Darkglass Podcast #1: Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse) 

He's sort of "earned" the gray.

He looks so wise, like a metal god

Agreed

Agree. But my inner eye still sees the young Alex in Nike Shoes and headbanging with full blond hair.

A lot of good one-liners and/or advice in this interview...

Hell of a songwriter too

I agree. He is one of my biggest examples for (metal) bass playing. He is at an almost inhuman skill level that i will never attain, but at least i try to learn a lot from his style of playing. I am already happy with a small percentage of his technique 😉

I would say even as a human being. Gives off such a good vibe.

Alex Webster was my Geddy Lee growing up. Such a monster musician and a chill dude.

You can always notice the guys that REALLY appreciate what they have.

I have and it was instantly like talking to someone I already knew

yeah he signed my bass in 1996 when i was 16 years old and brought my first bass to a cc concert hehe very nice guy, all the cc guys are nice dudes

Yes!

feel old yet?

The bear definetly makes him look older lmao

He was born in 1969

I met Alex yesterday in zurich-Switzerland C Corpse concert, took photos with him , ufffff unbeliveable my idol……..

Amos would be a blast

That's a really interesting point. I practice way too little. Time to practice more!

so like 1 hour a day?

Depending your level and assimilation . If you start , yeah , but with a balance that make the stuff funny to do , and all is new , even hard , so you practice and must practice hard and long . But when you re artist and play like for 15 years like i do , you practice regulary when you re inspired . Practicing bored forced mechanical exercices for 5 h a day to fuck up the brain is not good , you don't play better and your brain is not assimilating . You don't progress . But when you practice 2 , 3 hours a day some time , stop 3 days to 1 week , by burst then practice again , and you ll see a fresh maneer progress . And not repeating yourself . Personnally i do exercices for warmin up then play songs i made that are fun but challenging too , to the muscle memory stuff too then i improvise and search new things . In my own expression without looking outside . At home , i listen a lot I love metal , but i listen a lot of Big band stuff , Mahavishnu and tommy bolin . I don't listen just drummers . Im a composer too , so in my head , i dont think like a drummer . But the thing is as jazz i broke barreers between instruments concepts and arranging . It open doors more for developping original ideas Instead of looking to drummers only as drummer , or bass players as bass player , or Guitar players as ...so on.. It open doors to something different in your stimulation as artist that break with what everybody is doing , especially now .

Alex for Gandalf and music production in the Amazon's Lord of the Rings series.

Nosturi mainittu, torilla tavataan

Kyllä vain!

Wasn't it though? :P

Cuando tenga un tiempo, lo subtitularé ;)

That would be awesome! Let's see if we can make it happen.

Awesome🤘🤘🤘

justin chancellor is a tech 21 endorser probably will not gonna happening

Matt van den Ham that was all thanks to Jim Carey. Having Cannibal Corpse appear was Jim's idea as he was a big Corpse fan. I remember reading that in a magazine that discussed the Cannibal Corpse cameo and how it came about.

It happened pretty quickly. Some people experience that. Y'know, they look 25 until they're 50 or 60 and then BAM, grey hair within a year.

Was he colouring it up 'til recently? This blew my mind, but I really don't follow CC daily. I'm 47 and my beard is as grey as Alex's.

I doubt that very much. I don't think grey hair bothers him in the slightest.

Kids don't turn your hair grey, it's nothing but genetics. I'm 36, no kids, lots of grey hair.

He’s got a wife and dog, but no children. I respect that. Also, Alex is three months away from 50 man, you’ll go grey at that age. You can actually see him transition into wise old man if you compare pictures of him from 2009, then 2014, then 2017-18.