Sometime during 1994, Music Tech, downtown Minneapolis. I helped Scott Henderson and his awesome band unload their equipment van when they performed at my music school on a Friday afternoon. He was so cool, and gave me great advice I’ll never forget. He said “think of it(guitar) as areas of sound, and not like precise scales”. Or something just like that. Very cool.
I just recently discovered Dirty Loops and had my fiancé listen to them. She liked how catchy + technical their art is and I told her "that's the result when a group of individuals have great musical skills and came together as a band".
Scott Henderson!!! Tribal Tech is good stuff. Gary Willis!!!!!!! I bet Henrik listens to a lot of fusion. I'm going to see Dirty Loops tomorrow night in Maryland at The Fillmore. 🤘🔥🤘
Its very reminiscent of what Victor Wooten was doing this style for at least 30 yrs ...double thumping and got more ideas when he met Bela Fleck and joined his band
Why would he still wear the glove even tho he's not playing for pretty much the whole interview. It's really an aesthetic thing more than anything, even tho it looks pretty ridiculous 😂 loved this interview tho
I don't often say this because I can appreciate almost all guitars and basses in some way as objects with utility and often beauty, but Henrik's pink bass is really just ugly haha😅
You go see a movie. You respect the actors that play their parts well and that fit into the cast. “The ensemble”… “ensemble” means “together” in French. Imagine if every musician in the band were showing off their chops… that would be terrible music.
At the same time some of the best music and acting happens when one or two artists are just given a chance to show the audence what they've got. One of my favourite stage musicals, "Thrill Me," is a retelling of the infamous case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb with a cast of two: one actor playing Leopold, the other playing Loeb. To put this in a musical context we can look at instances like Rush's "YYZ," or "La Villa Strangiato" where Geddy, Alex, and Neil all get their chance to show off. If you watch Henrik's playing with Dorty Loops his playing fits in perfectly with the other members of that band in the context of the music that they play. Don't judge his entire style and output from a no-context five second clip. Also plenty of people like instances where one performance dominates. When that happens in acting said person is called a movie star. When that happens in music saud person is called a rock star. People don't show up to Tom Cruise or Jack Black movies for their acting chops: they show up because their name is on the poster. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," one of the longest running, most financially successful, and most beloved movies of all time, is basically as bunch of actors competing to see who can out-overact all the others: Stephen Curry became an instant icon because he won the contest. I don't think Frank Zappa could've played a standard 4/4 12 bar blues without breaking into spmetjing that wouldn't bore him to to death if his life depended on it, and thats okay because people listen to Frank Zappa for Frank Zappa and the sounds that only Frank Zappa could produce. Especially now eyeballs are earnings, and you dont get views by blending in.
Gotta watch the entire interview, not just this Short. See this clip in its real context, and also check out Henrik Linder’s work with Dirty Loops and others, then make up your mind about him. His ensemble playing is world-class.
