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June 22
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This is to give a big thank you to all who responded to my shout about a working and living space for Musicians. Well I have decided to work at home. So better the devil you know than the devil you don't. On the other hands you could check this out.…
May 20
Michael William Andersen commented on Joel Bassy Letort's blog post 'Work and Living space for Musician'
I'm looking for that too.
May 4
Tim Bridges commented on Joel Bassy Letort's blog post 'Stopping my fingers from having blisters'
Joel, I get this anytime I have a layoff and the hard skin softens (just like life!) I also use roundwounds, you could look at flatwounds or groundwounds, but this will change the feel and sound. Long term solution is to play/practice regularly, you…
January 24

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Town or City you live in
Newham
County/State
England
What instrument(s) do you play?
rhythm guitar, vocals, backing vocals, My main instrument is the 4 string electric bass guitar
Describe your musician status (you can pick more than one description):
I am a solo artist and a Music Producer with a Pre-Production Recording studio. I am currently looking for new members for my new band Hypersonic Phonic.Very mature music.
Can you categorise the music you like to play?
rock, classic rock, indie, blues, folk, punk, funk, jazz, hardcore, prog-rock, dance music, pop, bluegrass, soul, R&B
Please tell us more about your band/music:
I Started listening to bands like the Beatles, David Bowie, T Rex, Mott The Hoople, basically a lot of records that my older brother and sister had. This must have been in the early 1970s. Since my family moved back and forth from France to England (Devon and Somerset), I was seeing the influence that bands like the Bay city Rollers had on teens and so the thought came to me which was "well that sounds like a good job being in a pop group". My very first instrument was the Xylophone which I played at school in France. My older brother Alick, started to play guitar back in 1972, and of course it was only a matter of time before yours truly started to practice too. Also I did find it hard to put the right amount of pressure on the strings which led me to give up guitar for a while. It was Alick who told me one day "why don't you try and play the electric bass guitar", and a friend of my other brother Ian had an old ARIA and a small Novanex 10 watts bass amp for sale. So I bought them and played it to death, driving the family completely mad (Just Joking! ). I then realized that hey this is for me. So I can say I started to play bass at the age of 17, back in France (Normandy) and one of my first bands were influenced by bands like Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Status Quo, T-Rex and many others. The revelation of playing live came when in July 1978 , whilst visiting my brother Alick in Kentish Town NW5, I saw a lot of good punk bands. However, it was not until I saw The Clash at The Music Machine after being so mesmerized that I passed out. This event had such a strong effect on me that I quickly made a speedy retreat back to France, this was the moment that I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I returned to London in February 1983- and haven't look back since. I played with various bands, recorded on Bill Pritchard's "Half a Million" LP and toured nationwide, as well as appearing on Television. In 2000 I decided to learn the ins and outs of the recording process. I started an introduction to Music Technology course and then moved on to doing a BTEC, for two years in Stratford between 2001-2003. This was then followed by me undertaking a HNC in Music Production course in 2004. This allowed me to build my own studio using Apple Mac computers and all the various Music Software we were using at the college. I was not playing in any bands during this time. Although my main instrument is the electric bass guitar, I also play other instruments like Keyboards and the guitar. Check my Orbitor Journey project at www.myspace.com/orbitorjourney
I am currently involved with Plasma Blue as the studio engineer
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Your website address, or your band's:
http://Semi-professional
What do you do for a living?
I am a freelance Bass player/Music Producer (none payed work)

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Work and Living space for Musician

This is to give a big thank you to all who responded to my shout about a working and living space for Musicians. Well I have decided to work at home. So better the devil you know than the devil you don't. On the other hands you could check this out.
https://timewave-zero.soundawesome.com/ One of the bands I help as a bass player did a small festival in Uxbridge two week-end ago. Thanks' Peace.

Posted on May 20, 2010 at 9:09pm —

Joel Bassy Letort

Work and Living space for Musician

Ok Here it is again. This is big shout to all of you Artist, Musician alike. I am trying find a place to do your work and living at the same time. Since I am both a Musician and a Painter. I know there some of you who are looking for such a place...

I am thinking of a warehouse or something like it. Thank you for reading this blog.

Posted on January 4, 2010 at 8:19pm — 1 Comment

Joel Bassy Letort

New Drummer and Guitarist Singer Wanted

First Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all at RTUD.

Well I have come the decision that "Los Immigrants" , my blues band are looking for two new permanent member's.
So we are looking for a competent Mature Guitarist, Singer and a great drummer, who is not scared to pay very simple grooves.
This band is not about been flash as an individual but been flash as a band. You've got to have it to know it!
With are looking to gig next year. We have one of the best Harp player in this country. So co… Continue

Posted on December 25, 2009 at 8:00am —

Joel Bassy Letort

Stopping my fingers from having blisters

Well I though this would be a good question to ask. I have been playing for many years now and I am experiencing a case of finger blistering when I play live. I am using ground wound strings and I am thinking it might be the reason. Oh. Yes blistering only happens on my right hand , as I am right handed.

So, can anyone give me some tips. Have a Joly good Christmas and happy new year. Peace.
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Posted on December 17, 2009 at 4:01pm — 1 Comment

Joel Bassy Letort

Synthesizer player Required

We are looking for the very competent synthesizer player to complete the line up. The line up is a six to seven piece Psychedelic/electronic/Rock, with some progressive influence amount others. Currently we a re writing songs in a recording studio for our first album. Using Logic Express 8

So if you are interested, live your details here.

Thank you for reading this. Peace to all.

Posted on September 27, 2009 at 2:30pm —

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At 1:03am on March 19, 2009, Colin Gillman said…
I'm lucky in so much as I only write for when it's required. Otherwise I could end up with a catalog too. Phew!
At 1:34am on March 18, 2009, Colin Gillman said…
I love to double track my vocal. I find that part easy. It's the tuning I fall down on!!!
At 5:00pm on March 17, 2009, Colin Gillman said…
Roger that. Like this music on your page. Is that your lead vocal?
At 2:35pm on March 16, 2009, Colin Gillman said…
Nice music and a great lookign website. Really good. What's Hypersonic Phonic all about?
 
 
 

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