here's a thing about #music #nostalgia #celebritydeaths art discover, and culture that I wrote on this day last year - "It's 2017 and we're looking for magic in all the wrong places" - http://www.stevelawson.net/2016/04/its-2016-and-were-looking-for-magic-in-all-the-wrong-places/ :) enjoy x
@Troll ahh, the No Treble podcast is definitely worth supporting - there are some fabulous interviews there. The current one with Liam Wilson is pretty great. The one with me is worth a listen too :)
@Solobasssteve And Polar Bear and Jean Baudin! (I'm a HUGE Nuclear Rabbit fan but his solo stuff is a whole other world!)
@Troll Jean's a lovely player - he got a bit boxed in by the crazy success of the video game theme videos on Youtube, but has managed to avoid becoming a gimmick... Polar Bear are constantly brilliant - Seb's one of my favourite drummers in the world to play with too. Effortlessly inventive :)
@Solobasssteve I used to be active on talkbass about the time it started taking off while Jean was also active there. So I was already familiar with him before the youtube fame, so I agree on him transcending that.
I have an older Polar Bear album around here somewhere that I adored so I'm excited to check out some new stuff!
@Troll ahh, Talkbass - I had the first 'ask the pros' forum there, co-hosted with Michael Manring. It's still there, though I never visit it any more. I drop in about once every three months, do a search for my name to see if anything I've done has permeated their world, and then log out again. Forums were my world for quite a long time, but the nature of the conversation shifted in ways that didn't work for me...
@Solobasssteve I thought your name sounded familiar. :D It also was my world for a long while. Ran my own forum for my old make of motorcycle. I felt the same way after awhile.
It was once a great place to geek out about gear and such, but then I just kinda didn't care after awhile. I still like gear but my favorite main right now is an SX pbass copy. All of $125 shipped. Sure it has flaws, but I really dig the simpleness of it. I still have my Peavey Cirrus 5 I've had forever.
@Troll :) I had a forum on my own site that was really lovely - when Twitter came along, I migrated those conversations to Twitter because I was more interested in the conversations and community than I was in fencing it in on my site. Probably not a great commercial move, but there are a load of the people who were on my forum from 2004-2007 that I still talk to on Twitter most days :)
@Troll ...actually, a Mastodon Instance might be the perfect alternative to that - public, but within a branded space, able to intersect with other instances... ooh, that's got me thinking :)
@Solobasssteve I quite agree with the ideal behind this post. I'm guilty myself.
I also appreciate the inclusion of your bancamp list. Wow!
I didn't realize NoTreble had a podcast on there and I really need to check that out. I've been so out of the bass world for far too long. I only remember them as a simple blog. I really ought to get back to playing more. It's tough to find time and inspiration, that may be just what I need.