If you’re having a humanist or civil ceremony, you’ll have free reign when it comes to your wedding ceremony music but those getting married in a church will have some restrictions. Robert Glasper to release ‘Black Radio 2’ on Oct.Picking the music for your wedding can be fun but it’s only when you get down to the nitty gritty, you realise how many songs you have to choose and how time consuming it can be! While it can be hard work, your song choices will really add some personality to your day and are a great way to make the ceremony more meaningful to you as a couple. Review: Franz Ferdinand gets loose at Echoplex “It’s really great to be 49 and to be really inspired on my instrument.” “Playing bass with Barrett is challenging and killer,” McKagan says. 8 in Scranton, Pa., and lands at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on Sept. In 2009, he even began jamming and taking lessons from other bassists, including Scott Shriner of Weezer, who McKagan calls “a hell of a bass player.”Ī seven-week Walking Papers U.S. In preparation for the Walking Papers, he reexamined the work of Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones.įor the last five years, he’s been listening to certain records just to play along to the basslines. And he still works at it, studying the instrument and its possibilities with more seriousness now than he ever did before. Joining the Walking Papers also put him back in the bass position, after focusing on guitar in Loaded. PHOTOS: Iconic rock guitars and their owners “We go in with our ears pinned back, and we’re ready for war.” “The chemistry between Slash and I is a thing,” McKagan says. Velvet Revolver, the band he started with his longtime GNR comrade Slash, is also ongoing but on indefinite hiatus since the exit of singer Scott Weiland, he says. Only recently, the band he leads as singer and guitarist, Loaded, completed a recording and touring cycle and expects a return to action at some future date. While focused on Walking Papers, McKagan says his other ongoing bands are on hiatus. Oftentimes, it’s even competitive - especially back in the early club days: People fliering over other people’s fliers, taking fuses out of the back of amp heads and all that.” When I first moved to L.A., if you were a band, you were on your own little island. is a massive city, a city I love, but you’re kind of on your own when you’re in a band. bands can sometimes seem to be clawing their way to the top, he calls Seattle “very communal.” McKagan was born in the city and still splits his time between there and Los Angeles, where GNR and Velvet Revolver both came together in ways noticeably different from his hometown.Īlthough L.A. The debut album was recorded in week-long bursts of energy and inspiration in a couple of Seattle studios. You know he knows a lot that you haven’t even thought about when it comes to music.” “He has studied percussion with a tribe in Senegal. “Barrett is an actual college professor - music theory,” McKagan says of the drummer, a faculty member at Antioch University in Seattle. McKagan uses the word “slanky” for its bluesy, lurid flow, which he credits at least in part to Martin, a longtime friend and occasional jam partner. The first track the bassist played on was “Red Envelope,” which grinds with a noisy swing. The band began as a casual jam session and recording between Barrett and Angell McKagan and Anderson were recruited as things progressed into real songs.
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