He's very good. I'm not normally someone who likes this sort of thing - but I like his sort of thing!
He's very good. I'm not normally someone who likes this sort of thing - but I like his sort of thing!
On the subject of humbling moments....
My mate Ivan lived in Nashville for the best part of 15 years during the '80s/early '90s and played bass with several different bands in the area and got to know a lot of the local pros pretty well. One day he was sat at a gig when the bassist in the band, his friend Victor Wooten, looked in his direction and spoke into the microphone. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I see we have in the audience one of the greatest bass players I have ever known". Ivan gets quite excited. "Would you like to come up and and play the next song with us?" at which Ivan starts rising from his chair, only to be beaten to it by the guy sitting next to him. He's been sitting next to Donald 'Duck' Dunn and hadn't realised it.
Last edited by Simon Barden; 22-01-2017 at 07:29 PM.
Ouch! That's definitely humbling.
The closest I get is the Crimson ProjeKct gig. After the band all agreed to autograph Claymore (my first Chapman Stick) Adrian Belew and Tony Levin were soundchecking. Belew casts his gaze in my direction as I sit enthralled with Claymore on my knee... and says into the mic "I think we found your replacement, Tony... "
If ever I wished the earth to open up and swallow me whole, it was then.
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."- Jaco Pastorius
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Nice one.