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So, last Spring I played a short-notice, one-set, no-rehearsal gig just for the thrill of it and I enjoyed it (I tell the entire story in my War Pigs video if you’re interested). Since then, Jeff Rubin has asked me to play a full night with him on a couple of occasions but I haven’t been able to, either because of calendar conflicts or because I would not have had enough time to prepare myself for a full night’s worth of material. However, the last time I declined, I had enough sense to ask him for his setlist so I could start working on the material and, this way, the next time he asked, I’d be ready…or readier anyway. I’ve been working on some of the stuff and thought I’d create a new playlist titled, “Learned For Live.”

Here’s the idea behind the playlist -

The songs in this playlist are songs I've learned for a live situation. I take a different approach for learning songs to play live than I do for my normal cover videos. For my videos I normally agonize over the correctness of every note but I'm not quite so demanding of myself for live material. I tend to pick and choose my favorite licks that I consider to be important and signature to the song as well as the licks that I think I'll be able to play most comfortably and most consistently.

I also take a "live" approach when recording these videos as well - one take, just like a live performance.



The bass - Since last Spring, I’ve gone on a bit of a bass buying binge and have gathered up some of the basses I’ve owned in the past and a couple that I’ve just always wanted to own. Fortunately for me, not many other people are interested in the basses I’m attracted to so none of these instruments have really cost me all thatt very much. This ugly duckling is an Ovation Magnum III in a lovely Charcoal-Burst finish. I really had my eye on a Magnum II (that thing is really ugly) but they seem to be a bit more expensive. The 3’s and 4’s are much more reasonable priced. I like the big, gaudy pick-up and the over engineered bridge and just the overall look of them. If I’d have heard this first, I probably would not have bought it but it’s growing on me. It has sort of “hollowness” to it, like a Precision, but also has this nice buzzy growl which comes as much from the pick-ups as it does the way the bass is the set up. In any case, it’s sound (and appearance) just seemed to suit this song perfectly.

The song is Iron Man, of course, by Black Sabbath off of their 1970 album, Paranoid. As you probably know, Geezer Butler played the bass. I can only imagine what was going through my Mother's mind as she heard this spilling out from beneath my bedroom door when I was a teenager. I pretty much butchered the end of the song but it is what it is. In my defense, I don't think Bill Ward was ever accused of having good timing.

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