by Margaret | Jul 13, 2020 | Interviews, On My Mind |
I was interviewed for Bass Guitar Magazine for the August 2020 Issue. I don’t know what to say. It’s so cool and I’m so proud of this. You can read (most) of it below, or even better – Print Edition: https://bit.ly/31ouwuW to hang on your bedroom wallđ See you on the low end! Love,...
by Margaret | Jul 17, 2019 | Interviews |
Heylo Bassers!  Here is another installment of my InterMagsView where I sit down and bribe really cool bass players with food and wine to talk to me about really cool stuff! My interview below is with Dave Dreiwitz.  We had a very nice chat over dinner this winter at Cibo e Vino on the Upper West Side and talked about playing bass in Joe Russo’s Almost Dead and of course, Ween. Mags: My friend emailed me today and said that he went to all three dates for Joe Russoâs Almost Dead (JRAD) at The Capitol Theatre (January 18, 19, 20, 2019). DD: He went to all three nights?! What did he say? Mags: Heâs a little star-struck by you. He told me to tell you that it was the best three nights in a row that heâs seen of JRAD. Heâs really into the whole jam-band thing. DD: I thank my lucky stars for the jam-band fans. Mags: Are you a big Phil Lesh fan? Are you a big Grateful Dead fan? DD: I am more now. Monica (Hampton), my girlfriend, is a massive fan, and weâve been together 17-18 years. When we got together, we would see The Dead, Phil and Friends, and I was getting more into it. Ween played the first Bonnaroo (2002) and Phil and Friends played right after us. It was the first time Phil and Bobby (Bob Weir) got back together after Jerry Garcia died. It was great. I remember thinking, âWow, we just played the biggest show of our lives, and Iâm sitting on the side of the stage watching Phil and Bobby...
by Margaret | Jul 7, 2018 | Interviews, On My Mind |
Heylo Bassers!  Here is another installment of my InterMagsView where I sit down and bribe really cool bass players with food and wine to talk to me about really cool stuff! My interview below is with Sal Maida.  We had a very nice chat about his new book, playing bass in the 70s and just shot the breeze over dinner this spring at Kefi on the Upper West Side â Mags: When you sat down to write Four Strings, Phony Proof, and 300 45s what was your intention? Sal: The book started with me just mulling over the idea for a while, but I was always on the road. I played in a band called Cracker for 8 years. Iâd been thinking about it and thinking about it, but I never had the time. I really couldnât start scribbling in hotel rooms because there was always something going on. When I wasnât touring anymore I went to see Chazz Palminteri do A Bronx Tale, but not the Broadway show. He did a one-man show and I went to see it in Huntington, Long Island. I thought to myself, âHmmmâŚI have some stories like that that I could weave into the music stuff.â Then I read Questloveâs book, which weaved records into the timeline of his stories. That gave me the loose idea of what I eventually did and the Chazz Palminteri show gave me the inspiration to write down all these stories about growing up. I also read Neil Youngâs book that was out of sequence. I thought, âOkay, itâs going to be out of sequence, itâs going to include my...
by Margaret | May 29, 2017 | Interviews, On My Mind |
Heylo Bassers!  Here is another installment of my InterMagsView where I sit down and bribe really cool bass players with food and wine to talk to me about really cool stuff! My interview below is with Zev Katz.  We had a very nice chat over brunch this spring at Serafina’s on the Upper West Side â Native New Yorker, Zev Katz has played with Roxy Music, Hall & Oates, Jeff Beck, Sheryl Crow, and the list goes on-and-on. Currently, he holds the bass chair on the Broadway show “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”. Mags: Iâve been spending this whole week in the âZev Katz Worldâ and itâs so deep. I was thinking that I would listen to as much as I can and I donât even think that I scratched the surface of all the different types of recordings that you have played on. Itâs pretty awesome. There is no difference between your upright playing and your electric playing. Youâve achieved â I know that you would disagree â in my mind, maximum proficiency and mastery in both instruments. Zev: I totally disagree! Youâre very kind. Mags: Thanks. So even now when you sit down to play something what are you grabbing? Are you grabbing your upright or are you grabbing your electric? Zev: UmâŚwell, it depends on the situation. Letâs say that Iâm lucky enough to be working on somebodyâs record. I just listen to a song and try to go with my instinctual feeling. I try to really hear something. Usually, I feel like I do. Sometimes my instinct doesnât work out for the artist, but a lot of the time...
by Margaret | Apr 24, 2015 | Interviews, On My Mind |
Heylo Bassers!  This is my first installment of my InterMagsView where I sit down and bribe really cool bass players with food and wine to talk to me about really cool stuff! My first interview is with Mike Visceglia – Native New Yorker, Mike Visceglia got his professional start touring with Welsh rocker John Cale (Velvet Underground). Mike has been the primary bassist for Suzanne Vega since 1985, and/or has performed with Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Avril Lavigne, Jonatha Brooke, Jorma Kaukonen, Phoebe Snow, Dar Williams, Bette Midler, among many others.  He continues to be an active member of the New York music scene,  current bass player for the Broadway hit show “Kinky Boots”, and a published author of  “A View From the Side.”  Mike is having a reading, performance event for “A View From the Side” this Sunday, April 26th at Cafe Vivaldi from Noon-2pm. Mags: Alright â Iâve never interviewed anyone before so⌠Viscegs: âŚand weâre in an Italian restaurant in Hellâs Kitchen⌠Mags: I figured that weâd just hang out and do what we usually do, which is me just asking you a bunch of questions. Viscegs: Cool! Mags: SoâŚdo you remember the first time that we met? Viscegs: UmâŚyou say that we met actually before I thought we met. I remember meeting you in the park. Is that right? Mags: Yes! Viscegs: In Madison Square Park. Mags: Yeah. I knew what you looked like because John Carey told me that I should I take a lesson, and go to your clinic, and that I should try to see you play. And then I looked you up on the...
