Music, concerts, Bass Player magazine, chess (ain't played in a minute though), travel. Places I been include Hawaii, St. Thomas, Aruba, St. Maarten, Grenada, Barbados, Dominca.
Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, TM Stevens, Bootsy, Larry Graham, Prince, Louis Johnson, Alphonso Johnson and other slammin jammin bassist in this Earth.
Some Bassist I have met: Byron Miller, Nathan Watts, Andrew Gouche', "Ready" Freddy Washington, CatDaddy (Rick James), Tony Boyd (Teena Marie), Dwayne "Smitty" Smith, Corny Mims, C.C. Thomas (Diana Ross, Jeffrey Osborne), Peter Cetera, James Manning, Rob McDonald, Ron Roseboro, Marvin Craig (Lakeside), Mark Adams (Slave), Marshall Jones (Ohio Players), Kenneth Gant (Midnight Starr).
Funk, Jazz, R&B, Rap, Pop, Rock, Smooth Jazz anything that grooves to a tight azz beat.
Shout out to my "Ohio hometown" musicians who held it down in the 70s and 80s.
Record Player - my band, my brother Dallas Webster, Keith Nash, Charles Jackson, Michael Jennings, Larry J. Kidd, Delbert Jones, Cedell & Sam Carter, Georgie Gee, Ronald Nooks, Lorenzo Pryor, Alan Foster, Tom Black, & Kevin Hurt. We Funked it up at many a show. Thanks fellas for the memories.
Lakeside - Mark, Otis, Marvin, Tiemeyer, Tommy, Stevie, both Freds, Norman
The Ohio Players - Sugarfoot, Marshall, Satch, Pee Wee, Diamond, Merv, Chet, Nooks, Darwin
Slave - Adams, Hicks, Danny, Tim, Raye, Carter, Stevie W.
Faze-O - Keith, Tyrone, Ralph, Roger, Teddy D
Roger & Zapp - RIP Roger & Larry Troutman
Heatwave - Johnny & Keith Wilder, Rod Temperton
Arrington's Hall of Fame - Steve, Cedell, Sam, Gary, Delbert T.
Sun - Kym Yancey, Hollis, Byron, Johnny W., Sheldon, Keith C.
Dayton - Shaun, Kevin, Chris
*** Tresure (Mark Brown) - Doing his thing in Las Vegas with his band In-Effect!!! ****
So far in 2008 haven't seen that many movies. "I Am Legend" and Tyler Perry's "Meet the Browns" was the last movie I saw. Iron Man looks like it will be great to see.
Highly recommended: --- http://www.thelanguageofmusic.com/
Tom Dowd, the father of multi-track recording and a music producer/engineer has worked with Atlantic Records and the early giants like Coltrane, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers, and Lynyrd Skynrd. This is a must see DVD documentary for any musician.
The Wire on HBO, NBA on TNT, Lost, The First 48, Flava of Love, Cops, Most Shocking Videos, MSNBC:Lockup, Forensic Files.
Bass Player magazine, AARP magazine
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Art Tatum, Ray Charles, James Brown, The Funk Brothers, George Clinton, Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Lenny White, Harvey Mason, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Isaac Hayes, The Ohio Players, Lakeside, Slave, Rick James, Prince, The Time, Mint Condition, Roger Troutman and many others.