Superstar Bassist Blu DeTiger: “Wanna Get Gigs? Be a Good Hang”
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
At 26, Blu DeTiger is the youngest musician ever to have a signature Fender bass guitar. The Fender Limited Player Plus x Blu DeTiger Jazz Bass, announced in September, pays tribute to the bassist and singer’s far-reaching impact and cultural sway. She’s played with Caroline Polachek, Bleachers, FLETCHER, Olivia Rodrigo, and more, and released her own LP in March 2024. In 2023, Forbes feature her on their top 30 Under 30 list of musicians. So how did DeTiger work her way to the top?
DeTiger opens up on this episode of Wong Notes about her career so far, which started at a School of Rock camp at age seven. That’s where she started performing and learning to gig with others—she played at CBGB’s before she turned 10. DeTiger took workshops with Victor Wooten at Berklee followed and studied under Steven Wolf, but years of DJing around New York City, which hammered in the hottest basslines in funk and disco, also imprinted on her style. (Larry Graham is DeTiger’s slap-bass hero.)
DeTiger and Wong dish on the ups and downs of touring and session life, collaborating with pop artists to make “timeless” pop songs, and how to get gigs. DeTiger’s advice? “You gotta be a good hang.”
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I hope you're |
| 0:07.4 | doing well today. I'm chilling. I'm straight chilling right now. I just got off tour. Great East |
| 0:13.8 | Coast Midwest run. Oh my gosh. If you missed it, you missed out. It was a blast. I had my friend Mark Latteri with me for the whole run, |
| 0:22.8 | band Couch opening up. We had the 11-piece band out. Guess what? We're going to Europe in a couple |
| 0:28.4 | months. We're going end of January through February. It's going to be insane. Come out, hang out, |
| 0:33.5 | say hi to us. I'm chilling though right now. Tell you what. Having a month on tour, about a month off now. |
| 0:41.5 | Not going to lie. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm hanging out playing a lot of Halo and playing some hockey, doing my workout, taking |
| 0:50.6 | care of my body, going to hockey games, Minnesota Wild, let's let's go and uh you know as far as the guitar goes what am i doing through the rest of the year i'm shedding acoustic baby i'm shedding the acoustic guitar and i'm having fun doing it working on my site reading believe it or not some of us guitar players are readers i did a of reading in college. I've done a lot of reading for sessions and other work that I've done. So I got to get my chops back together. I mean, they're still together, but I'm just trying to get them up to par, you know. Today on the podcast, we've got the incredible, incredible bass player, singer-songwriter, artist, |
| 1:29.3 | Bleu de Tiger. |
| 1:30.5 | Yes, that's a real name. |
| 1:32.2 | How dope is that? |
| 1:33.8 | Blue's got a great perspective on the industry and music in general, artistry. |
| 1:38.7 | From just life experience, I think growing up in New York City, spending time in the New York |
| 1:43.3 | and L.A. scene, playing with a lot of other artists and also doing her own music, I think gives a unique perspective that not everybody gets. So this conversation was really fun. Blue is a friend. Great person. Love hanging out. And I hope you enjoy the interview. It was fun to do. Also, hey, it's that holiday season. If you're |
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| 2:21.3 | If you're a beginner, intermediate, or advanced, I guarantee you there is stuff in there that |
| 2:26.3 | will make you a better player. This ain't just rhythm guitar, baby. This is everything. Learning |
| 2:30.8 | the fretboard, mastering the fretboard. Lead, rhythm lead rhythm artistry all of it's in there |
| 2:37.8 | i hope to see you in the course enjoy the podcast thank you very much |
| 2:42.0 | hey you guys know about distro kid yet if you are an artist musician somebody who's trying to get your music on Spotify, Apple Music, all of those things, |
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