It has been a while because I have mostly been posting on instagram lately. How are you?This is a dr
It has been a while because I have mostly been posting on instagram lately. How are you?This is a drawing I did of Thundercat. Thundercat is an amazing bassist and songwriter. If you’ve followed here for a while you may know that I play bass and it is important to me. And the reason I love Thundercat is pretty bass specific.I am pretty annoyingly choosey about bass. Sometimes a good song will play with an OK-to-bad bass part and it will ruin the song for me. That is because over the course of playing the instrument for more than a decade I unwittingly built “bass expert” into my identity. If you’ve ever been around people before you might know that “bass expert” is approximately the least appealing type of thing a person can be. (actually, upon reflection, with all of the horrible sexist racist fascists I see online all the time, I would like to retract that last bit. “Bass expert” is comparatively pretty cool. But rhetorically, thinking of yourself as a “bass expert” is as charismatic as filling your tucked in shirt with liters of peanut butter and calling yourself “the smoush guy.”)Anyway. When I first heard Thundercat’s solo music I balked a little bit. I didn’t understand how it fit into my bass dogma. It is wacky, intricate, humorous, dark, joyous, complex, and sensitive without being sexual. It wasn’t Bootsy and I didn’t get it.But part of what makes it great is that it is constructed to be very inviting. At least on an instrumental level it wants you to come along and live in an experience. Its George Duke and Stanley Clarke in it’s commitment to beauty and sincerity. But it took me a second because the songs are totally unique—built differently than anything you’ve heard. It reminded me that there is a bunch of stuff I do not know about that is, actually and without my blessing, extremely groovy. So I should stay open to that stuff as I get older.Hope that makes sense because it seems almost certainly silly to write about. Oh also prints here - https://society6.com/maxtemescu. Buy prints. -- source link
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