ABOUT

Seasoned bassist open to stage and studio opportunities, a quick study in Rock, Blues, Funk, Motown, Beach, Country, a bit of Jazz and more. All pro gear. Have and can use in-ears.

A clean bass signal with a little compression, and perhaps a bit of tube breakup, is what I like to run. Have a full range of effects but use them only when appropriate for the song.

Played for most my life, professionally for more than a decade. Enjoyed opening for The Blues Magoos, Bob Segar, The Allman Brothers. Greg was super nice. Worked for two years with Adrian Belew In a Nashville band called Sweetheart. Another nice guy, Steven Tyler, liked our band so much that he took us to Columbia Studios where we promptly broke up over “artistic differences.” Adrian then answered a call to play with Frank Zappa. A bit tired of the music business, I became a software developer for Vanderbilt University, launching a career that kept me away from music performance for years.

Returned to regional music performance in 2007. Since then, one band at a time, have played for The 99 Cents Band, Fat Cat Daddy, The Jones Machine, Hands Down, The Doc Brown Band, Squeeze Play, The Vinyl Junkies, The Rent, Radio Mixtape, The Funktion, and lastly, Soul Legit. They will all tell you I am a damned perfectionist. I can't help myself to be otherwise.

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Email: [email protected]
Text: (864) 279-1518

Screen name:
Flacy
Member since:
Dec 06 2005
Active within 24 hours
Level of commitment:
Committed
Years playing music:
55
Gigs played:
Over 100

Influences

Some favorite bassists: Paul McCartney, James Jamerson, Chuck Rainey, Carol Kaye, Bootsy Collins, Victor Wooten, Peter Cetera, Nathan Watts, Pino Palladino, Bobby Vega, Bob Babbitt, Donald "Duck" Dunn, John Paul Jones, Rebecca Johnson, Verdine White, Leland Sklar, Andrew Gouche.

Some favorite bands: The Doobie Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire, Huey Lewis & The News, Steely Dan, Aerosmith, Santana, Chicago.

Some favorite artists: Bruno Mars, Joe Cocker, Delbert McClinton, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Robert Palmer, Michael McDonald, Rob Thomas.

"Without a good bass line the tune doesn't pop; it doesn't snap like a hit record." - Carol Kaye

Instrument experience:

Bass Guitar:
Advanced

EQUIPMENT

Basses:

Pedulla Rapture RBJ2-5
American Deluxe Fender Jazz Bass V
Fender Player Jazz Bass V
Fender Deluxe Active Jazz V
Ibanez 5-string Acoustic (great for unplugged stuff)
Ibanez GSRM25 GiO Mikro 5-String (travel bass)
Other basses

Other:

Novation Bass Station II (for the keyboard synth sounds I cannot reproduce with my C4 Synth pedal)

Amps & Cabs:

2 Markbass MB58R 102 Pure cabinets
1 Phil Jones Bass CAB-67 cabinet
2 Ampeg SVT-15 cabinets
1 Ampeg SVT-410HE cabinet
2 Markbass Littlemark amp heads
1 GK MB200 amp head
1 Ampeg BA-210 combo amp
2 Acoustic B100C combo amps
1 Acoustic B50C combo amp
1 PJB Double Four (battery powered) amp

Pedalboard (have boxes of effects but usually run):

Mooer Tender Octaver
TC Electronic MojoMojo Overdrive
Source Audio C4 Synth
EHX Bass Clone Chorus
Peterson Strobostomp Tuner
Rocktron Micro Hush
TC Electronic Spectra Comp
Tech 21 SansAmp VT Bass DI

MUSIC