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Because I think once you build confidence, then you can move forward. They’ve become his main touring basses and one of his most used recording basses. Sklar: I think a critical thing would be: Be patient. And I still love those. I keep everything at home. Leland Sklar - Not Dead Yet Bass Parts (home videos) Lee shows his bass playing from the recent Phil Collins tour. I use my Warwick signature Star Bass. And I’m trying to do things where I feel viable and I maintain interest in the business. I’m going to be sitting there with a pallet jack and all this. The issue I’m having is Europe and overseas because the book is more to ship than it costs. I’ve got a storage facility that I’m going to be loading them all into. As I recall, Billy was originally going to do it with Stanley Clarke. They wanted to do a cover of “Easy Lover.” And I said, “I’d love to do it, but I’m not set up for recording.” He had a friend at SSL, who ended up sending me a SSL2+ interface and I plugged into GarageBand, and Gussie sent me the file for the song. They told me at the Post Office that if I can get them in by the 11th of December, they’ll make Christmas for the domestic ones. December 7, 2020. The attack, the release, the tone. And amongst all that, then I’m also doing my fine art that I did all through my life. Sklar's favorite instrument is a bass guitar assembled from parts of various basses, consisting of a Fender Precision Bass body, Precision Bass neck which has been shaved down to the proportions of a Fender Jazz Bass and fitted with mandolin wire frets and two sets of Precision Bass pickups. It was a Precision body but I still prefer Jazz, so what we did was I contacted Rob (Turner) at EMG and got a set of their very first Precision EMG pickups. It's the bass I played on James Taylor's 'Your Smiling Face.' Sklar: It’s a lot of fun, but right now my stress is beginning to set in big time because of my initial launch. Leland Sklar, Music Department: Man of Steel. So I thought I’m just going to take a picture of everybody and make a little folder for myself just to put away as a memory folder for the tour. And they’re about three quarters the way through it, and everything ground to a bit of a halt because of this. "I had a bass built in 1973 by John Carruthers. Leland “Lee” Sklar has been a fixture in the recording studios of L.A. for over four decades. And then when I went out with Toto a couple of years later, I thought, maybe I’ll do a similar thing with those guys. It has been used on nearly all of his recordings and he refers to it as the "Frankenstein bass".[3]. I would be on an airplane, I could get the whole cabin to flip me off. It’s your voyage of discovery to be looking at a page full of all kinds of funny characters, and in the middle of it could be Debbie Gibson and Jay Leno. That’s why it’s Frankenstein. I’ve got a great shot of them. I’ve been in the studio a couple of times and they were real limited projects, just a couple of us in the studio. It’s got such a beautiful tone. Sklar: Yeah, I mean there’s James Taylor, Phil Collins, Jackson Browne, Charlie Watts, Jeff Beck. You’ve got a pickup for the G and the D and a pickup for the A and the E. Well, I thought by the nature of the G and D, they’re going to read better than the A and the E anyhow, so why not put that half of the pickup closer to the bridge on the A and the E. We flipped the pickups and reversed their position. Leland Bruce „Lee“ Sklar (* 28. It has been used on 90% of his recordings and he refers to it as the Frankenstein bass. My “Sklar” bass. It was during that time he met James Taylor, who invited him to play bass at some venues. I dragged it in and contacted Steve Postell from our band, the Immediate Family, and he gave me a little tutorial on what to do. And the real fun to me is just to look at people, how they responded when they were empowered to give you the finger. Did a brass nut on it. We stayed pretty far apart and everybody was masked and temperatures and all that. And I’m doing T-shirts and all this shit. We selected finishes to reflect Lee’s love of Hot Rods. And I got them and it got up to about 300 pictures and started to take on an energy. I always tell people, “Look, if you’re driving on the freeway and there’s a bunch of guys in a car next to you screaming out the window giving you the finger, that’s not the good finger you want.” But I said, “It’s just a finger. And the thing I enjoy the most about it, from an observer standpoint, is that there’s a finite amount of ways of giving the finger. [4] This was his main bass on tour and was also used in various recordings. And so when I need a five string, I use my Dingwall. Teil 1: Against All Odds youtu.be/2eG014fvn68 FBPO: What is the Frankenstein bass exactly? But they’re on a page and the opposite page is Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson together giving me the finger. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. FBPO: Have you thought of doing a digital version? FBPO: How much recording have you been able to do, session-wise, this year? And people have asked me, they said, “You have a big section with celebrities?” And I said, No, because everybody’s a celebrity as far as I’m concerned. Anytime you stopped in that music store, you’d see Ry Cooder and Jackson Browne and different guys playing instruments and checking stuff out. And then between those two and my “Frankenstein,” that’s pretty much the basses I use for almost everything. Sklar: The story that I tell in the book is when I was out with Phil Collins in 2004, they hired me a bass tech for the tour. We’ve got a new video, our third video coming out. Sklar: Out of the 12,000 pictures, I probably had about a dozen people refuse. FBPO: Can you give us a few more names of some of the better known people whose pictures are in the book? Mai 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) ist ein US-amerikanischer Bassist, Sänger und Komponist und gehört zu den gefragtesten Sessionmusikern der Branche. And then I’ve got the first Hipshot detuner that they designed and contacted me and Dave (Borisoff) said, “Want to check this out?” And I ended up doing their first ads for them for the Hipshot. I see you’re holding a Dingwall bass. Our album will be coming out at the beginning of the year. He came to me and said, “What do you need? If you’re giving one note a bar, how are you going to play that? [5], In 2013, after years of having been a Warwick Star Bass II user, he became an endorser of that instrument. I was just getting ready to do my daily video. Whether I want to or not, I don’t know. The bass uses fanned frets, which result in longer low strings and shorter high strings. In 1969 Sklar was playing electric bass with a band called Wolfgang while attending California State University, Northridge studying something like industrial drawing. He was born on May 27, 1947, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It has been used on nearly all of his recordings and he refers to it as the "Frankenstein bass". A veteran of countless recording sessions and world tours, he’s known far and wide for his stellar grooves, wry sense of humor and long, flowing, white beard. And my Euphonic Audio amps are still what I’ve been using for 20 years now. But one of the longest, and most impressive, résumés indisputably belongs to Leland Sklar. Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Billy Cobham, and Phil Collins are just a few of the many recognizable names he’s collaborated with over the years. Sklar studied at California State University, Northridge. There’s very little writing in the book. The Milwaukee-born bass legend first made his mark as a member of “The Section,” the famed recording session players who played on albums for James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and other stars in the ’70s. Bassist Leland Sklar ist auch im Home Office und will uns zeigen, wie seine Bass-Parts der Songs der jüngsten Collins Tour aussehen. He has collaborated with a number of well-known performers and recorded soundtracks to … I had a friend that contacted me about doing a recording. Tell me about your book. But I’m not the kind of person that’s going to sit on my ass and do nothing. My mom gave me the finger all the time after that. Leland also has a very popular YouTube channel where he tells stories from recording sessions and tours. FBPO: I have a picture of you and me doing it to each other at a NAMM show once. It’s like with our band, the Immediate Family. He is a member of the Los Angeles-based instrumental group The Section, who served as the de facto house band of Asylum Records and were one of the progenitors of the soft rock sound prevalent on top-40 radio in the 1970s and 1980s. Nothing’s beneath you. And then between those pickups was still the cavity where the original Precision pickup would have gone, so we used that for the two nine-volt batteries so I didn’t have to cut another hole. I thought, I may never see a lot of these people again and a lot of the crew were from Europe and different places in the UK. You may have seen ads for Sklar’s signature Dingwall bass, a tasty beast that will either enthrall or terrify you depending on your fondness for the Ralph Novak fan-fretting system that it employs. Leland Bruce "Lee" Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American musician. When you start looking at it and you start looking at the responses of people’s faces in it, it’s a real fun adventure. Sklar: Yeah. I’m happy to do that for you. Sklar: The book is really, really fun. He also has toured with James Taylor, Toto, Phil Collins and other major rock and pop acts, and recorded many soundtracks to films and television shows. If I guy just goes, “I’m really a fan of country music, I love country music,” just find some songs, a couple of songs that maybe aren’t difficult in the beginning and listen to them and feel around on the bass and figure out where they are on it and play it over and over until you’re confident. The needs of the song. I always do my own gear.” We had this running joke through the whole tour because he ended up really not having much to do with me, where he came in ready to put new strings on 15 basses every day and all this crap like he was used to doing. However, their only recordings were unreleased demo tracks. Let me tell you how Sklar got there and how quickly. Sklar: There’s a lot of famous people, but there’s a lot of not famous people in it too. And then Don Lombardi let us use the sound stage at DW Drums to do it and use his crew. FBPO: That’s when you knew you were on to something. And then just took the masks off to do the video and then right back on during the break. And it just took on a life of its own. That won’t probably come out until the middle of next year, and we don’t know if we want the album to wait that long. Współpracował z takimi wykonawcami jak, m.in. But when the tour was drawing to a close, there was serious word that Phil was going to retire at that point. We rerouted the body for those. "I had a bass built in 1973 by John Carruthers. I’ll see how volume one goes. And all I did was immersed myself in their music and played it over and over and over and over until I was comfortable with it and I knew what I was doing. FBPO: Are the pictures mostly of well-known people? Sklar: Yeah. The important thing in my career has always been the song. Overview ↓ Biography ↓ Songs ↓ Credits ↓ The Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not), "Interview: bass legend Leland Sklar on sessions, gear and getting hired", "Lee Sklar is the Latest Member of the Warwick Family", Interview: bass legend Leland Sklar on sessions, gear and getting hired, Lee Sklar on ON THE HIT with DEANE OGDEN podcast, April 2, 2014, 2014 Audio Interview with Lee Sklar from the I'd Hit That Podcast, Leland Sklar Interview - The Studio Musician's Handbook, Bass Routes - A Leland Sklar Discography Blog, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leland_Sklar&oldid=1011616960, California State University, Northridge alumni, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 March 2021, at 21:55. He was in a room with the piano, and I was in an iso booth with my bass and that was it. And then we’ve done two live streams and we’ll probably do another live stream concert. Some musicians have taken this "opportunity" to play some stuff at home and show it to their fans. I’d go up into the cockpit and get the pilot and co-pilot to flip me off. A prominent electric bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to over 2,000 albums as a session musician. Leland Sklar Interview: Legendary Bassist Chronicles Finger Flips from Fans and the Famous in "Everybody Loves Me" Leland Sklar is revered as one of the greatest bassists in modern music and has contributed to over 2,000 albums as a session musician, including records by … And it goes from the most coy and shy to the most aggressive, and so the faces are really fun. It’s probably somewhere close to about 15,000 photographs. During an interview, he said: Leland continued: We took a template off that neck and then popped the frets out of the Precision neck and reshaped that neck into a Jazz neck. I’ve got a Star bass fretless. Sklar: Not really. Dec 3, 2017 - Explore Gordy Groening's board "Leland Sklar", followed by 112 people on Pinterest. Lee Sklar has an array of equipment he uses as a working musician, including: Two signature basses: a Dingwall 5-string signature and a Warwick chambered signature based on the Starbass II. Sklar: Oh, easily, easily. Sklar has used Yamaha basses throughout his career. But the books, they’re printed in China, outside of Hong Kong, and they’ve been shipped. There’s a little of everybody in here. We’re with a label called Quarto Valley Records out here in California, and I think we’re going to look at an earlier part of the year to release the album. I flew in on a Sunday, we worked all day Monday and Tuesday, and I flew home Wednesday and it was done. It’s an interesting little adventure. I think they’ve arrived and we’re waiting for them to clear customs. Sklar (born Leland Bruce Sklar, May 28, 1947, Milwaukee, WI) has more than 2000 albums to his credit (and still counting), and is considered to be one of the “A” players in the highly selective L.A. rock music community where the competition for recording dates is fierce, and where only the strongest will survive. Touring all shut down. L.A. session vet describes his new photo book and how he’s making the best of the pandemic, Exclusive interview with FBPO’s Jon Liebman And it’s together with a guy. Sklar: There’s no telling how long this is going to go on. Required fields are marked *, Copyright document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); , Notehead MediaGroup, LLC. I think when they got together there was just too much blowing and not enough hunkering down. In the 1970s, Sklar worked so frequently with drummer Russ Kunkel, guitarist Danny Kortchmar, and keyboardist Craig Doerge that they eventually became known as "The Section" and recorded three albums under that name between 1972 and 1977. When John Carruthers used to run the repair department at Westwood Music for Fred Walecki, back in the ’70s. Normally if somebody wanted me to do something, I would just say send me files, and I’d go over to a friend’s house because it was an excuse to go out and have lunch. Sklar: And just put a little cover plate over it. And next thing I know, we got involved together on it, and I sent him a little memory stick with 12,000 photographs of people giving me the finger and he honed it down to 6,000. Sklar: That’s what this year looked like before March, and then it suddenly disappeared like a fart in a hurricane. Besides appearing as the backing band on numerous recordings by artists such as Jackson Browne, Carole King, Phil Collins, and James Taylor, the Section also released three solo albums of instrumental rock. Sklar: Then, the next thing, I would go to the NAMM Show. Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American electric bass guitarist and session musician. Leland Sklar Gear Bass: Frankenstein Warwick Starbass II Dingwall Signature 5-string Amp: Euphonic Audio iAmp800 Box: Euphonic Audio NL210 & CxL112 And I’ve got a Hofner, if suddenly I need that kind of a sound. Sklar: The Frankenstein—and the reason I call it Frankenstein is because it was never a bass. We did one of them at The Coach House down here. It’s like: Do it by rote. Lee Sklar has been a prominent figure among Hollywood session bassists dating back to the 1970s and ever since. I’m not putting the word out that I’m totally available, but there’s a bunch of little projects coming in that I’m doing like that. I had five days to learn their show before our first gig. I’ve gone from having a year where I was going to play bass all over the world and have fun, to having to become an entrepreneur and figure out ways of dealing with it. When I need fretless I’ve got that. Interview: bass legend Leland Sklar on sessions, gear and getting hired Leland Sklar plays his Warwick bass at the Frankfurt Musikmesse show in 2011. Today sees the start of our new regular feature the Talkingbass Podcast. Leland’s new book, Everybody Loves Me, is available here: See Jon’s blog, with key takeaways from this interview here. In March 2020, most of the world is on hold and at home as a reaction to the corona pandemic. Sklar: That’s the bass I’ve used on almost every record since ’73 when we built it. I would have had two if the other one hadn’t had such bad arthritis and couldn’t make a finger. Lee Sklar has been a prominent figure among Hollywood session bassists dating back to the 1970s and ever since. 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