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Welcome to
Bass is the Place
Bass is the Place is my personal homepage. Thanks for visiting.
I am Burton Winn, an Electric Bass Player, Singer, and occasional Recording Engineer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. I have toured many other parts of the US and parts of Europe with some of the bands mentioned on this site.
Latest Update:
5-16-08
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Random Thoughts
2008 is an election year; please vote! See you at the gigs...
2007
I've started to play again with Johnny Nitro and am doing most of the Sunday nights at the Saloon with his band. I'm playing with many other bands, both as a regular and as a substutite, throughout the greater Bay Area. See you at the gigs; check out my calendar page for all the particulars. Photos of my continuing interest in Carnatic music are on my Discography Page.
2006
There are two new CD projects released in '06 that I contributed to: j poet's, LSDOA and Michael Robinson's Playing in the Dark. Both are fiercely independent and can be previewed by clicking on the above links.
2005
Jan Fanucchi's new CD is finished and sounds good, in my humble opinion.
I have also started a blog, the URL is: http://ssab02.blogspot.com and is titled Tales from the Front. Also find me posting on the Yahoo.com Bay Area Blues site: Tales from the Front: Click Here.. Or, click here for part 2. Or, Washington DC in June/July 2004. Also, thanks to everyone for wishing me well after my abdominal surgery and post-operative infection. I'm fine now and the recovery is complete.
2004
The rest of the year, 2004, was busy: besides playing locally in the San Francisco Bay Area, I did a series of trips to England plus trips to Austin, TX and elsewhere (including Washington, DC) to play with singer/songwriter Eric Blakely.and support his CD, Still Life at Full Speed. I played in London, the Midlands, and Scotland. Go here to read my report. Two gigs in NYC and two in New England filled up an exciting week in April 2004. Taunton, MA, a small town, now a suburb of Boston, hosted Eric and I at the local Dessert Club, a rented Unitarian Church turned coffee house for the night. Thanks to Steve Toli for a fun gig.
Influences
Influence from the media: The magazine Living Blues, issue number 158, features the venerable Bob Stroger, one of my favorite bassists. He states on page 33, "My job is to try to make the music sound good. Not to get over the top of 'em, but play so they can play on top of me....I listen. I know what sounds good with a person. Listen. That's the most important thing of any bass player." He continues, "I call a good musician somebody who plays good with the artist that you're playing with. Play what he's playing. Don't try to get up and play your skills, 'cause people ain't coming to hear you. They're coming to hear the artist. "
Most important quality
More influence, this time from the web: The popular Carnatic singer from Tamil Nadu, India, Nithyasree Mahadavan, is quoted on her site as saying, "Humility is the most important quality of any artist[e]."
We are in an era of hyperbole, advertising, and self-aggrandizement. Music, by itself, has none of these qualities, but the music business is filled with them. To hear Nithyasree, and other Indian artists, please try this link: Music of India Online.
Egos, humility, etc.
More on the same subject: I quote Aron Forbes from the program guide to the 2002 Monterey Blues Festival, "The coined phrase,'...leave your egos at the door...' is what the musicians in the blues pride themselves upon. An unspoken pact of unity, pride, and dignity shared by professionals and beginners alike is what the blues is all about."
In my opinion, all music should be about that, not just blues.
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My Musical Philosophy
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This The Official Blues Ring site is
owned by Burton Winn
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