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Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0!

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About Me


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my proper blog at steve.anthropiccollective.org
and my revamped website at stevelawson.net
click here for 10 things you really ought to know about Steve Lawson
and here for the online shop , forum and current last.fm playlist .

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"...one of the most influential bassists in the world"
- Bass Guitar Magazine .
"Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician.I've known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most famous bassists but he is definitely one of the most talented." - Victor Wooten
"I highly recommend [grace and gratitude]. As Steve's playing and concept grow he makes ever more gorgeous and engaging music that really demonstrates the expressive depth of the bass. The richness of this music makes for a rewarding listening experience on all levels and I think Steve's approach represents a real step forward for the art of solo bass." Michael Manring (solo artist)
"Lawson's writing and his phenomenal command of the possibilities of looping creates a compelling and surprising variety of sounds one would never imagine the bass capable of producing." - JazzWise
"...Steve's complex array of sound and rare, intimate touch are rapidly turning him into one of the most influential bassists in the world." - Bass Guitar Magazine (uk)"This is some of the most beautiful, deeply felt music that I have heard performed on any instrument, let alone bass guitar...Steve Lawson has made a record with just a bass guitar that is moving, musical--hell, listenable! A feat I would have heretofore thought impossible." - Pure Music Magazine
"When I first heard Steve Lawson it made me go home and practice my bass again, it was inspiring to hear his use of bass loops with great melodies. He doesn't play like a bass player, he plays like a musician. I am going to rip off every idea he has ever had!!" - Matt Bissonette (bassist to the stars)
"one of today's most inventive and original sounding voices on the electric bass. He is a pioneering innovator in the art of looping." - cliff engel, www.bassically.net
"This is subtle music that demands your undivided attention." - www.aural-innovations.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2005
Band Website: stevelawson.net
Band Members: Steve Lawson - just me, a lot of the time, though just as often these days I'm playing in a duo with an unbelievably great singer, Lobelia

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Occasional other co-conspirators include BJ Cole, Cleveland Watkiss, Theo Travis, Julie McKee, Jez Carr, Patrick Wood, Michael Manring and others. (my other project is The Recycle Collective , featuring all of the above players).Buy new album from Amazon.com downloads here!! Buy CDs by clicking here or on each of the CD cover pictures to head to my online store, or on the paypal 'Add to basket' buttons to buy direct from this page. or the iTunes buttons for iTunes... Behind Every Word - my latest CD (£7.50 + P&P)
Grace And Gratitude - my solo CD from 2004 (£7.00 + P&P)
For The Love Of Open Spaces - duo with Theo Travis (£7.00 + P&P)
Conversations - duo with Jez Carr (£7.00 + P&P)

special offer - 3 CDs for 20!

If you are interested in booking me for a gig, please send me a message, I'm sure we can work something out...


Influences: musicians/bands - mouse over the little pictures on the montages below to see the names of lots of my favourite and most listened to artists! some favourite albums - some favourite artists -authors - Douglas Coupland, Toni Morrison, CS Lewis, Alistair McIntosh, Barry Green, Dave Gorman, Danny Wallace, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Mike Ridell, Rich Hall etc. etc.Stuff - cats, the sea, politics, spirituality, the bbc, conversations, beauty, pain, hope, grace, travel, comedy.Recent Listening - what's playing right now -Bass gearModulus Basses Accugroove Speaker Cabinets Looperlative real time looping E-Pro bass preamps
Sounds Like: Well, you're here now so click the 'play' button... but just in case you've not got any speakers on your computer -One guy with a bass making very unbasslike noises.A combination of many of the influences above, with more obvious nods towards Bill Fris/ell, Bri/an En/o, Robert Fr/ipp, Michael Man/ring, John Mart/yn, Jo/ni Mit/chell, Victor Wo/oten, Eber/hard Weber, David Syl/vian, Pat Meth/eny, and others in that vein.It's all instrumental, and all the solo albums are recorded live in the studio.
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Record Label: Pillow Mountain Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

join in the buzz-creation experiments and win CDs...

I'm doing a bit of fun research into how people find new music, and how fans and friends can best help spread the word and introduce people to the music they love. the first two experiments are outlin...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:59:00 PST

3 Fab new Blog Posts Over at SteveLawson.net

Been blogging lots over on my site - here are the last three that you might like to read: :: Design Museum Gig Last Friday (posted 27/5/08) :: Social Media Thoughts Pt 4: The Podcast (posted 27/5/08)...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:42:00 PST

Social Media thoughts Pt 3 - the ongoing conversation...

So, from my own ill-formed thoughts on how to use Social Media as a way of connecting with an audience, I started reading more about the way other people were doing the same thing, and watching what o...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Sun, 25 May 2008 11:56:00 PST

Social Media Thoughts Pt 2 - The Playground Of The Curious.

I wrote off the idea of chasing a record deal before I even put out my first album. After a series of pretty uninspiring encounters with labels via artists I was working with in the 90s, and the simpl...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Wed, 21 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

Social Media thoughts Pt 1 - my background and history.

The last couple of months have been a really interesting time for me in terms of getting to experiment with, understand and conceptualise about the world of interactive web tools refered to as 'Social...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Tue, 20 May 2008 06:13:00 PST

"Nobody owes you their attention" - thoughts on multi-act gigs and audiences...

Miriam and Jez againOriginally uploaded by solobasssteveFriday night, I went out to a fabulous gig - Miriam Jones was playing at The Perseverance in London, with Jez Carr on piano, so Lo and I, along ...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Sun, 18 May 2008 07:16:00 PST

A new review... of ’And Nothing But The Bass’??

It's amazing what you can find looking at your web-stats - I was browsing through mine, seeing who had linked back to this site, and found a review just posted on a blog in January of this year, of An...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Tue, 13 May 2008 10:17:00 PST

MAJOR website overhaul... phew!

Hello lovely MySpacelets, I have much to blog about (in all likelihood it'll appear there before it appears here), but the delay has come because I've been doing a MASSIVE remodeling job on my website...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Sat, 10 May 2008 03:02:00 PST

Gig news and New track!

I've added a bunch of gig dates to my Reverb Nation page (sorry, I will add them to MySpace ASAP!) Anyway, the first of the gig is THIS SUNDAY in London, with Patrick Wood and Roy Dodds. We've jjust f...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Thu, 01 May 2008 04:40:00 PST

Etiquette for soliciting press-quotes from people...

I've been asked a few times lately to give quotes to people to use for promo purposes, so I thought it would be a good time to offer some thoughts on the process. Largely because it's something I've d...
Posted by Steve Lawson - Bass 2.0! on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:26:00 PST