Hey guys, how's it going? So we're here with The Amazing Michael League and George, who was, you know, befriended Mike, he's going to go with him tonight to the gig, gig sponsor.

And we've been lucky enough to get Mike with us here today. And I'm going to basically draw all this good stuff that I can from your mind for all these bass players out of you that have been bugging me forever to get you on, Mike, this is it. If I don't do it today, this is it. I'm going to be sort of like damned for the rest of my life. So Mike, before we even get into, we're going to be talking about sort of like your base playing and how you think about playing the base and what you did in the past to, you know, get you the skills that you've got today on the base but before any of that how did you actually get into the base in the first place

how did you get into this game? I think probably in the way that a lot of bass players start, which is I was a guitar player and there were too many guitar players. And so someone said, you have to play bass. You know, it was like a punishment. And was it always, were you always going to be into music? Like, was it something that was in your family? Yeah, I mean, my mom majored in music. She didn't do it professionally. She taught kind of private lessons to kids. My grandfather was a high school band director for I think 30 years or something

oh right okay so when you turned around said I'm going to be a musician the family didn't freak out

no no but my dad is military his dad is military his dad is military and my brother and I are both

musicians so we were the first generation in four to kind of like not do the military thing.

Were they cool about that, yeah?

Yeah, I think, yeah, I think probably cooler than had we joined the military.

Yeah, it could have.

Yeah, it could have.

Yeah, I mean, my dad was the, you know, and my mom were the ones that were playing

us Hendrix records and CSN records when we were one year old.

So when did he first start playing an instrument?

I had like a three-week thing with drum set when I was in third grade

and then I had like a one-year thing with violin when I was in fourth grade.

But I really got into playing guitar when I was like 13.

Yeah.

But just kind of acoustic guitar and playing songs.

And then my brother was playing jazz, so he got me into that.

And then when I was 17, my senior year of high school, we had three guitar players in the high school jazz band and no bass

player. And there was an old squire jazz bass rotting away in the uniform closet with all the

marching van uniforms. And the teacher said, sorry. You know, sorry. Sorry. Yeah, you're a bassist now.

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