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Then I also was in a top 40 band called Power with my brother and a few of the other musicians from school. Yeah, at that point in high school, I joined as many school bands as possible. I’d tune it in fourths and go and play little gigs at rehearsals with it using it as a bass. I actually used to use the cello like an upright. But I remember making the switch from tuning it in fifths to tuning in fourths. The violin and viola were a little too small, so I picked cello just as a nice-and it’s a great instrument that I love as well. I played cello for three years in the junior high school band. But I do have my first bass that mom bought me, the Fender jazz bass to this day. The very first one, the little, short one, I don’t have. I remember it had the plate over the bridge, and the smell of the case, it was just very intoxicating.

Then, she went and took me to Manny’s Music in New York City on 48th Street. And I’ll never forget that either, because it was like the big time.

My mom actually took me to the pawnshop, and we bought this little $49, short scale Japanese bass. That’s where I got a big desire for big band music and playing in an ensemble. And I’ll never forget, he actually gave me a bass and mentored me early on. But my ear would just focus on the bass and how cool it was. They’d be playing Don Ellis tunes and all these cool tunes anyway. It was like heaven to me, just to hear the register of the bass. I used to stand outside the door, and you could just hear the bass supporting all those horns.

And Gunnar Biggs, the bass player in there, I remember he had a Fender jazz bass. When I was in high school, I would go by and my brother, David was playing with the big band. Talk to me about what your awareness of the bass guitar was before you ever picked up the bass guitar. It’s a spiritual thing too, where you get this instrument in your hand and all of a sudden there’s this liberating feeling that you can make a difference in music harmonically, some kind of way. And there was a feeling of-I’m not going to use the word power, but there was just this feeling of wow, I know this. Nathan first picked up the bass 47 years ago. He has played on upwards of 10,000 songs, many of them hits, by artists such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Lionel Richie, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Bob Dylan, and thousands more! His new solo album, Reverence is out now! If you haven’t heard the name Nathan East before, you have definitely heard his bass. In this podcast from Berklee Online, Nathan East shares his story.

Never gonna give you up chords barry white