20/20 Interview with Michael Moore. I hope to get to see them live, soon! You’re kicking off an extensive tour this week, and it’s pretty well known that taking a group on the road is tough to do anymore. Pedal-wise, I endorse and I have a Pigtronix Envelope Phaser, a Philosopher Bass Compressor, a Quantum Time Modulator and their Fat Drive. Comprehensive National Football League news, scores, standings, fantasy games, rumors, and more Biografia. I like to work. Michael League Fans Also Viewed . Explore releases from Michael League at Discogs. It was really funny text stream of us giving him a bunch of crap because he was like, “What’s wrong, you all can’t feel it?” And all of us thought he was crazy. I only get stressed out when there’s personal problems. To me, it’s a sign that there is an underground scene larger than the mainstream. Share. It’s one of those things now where we’re getting paid more now than we ever have been because we used to get paid almost nothing. Matt Kean. I love that bass. I ended up going to college majoring in jazz studies at the University of North Texas. First Name Michael. When Snarky Puppy snagged the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, it was a victory for independent artists everywhere. Michael O’Neill exclusive interview: ‘Stoke have a much better mindset than when I started’ ... Over 48 league games in charge, his record reads W22 D10 L16 Pts 76, which is play-off form. I use D’Addario Chrome Flatwounds on that. I really think it’s the best thing we’ve ever done. Travel, load in, and sound check was followed by hours spent on the phone with an airline, trying to … They’re awesome. While over 40 musicians have passed through the ranks over the years, bassist Michael League is the man in charge. When Snarky Puppy snagged the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, it was a victory for independent artists everywhere. Every tour everyone is happier and happier because we’re getting taking care slightly better each trip. I started playing acoustic guitar in high school like every other kid that loved Tom Petty and stuff like that. From there it’s just how the music community works. I have a pedalboard with pretty much all MXR and EarthQuaker pedals. I love MXR’s Carbon Copy Delay, plus their Phase 90, Bass Octave Deluxe, Bass Envelope, and one of my favorite delays that Way Huge makes called the Aqua Puss. Share Tweet Email Comments. Sure, the basic approach is jazz, but then you come across a song that is nothing like jazz. I play Markbass amplifiers and cabinets. “Yeah, yeah. For a vintage bass you can get all the booty and bump of the bass from the four 10’s but you get that real midrange clarity with the four 8’s, which I love. Résumés, analyses, interviews, débats... Toute l'actualité de la Premier League en vidéos. My normal stage rig is a Randy Jackson 500 all-tube head on top of a 4×10 and a 4×8 cabinet, which is a really unconventional thing but I love it. Right now I think we all have the sense like, “Oh shit, people are actually paying attention to us now.” And that’s not to say it will change the music at all. Haute Définition. Michael League is a Taurus and was born in The Year of the Rat Life. I don’t have great technique. great band. ... Trading high picks for Cam Newton and Matt Stafford in a Superflex league … First of all, congratulations on your Grammy. I grew up playing acoustic guitar and singing James Taylor songs, and if you would have asked me at 17 what kind of musician I was, I would say, ‘I’m a guy who plays acoustic guitar and sings James Taylor shit.’”. BA1 1UA. I didn’t write that. Also, [the recording session] happened right before this Grammy thing so no one was feeling this pressure. “No. How do you manage it with such a sizable band? “When you produce a record, you’re done in a month, maybe, or however many months, but when you start a band, it’s like a flower, it’s like a plant. Thank you for signing up to Musicradar. We turn ten years old in a couple months. No one can attest to that more than bassist and band leader Michael League. We’ve been playing together so long. També és fundador i propietari del segell discogràfic GroundUP Music. Share Tweet Email Comments. He’s a primary composer and arranger for the group, which draws on jazz, rock, R&B, hip-hop and more to create a unique musical fusion. I don’t know. “Yeah, sure. Let’s meet him... You’re very prolific. 4.0k members in the SnarkyPuppy community. All rights reserved. Share. Bassist #103206. “I’m thinking that I’m the fourth best bass player onstage most of the time. We caught up with League to get his insight on the Grammys, his writing style, We Like It Here, and more. Posted on November 24, 2020. I’m very, very adamant about supporting the idea of people teaching each other music. This interview was … Tell us about Snarky Puppy’s upcoming release, We Like It Here. Even despite the abuse, and it is plentiful. Big Interview: Stoke City boss Michael O’Neill has the Potters turning a corner Posted on November 17, 2020 by admin in Featured , Features , Stoke City | 0 Comments This month Michael O’Neill celebrated 12 months as Stoke’s manager. On-stage interview includes Snarky Puppy story and so much more. Former England striker spoke about ‘emptiness’ of retirement after turning 40 Michael B. Jordan: Yeah, man. I had known about Lalah for years, so I went to see her play one time when we were in the same town and she blew me away. It sounds like a gig for you is a lot of work. I would like to think that it’s more mature. There are two guys in the band that played in her band before – Sput, who is our drummer, and Bobby Sparks. from Peabody Awards PRO . It was just like he was my mentor and he’s one of the guys I have to thank the most for anything I do well musically. Most Popular #117648. As a music lover, you should feel empowered.”. I have no perspective. I don’t feel like you have to go to college, but it helps. I’ll either have something in my head originally or there will be a concept in my head. If two guys in my band are fighting, if someone in our administration fucks something up and somebody gets upset about it, if there’s a misunderstanding - that’s the kind of stuff that stresses me out. plus de 3 mois. I have Snarky Puppy and Bokanté. Bassists. It was funny. The song’s music video went viral on YouTube with over two million views and has catapulted the band into the limelight. Register now for Snarky Puppy's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Saturday May 16, 2020 at 3:00 pm EDT. And it was obviously a great decision. “I think we have a very cool infrastructure set up. Jon Walker. Michael League Is A Member Of . I’m really into weird sounds so with the Nashville 12-string thing and the baritone and the Hofner… I like all those kind of things. Andre Vasconcelos takes a trip to Brookylin NYC to interview the band leader, bassist, composer and much more for Snarky Puppy. But I don’t mind. And I think all of the guys in the band think that way - that when you’re making music onstage, you’re serving music, so you think about being in the audience. "Michael Edwards was involved in a lot of these discussions and the clubs fought pretty hard for a solution, a kind of a good solution or as good as possible," Klopp said. I also have an Eastwood baritone guitar. I got to this college where everyone was totally playing circles around me. MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. the pups!!! More April 24 Birthdays. I would like to think that it’s groovier and sounds better and sounds alive, but that’s my goal for every record, so I really don’t know, man.”, I’m thinking that I’m the fourth best bass player onstage most of the time. Just like anything else, if you do it a lot you figure out how to do it best and we’ve really settled into a groove in terms of touring. So it took me probably a decade, 12 years, to really start feeling comfortable leading but still sounding like a bass player, sounding like the guy in the back.”. Football, France, 2020, 08 min. I was kind of throwing a speech together just in case, but then after they performed I thought, “Man, I’m not even going to bother.” So when they announced us the only thing that was going through my head was “what the hell am I going to say?” and that was about it. A fascinating character, then, whose popularity in our world is borne out by his high placing in our recent poll of the planet’s hottest bass players. Joel McIver by Kevin Johnson Thursday, February 13th, 2014. Bath Welcome to /r/SnarkyPuppy, an unofficial subreddit created to discuss the jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy. I play a 1976 Fender Precision bass with a maple neck that I acquired in a drum shop in Greenville, South Carolina for $700. Michael Beale - Rangers FC 1st team coach, caught up with the team at academysoccercoach.co.uk I recently caught up with the team at www.academysoccercoach.co.uk to discuss the launch of the exciting ASC cloud service, life in Scotland, Rangers FC and much more.... See below for the interview. That’s an education. By The DLF Team. The bass line actually comes last for me. I think I have a good sound, I have an okay groove, and I think I make good decisions as a bass player about what to play and what not to play. He also talked about the creation and the unique concept of Snarky Puppy, the Grammy-award-winning band he leads. It’s got kind of a mint green finish with a black pickguard and rosewood fingerboard. It was just through this one guy I met at a jam session who called me to play this church, and the church band was basically Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor and a lot of those guys playing with Badu. He is the bandleader of New York-based instrumental band Snarky Puppy and the international music ensemble Bokanté.He also founded the band Forq with keyboardist Henry Hey, and is also an owner and founder of the record label GroundUP Music. There were hundreds of people there to do exactly what I wanted to do and it was really, really cool. View the profiles of people named Michael League. … After college, through a really fortunate set of coincidences, I got set down right in the middle of the Gospel and R&B scene in Dallas, which is arguably the richest scene in the world for that kind of music.