L'interview de Michael Owen : Premier League. We're the UK's only print publication devoted to bass guitar. I like to create things. Michael Vernau Interview. I just kind of slowly drifted into the jazz world. Join Facebook to connect with Michael League and others you may know. 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. I had some real panic moments after we got the master, where I sent it to some people in the band and some people outside of the band and I was just like, ‘Please tell me this doesn’t suck.’ I have no idea. We brought the band over, snagged a Dutch string quartet and recorded for four nights. How do you manage it with such a sizable band? Snarky Puppy is one very niche specific element of my personality. 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. (Bass Guitar) 25 July 2019, The Snarky Puppy bandleader and bassist on his ever-varied musical life. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY OLIVER HOLT: Michael Oliver loves working with the best footballers in the best league in front of the best fans. 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. Explore releases from Michael League at Discogs. Content. Bassists. Michael League (born April 24, 1984) is an American composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. “I’ve never made time for myself to write, ever. “For me, it’s a good feeling, because if you’re afraid, then it probably means that there’s some stuff going on with the record that you haven’t done before. I am such a fan of these guys! I’m a bass player – I play bass lines all the time. I feel like you just have to get your education somewhere. And not just larger- but more powerful, faster-moving, and with the ability for a normal person, an average music listener who manages a small hotel or plays weddings on the weekend, to make an unknown band into a household name in their country, simply on account of the music being interesting. I don’t know where it sits. “There’s always a world of new fodder for inspiration. I hung with him all day. University of North Texas. Michael League Fans Also Viewed . FRONTLINE: League of Denial interview with Michael Kirk. Matt Kean. More April 24 Birthdays. yes! Sitting back with the bass, but pushing forward with everything else? To me, it’s a sign that there is an underground scene larger than the mainstream. 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. I always think everything needs improvement. També és fundador i propietari del segell discogràfic GroundUP Music. "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 like to create things. [That includes something like] an apprenticeship, which is another opportunity I had with this incredible musician named Bernard Wright. Michael Owen interview: I’m in a good place but ‘heartbreaking’ to see old teammates struggle. From there it’s just how the music community works. Michael League Interview by Andre Vasconcelos for the Berklee Blogs. “We have a record label and a festival and those are advocating for unknown artists. There’s definitely this feeling of wonderment and gratefulness at anything good that happens because toured so ruggedly for so many years. You play one gig like that and if you don’t sound too bad, you get called for another gig like that. It’s just only human problems stress me out.”. He is 36 years old and is a Taurus. Michael League is een van de moderne bashelden en hij is een van de weinigen die we tweemaal hebben geinterviewd en de eerste die twee keer op de cover van De Bassist mocht staan. ... Trading high picks for Cam Newton and Matt Stafford in a Superflex league … 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.’”. Get the latest news, videos, lessons, and more in your inbox every morning. Then in high school I started playing in this band with [bassist] Tony Moreno and some local guys in Northern Virginia. I don’t have great technique. “It used to take me out of the music, and I would have a real hard time playing bass well because I would be caught up in thinking like a leader, and then I would be playing bass as a leader, and that’s the worst way you can play bass. We’ve hit a groove as a band where we can play the compositions and be true to them but really stretch things outside of them. So I definitely support it, but do I think that everyone who wants to be a musician should go to college? Visit our corporate site. FRONTLINE writer, producer, and director Michael Kirk meticulously charts the uncovering of scientific evidence of the chronic brain disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), and its relationship to football concussions. Dispo. As a music lover, you should feel empowered.”. The thing is, I was very certain that we were not going to win because every single band that performed at that ceremony won in their category. 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. Travel, load in, and sound check was followed by hours spent on the phone with an airline, trying to … In this interview from Newport, bassist Michael League talked about his musical evolution, including going to North Texas State. “Not really, no. I think it’s solid, and importantly I think the people care. That’s an education. 20/20 Interview with Michael Moore. For solos, I often use the Electro-Harmonix POG, either the Micro POG or the POG2. 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. Delta League Championship . I was certain they were going to win and their track had Q-Tip on it and it was definitely an amazing track in the category. 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. The conundrum behind everything that Snarky Puppy does is that it doesn’t sound like anything else. “I mean, obviously I’m not virtuosic. I’m very, very adamant about supporting the idea of people teaching each other music. Share Tweet Email Comments. I also play a Moog Sub Phatty for keyboard bass stuff. Michael League Is A Member Of . MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Tell us about Snarky Puppy’s upcoming release, We Like It Here. “I think we have a very cool infrastructure set up. Pedal-wise, I endorse and I have a Pigtronix Envelope Phaser, a Philosopher Bass Compressor, a Quantum Time Modulator and their Fat Drive. I couldn’t have gotten the education I got at the University of North Texas in my area. Andrew Slyfox. It sounds like a gig for you is a lot of work. A 70-year-old Puyallup man was sentenced to five years in prison for shooting his two adult children in the head while they slept last year. As much as I love Northern Virginia, my community doesn’t support it very much. All the Snarky Puppy shit, I write it the week of the recording sessions, always, like at the last minute or at the studio, which I’ve been doing the last couple of years, just writing the music at night after the sessions. Bassist. Most Popular #117648. aaayyyaaaa_ You should perpetually be an audience.”. He was my mentor for about two years. Former England striker spoke about ‘emptiness’ of retirement after turning 40 Michael League is the Grammy Award-winning bassist, composer, producer and bandleader with NYC-based jazz-funk-fusion band Snarky Puppy. Take a listen to Immigrance, Snarky Puppy’s new album - the Brooklyn collective’s 13th in 14 years - and, as with all its predecessors, you find yourself quickly immersed. Not everyone is in a position where their community fosters musical growth. I’ll generally start on keyboard or guitar and come up with a progression and a groove. plus de 3 mois. “I think I’ve put myself personally on a path that I like, which is that I’m now producing records for artists from around the world that I love and respect, especially from folkloric traditions, which is really what inspires me the most. There’s always new material for you to use as a composer to push yourself forward.”, “I guess I’m Mr Snarky Puppy to a lot of people, but definitely not to myself. Not in terms of time feel, but in terms of attitude, like playing relaxed, playing subtly, but then being very assertive verbally or with my gestures to let people know ‘We’re going on to the next section,’ blah, blah, blah. But in what, exactly? 20/20 Interview with Michael Moore. We’ve been playing together so long. But the hardest parts for me because I’m a bass player are melodies and harmony to some extent. Everybody needs improvement. Posted on November 24, 2020. That must have been surreal. But I do remember that when he wrote that song he sent it to us with no metronome and no drums, so nobody had any idea where beat one was or what the time signature was. Then I have a 5-string Alleva-Coppollo, which I love. And it was obviously a great decision. Grab Some Swag. So that’s kind of like my baby. Before you know it those are all the gigs you’re doing. I am really in love with that amp.”. This interview was … Jon Walker. Comprehensive National Football League news, scores, standings, fantasy games, rumors, and more I have no perspective. We turn ten years old in a couple months. It will make it simpler and more direct and hopefully catch your ear. If you want it to flourish you have to water it and give it sunlight and talk to it. Michael League Interview by Andre Vasconcelos for the Berklee Blogs. Share. 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.”. I play Markbass amplifiers and cabinets. I’m very lucky.”. He discussed his lifelong love of African music. The eight-song collection is ultimately the result of a few emails being sent between music lovers in Europe, a region the band had never gotten traction in. There were hundreds of people there to do exactly what I wanted to do and it was really, really cool. I don’t know. Exclusive video interview with FBPO’s Jon Liebman March 27, 2017. I didn’t write that. We recorded eight new songs and filmed it the way that we’ve done our last three records. It’s got kind of a mint green finish with a black pickguard and rosewood fingerboard. Finally I use Planet Waves cables. Being a bandleader is a lot of work. BA1 1UA. I think most bands always feel like that – more excited about their new project than their old ones – but this is a really special moment in time for the band because it was very, very explorative. There’s a guy in my band named Cory Henry who never spent a day in music class but he knows everything he needs to know about music theory because he learned it in church and he was surrounded by the right people. That would be nice.”. And I’ve taken on a lot of things that are not one-time gigs. Interview - Michael League Huffduffed by Ptujec on November 9th, 2015 JAZZ.FM91, Canada’s only not-for-profit radio station dedicated to jazz and the jazz community at large. I don’t feel like you have to go to college, but it helps. So I save the easy stuff for last and do the hard stuff up front. Haute Définition. It’s a live CD/DVD of some concerts that we gave in a recording studio in the Netherlands in a town called Utrecht. it’s all about the music, not about being an “idol.” real talent! 4.0k members in the SnarkyPuppy community. There are two guys in the band that played in her band before – Sput, who is our drummer, and Bobby Sparks. No Treble is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to amazon.com. Michael League is an American composer, producer, guitarist and bassist for the New York based jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy. I have no problem hearing those in my head. That’s a beautiful thing because we all know when real life happens you don’t have time to practice as much as you do when you’re in college. 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. Tweet. How did you get your start in music and who are some of your influences? 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. 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. I have a pedalboard with pretty much all MXR and EarthQuaker pedals. Posted on November 24, 2020. Following Snarky Puppy’s Jan. 26 Grammy victory for Best R&B Performance, the band’s founder, Centreville High grad Michael League, responded to the following questions. Michael League was born in Long Beach on Tuesday, April 24, 1984 (Millennials Generation). Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Michael League at the Discogs Marketplace. “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. That’s where I would say my personality developed the most. But my friends reassured me, and not because they’re my friends. Michael B. Jordan: Yeah, man. When Snarky Puppy snagged the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, it was a victory for independent artists everywhere. I talked him down from $900 because they obviously had no idea what they had. Bassist #103206. I also have an Eastwood baritone guitar. Do you think you’re a good bass player? The song’s music video went viral on YouTube with over two million views and has catapulted the band into the limelight. I’ve got a Phase 90, I have the Bass Octave Deluxe, I have the brand new Vintage Bass Octave. … By The DLF Team. What were you thinking when they called you guys up? My brother started playing jazz when I was in middle school, so I was exposed to it a bit. 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. You bring together so many different genres in your playing. I have a ’78 Fender Mustang with a maple neck. I use the 810, but there’s now a 410, also with the gold grill, the Classic Series grill. I hope to get to see them live, soon! The cool thing about going to music college is that for four years of your life, your only job is to study music. And we have to go on tour, and we have to make records, so those two things occupy quite a bit of time, and now that my main interest is really producing, it’s actually working, because I can put production gigs in between tours.”. “So I guess if that’s what a good bass player is, then maybe... sometimes I feel like I’m good and sometimes I feel like I suck.”, Don't miss the latest deals, news, reviews, features and tutorials. No photo shoots, publicists, A&R people, or record labels necessary. In this interview from Newport, bassist Michael League talked about his musical evolution, including going to North Texas State. Your support helps keep No Treble running (and makes you look cool too!) “It would be nice to make more time. 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. It’s not going to change the music at all because we’ve been doing what we’re doing for so long that it would be unnatural to change for that. Born in Southern California into a musical family, Michael League is a Grammy-winning bassist, guitarist, bandleader, composer, arranger, producer and record label owner. It’s like a mandolin almost with two strings in unison per course, which is really cool for recording sessions. To me, that’s a music education. “He said ‘Michael, it was a bit of a power struggle there, because Bill O’Brien, coach O’Brien thought [Hopkins] had too much influence over the locker room.’ That stresses me out. © Register now for Snarky Puppy's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Saturday May 16, 2020 at 3:00 pm EDT. And one of my bands is sustainable; the other one hopefully will be soon. Joel McIver By The DLF Team. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, I really think it’s the best thing we’ve ever done. “I have an MXR Carbon Copy Delay, I have a Moog MF Drive pedal, I have an EarthQuaker Bit Commander, I have an EarthQuaker Dispatch Master, which is like a reverb, a spaced-out reverb and delay pedal, and I have an EarthQuaker Spatial Delivery, which is an envelope filter, a TC Electronic PolyTune, and I have an MXR Mini Volume pedal. That’s kind of my pedal arsenal. I would like to think that it’s more mature. Does it ever feel hard to find new stuff to say? While over 40 musicians have passed through the ranks over the years, bassist Michael League is the man in charge. I was like, ‘Really be honest with me’... “The short answer to your question is that I have no fucking clue. Or a school for little kids that does Suzuki method. “I think if I understand what’s supposed to happen musically in that specific situation, then I think that I’m capable of playing the bass in a way that supports the music. Many called the group an underdog but their track “Something,” featuring Lalah Hathaway, is an undeniably phenomenal song. Bassist. “Yeah, yeah. I think I need improvement as a player, and as a composer. Football, France, 2020, 08 min. Hi Michael, how is life in Glasgow?Im really… 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. Michael League és un músic estatunidenc, compositor, productor i baixista del grup de jazz-fusió novaiorquès Snarky Puppy, amb el qual ha estat guardonat en tres ocasions amb els premis Grammy. No matter what musical situation I’m in, whether I’m the bandleader or the music director or the underling, sideman, I think like a producer. And I use Jim Dunlop strings and cables.”, “The Markbass Casa, yes. “A little spark to ignite a small flame, to grow into a full-blown fire with the help of some careful fanning and kindling. It’s music. 36 Year Olds. Do you still need to make any profound changes to get where you want to go? I start with a concept. 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. Snarky Puppy’s upcoming release, We Like It Here, is a good example of the fruits of their labor. the pups!!! It was a really crazy thing. League has won three Grammy Awards Version française. There’s always new material for you to use as a composer to push yourself forward. Due to popular demand, we’ve extended our 20% off sale, on everything in our shop. Welcome to /r/SnarkyPuppy, an unofficial subreddit created to discuss the jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy. I think the infrastructure is good. Andre Vasconcelos takes a trip to Brookylin NYC to interview the band leader, bassist, composer and much more for Snarky Puppy. Welcome to /r/SnarkyPuppy, an unofficial subreddit created to discuss the jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy. I think we have a garden shed or something, like a back house, definitely not classy enough for a pantheon. View the profiles of people named Michael League. We’re at a point where we’ve played so much together that the guys instantly start taking risks and challenging each other musically whenever we play. Just music, listeners, and an internet connection. First of all, congratulations on your Grammy. First Name Michael. On-stage interview includes Snarky Puppy story and so much more. Then there’s a dose of electronica and a slab of folk and a chunk of rock, and you eventually come to the conclusion that you can’t file Snarky Puppy away in any convenient category because there isn’t one that fits. “I’m thinking that I’m the fourth best bass player onstage most of the time. I just moved, so I think ... we’ll see. Besides their fierce individuality, League and company have employed new and experimental tactics to spread their music, resulting in a grassroots, word-of-mouth following that brought them to where they are today. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. It was in bad shape so I did had to fix it up a bit. Michael League. ... Trading high picks for Cam Newton and Matt Stafford in a Superflex league … Sput, our drummer, wrote that song. Formed in Denton, Texas, in 2004, Snarky Puppy is comprised of a collective of over 30 musicians. No one can attest to that more than bassist and band leader Michael League. Huffduffed by Ptujec on November 8th, 2015. Former England striker spoke about ‘emptiness’ of retirement after turning 40 “Something” definitely deserved to win. 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. Where does the new Snarky Puppy album fit in the pantheon of your records? News and opinion from The Football League Paper - the UK-based Sunday newspaper covering all Championship, League One and League Two clubs. I don’t want to limit it to higher education. 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. It was funny. 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. I use D’Addario Chrome Flatwounds on that. “I play my ’59 Fender, maple neck fingerboard. I have Snarky Puppy and Bokanté. We caught up with League to get his insight on the Grammys, his writing style, We Like It Here, and more. Huffduffed by Ptujec on November 8th, 2015. They’re awesome. I’m an advocate for music education, and that doesn’t necessarily come in the form of a school with a degree. “Yeah, sure. It’s a little guy, like the Mini Phase 90. When someone asks me to do something that sounds interesting, I like to say yes. I play a 1976 Fender Precision bass with a maple neck that I acquired in a drum shop in Greenville, South Carolina for $700. From there I just imagine the orchestration, as in who’s going to do what. I have some really cool guitars, too, like a ’65 Fender Mustang and a Fender Strat. “I love all those pedals dearly and I barely use any of them because it’s just not appropriate most of the time in the band, but for special moments they really are awesome. The bass line actually comes last for me. Share. 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. Between stints in the band he works on outside projects with David Crosby and other stellar musicians, as well as running a band called Bokanté, and while bass is definitely a strong suit in the League arsenal, his roles as bandleader, songwriter and general organiser are arguably more crucial to the group’s success. What’s at the front of your mind when you play bass? This interview was … Share. Vivez l’expérience CANAL+. While over 40 musicians have passed through the ranks over the years, bassist Michael League is the man in charge. Please refresh the page and try again. 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. Let’s meet him... You’re very prolific. He also talked about the creation and the unique concept of Snarky Puppy, the Grammy-award-winning band he leads. 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. The guys are great in the band, and our administrative team and our record label, everyone that works there, they’re awesome. I’ll either have something in my head originally or there will be a concept in my head. I basically ended up on Saturday nights playing a steakhouse with a college jazz quartet and then Sunday, literally overnight, I was playing at a 7,000 member black Baptist church with Erykah Badu’s band. Andre Vasconcelos takes a trip to Brookylin NYC to interview the band leader, bassist, composer and much more for Snarky Puppy. I got to this college where everyone was totally playing circles around 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. I don’t like saying no. Also, working with such a large ensemble is not easy. Getting work done doesn’t stress me out, being on tour doesn’t stress me out, making records doesn’t stress me out. And while a greater audience is just now finding out about the group, Seth Godin’s words ring true: “it takes years of hard work to be an overnight success”. I’ve seen duos or trios that are 10 times more dysfunctional than our organisation. Bassist. Michael League is a Taurus and was born in The Year of the Rat Life. They do so much, so well, and with such energy and skill, that you end up simply enjoying their output for what it is - great music. “So now I have two bands. Every tour everyone is happier and happier because we’re getting taking care slightly better each trip. How did you get hooked up with Lalah Hathaway? 36 Year Old Bassist #14. I love that bass. Surreal is the right word for it. When someone asks me to do something that sounds interesting, I like to say yes. I find that singing melodies ends up creating much better melodies than when I write them on an instrument. Maybe I’ll want to become a music journalist or something, I don’t know.”. It just would not have happened because it’s not as culturally or musically rich as Dallas is. I try to take as many music lessons as I can, try to learn new instruments, try to dig into styles of folkloric music or whatever that I have never checked out, because there’s a long-embedded history of things that cultures know to be true, like a specific rhythm or a specific melodic phrase that’s been played for 400 years, “As a composer outside of a folkloric tradition, I can pull those elements and base a composition around them. Thank you for signing up to Musicradar. I think if nothing changed but everything just got a little better every year, I would be able to die with a smile on my face. Share. We went really far down the Led Zeppelin, Cream rabbit hole into the world of blues-rock with kind of a jazz influence thing. Share Tweet Email Comments. Bath There was a band in our category, Hiatus Kaiyote, that actually performed. When Snarky Puppy snagged the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, it was a victory for independent artists everywhere. Hi Michael, how is life in Glasgow?Im really… danieltyree . © 2021 No Treble, LLC and respective copyright holders. Sure, the basic approach is jazz, but then you come across a song that is nothing like jazz. I’m making some changes in my life to try to do that. Also, [the recording session] happened right before this Grammy thing so no one was feeling this pressure. “No. That’s the easy part of writing music for me. Like, I’ll want to write something really dark or something that’s bright and funky. 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. For more vintage gear, I have a 1967 Hofner 500/1 Beatle Violin Bass strung with D’Addario Tapewounds. Tweet. Whether the horns are going to do the melody and in what octave, stuff like that. It was at a really cool studio called Kytetopia owned by a famous Dutch trumpeter named Kyteman. 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