151 - Michael League breaks down his FAVORITE bass lines

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In today’s video, we asked Michael League to dig into his earliest influences and name the bass lines that helped define his career with four-time Grammy Award Winners Snarky Puppy. There were a few things we agreed on: Bootsy Collins belongs on every top 10 list.Your drummer is your best friend.David Hood is a bass guitar genius.Everything else was up for debate. Well, almost everything… In this episode: Michael names his favorite bass line of all time.And the British rock band he idol...

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0:00.0	SBL today we're sitting with the great Michael League. You of course know him as a band leader
0:05.3	and bassist of Grammy award-winning band Snarky Puppy, but he's also a solo artist, experienced
0:11.1	sideman, producer, arranger, and entrepreneur working with groups such as Becante, Lala
0:18.2	Hathaway, Chris Teeley, Joshua Redmond, David Crosby.
0:22.1	The list goes on and on.
0:23.7	He's also the owner and founder of the record label Ground Up Music and puts on the annual
0:28.2	Ground Up Music Festival.
0:30.4	He is one of the truly great artists of our generation.
0:33.8	We're so lucky to have him with us today, Mr. Michael League. Welcome to SBL. Welcome
0:39.4	back. Welcome back to SBL. Thanks for being here. It's always a pleasure hanging out with y'all.
0:44.6	I have watched your mentors live streams over and over. I'm very sorry to hear that.
0:52.1	Some of my, Don't you dare.
0:55.1	Don't you dare.
0:57.6	It's some of my favorite... It's actually some of my favorite content on the site.
1:01.9	When you're playing with that acoustic bass
1:05.2	and talking about your concepts of bass lines and solos,
1:08.1	do you remember when you did those pieces for us?
1:10.2	I do.
1:10.4	It's been a little while. Yeah. God, I love that. Thank you. So, thanks for being back. And today we're diving into the baselines that made me, but not me, you, Michael Lee. You don't want me to talk about the baselines that made you? I'd love to do that. You don't want to talk about those. That's what the thing's called and you're talking. So it must be about me. It must be about me. Made you. Nope, we're going to flip it back around on you. And you've done the homework, man. I mean, you've prepped some baselines to show us today, the baselines that made you. I did, but mostly because I misunderstood the assignment that you gave me, and I
1:47.5	over-prepared this part and under-prepared the other part. So there's always balance.
1:53.1	I did, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's hard to knock it down to a couple, but I did my best. I did my best. Absolutely. And the idea
2:03.8	behind these are obviously to take a look into your past, Michael, and look at the baselines that
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