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Dr SoloBassSteve

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'Britain's most innovative bassist, no contest': Bass Guitar Mag. 🎯 Bass person. Bike person. Lymphoma-remission person. PhD in artist-audience communities and their impact on the music. www.stevelawson.net he/him/doctor

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · Jul 2

So in Steve-news, I handed in my corrected PhD at the weekend, and on Monday got the news that the corrections had been accepted and I'm Dr Steve. So that's nice.

Ten f'king years. Been napping a lot this week.

🙏🏼

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Documentally @documental.ly · 3d

Right, where do we start?
If you like @lynksmusicofficial.bsky.social #JohnGrant @solobasssteve.bsky.social #TheGlobe the amazing @boilershop.bsky.social #Casio, nomnom #Cake #Nikon cameras #Photography, #Writing, #metaldetecting or Polytunnels, this one's for you. open.substack.com/pub/document...

Outside the average [545]

Greetings from The Borders...

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 5d

that would be super fun. Will see what I can do x

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 5d

Red Bull Academy interview with D'Angelo - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1o... - when this came out it elevated my understanding of the level of genius he was operating at. A truly once in a lifetime musician 💜

D'Angelo on Questlove, Neo-soul and Voodoo | Red Bull Music Academy

YouTube video by Red Bull Music Academy

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 5d

Also, was talking about you with @basspope.bsky.social on Sunday, and it reminded me how much I miss seeing you and making music with you. Hope we can make something happen soon xx

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 5d

yeah, when the ISO gets up there, I tend to shoot dark and hope I can lighten it in the edit, with varying degrees of success 😆

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 5d

Got them! 💜💜💜

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely. It's wild. 💜

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 6d

It should be linked to in any dictionary as the epitome of the phrase "no fucks given". One of the rawest, truest musical statements ever. A leap forward.

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 6d

And while we're doing electric Miles boxed sets, Cellar Door!!! 💜💜💜

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 6d

Also, add Filles De Kilimanjaro and Miles In The Sky to that particular body of work - the genesis of the electric project. 🙏

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 6d

"buy all of it" is the best electric Miles take there is. I'm properly confused by people who don't like Big Fun or On The Corner...

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 6d

Man, camera turned out great then! Still smiling about you being there. Was the best 🙏

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 6d

What an unexpected pleasure it was to see you sir! More soon 💜🙏

Documentally @documental.ly · 6d

Had the pleasure of seeing/meeting @solobasssteve.bsky.social, @basspope.bsky.social and Ian Paterson #Outri this week at the Globe in #Newcastle.

Photos of @solobasssteve.bsky.social, @basspope.bsky.social and Ian Paterson #Outri taken this week at the Globe in #Newcastle. All are are playing a bass of some kind.

Dr @solobasssteve.bsky.social, playing earlier this week at the Globe in #Newcastle.

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 6d

beyond sad about the death of D'Angelo. Voodoo completely changed music for me. Ended up writing a thing about it this evening:
www.stevelawson.net/2025/10/dang...

D’Angelo, Grief and the Screeching Halt to Anticipation

There are very few musicians whose future, unannounced, unheralded work fills me with excitement. I don’t sit wondering what my favourite bands' next album will be like.

www.stevelawson.net

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

Stepping out is amazing! great! these are all useful. :)

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

Well, jazz is all over the music of that era, and for some it really works as a heavy influence (Mitch/Bill Ward/Ian Paice)... Ginger gets way more interesting to me after he met Fela Kuti...

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

Definitely this. Rory was amazing, though I always laugh at the story a friend tells of going to see him in the early 70s - he played half an hour then went off, so he could do 15 encores 😆

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, this era of Zep just sounds under-rehearsed to me, rather than the energy of reaching beyond to something that ends up chaotic in the way that Hendrix does. Bonham and JPJ are absolutely all over the place here & not in a good way. It's mad how quickly Bonham got his thing together after this

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

Stooges 100%. Great shout.

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

I was a MASSIVE Cream fan in my teens, but going back to them years later, I was shocked by how Ginger's jazz approach robbed them of the energy that Hendrix had... As much as I'm So Glad and Crossroads were absolutely foundational experiences for me, time has been less kind...

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

KC had that energy, for sure. Led Zep never felt like that to me - it was too controlled, but I think i'm probably in the minority there ;)

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

that's a great choice, thanks :)

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

pre-1970 things that got close to Hendrix's heaviness - Mountain, Vanilla Fudge, The Kinks, The Animals, Blue Cheer... others?

Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

good Lord, I really should return to Hendrix more often. It's like an adrenaline shot. I can't think of anything from that time that had energy like this (Kick Out The Jams, maybe?), and it's way heavier - by my measure of heavy - than any of the proto-metal/hard rock of the early 70s.

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Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social · 9d

MuSky, I'm putting together a playlist for a class of rock and pop songs with straight eighth note bass lines. Got any favourites, any that stand out as particularly good/bad?

(Is MuSky a thing? Is there a hashtag to gather stuff from musicians together? No idea how this shit actually works 🤷🏽)

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