73 - The Marcus Miller Interview: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
The SBL Podcast
Scott's Bass Lessons
4.8 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right guys, I'm here with the incredible Marcus Miller, who I have been a massive fan of for so long. |
| 0:05.5 | Obviously, you know who he is, one of the most influential and important bass players to have ever lived. |
| 0:11.9 | And like I was researching for this interview over the last couple of days, I've just said earlier. |
| 0:16.6 | I was just a massive fan of Marcus's before. |
| 0:19.2 | But when I started digging into like all of the stuff that you've played on is incredible. |
| 0:23.4 | And just, I wish I could memorize these names, but there's so many. I've got them down here. |
| 0:27.6 | Like, you've played and recorded and performed with people like Michael Jackson, Beyonce, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Mariah Carey, Eric Clapton, Wayne Sher, McCoy Tyner, Frank Sinatra, George Benson, |
| 0:39.5 | Are You Kidding Me? Elton John, Shaka, and I've just put, it just goes on. |
| 0:45.3 | And I gave up after a while, I was like, it goes on and on and on, because there's so many on the list. |
| 0:50.5 | And obviously, you've worked as a musical director director you've worked as an arranger you are |
| 0:56.4 | an artist in your own right like it's absolutely incredible the breadth of oh and you've done like |
| 1:02.6 | film scores and the full thing like yeah that was me i've got something just to kick this off |
| 1:08.6 | this is a recording tom Tom Brown, Brown Sugar. |
| 1:11.6 | The track is Throwdown. |
| 1:12.6 | You might remember this one. |
| 1:14.6 | Okay, let me just sort of play a bit of the groove |
| 1:16.6 | just so the guys can hear what I'm talking about. Oh yeah! |
| 1:30.3 | Wait, wait, wait. Go to the trumpet solo. |
| 1:36.3 | This is my man, Tom Brown. |
| 1:40.3 | You're right there. Tom Brown. |
| 2:02.8 | I looked at the date. I looked at the date and I was like, you were 19. |
| 2:03.6 | Okay. |
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