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The Legend of Big Pop

"I love it when you call me that!"

About Me

Greetings from the Low End! When I"m not being called Poppa(or some variation thereof), I am called Elliott. I'm a bassist/vocalist/producer/songwriter originally from Pittsburgh and currently residing in Southern California. God has blessed me with music, and I'm trying to center my life around spreading that blessing ....wanna help? Hit me with a friend request, come to a show, tell a friend if you like what you hear! After Graduating from the Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing arts, I studied Music at Clarion University. Later, fate drew me to the west coast, and I'm still here today. I play/have played with some truly amazing artists and musicians, and love any and every opportunity to get on stage. I'm a proud alumnus of the Young Americans, the world renowned performance company based in southern California. I've performed in 30 states, 4 countries, and 3 continents. Since I stopped touring with them, I stay in SoCal, playing bass quite often, and producing when the need arises Currently I play with Singer/songwriter Kurt Hunter (album coming soon), Long Beach's pre-eminent acoustic soul star Angie Evans(Album coming even SOONER). I play bass for a well known and spiritually gifted Gospel group called Undivided. And last and most definitely not least, I play in the funk-metal band Year of the Dragon, featuring "Dirty" Walt Kibby, Founder of the legendary Fishbone(album coming REALLY FRIGGIN SOON)!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/19/2007
Band Website: bigpop.net
Influences: Here's the (attempt at a)short list. Stanley Clarke, Doug Wimbish, John Taylor, Ron Carter Marcus Miller, Paul Thompson, Marco Mendoza, Rick James, Jermaine Jackson(don't front), Flea, Michael Anthony, Sting, Corey Glover, Seal, George Michael, Terence Trent D'arby(or Sananda if you prefer, but he was still TTD when he did Vibrator, and that's his best work in my opinion), Prince, Jason Kay(honorable mention to Stuart Zender, I see you homie!), PM Dawn, Kool Moe Dee, Run DMC(RIP Jason Mizell), KRS 1, Damn I could do this all day!
Sounds Like: Life, Love, Sadness, the ocean, the desert, the sky, victory, defeat, Pittsburgh, D.C., Rolling Rock, Captain & Coke, etc....
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

a very focused rant

The Following is a recent internet news  posting:"R&B star Akon has recorded a "secret" country and western record and released it under an alias in a bid to be the first successful black ar...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:19:00 PST

Revisiting Thriller

So I was just listening to the 25th aniversary re-release of Michael Jackson's Thriller(thanks againg Baby!), and I thought I'd post some thoughts.....     Imagine for a moment if ...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:51:00 PST

Club bangin’

so i've had some pretty strong views about these clubs we always hear about.....seems we always hear about these places....Hyde, Le Deux, L.A.X., et al, particularly in the last year or so. There's ...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:08:00 PST

when you think it can’t get worse

Friends, consider this blog a word of caution....whenever you think we've hit rock bottom....whenever the thought comes to you that "urban" music could not possibly get anymore ignorant, worthless, an...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:08:00 PST

Got some hot new shit!!!

So a little over a week ago I picked up some fantastic new equipment: I got a new bass: a six string ESP B-204. The fun doesn't stop there however. I also picked up a new Line 6 LD 300 combo amp! Outs...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:26:00 PST

New YOTD coming Soon!!!

Wow,      This past week, on top of the awesomeness of  my family being in town (YAY) I started work on my bass parts for the new Year of the Dragon album, which will be ...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:18:00 PST

My rant about the current sorry state of popular mainstream music

The sad truth is that it's not about "music" anymore and it's been that way for awhile. In our pop culture society, music, movies, books, and most other popular art forms is not culture anymore&.it's ...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:25:00 PST

My very first (semi) NON-bitter blog entry!!!

I was talkin to the singer from a band that opened up for YOTD, and he was a pretty good singer.  I told him I enjoyed his set and dug his voice and he was like "thanks man"....then another dude ...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:03:00 PST

just a random observation...

......is it just me, or has the singer Akon totally swagger-jacked Mark Morrison?  Remember him?  "Return of the Mack"?  Youtube that video, listen to the tune and then check out some A...
Posted by The Legend of Big Pop on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:04:00 PST