My interview with Screech (He plays bass)

[SuperDuck]

Ok, so it's not really an interview, but I got a chance to talk to Dustin Diamond, who played Screech from Saved By the Bell for ten years. Apparantly he's in the process of starting up a standup career, and he's starting with the college campuses, (starting with mine ) So, being our school's sound and light guy, I got to do sound and light for him and talk to him for a little bit. Apparantly he plays bass for a band whose name I very shamefully can't remember. I got to listen to their unreleased cd for a while, and it's not half bad. It's kind of off-the-wall music, but pretty fun to listen to. Kind of Mr. Bungle. So, anyway, here's a quick paraphrase of what we talked about. (I thought of all my TalkBass buddies, and decided to Talk Bass with him... ar ar ar...)

Me: So, what kind of bass do you play?
Dustin: Well, I have about ( ) nine basses, fretless, fretted, five and six... I even have a twelve string.
Me: What's your main bass?
Dustin: Mostly I use a MusicMan 5.

That's about it. I hope this was entertaining as well as educational.

[Bass Guitar]

The amazing thing about this guy is that after so many years, he still looks exactly the same.

[SuperDuck]

Originally posted by Bass Guitar
The amazing thing about this guy is that after so many years, he still looks exactly the same.

EXCEPT!!! He grew a goatee.

[jonny boy]

About 4yrs ago screech's band opend up for us.They wre all dressed in Batman costumes & basicly made up the songs as they were going along they were probably the funniest bands I have ever seen live.Dustin was a cool guy & not a bad bass player if memory serves

[Brad Barker]

In the last issue of Spin, there was a blurb about Dustin's band. I just checked it, and there wasn't really a name mentioned for the band. It could be "Salty the Pocketknife," but that could just be Dustin's new nickname (although Screech is probably more memorable...and sane).

[melvin]

Man I hated that show so much.

Does anyone know his bands name for sure so I could check them out?

[Aaron]

Originally posted by melvin
Man I hated that show so much.

Ditto. Is he just as annoying in person?

[Brendan]

I hear he's a cool guy in real life...but he played Screech so well, that he's now having toruble getting acting gigs because people think that he IS Screech...talk about good acting backfiring...

[yawnsie]

Originally posted by SuperDuck
Ok, so it's not really an interview, but I got a chance to talk to Dustin Diamond, who played Screech from Saved By the Bell for ten years. Apparantly he's in the process of starting up a standup career, and he's starting with the college campuses, (starting with mine ) So, being our school's sound and light guy, I got to do sound and light for him and talk to him for a little bit. Apparantly he plays bass for a band whose name I very shamefully can't remember. I got to listen to their unreleased cd for a while, and it's not half bad. It's kind of off-the-wall music, but pretty fun to listen to. Kind of Mr. Bungle. So, anyway, here's a quick paraphrase of what we talked about. (I thought of all my TalkBass buddies, and decided to Talk Bass with him... ar ar ar...)

Me: So, what kind of bass do you play?
Dustin: Well, I have about ( ) nine basses, fretless, fretted, five and six... I even have a twelve string.
Me: What's your main bass?
Dustin: Mostly I use a MusicMan 5.

That's about it. I hope this was entertaining as well as educational.

Never let it be said that Talkbass doesn't get the biggest names.