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AN INTERVIEW WITH A ROCK BASSIST

     BY VIC WOO

    PLANET THUMPER NEWS

VIC :  Good morning, can I call you Ed?

EDUARDO :  My friends call me Eduardo, but suit yourself.

VIC :   O.K.  Eduardo, I understand that in your first band you only had 4 strings on your guitar and your drummer used the bottom of a trash can to pound out the groove to "Love Me Do" by The Beatles.

EDUARDO :   Yes, I like to think of it as "The 1st Unplugged Sessions".

VIC :  Someone said your band played for your high school’s homecoming dance and often on weekends, you would rent The Knights of Columbus Hall and sell tickets to weekend dance parties that your band, "The Blue Motion" would perform for, and also something about “The Most Outstanding Musician Award" at the 1970 MS Southern Jazz Festival.

EDUARDO :  Yes, you are correct sir. We were too young to play clubs, so we would organize our own block party and sell tickets. It was a great way to meet girls. I had a bass solo at the Jazz Fest- my first!

. VIC :   One of your friends said since those days you’ve traveled across the U.S. and Canada opening for and backing up various artists and national acts.

EDUARDO :  Yes, I did it for the money AND it was my secret quest to eat at every Waffle House in North America. When you’re sitting in one of those orange booths, you can be anywhere in the Cosmos…….. "Good morning", "Order up", ”More coffee", "Smothered, chunked, scattered and covered"

VIC :  Upon listening to your approach to playing the bass, it appears you’ve been heavily influenced and emulate such bass greats like Paul McCartney, Chris Squire, Stanley Clarke, Victor Wooten, of all people...... Sting?

EDUARDO :  Yes, I love Sting’s phrasing, and Victor Wooten is O.K. I guess, (tongue in cheek) but you need 6 fingers on both hands, AND you must have a work visa from another planet.

VIC :  What’s this buzz about your 16 track digital recording studio and a "Rainmakers" CD in the works? I also hear you are writing original compositions for movie soundtracks?

EDUARDO :  YES, BUZZZZZZZZ! (MORE OF BUZZZZZ) CONTINUE THE BUZZ!!

VIC :  Thanks for the interview. It was different.

EDUARDO :  Yes, and thank you for letting me use the name of my favorite band so many times, and also thanks to all of the amazing musicians I've had the opportunity to work with over the last five years here in the Jackson area. All are friends. Thanks to Johnny Crocker, Shannon Goree, Chalmers Davis, Hunter Gibson, Mike Garrett, Tony Berry, Mike Greenhill, Jon Moorefield, Debbie Buie. John Broderick, Ronnie Owen, Denise Owen, Sam Brady, Mike & Marty, Mike George, Cucho Gonzalez, Richard Willis, Lyle Donald, R.W. Sullivan, The Sterling Family (David, Ruth, Denise, Mike, Rhonda) AND the awesome Danny Scallions. Sorry if I’ve left anybody out. I only went back 5 years. It gets kind of fuzzy any farther back.

EDUARDO :   People often say "You guys in The Rainmakers look like you’re having such fun playing together". That’s because "WE ARE"!! My buddies Larry Brewer and David Cummings make every gig something new. After all these years of playing music, I couldn’t ask for anything better than that.

 

              A REAL MUSICIAN DOESN'T GET TOO OLD TO PLAY,

               HE GETS OLD IF HE DOESN'T PLAY!