London Bassist available - sorta retro-funk/soul/blues/rock

[BigBeatNut]

Looking for like-minded people to make music with - apologies for the vague genres in the title ... more clarification to come.

Primarily, I want to make music for music's sake. I'm long past the point where I think I'm going to 'make it' and since I don't have the constraint of having to make a living from music, that gives me the option of looking for opportunities to make music that I'm really passionate about. And I do get a kick from playing to an audience that enjoys what I'm doing.

So, if you're still reading, it's probably easiest to define what I like by reference to a few example CDs

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Funkify-Your-Life-Anthology-Meters/dp/B0000033GN"]The Meters[/url] (partic Cissy Strut), [url="http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Funk-Various-Artists/dp/B000V8M5GS"]Modern Funk[/url], [url="http://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-Television-Greyboy-Allstars/dp/B000O590C0"]Greyboy Allstars[/url] (particularly 'still waiting'), [url="http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Reserve-Galactic/dp/B002HMHSH2"]Galactic[/url] (partic 'Century CIty' and a large part of 'Ya-ka-may'), [url="http://www.amazon.com/Go-John-Scofield/dp/B0000069NM"]John Scofield[/url] (partic 'Chank'), [url="http://www.amazon.com/Killion-Floor-Orgone/dp/B000VDDBJS"]Orgone[/url] (start with 'Funky Nassau'), [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V638GQ/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk3"]Jonny Lang's 'I am'[/url], [url="http://www.amazon.com/Handful-Blues-Robben-Ford-Blue/dp/B000003N5R"]Robben Ford's 'Good Thing'[/url], [url="http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Funk-Jimmy-Mcgriff/dp/B000005HDD"]Jimmy McGriff[/url] (Spear For Moondog part 2), [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00123LM6U/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk7"]Cold Blood's 'When I'm Kissing My Love'[/url], and any number of [url="http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Rarest-Funk-45s-2/dp/B000PITY7W"]retro-funk[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Funk/dp/B00007DNFL"]collections[/url].

That's probably enough to give you a flavour ... if you like, forget the particular artists and see if that sounds like your kind of music ... I'm not hung up on whether you know those artists, just if it's the same kind of music that makes both you and I go 'Oh Yeah !'

Look forward to hearing from someone

Andy

Edited December 5, 2011 by BigBeatNut

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Bump (is that allowed here ?)

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[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNndzya6ZYg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNndzya6ZYg[/url]

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Still looking for something ....

[BigBeatNut]

Still here, still waiting .... ooh, that's a song ...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXlnZC--pbI[/media]

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Still on the lookout for something ...

[Vbtudor]

Hi Andy
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[font="arial, sans-serif"]have [/font][size=3]a couple of projects that may be of interest. The first is a new covers band called Black Star. Our first gig is a charity gig in Fareham on 29th nov. Although we have a bass player, he is somewhat put off by ambition.[/size][/size][/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]The event organiser has two corporate gigs for us depending on how well we do. I am very big on performance having nmet with Tom Jackson ([/size][/font][url="http://tomjacksonproductions.com/"]http://tomjacksonproductions.com/[/url]) whilst playing at the Indie Entertainment Summit last year and although I was big on performance before, he showed me two tricks during rehearsal that I used during the performance and EVERYONE was talking about those two songs. We were voted The Success of the event. His philosophy (bourne out by evidence is that [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]65% of the experience is what the audience see, 20% is what they feel and 15% is what they hear. [/size][/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]Our bass player doesn't want to partake saying it's not him to be moving on stage[/size][/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]Second project is my originals band Free From Gravity. [/size][/font][url="http://www.freefromgravitymusic.com/"]www.freefromgravitymusic.com[/url][font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]. The band I currently have are all pros. (One of them is Andy Mitchell from The Yardbirds). Problem is the cost of doing a gig is too much to play build up gigs. I have a pro marketing guy doing social media/ website and branding, a pro PR girl for doing PR and radio plugging. I also have a promoter who will promote us through her network of venues (7 of them in London) and I am talking to one of the top UK promoters about a tour next year with support slots for a very well known heritage band. [/size][/font]

[font="arial, sans-serif"][size=3]I am therefore looking to build Free From Gravity from scratch and to this end have the drummer/Lead Guitarist - now just need second lead/Rhythm and bass player - the rhythm I can do myself but prefer to just be front man.[/size][/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]If you or anyone else on this forum would like to have a bash at it, then get in touch and let me know[/size][/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]You can check out our music at [/size][/font]
[url="http://youtu.be/8jpiyLJqR8A"]http://youtu.be/8jpiyLJqR8A[/url] (The Long Road - the debut single)
[url="http://youtu.be/VIihF78iKk0"]http://youtu.be/VIihF78iKk0[/url] (I Have A Dream)

All the best

[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][color="#888888"]Vince[/color][/size][/font]

PS We are based in Surrey/ London area

[Vbtudor]

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Two more videos[/size][/font]

[url="http://youtu.be/y462I-meqvo"]http://youtu.be/y462I-meqvo[/url] - (Periods of Tranquillity)
[url="http://youtu.be/VVSQeHVCXD0"]http://youtu.be/VVSQeHVCXD0[/url] (Periods of Tranquillity live at Water Rats London -guesting Myuddy and Bob From Wishbone Ash)

Vince