In their latest video, they spent a good few minutes talking about how awesome @JoshFossgreen is and a not-insignificant amount of time talking about how tall he is.
Loved hearing how much respect Scott and Ian have for him and they acknowledged that BassBuzz is the gold standard for teaching new bass players.
Yeah saw that too⦠and admitting that Joshās B2B was an inspiration for their path.
Fair play to them, tbh⦠watched until the end because they promised āsubscription changesā⦠well. .FOMO that ended dry unfortunately⦠50⬠off the membership.
Maybe also a quick tag for @markjsmith - he was also mentioned around the same segment of this podcast. Both mentions start around the 26 minute mark (for those not wanting to sit through the entire thing )
Hijacking my own thread: I was also very happy to learn that Joe Dart is a great dude as well. Itās always heartbreaking to hear that one of your heroes is a complete douche-canoe once the cameras stop rolling, so to speak. Glad to know Iām idolizing someone (from a bass perspective) thatās worth it.
I just caught this too! It was a freakin pleasure meeting Scott and Ian and Sharon at NAMM.
And also for the record (commented on the SBL vid too) - @markjsmith and I have actually never met in person, we were working on ships around the same time and corresponding through email. But I like this fantasy lore that is spreading around the internet, maybe we should invent a band that we played in and photoshop a press kit?
Ha ha. Itās funny how thatās gone total Chinese whispers. We were both sailing out of Southampton if I remember rightly but I was on P&O whereas you were on NCL (is that right?)
I think I first emailed you after you did the cruise vlog.
Also Scott got some of the cruise story kind of right (to be fair it was a long time ago).
Scott and I met in ā98/ā99. It was a post grad at Wakefield Music College after I just graduated my BA at Leeds. I went in to do the first day (Scott and I were the only bassists) but one of the staff had to leave through sudden illness so the head asked me to take over teaching. That was my trial by fire introduction to teaching.
A year later I got asked to do a cruise gig after meeting a drummer on a jazz gig that was fixer for this cruise band. So I actually already had the gig. Nobody else was stupid enough to take THAT particular gig.
I then told Scott about it who proceeded to tell me how good it would be (heād done a contract before) and gave me some insight. But he didnāt have to talk me into it. I was going anyway. I was mainly worried about getting subs for my teaching day job.
And yeah that band idea is great. I might photoshop you into a bunch of travel pics. You and I walking around various Mediterranean ports. Eating tapas. Drinking Metaxa. Living the dream.
Send them out there into the bass ether and see what comes back 6 years later!
And Iāve just realised where the cruise rumour got mixed up. I was on a world cruise contract with Geoff Chalmers of Discover Double Bass (who worked with Scott) at around the same time that both Josh and I were emailing. Thatās my theory anyway.
iāve said it a bunch, if you havenāt checked in with scott at SBL in a long time, i really like what he (and his team) are doing lately. itās really cool to have 3 sources of info that are sooo good right now, with scott, mark, and josh. and itās awesome that they all support each other.