Michael League: The Walter White of Jazz-Funk
Wong Notes
Premier Guitar
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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The Snarky Puppy bassist and bandleader gets deep on improvisation, composition, religion, success, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. |
| 0:08.3 | Today on the podcast, we have a modern day legend, empire builder. |
| 0:15.0 | You could even call him the Walter White of jazz, funk, fusion music whatever Michael Lee this dude is dope |
| 0:27.5 | ground up snarky puppy Bukante ground up is the you know the umbrella of all |
| 0:34.2 | these projects that Michael is kind of the nucleus or whatever of. |
| 0:39.1 | And this stuff is all so dope and it's so musically rich and deep. |
| 0:44.9 | And I knew him initially from Snarky Puppy and I've just been such a huge fan from the first time I ever saw. |
| 0:50.9 | It's absolutely incredible. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm sure anybody who's listening, if you're |
| 0:56.1 | into this podcast, if you saw and clicked on a podcast with Michael League's name, I'm sure you know |
| 1:01.1 | who Snarky Puppy is. They're incredible. So I don't need to introduce them that much. Michael's |
| 1:06.2 | incredible. Really fun, Hank. This is actually our first interaction together together a lot of people have asked for like a |
| 1:13.7 | snarky puppy wolfpec crossover and we have the fearless flyers which mark letieri plays |
| 1:19.1 | medium-sized guitar and i play the small guitar the regular guitar in fearless flyers so that's the |
| 1:27.1 | closest we've gotten to a crossover. |
| 1:29.9 | But man, this was fun to chat with Michael. |
| 1:33.1 | So thanks for hanging and listening. |
| 1:35.3 | This is going to be a great episode. |
| 1:37.2 | It's going to be a great episode. |
| 1:38.2 | I can say that because I did the interview like a month ago. |
| 1:41.4 | Anyways, thanks for being here. |
| 1:43.9 | Hey, if you play guitar, I've got a brand new |
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