Thanks for posting that! Looking forward to listening when I get home from work tonight.
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Pino Podcast!!!
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Always great to hear from people like Pino and Sklar and people like that , got close enough to say hi to Pino when he was playing with Paul Young.......amazing player .
Pino is probably my number one influence, with Tony Levin a close second. That's a great interview!
Paul Young in the 80s
Check out Pino's playing on "Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down"
Check out Pino's playing on "Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down"
i listened to this the other day, it was cool, pino seems definately more the quiet humble guy in the band, more prone to introversion than extroversion. but he has a supreme confidence (not arrogance) in his abilities which is cool.
Confidence and groove, those two things define Pino Pallidino.
I just watched thanks for posting.
I'll never forget he was backstage at the Playboy Jazz Festival and all the bass players were going over to talking to him. Yearly one the biggest collectives of some of baddest cats on the planet either hanging out or there to play. Being clueless to who he was I asked Grover Washington's Keyboardist who is that dude? He said "The baddest Bass player most people never knew they loved." "Really", I said okay later that weekend I asked some more jazz dudes about him they all sang his praises. I don't know the exact time period but let's just say 6 to 10 years later I'm watching a John Mayer PBS concert and there he was jamming or should I say grooving his butt off him and Steve Jordan hot damn! Which then sent me on a mission to find out as much information about him I could find. Then it dawned on me I had just seen him that summer/fall with D' Angelo Black Messiah tour. Fast forward a few years later I'm at after party for the Grammy awards. A friend of mine introduces me to him and he was just the nicest dude just a down to earth brother. He'll never remember that conversation but it struck me as he walked off to talk to some folks he recognized across the room, he understood the importance embracing the moment he did not rush our convo just enjoyed the moment. Which is rare in entertainment circles very rare indeed.
I'll never forget he was backstage at the Playboy Jazz Festival and all the bass players were going over to talking to him. Yearly one the biggest collectives of some of baddest cats on the planet either hanging out or there to play. Being clueless to who he was I asked Grover Washington's Keyboardist who is that dude? He said "The baddest Bass player most people never knew they loved." "Really", I said okay later that weekend I asked some more jazz dudes about him they all sang his praises. I don't know the exact time period but let's just say 6 to 10 years later I'm watching a John Mayer PBS concert and there he was jamming or should I say grooving his butt off him and Steve Jordan hot damn! Which then sent me on a mission to find out as much information about him I could find. Then it dawned on me I had just seen him that summer/fall with D' Angelo Black Messiah tour. Fast forward a few years later I'm at after party for the Grammy awards. A friend of mine introduces me to him and he was just the nicest dude just a down to earth brother. He'll never remember that conversation but it struck me as he walked off to talk to some folks he recognized across the room, he understood the importance embracing the moment he did not rush our convo just enjoyed the moment. Which is rare in entertainment circles very rare indeed.
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This was what I was waiting for! Hopefully we can get a long interview with a bassist interviewing sometime in the near future.
To be honest, I like the fact that Questlove, somebody who has made great music with Pino and has known him about 25 years, interviewed him. He understands enough about musicians and gear that he asked him some gear questions. Frankly, we all get too deep into gear. Pino isn’t using anything special or magical. Pino’s since of groove is magical. His ear is phenomenal and his note choice is perfect.
This video tells a lot about how Pino approached music:
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One thing this interview failed to bring out was the fact that at least the way I remember it, before Pino and that D"Angel Voodoo album, you couldn't give a Pbass away. Every one was playing active basses. Brands like EBMM (Ceramic era) StingRays, Lakland, Warwick, Ken Smith, MTD, Ibanez, Peavey, and Fender jazz Deluxe or modded Fender Jazz basses were all the rage. Most people wanted a 5 string. No one was playing flats either. Pino, that rhythm section , and that album made a big mark in music history. You can't tell me that Sean Hurley, Tim Lefebvre, Michael League , and the rest of the bass playing world did not sit up and take notice.
I came here to post about this. It’s pretty incredible.
Pino is the truth! A brilliant and skillful musician. The lines and sub hooks he’s doing towards the end of “Send it on” by D’Angelo gets me every time.
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Tim Lefebvre is almost a Pino fanboy, which is kind of funny considering that he is great himself.
Great interview. A Bassist would have asked a lot more gear and technique questions but QuestLove seemed to hit on all the important stuff.
My biggest takeaway….. Pino describes his Fretless work as being a cross between Jaco and Mick Karn. Spot on , I would say.
Of course all the PBass fanatics will enjoy him paying his desert island bass is his famous PBass with the same flats he installed and used on the Voodoo sessions . Still wearing those TI Flats with one broken string replaced during that session or tour ( I can’t remember ).
Same set of flats since 1993!!!
And bandleader of The Legendary Roots Crew (215 represent!).
Ii just watched a recent interview with Tim. He sited Meshell and Pino as 2 of his favorites and most influential players that really made him sit up and take notice . His point that Plantation Lullabies was years ahead of Voodoo but both Albus and players really made him want to play bass and he was blown away by both. He has excellent taste.
We all have those 3 or 4 players who just rock our world.
