What do we make of Danny Sapko?

[Steve Browning]

The genie is long out of the bottle. Influencers earn their living from clickbait, whether that be players or personalities. Debating the pros and cons is pointless. 

 

Good luck to them but it's a game I have no interest in playing. Other than to lament its existence to other bass players!!

[ezbass]

4 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

The good news was that she copped a lot of grief in the comments.

Just a quick look at some of those (checked them with obligatory, opening ad paused, so no ‘watched’ registered) and that video has really backfired for her.

[TimR]

10 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Just a quick look at some of those (checked them with obligatory, opening ad paused, so no ‘watched’ registered) and that video has really backfired for her.

People will not have heard of her before. People will have subscribed to her.

 

There is no such thing as bad publicity. 

[peteb]

8 minutes ago, TimR said:

People will not have heard of her before. People will have subscribed to her.

 

There is no such thing as bad publicity. 

 

Dunno, ask Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor about that... 

 

[Misdee]

Regarding Mohini Dey, I wouldn't condemn her as being a bad person for playing unnecessarily complex bass guitar, or for trying make some money from it by endorsing AI, or whatever. I just think she's either made some bad decisions, and/,or been badly advised by someone on how to further her career via social media. In the Internet Age there's so many more opportunities to make bad decisions that can be instantaneously shared with the whole world forever.

 

Everybody makes mistakes, I've made plenty of my own and then made more when I should have known better. It's important to keep things in proportion. No one has been irreparably harmed by Mohini Dey and whatever she does on social media. Myself, I couldn't care less about AI, it's going to do whatever it's going to do. Nothing is going to hold back that tide. Bring a crap bass player and trying to make a few quid doesn't make her The Wicked Witch of the West.

Edited 2 hours ago by Misdee

[Leonard Smalls]

9 hours ago, Misdee said:

It could all be so different if she did.

There's a proper groove going on here... With no excess widdleywoo (well, just a touch but if you've got it etc!)

 

 

And remarkably restrained here - love Greg Howe's guitar playing!

 

 

 

 

[SimonK]

30 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

There's a proper groove going on here... With no excess widdleywoo (well, just a touch but if you've got it etc!)

 

 

And remarkably restrained here - love Greg Howe's guitar playing!

 

 

 

 

 

Yes they both have very different styles - and you can see how they clash - here was Danny this weekend:

 

 

[TimR]

This was the first I saw of her. She can play! 

 

 

 

[Steve Browning]

Well, if she's good enough for Simon Phillips....

[Leonard Smalls]

5 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Well, if she's good enough for Simon Phillips....

And Greg Howe!

And Guthrie Govan...