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About Me

A rhythm section veteran with almost 14 years experience, Andrew Neely is a versatile bass player comfortable in a wide variety of musical settings. A resident of Omaha, he owns and plays 4, 5 and 6 string electric bass, acoustic bass guitar and upright bass. He is currently excited to be a member of the established jazz/funk/jam rock band Rhymes with Orange.---Music Background---A native of Memphis, TN, he grew up around blues, rock and improvisational music. A founding member of the still-active Yamagata he has toured the Southeast and played on their debut recording Eveland. After leaving the group on good terms to tour as a spoken word artist (including a leg of Gary Glazner's Slam America bus tour) he returned to the Memphis nightlife playing various gigs including R&B, funk and reggae before leaving the city to move to Omaha, NE in 2002.---Omaha Music---Since relocating, he worked as a founding member of Lord Byron Blues Band for three years playing electric and acoustic shows until that group's breakup in late 2005. He has worked as a member of the Thursday night house band at the Downtown Blues Club for 7 months and continues to book shows with that power trio, now called 3rd Leg Band.---Spoken Word---A nationally ranked spoken word artist, he has toured around the US and performed at the PSI Nationals with three teams, serving one from Omaha as captain in 2004. Semi-retired from PSI competition, Andrew Neely still co-hosts the weekly spoken word/comedy/music open mic show "Shoot Your Mouth Off II" at Shea Riley's Pub in Omaha with fellow Omaha poet Jim Morrison and sound man Josh Tague.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/08/2005
Band Members: Me, my basses and my amp... plus the people I'm playing with at the time.
Influences: Bass: Flea, George Porter Jr, Ron Carter, Willie Dixon, Paul Jackson and Brian Ritchie (among others) -- Bands/Artists: The Headhunters, The Violent Femmes, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weather Report, Double Trouble, Howlin' Wolf, T Bone Walker, Primus, Electric Soul Method (Out of Lincoln), Steve Lovett (out of Omaha), Scotty Spinner (out of South Dakota), Freeworld (out of Memphis), Art Tatum, BB King, etc. -- Spoken Word: The Omaha and Memphis spoken word scenes, plus too many other gifted national artists to name
Sounds Like: Myself
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

40 Inspirational Speeches in Two Minutes

If you don't feel like seizing the day after watching this, just hang it up:
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:21:00 GMT

Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy

Special thanks to Merlin "I'm Not Dead Yet" Mann for this week's video clip via his excellent blog Kung Fu Grippe. Louis CK talks to Conan O'Brian about why the modern world is wasted on the people al...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:27:00 GMT

Monty Python Gives Away Everything...

Now this is good news. Monty Python have created their own YouTube channel where you can see high quality versions of their work for free. The catch? If you like something that you see, they ask you t...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:04:00 GMT

International Version of Stand By Me

Posted by on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:29:00 GMT

How to figure out what you want to be...

Step one: Watch the "human sacrifice" scene from the movie Fight Club. (It's posted here, if you don't own it.) You have to watch it all the way through for this to work. Go ahead, I'll wait. ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:46:00 GMT

A change is gonna come...

Well, it's happened. A young black man, fathered by a Kenyan, raised by a single white Hawaiian, and self described as a "skinny kid with a funny name" has proven the American dream is not hypothetica...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:04:00 GMT

The Daily Show interviews the Mayor of Wasilla

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Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:34:00 GMT

Haunting Flute Melody Played on Bike Handlebars

Guess this is turning into a trend... Mark Growden plays the handlebars from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Quartet with two guitars, bass & internal combustion engine

...at least this drummer isn't going to rush the beat.
Posted by on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:29:00 GMT

Just in case you haven’t seen anything today that made your head explode...

...I present you with a video of a man playing a pan flute made of carrots and celery:
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:44:00 GMT