WELCOME, EARTHLINGS!
This is the MySpace home of Everett ELTON Bradman Shree SHYAM Das, future sound shaman, aspiring music-thanatologist, student of grammar and syntax, and deep-listening enthusiast. Thanks for stopping by! Wanna get in touch? I'm easily reachable at basswriter at gmail dot com.
A little more about what I do:
*RHYTHM IS MY MIDDLE NAME*
I was born to play drums. I am a master of the Roland Handsonic. I love playing synth bass with my feet while rockin' drums with my hands (visit me here to hear what it sounds like). My specialties? Sweaty dancefloors and sensitive situations. And I'm always on the same page as the bass player.
*LOW-FREQUENCY MANIPULATION IS MY GAME*
I love bass, and bass loves me back. I make sure to spend quality time with all eight of my bass guitars and my synth bass setup. I'm a sucker for smart chord progressions and funky drummers with dynamics.
*I MAKE NOISE—YOU DO THE SAME?*
I'm totally fascinated by analog synthesis and circuit-bending. Other things that rock my world? Ableton Live. Arturia Analog Factory. Keyboard and synth bass (I can't get enough of my Studio Electronics SE-1x). The Muse Receptor. My Ohm64 MIDI controller. A set of Roland PK-5a pedals. And I *LOVES* me some arpeggiators. I'm having a ball teaching myself how to use Max/MSP, Jitter, Processing, VJ software, and other performance-related technology.
*I'M AN EDITOR.*
I've been an associate editor at Bass Player magazine; a copy editor for the Miami Herald, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vibe, Rolling Stone, Dunlop/MXR, and the City of New York; copy chief at Computer Shopper; and editor-in-chief of Guitar World's Bass Guitar. After an extended period of woodshedding and freelancing while based in Chicago, I'll be moving to San Francisco in 2011 to become Bass Player magazine's new senior editor.
*.I WRITE ABOUT MUSIC.*
I've been lucky enough to interview some of the baddest bass badasses ever. A short list would have to include Larry Graham, Victor Wooten, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Aston "Family Man" Barrett (The Wailers), Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses), John Entwistle (The Who), Geddy Lee (Rush), Justin Chancellor (Tool), gospel icons Andrew Gouche and Joel Smith, Les Claypool (Primus), Flea (the Red Hot Chili Peppers), Bill Laswell, Doug Wimbish (Living Colour), and Squarepusher.
*I'M A TRAVELER.*
Besides my hometown, Miami, I've lived and played music in Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and in Vrindaban, Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. I've visited most of the U.S. as well as Mexico, Pakistan, England, Canada, Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, South Africa, Botswana, the Czech Republic, and Australia. In July 2009, I went back to India for the first time since 1987, and it was amazing! I spent four months there, including 40 days without human contact in a one-room cottage in Himachal Pradesh, getting tight with my bass and Handsonic.
*.AND YEP, I'M AN OPTIMIST*
I believe that despite evidence to the contrary, human beings are essentially good—slow, fragile, and easily influenced, yes—but good. Peace and plenty are possible realities. I'm a workaholic afflicted with nostalgia who knows deep down that time is not the enemy. And love is the only thing that really matters.
