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Mohini Dey interviewed by Rick Beato
- Thread starter wintremute
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Yeah very chatty, lots of personality. Which must make for an easy interview, I'd guess. Interesting, and very different from my imression of who she'd be from just watching clips of her playing. Quite a player.
Have been listening to her for a while. Phenomenal player! Great interview with historical background gives insight to her approach and playing.
Finished watching yesterday. Just forwarded it to a bass playing friend. It's nice to see the passion, talent, and appreciation in young folks. I hope that she has a Long and successful career.
One heck of a player, that woman. Her show with Guthrie Govans is worth a view.
At about 29 minutes, Mohini Dey says she doesn’t like talking that much. She fooled the hell out of me!
Lots of hard work, not just great talent. What’s is more fascinating is her very untraditional life even if she is from India.
She said she has been professional musician since age 9!
Amazing.
She said she has been professional musician since age 9!
Amazing.
Yes, nobody gets where she is with raw talent. She has worked her butt off her whole life.
I really like the slap tone she used for this interview. On her videos, she often slaps just using the bridge pickup and I really don’t like how thin it sounds.
Loved hearing about her parents giving the societally gender-based roles the heave-ho.
Mohini has a great enthusiasm for music and life. I hope to hear her play more groove heavy and less shred oriented music in the future.
She had a Life like Joe Pass. Parents that forced a path of life for their kid.
both are amazing but the music leave me cold.
both are amazing but the music leave me cold.
There's no doubt about it, she's an incredible bassist/musician and could destroy most of us, but she seems so nice and fun, so I think she'll let us live. 
I would think that the Youtube-generation bassists typically feel a lot of pressure to play chops more than anything else. Once in a while you'll get someone very young playing more "groove "- oriented stuff who's able to get some visibility, but more often than not it's the chops that get the clicks. And let's face it, if it wasn't for her Youtube chops videos none of us would likely have any idea who Mohini Dey is. Regardless, once the "Wow, look at how young that kid is" factor wears off a player is left competing on a more even field and the chops might not be as impressive as they once were. Perhaps at that point the player can more easily settle into just playing music.
