Popular Post Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2022 (edited) I believe the kids use the term “goat” to describe their greatest of all time ?😂👍 today I went to promenade music in Morecambe to try out a few amps, namely an orange little bass thing….. so I’m playing away when a guy comes in, tells me it’s sound great and we get to chatting….. the guys lovely but somehow something a little bit “out there” about him told me he wasn’t your average punter…… I somehow had a feeling… We talked a good while, he listened in to me trying out amps, then he asked me to try out a trace elf and 2x8 cab for him, to which I said oh sorry for hogging the booth please , be my guest and jump on and have a go….. no he says, your doing great and I’d just like to heat you play it… I played, he asked for a little slap (which it’s been a long time since I’ve done that these days) so I obliged….. poorly 😂 sounds great he says, I’ll have it…. I switch back to the orange and carry on, he comes back in and asks about / complements my palm muting tech, as I thump away a’la jamerson style ,which was nice….. any way…. I came out of there and we chatted a while longer……. And bands, music , stuff…. What’s your name he says, I’m stu, pleased to have met you ….etc then he left…. Guy in the shop says, you know who that was right? only turns out it was stu zender! only my all time favourite player and total inspiration that got me playing bass all them years ago! I mean, I hammered that early jamiroquai stuff when I was younger and allthough I don’t get to play that kinda stuff with my band these days, it deffinaitly made me the player I am today… and for that I am eternally grateful.. i left shortly after and by chance seen him again outside , he was having a smoke outside his car before he left….. I went over laughing , he knew hahaha…. Gave me a great big hug and offered for a Selfy pic! we talked some more, such a nice guy he was…. Without sounding like some kinda teenage groups I had to tell him or more so thank him for what he did on that first album EOPE all them years ago….. he was chuffed to see me happy which was great….. so, if you happen to hear his next album, he’s recording it at home and using that trace elf….. I’ll listen to it, and I’ll smile to know that the bass I’ll hear on it will be coming from the amp that I demo’d for him ! #best day ever. 😂👍 Edited October 16, 2022 by Wonky2 64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunion Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 I wouldn’t have recognised him in those glasses either 😄 1 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munurmunuh Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 And that's the GOAT of meeting-your-GOAT stories 🤗 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles'tone Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Brilliant!! He hasn't aged much either.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madshadows Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 What a fantastic thing to happen John 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles'tone Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Really cool he liked your playing enough to buy an amp by how good you sounded. If it had been me he probably would have said, "Oh for f***s sake give it 'ere..." 😆 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunion Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 8 hours ago, Wonky2 said: so, if you happen to hear his next album, he’s recording it at home and using that trade elf….. I’ll listen to it, and I’ll smile to know that the bass I’ll hear on it will be coming from the amp that I demo’d for him ! It’s when you hear your riffs you came up with while demo’ing you need to start cursing 🤣😂 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 8 hours ago, Wonky2 said: i left shortly after and by chance seen him again outside , he was having a smoke outside his car before he left….. I went over laughing , Return to Zender. 1 1 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 17 minutes ago, Bunion said: It’s when you hear your riffs you came up with while demo’ing you need to start cursing 🤣😂 Ha I think my chops will remain pretty much uncooked hahaha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 (edited) Thanks guys, a long post I know but just had to tell someone who would understand! Edited October 16, 2022 by Wonky2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliverBlackman Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, Wonky2 said: Thanks guys, a long post I know but just had to tell someone who would understand! Really cool to hear he’s a nice chap. His lines are up there with Jamerson, Rocco, Jaco and flea, in terms of influence on my bass journey. Not sure how well I could have kept my cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 hour ago, miles'tone said: Brilliant!! He hasn't aged much either.. not a bit! and he’s older than me as when we were talking gear he told me he plays a 74 jazz which jay bought him for his 21st birthday….. I told him I play a 76 jazz so great we were both using YOB jazz’s….. I asked him bout Warwick and he said nahhh he was hankering to go back to Alembic. never thought I’d be shooting the stinky poo with stu zender, it was crazy bonkers yet completely normal hahah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Shamefully I had to look up who he is, and wow Jamiroquai , that’s very cool Wonky and a great day for you to remember 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 Just now, OliverBlackman said: Really cool to hear he’s a nice chap. His lines are up there with Jamerson, Rocco, Jaco and flea, in terms of influence on my bass journey. Not sure how well I could have kept my cool. Yeah we also talked about our early days influences and how he would run home from school to play jaco lines any minute of the day…. I said “funny that, for me ,it was stu zender lines !” which he found heart warming. said fame and money was nothing next to that feeling of having inspired people….. when I talk to anyone about that first album I usually mention how my mum bought me the album on cassette and how I literally wore the tape out playing it back and forth , the music just seemed to fade off the tape. same with blood sugar sex magic. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyP Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 I have no idea who the guy is but Promenade Music in Morecambe is a brilliant shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz39 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Wow! Ace day and story. Imagine if you’d said in the booth: heard this one? And plonked out one of his lines… ”s’alright,” he says, “geezer wrote a nice line.” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 This is a great thread, must have been an awesome situation to have been in. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Daz39 said: Wow! Ace day and story. Imagine if you’d said in the booth: heard this one? And plonked out one of his lines… ”s’alright,” he says, “geezer wrote a nice line.” To be fair I’m surprised I never as his lines are always in there somewhere when I’m noodling away….. I stopped listening to Jamiroquai when he parted company with the band but those first two albums are still as great today as they were way back them… these days I thump away like Jamerson or duck Dunn, funny how things change for you as you get older but his dug in funk finger and thumb style shaped the flavour of my playing today…… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Lozz196 said: This is a great thread, must have been an awesome situation to have been in. It sure was……. strange thing is, I only went there by chance as my son was at an open day at Lancaster uni, trains were a bit off so I drove him up there, I dropped him off and took advantage of the time to go to promenade, it’s a great shop and I actually traded my last amp there a few years back. im near Liverpool so it’s a good drive up there , and no way I’d have been there otherwise. we were delayed too by a broken down bus on the M6 so timeing was perfect…. destiny You might say… manifest destiny 😂👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 2 hours ago, LeftyP said: I have no idea who the guy is but Promenade Music in Morecambe is a brilliant shop. Leftyp, he’s the original bass player from Jamiroquai ….. and has played around the world with many other super cool artists too….. those first two albums were absolutely STONKING and at that time of the first, he’d only been playing for around two years. That in it self was outrageous given not only the skill in the hands but also the width of feels in writing those perfect lines….. his short term level of experience at his tender age of 19 impressed on me (I was 17) that if I practiced day and night I could be that good. it’s what pushed me on to live the bass, to firmly accept my role as a musician but namely, a bass player. As if a formal line in the sand to say, nope, not guitar, not drums, not keys…. It’s bass. And further more, it’s groove. now…. Whilst I could play like him (not really, but yes to some degree) back then I was simply copying him and his style….. could I have written lines like his? Not on your nelly mate, they’re something else entirely. Next level stinky poo. maybe even a few levels above that. So yep, I get not everyone will inow him or his lines, but if I tell you he literally woke me up to what bass is about , that should cover it… 😍👍 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Loved Jamiroqai back in the day, caught them live 2 or three times in the 90s. Zender's basslines were absolutely key to their sound. A lot of the time the bass was the main hook of their songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, Cato said: Loved Jamiroqai back in the day, caught them live 2 or three times in the 90s. Zender's basslines were absolutely key to their sound. A lot of the time the bass was the main hook of their songs. Oh absolutley yes….. the band I play in today plays very different music to that, but that influence , it’s still there in my own playing and means the lines are more than just bottom end girth of chord progressions… nope, they’re lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimalkin Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 He knows how to work those Warwicks well, I always liked his sound for what he was doing, authentic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bam Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Love stories like that. It's great when the guys at the top of their game are super nice to people. Great stuff! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 A great story, nice one. I was never into Jamiroquai, but loved Stuart’s playing with Mark Ronson. Saw him play with Mark’s band around 15 years ago, and was very impressed. Good to know he’s a top bloke too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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