In Myrtle Beach
Arrived last night around 7pm
Sandy from Coastal Carolina University picked me up at the airport and told me that Steve Bailey, Victor Wooten, Billy Sheehan and a few others were having dinner and asked if I was into joing them. Uhhh YEAH!
It was cool - very casual - but great food. They're all such good, long-time friends I couldn't help but feel like I was intruding every once in awhile- but there were some facinating group conversations about (this may sound familiar) artists who keep doing the same thing - and the need to mix it up. Very similar conversation to the one I was having with Kaki King a few weeks back. I wonder if there's some kind of cosmic boredom thing going on where artists are all craving something new. Anyway.
Billy is a super nice guy - I didn't know what to expect. When people say "that player is a monster" one can clearly attribute that to Billy's playing - scary scary stuff he does - but - like is so often the case - off stage, at dinner - super nice guy. Steve, Vic & Billy started trading Bangkok stories (one of those fly on the wall moments no doubt) appearantly Bangkok is the kind of thing you do just once - and then say - I'm going to do it once more etc... I wish I could say more but this is a family blog ,-)
So the offical worksop type stuff starts later on this afternoon. I was invited to go over to Steve's house with Vic, Billy and Gregg Bissonette - they were going do some filming for their internet bass thing. Not sure what time that's going to happen.
I wanted to post a few pics - but I forgot to bring the correct cable to connect the camera to my laptop. All the crap I brought and THATS the thing I forgot.
The hotel is nice - Marriott - lots of drunk golfers roaming around. Hey - it's Myrtle Beach!
More later.
Comments
Hi, I'm a current student of Michael Wilcox and am really enjoying your site - and your playing too of course. Was that an MTD your were changing the strings on?
Posted by: Rosanne Welsh | October 14, 2006 08:08 PM
Hi Rosanne - please tell Michael I said hello. Listen to his instruction! Ha!
I'm not sure what you're referring to when you ask about stringing MTD - was it a posting I made here or a video?
Posted by: Jeff Schmidt | October 15, 2006 05:31 AM