Noel Redding Quotes
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way Cant you hear that Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass He got that super bass Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass Yeah that's that super bass
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I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
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Solo homers usually come with no one on base.
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I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'
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Bass is for people who can't play guitar...
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I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
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That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
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Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.
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There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
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Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them
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I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.
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I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.
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I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.
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When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even for our drummer and bass player it was their first really big band.
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I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
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I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
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I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was on my solo tour that I got a chance to play with Martin Stephenson of the Daintees. He's now refashioned himself as almost a delta blues guitar player and he's got all the technique, all the persona and the charisma on stage. I think I do too, but I'm more of a first position strummer guy with a little bit of filigree work. I could listen to him for hours; I could listen to myself playing solo for about half an hour!
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Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.
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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.
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The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
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I have a lot of respect for people who really work on their life - they've got this great apartment and a good personality, they write the thank-you cards and bake birthday cakes. That's who I wish I was. When I see people cultivate their own life like that, I admire it.
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On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
