Leland Sklar
Legendary Bass Player
“Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin”.....Suzi Quatro “The bass, no matter what kind of music you’re playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the base stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.”....Charlie Haden With his long, silky, fluorescent white beard, making him look like a holy figure or an ultimately thin Santa, Leland Sklar, one of the planet’s most iconic bass phenomenas, sat prepared to shed some sunshine, effervescence and humor on his legendary career and his highly anticipated coffee table book. Like fireworks plunging into the night sky and shattering the darkness, Sklar defied music and defined it at the same time. His career was orchestrated with a sophisticated anarchy while celebrating the threat of imagination.
Ever since the early 70’s Leland Sklar has been a discriminatory symbol amongst the Hollywood session Bass players and the L.A. rock music community having done over 2600 records. His signature bass style has been heard on hits by James Taylor, Phil Collins, Linda Ronstadt, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Hall & Oates, and many more. Not at all limited to music Sklar, has played on film soundtracks including Forrest Gump, Ghost, My Best Friends Wedding and television shows such as Hill Street Blues and Knight Rider. The name Leland Sklar appears on many album cover backs along with drummer Russ Kunkel, guitarist Dan Kortchmar, and keyboardist Craig Doerge, who would come to be known as the legendary band the “Section.” Currently Leland is playing with his band, “The Immediate Family” and awaiting the unveiling of his book which is an artistic collection of profound images that he’s photographed throughout the years of celebrities and other people flipping him the bird....so while every inch of heaven (California) was engulfed with smoke Sklar proceeded with our conversation....
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My first inquiry is how does someone start a YouTube page and the within 24 hours get over 100 thousand subscribers? The people that do that are the people that go on YouTube and do a video of like eating boogers.
