I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.
“I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.”
— Harry Shearer · Bass
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I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.
“I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.”
— Harry Shearer · Bass
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“I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.”
“Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.”
“Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our requests for timely statements of the film's income have been met with a series of slammed doors.”
“I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.”
“That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.”
“Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.”
“Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.”
“My first instrument was bass, and the first thing that I remember learning to play that was better than a few notes was Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain.' If you're the guy who penned that bass riff, then you should probably be in some sort of fantasy band.”
“My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.”
“For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my dad played, and my cousin gave me a drum kit when I was 13, and I played bass guitar, so, you know, it was definitely always in the house.”
“But when I was a teenager, I was in my room learning how to play bass by listening to Rush and the Sex Pistols. I wasn't reading Karl Marx.”