Marten Andersson - acclaimed Heavy Metal and Hard Rock bass player is our guest on episode 20 season 2 of Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

3.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It is great to connect with another bass guitar player and get into some details. Marten Andersson originally from Stockholm, Sweden, has lived for many years in Hollywood and on the outskirts of Los Angeles, California. He's a real heavy metal and hard rock nice dude. Well-known for playing with many famous bands - Steelheart - Lizzy Borden - Lynch Mob - Starwood - Legacy. In 2016, Marten Andersson co-founded ‘From Classical to Rock‘ with famous Chinese violinist Yutong, acclaimed cellist Stan Sharp bringing together platinum-selling Rock Stars, and Award-Winning Classical musicians benefiting public music and art education programs. I highly recommend that you go and have a look into the extensive bio and achievements of Marten Andersson and connect with his social media channels, and keep up to date via his newsletter to receive upcoming tour information.

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0:00.0	A claimed heavy metal and hard rock bass player Martin Anderson is our special guest on episode
0:13.3	20 season two of music matters with Darrell Craig Harris.
0:27.5	Hey Martin Anderson, how you doing today? Hey, what's going on brother?
0:30.8	So where are you? Where are you based these days?
0:33.6	I'm outside LA. I'm kind of a couple of hours outside LA, so but I live in Hollywood for
0:40.0	I think 12 years. Did the whole of Hollywood scene back in my other days and moved out a little bit
0:47.6	on the greenery in the woods, but still fairly close to LA, so it's pretty cool, man.
0:52.8	Yeah, cool. Yeah, there's some nice, I went and I'm really suburbs, but just within an hour,
0:57.1	there's some really cool places. Yeah. So you're originally from Sweden, right? Did you,
1:00.9	you didn't grow up in Stockholm, but you were kind of like near Stockholm?
1:04.5	Yeah, it is about 10, 15 minutes outside Stockholm. Yeah, it's an interesting story. I guess
1:10.8	I think it adds a little bit to it coming over here at the young age, but yet having that
1:14.7	upbringing of that European way of looking at things, it gives me some distance and you know,
1:20.0	some some safety in some way, I guess.
1:24.1	Yeah, there's I mean, there's quite a music scene and I mean, a lot of people like they know
1:27.6	now it's really within like even like the last 10, 15 years.
1:31.5	Like the Swedish scene finishes a lot of Finnish metal bands that have become really well-known.
1:36.2	Yeah, a lot of guys that you've actually toured with with the bands that you've been with in
1:39.1	the States, but so what was your like originally when you're growing up in Sweden,
1:43.3	you're listening to bands like Kis and Maiden, and were those like your big influences?
1:47.6	The team was very big on the British invasion type metal stuff, so it was really cool,
1:54.8	you know, priests, Saxon, Maiden, you know, I was from that era.
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