200 - Richard Bona: "I’m a student of music until I am gone"

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Richard Bona is arguably one of the greatest bass players since Jaco. He’s someone you can learn a LOT from at any level of your playing. In this special interview recorded for Bass Space 2022, we tracked Richard down to Mark Bass HQ in Italy, to talk about his long-standing love affair with the bass.

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0:00.0	And it's a brand new day and a brand new background.
0:04.9	To those of you watching the pod, got some bases over here, ad ad over here.
0:09.1	I'm feeling great.
0:11.0	You guys, welcome to another episode of the Scott and Ian show on the SBL podcast.
0:16.1	Yes, indeed.
0:17.9	And I got to tell you, today you are in for a real treat. Not that you're not normally,
0:23.5	but today we are bringing you an interview from 2022 Base Space, which was an online event that
0:32.0	we did a number of months ago. And I got to interview the great Richard Bona.
0:39.9	So we are going to play that interview for you today.
0:43.4	He's going to talk about his approach to music, his approach to playing,
0:49.7	grooving, soloing, his dependence and his absolute value on singing and internalizing music and melody, his upbringing, what he's working on now.
0:53.5	It's really, really cool. And that event,
0:55.9	actually, where Richard was, was in Italy at Mark Base headquarters. And it was very cool because
1:02.5	Mark Base, Marco at Mark Base invited Nick and Dan, part of the SBL crew out to be part of this event
1:08.8	where they launched a brand new line of amplifiers, the Mb-58R.
1:15.5	In Pescara, Italy, I probably shouldn't have tried to do the accent, but it's all good, dude.
1:20.6	So this line is comprised of the brand's initials.
1:24.4	Marco's age and the letter R for Revolution.
1:26.6	It includes 20 new ultra-light
1:29.8	cabinets, 20 of them. Eight combos and Richard Vona was in town to kick off the event and to play
1:36.8	a sold-out show on the beach. And while he was chilling, we got to spend an hour with him talking
1:42.4	about it and it was amazing. So thanks to Marco and to
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