

Because you're so busy doing so much different kind of work, touring with different band,

1:27.2

MD and producing.

1:29.1

A lot of guys will be familiar with you from the time of the White Snake.

1:32.1

But as we were just saying, there's so much more in your career.

1:35.5

It's so rich with all kinds of different stuff.

1:39.2

Let's just go back to the start of your eyes.

1:40.7

Tell us about how you got into the bass in the first place.

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