97 - Billy Sheehan Talks Rock Bass Technique And The Key to Creative Practice
The SBL Podcast
Scott's Bass Lessons
4.8 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up and welcome to another episode of the Scott and Ian show on the SBL podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, something a little different. |
| 0:07.0 | A treat. |
| 0:08.0 | Mr. Billy Sheehan, the interview that I did with the legendary Billy Sheehan from Base |
| 0:15.0 | from Base, 2022. |
| 0:17.0 | I got to sit down with Billy and he went through everything, his sounds, his techniques, |
| 0:23.4 | talking about the early days of Talas, Mr. Big, what he's doing now with the winery dogs, |
| 0:29.1 | so much, just graciousness. |
| 0:33.4 | That's the word. |
| 0:34.2 | I mean, he's just an amazing, gracious guy. |
| 0:37.1 | There's no ego, even though he is one of |
| 0:39.3 | the most ferocious rock bass players of all time. And he's just awesome to sit down with us. |
| 0:45.4 | He has an engineer who's helping him go through the stuff, right? So he's showing us bases and |
| 0:50.3 | we're listening to sounds and he's got a button for the distortion and oh it's just it's so |
| 0:55.2 | fun I loved doing this I love doing this I'm a big fan I had one of his bases when I grew up like it was my |
| 1:03.0 | first real base I had a Billy Sheean attitude so doing this interview was mind blowing for me so |
| 1:08.8 | cool so you're in for a real treat. And let me tell you, |
| 1:11.2 | before we get there, what's going on at SBL this week. We've got a mentor session coming up Monday, |
| 1:16.2 | July 17th with Todd Johnson, going through intros and outroes of jazz standards. Because if you've |
| 1:22.4 | played a jazz brunch before, or if you've done that dinner set, you know that just looking at the chord changes, well, that's, that's just like level one. Level two is like, what happens? Is there an intro to this tune? How are we getting out? How are we getting in? How are we getting out? So check out this seminar with Todd Johnson in our mentors program. It'll sort you out. If you can't, if you can't watch in real time, |
| 1:44.8 | we archive it. You kidding me? You didn't think we, no, of course, we archive all of this stuff. |
| 1:49.9 | You can type in a search. You can look for anything and it'll pull up all these mentors |
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