Point of Reference
I stepped out and played a few solo tunes at a neat place in San Francsico called The Canvas - it's a Bar/Cafe/Local Artist Gallery nestled along the edge of Golden Gate Park in a pretty hip little part of town. Very college crowd.
Great reception to my stuff . . . I'll be going back to do a full set. Anyway - I'm always facinated by the references people use to make sense out of what I do.
Playing bass shows is one thing - bassists typically have plenty of "bass" references for anything they hear from me.
But pedestrians - non bassists - can have different and even strange points of reference. I was extremely flattered when people told me they heard Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke in my stuff - but then 2 minutes later I was lost when someone else said I obviously listen to Muse.
Who?