Chords for MICHAEL RHODES: Bassist der Joe Bonamassa Band

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[Eb] _ You're in the band of Joe Bonamassa.
playing [N] in Hanover this day.
Tell me something about _ the way you got into the
Bonamassa band and what for you the special challenge is to play with Joe.
Well I met Joe a few years ago, maybe six years ago, doing a session for Dust Bowl,
his record Dust Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee and that's how I met Joe and
then [Eb] I continued to do projects, recording projects with Joe and one
thing led to the next and a couple of years ago he asked me if I would join
his touring band and after consideration I said yes.
And _ [N] if there are any
challenges with Joe, _ they're outweighed by the advantages of
playing with Joe because first of all he's a fantastic guitar player and the
songs are really fun.
I think initially the biggest challenge for me was the
volume on stage because I wasn't really used to playing that loudly and so that
took some adjustment.
_ I mean I love it, I love to play loud but I
hadn't played that loud, I haven't played this loud in a very long time so I had
to get _ used to that.
Does that mean you [Dm] changed your gear or
did you just_
I didn't, well yeah I got some new gear, you know, Ashdown, I guess
we'll get around to that later but I got a [Ab] couple of _ _ CTM 300s and with a couple
of cabinets, 8x10 cabinets, _ [F] which are great and just to be able to
keep up with him and keep up with the stage volume. _
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_ I would [N] just say because you have to get used to the volume of the
loud playing, had that any impact on the way you play as well?
_ When one plays that
loud it changes the nature of the way an instrument interacts, the molecules, you
know, and the way, I mean when you're moving that much air at that volume then
you can do some things that you can't do at a lower volume.
For example?
Feedback, for one thing, you know, I mean willful feedback, you know, that you can
actually manipulate and even, and that's how loud we're playing, that I can get, I
get feedback with a precision bass which, you know, you gotta be playing pretty
loud to do that so, but I mean not to make too much out of it, it's not a big
deal but if you're asking that's probably, that was the biggest challenge
initially.
The rest of them, you know, the songs play themselves and
frankly I'd played a lot of the songs before in the studio, you know, so, you
know.
Last question, I mean Michael what did Joe tell you, what he's
expecting from you, what is he, what is the thing that he is looking _ for the job
of a bass player?
Well, it's not necessarily a spoken thing, I don't think
he would have asked me to play if he didn't already approve of my playing and
that he liked it and _ my personal view about playing bass is to support, you
know, whoever I'm playing with and I mean I've been doing records, I mean that's
primarily what I've done for the last few decades is playing people's records
so I know how to do that and that's kind of the way I think about it.
I'm not
really a chops guy, I'm not Victor Wooten, I'm not all that and I mean who is but
you know, I just think about bass as just being _ part of the mechanism, you
know, and so there hasn't been anything specific that Joe asked of me, you know.
I think he just expects me to play bass.
_ Thank you very much.
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