A View from the Side: Stories and Perspectives on the Music Business: Interviews with Bass Giants Will Lee, Marcus Miller, Leland Sklar, Tony Levin, and More

by Michael Visceglia, Sting

Overview

With A View from the Side, musician Michael Visceglia attempts to give the reader a window in which to view the lives, aspirations, adventures and misadventures, phenomenal successes and tragic failures of some of the leading practitioners of an art that he is intimately familiar with: playing the bass. Through stories of his own experiences, along with the interviews and profiles of his influential peers, Visceglia provides a compelling look at the nature of the pursuit of the artistic life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781470627157
Publisher:	Alfred Music
Publication date:	04/01/2015
Series:	Wizdom Media
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Prologue 5

Foreword: To the Archeologist of the Future - by Sting 6

Why in the World? 7

And So It Begins 8

The Gift 9

The Many Lives of Jan Arnet 11

Last Chicken in the Shop 16

The Belgian Locksmith 20

The Fan 24

An Italian Job 28

Stage Fright 30

Remembering Jaco 33

Magic Bullet 35

Forming a Band 37

Getting Bumped by the Best 39

Being a Working Bassist in New York 40

The Degeneration of the Music Business 42

Better Days 45

Percy Jones: The World's Greatest Fretless Bassist? 47

My Conversation with Leland Sklar 49

Will Lee 74

Tony Levin 83

Marcus Miller 87

Colin Moulding 92

Chris Jisi 96

Percy Jones 101

Donald "Duck" Dunn 108

Victor Bailey 113

Dave Pomeroy 118

Neil Stubenhaus 129

Jeff Berlin 134

The Gift (Part Two) 140

Acknowledgments 143

About the Author 144