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Michael Bastedo

Too old to rock and roll, too broke to retire !

About Me

"A vocal and sax style that’s fun to listen to and exciting to watch. Definitely a soulful player with ferocious energy and great chops...a driving force." BACKGROUND: Berklee College of Music. Studio session work in Atlanta and Seattle. Tours in U.S., Canada, and Europe with Dr. Hook, Bertie Higgins, Francine Reed, Trudy Lynn, Derrick Trucks.Michael is also one of the original Zendrum players, having worked for Zendrum Corp.in the late nineties building the bodies of the first 18 commercially sold Zendrums . He is also a Composer and Graphic Artist.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/25/2006
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/bastedo
Band Members: Michael Bastedo - Vocals, Sax, Zendrum,EWI 4000s Wind synth controller , Programming, G5 Mac, Logic Pro with all the plugins I can get my greedy hands on. I wirte, arrange,play and record everything you hear on my MySpace site.
Influences: Igor Stravinsky, Paul Dukas, Jimmi Hendrix, Wane Shorter,Samuel Barber,Andy Snitzer, David Sanborn,Eric Marienthal, Gerald Albright, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz,Harry Partch, Peter Gabriel, Bela Bartok,George Gershwin, Stan Kenton, Weather Report, Gentle Giant, Paul Winter, Gyorgy Ligeti, Robin Trower,Otis Redding,Cream, Mad River, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Toots Theilman, Steely Dan,Future Man, Frogs, Crickets, Water, Motors, Cats, Dogs, Humans, Steel Mills, small squares of paper, and many of the people who are in my friends space . . .
Sounds Like: Sasquatch wrestling an alligator. Check out my friend and bandmate Marvin Taylor's" BAND IN THE POCKET" in this video

Record Label: Offworld Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Excellent deal on cables, snakes, panels, stage boxes, etc.

Hi all, I'm passing this along to all you players out there because I know gear these days isgetting to be very expensive and good quality cables are hard to find.I went to Guitar Center a couple week...
Posted by Michael Bastedo on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:35:00 PST