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The SBL Podcast

164- Anderson .Paak’s Secret Bass Weapon: Kelsey Gonzalez

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

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4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In today’s video, we asked Kelsey González to name the bass lines that helped define his career with American singer, drummer, and record producer Anderson Paak. You’ll hear nuances to his bass lines you never noticed before – and probably rush home to grab your bass!

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0:00.0

Like, shut up.

0:01.9

Yeah.

0:02.5

Yeah, shut up.

0:03.5

Yeah.

0:05.7

End interview.

0:08.7

I am Ian.

0:09.5

This is our amazing producer, Sharon Reynolds, and we are here today with the super funky Kelsey Gonzalez.

0:15.8

You know him as the basis for Anderson Pack and free nationals, but he is also a multi-instrumentalist, killer

0:21.9

producer.

0:23.0

We're going to watch some of Kelsey's coolest YouTube videos together, and we're going to get

0:26.4

into all of it, basses, effects, grooves, straight funk versus Dilla, what it's like playing

0:32.0

with Anderson, who is quite possibly the most charismatic drummer, frontman of all time.

0:37.5

So Kelsey, thank you so much for being here, man.

0:39.8

Oh, man.

0:40.2

Thank you guys.

0:41.4

Yeah.

0:42.1

It's going to be so fun.

0:43.4

I first became aware of you with Free Nationals with that insane tiny desk that you did with Anderson.

0:53.0

2016, maybe, playing tunes off of Malibu.

0:56.0

I remember where I was when I saw it.

0:59.2

A friend of mine grew out on the road.

1:00.5

He was like, stop what you're doing.

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