But, when I look back at it, and think of all the different artists and projects, and different genres, and all that, I really feel so fortunate, and kind of pinch myself every day, feelingknowing how lucky I am that I was able to parlay my hobby into a career. Joe is a freelance journalist who has, over the past few decades, interviewed hundreds of guitarists forGuitar World,Guitar Player,MusicRadarandClassic Rock. Because when I met him, I was still in college. When we met Lee he was recovering from an unexplained infection - possibly the result of a spider bite sustained while doing some yard work, he thinks - that left him with a baseball-sized swelling on his arm and a raging temperature. That's famed session guitarist Leland Sklar. I loved the vibration of it and the responsibility that the instrument has. ProgDave74, Jul 31, 2014 #2. Rick: Yeah. I like that. What's remarkable is, a few years later I knew them all and was working with them on a daily business.". "I do hear stuff that is good, but I think the creative process has suffered dramatically. And I was fully expecting to be doing something in art or science. Because it was not a good player. When you visit any one of our 7 convenient locations, we will gladly appraise your used vehicle, no matter the make, model, or type. I had a case built for it, but it was cumbersome. You may have seen ads for Sklars signature Dingwall bass, a tasty beast that will either enthrall or terrify you depending on your fondness for the Ralph Novak fan-fretting system that it employs. We drive each other crazy enough and we know each other so well. Songs theyre talking about, the stories theyre talking about are from 30 years ago. Leland Sklar:Under those circumstances, I remember her name from those days, with J. D., and all that. All rights reserved. He is a member of the Los Angeles-based instrumental group The Section, who served as the de facto house band of Asylum Records and were one of the progenitors of the soft rock sound prevalent on top-40 radio in the 1970s and 1980s. Rick: Yes. Yeah. Youve heard Lee Sklars bass parts more often than you think. [40], Previously, Sklar also had signature instruments from Gibson[41] and Valley Arts Guitar. ", When Sklar gained notoriety in 1970, he was playing a 1962 Fender Jazz Bass, his first really good bass, which he carved up with the artistic flair of the time. Pretty amazing. Leland Sklar: No. [21], In the 1970s, Sklar worked together so frequently with drummer Russ Kunkel, guitarist Danny Kortchmar, and keyboardist Craig Doerge, who replaced King after her own rise to stardom, that they became "The Section," a distinction Taylor had bestowed upon them as his rhythm section. I was fortunate that he was a collector, because I had a bass that I really wanted to get rid of, that was a beautiful instrument. Its just that the time frame is so flexible at this point, because nobody knows what tomorrows going to be. . They opened for Led Zeppelin,[6] but their only recordings were unreleased demo tracks. Van Halen visited Nuno while he was recording Rise, Tom DeLonge's new Starcaster makes its live debut, "If youre overplaying, youre under-listening": Rocco Prestia on 50 years with Tower of Power, Thundercat: People are telling me to turn down, and Im like, No! Leland Sklar: The thing I love about Henry, because Ive worked with Henry now for 50 years, Hes one of those really stealth photographers. Were like folk singers. So I took that body to John and we made a bass out of it. Phil is one of my favorites. Yeah, its sad, sad. Im actually still in touch with Shawn. Leland Sklar is 73 years old. You know Robert? Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Probably. I'll go to the house mixer, and he's got the fader off - the bass player is blowing everybody away and can't be mixed.". And then he and I parted ways until 2000. [7] He is known to have used a Petersen tuner,[7] as well as a TC Electronics "polytuner" which he has said is incredibly accurate and unobtrusive.[46]. Soon after that, Sklar was only getting calls for electric bass work. BA1 1UA. "Well, I have a real 'give a shit' attitude. When you were dealing with Dylan and people like that, it was basically a guy sitting, playing guitar, and singing. Rick: Yeah. And we did the Im Not Dead Yet tour. He is an actor and composer, known for Man of Steel (2013), The Ant Bully (2006) and Playing by Heart (1998). "I work with Euphonic Audio in New Jersey, who I discovered - once again - at a NAMM show a few years ago," he explains. Because, he just knows how to be around other players and work through them. I was at the Hard Rock Caf with Robert Knight. And he was playing solo with a 12-string. Leland: I grew up in a very eclectic house, and my parents had an extensive record collection, so I was exposed to lots of music in many different styles. We're almost like Siamese twins when we play together. Leland Sklar: So, we were really kind of learning on the gig. Do you remember those sessions with Spheeris and Phillips? But, theres a lot of people, thats the first thought they have about the music business, is theyre going to get rich. ", "I figured this would just be one gig, but Fire & Rain came out, and suddenly James is on the cover of Time magazine - he's like the second coming. "When Charvel first started, I went out there and saw a bunch of nice alder bodies, and I hung them on wires and tapped them until I found the one that really resonated. She did a song about him called Jesus was a Cross Maker. Thats when I knew Id come home, with that Jazz. Right? We were cutting to analog tape. All the projects, everything else, will find its way at some point. As soon as the guitar players and piano players got amplifiers, Sklar's upright bass couldn't compete with their volume. [23], Sklar has also been a part of the annual bands assembled in support of the "We Write The Songs"[30] event sponsored by ASCAP at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and the pre-show for the Grammy Awards. Sklar has more than 2,500 albums to his credit (and still counting), and is considered to be one of the "A" players in the highly selective L.A. music community where the competition for recording dates is fierce, and . Rick: Thats pretty cool. Leland Sklar. Not many records have the same vibe as records that were done back then, and it's because you're lacking a roomful of gifted musicians. He celebrates his birthday every 28th of May. It's almost as if there are no young people getting called to go in. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Eleven years after their first album, the Barefoot Servants recorded a second album at Ben Schultz's home studio, this time with Neal Wilkinson on drums. Whether or not he has a recognizable bass sound, however, is of little concern to the session vet - his ability to play pop, rock, jazz, country and easy listening has made him one of the industry's first-call players. Rick: When you and The Immediate Family were formed, and I know that you guys played with The Section, and that Had you not played for a while, and then so it became kind of a reunion to you guys? As a group member, session player, or touring musician, Sklar has lent his talents to well over 2,000 albums. And like, when we finish this up, Im doing a video every day, and telling stories about it. He was another guy that, I saw him once at The Bayou here. Ive hosted house concerts at my place for the last well, up until this virus. "I remember my first time in a studio, it was 1966 and I was in a band, and the musicians that were hired to play on the record were people like Carol Kaye and Hal Blaine, and the next few days there's Earl Palmer and Mike Melvoin and Jim Gordon. Henry seemed like a genuinely really nice guy. So, he was averaging like 70 thousand seats a night. And man, he was singing his ass off. Do you know Henry Diltz? To me, the music business really can be like being Peter Pan. It was amazing. The Immediate Family (Left to Right) Russ Kunkel; Leland Sklar; Steve Postell; Danny Kortchmar; and Waddy Wachtel. The foursome rehearsed and cut the first, self-titled album, Barefoot Servants, live in the studio. 2004-2022 Guitar International Group, LLC. Why that planet-sized beard, Lee? The Immediate Family (Left to Right): Steve Postell, Danny Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar and Russ Kunkel. Leland Sklar: Also, thats how you meet other players. On May 6, 2020, Sklar created a Top Ten list of his favorite songs of all time for Spotify. [Laughs], Leland Sklar on bass on Shawn Phillips Bright White. Starting out, one of your biggest breaks was playing with James Taylor. The Liberace Show completely captivated young Leland, Liberace's style and panache, the candelabra and his older brother George on the violin. Lets do this. And he gave me rudimentary lessons, and I fell in love with the bass and never looked back. He went to the administration building and took a battery of aptitude tests and found his highest aptitudes were in art and science. It was really funny, though, when we started doing gigs. Read Full Biography. Heres how it works. And theyre helping her down the stairs, and then they get her to the stage and help her up the stairs. His ability to play pop, rock, jazz, country and easy listening has made him one of the industry's first-call players. The partnership was renewed last year when Sklar rejoined Taylor and his old sparring partner Carole King for the giant Troubadour Reunion Tour, a jaunt which took the band through Americas biggest venues and which was chronicled this year on DVD. Im trying to burn down the stage!, Slash on his love of Les Pauls: That Kris Derrig Les Paul came in the 11th hour when we were doing Appetite. And put together a little video, and get it on YouTube, and all of a sudden, maybe theres something quirky like, okay, did their videos of them on the treadmills. And that really changed things for me. Ive never really cut it since then, although I do trim it from time to time.. He started his career at the Daily Telegraph in London, where his first assignment was interviewing blue-eyed soul legend Robert Palmer, going on to become a full-time author on music, writing for benchmark references such as 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and Dorling Kindersley's How To Play Guitar Step By Step. Leland Sklar: I know him by name, but I dont know him. I hate it when I look at a show and I see that the bass players got a rack with 10 basses and hes constantly messing around with them. And the real joy of this project is weve all been side men our entire careers. [17][18] The tracks were produced by Mike Post. It took us a year to get 1000 people. Rock On: Leland Sklar Rages Against The Machine. I think Mike Miller played guitar on it. Arne Dedert/dpa/Corbis With his foot-and-a-half-long gray beard, bassist Leland Sklar has been one of the most instantly recognizable musicians on stage or in videos for decades. And in 1990, we parted ways because I had already committed to a year on the road with Phil Collins at that point. But for me, I only have really, two instruments that I have any nostalgic feelings about it all. And man, that spotlight hit her, boom, she was 18 years old. [6] Taylor spent a couple of days with the band. I went to a high school where there were all sorts of rules, he sighs, and I got so sick of having to look a certain way and keep my hair trimmed to their regulations that the day I left - the second I left! Sell Your Used Vehicle, No Matter the Make or Model. Like with Shawn Phillips, Ive done a bunch of albums with Shawn over the years, and a lot of recording. So, I really had to wrap myself around an entire different way of playing, once I started with James. And the guys helped her back to her thing. Did you ever think that touring would hurt your session work, that the phone would stop ringing? Wed love to stay in touch, sign up for The Pick team to contact you with great news, content and offers. Also, I have two sets of Precision pickups, and I have them where Jazz pickups would've normally gone. Hes like the godfather of photography. And I go, Oh, okay. A brief tour of select cities in the U.S. was conducted in November 2021.[25][26]. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. [20] It was during that time Sklar met James Taylor, when a friend of Wolfgang's drummer Bugs Pemberton, John Fischbach, co-owner of Crystal Sound on Vine Street in Hollywood, brought his friend James Taylor around to Wolfgang's rehearsal house in Sunland. Fortunately, tried and trusted equipment keeps Sklar on the road and performing at his best. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. One is inlayed with mother of pearl and the other is abalone. A global pandemic is not how Leland Sklar imagined his decades-long music career would come to a screeching halt. While this amount of back-to-back touring might seem exhausting at best and impossible to execute at worst (how does he remember all those songs? A veteran of countless recording sessions and world tours, he's known far and wide for his stellar grooves, wry sense of humor and long, flowing, white beard. Which really became evident towards the end, like when he did the interview with David Letterman. Hes got quite a range. But, I became aware of him because I was a big fan of the Modern Folk Quartet. And theres so much talent out there. I mean, he was living in Italy, then he moved to South Africa, Texas. Sklar said he was intimidated by the skill of these players and didn't believe he could do what they did, but three and a half years later he was working with them every day. Leland Sklar Jackson Browne Minstrel Pickers Rock And Roll Beard Musician Session You never know who you'll see walking around NAMM. It sounded like you guys were just getting off the ground, and you were getting, maybe a feel for being a band thats really fronting themselves, like the cruise that you did, and all that. And when I got in, I assumed I would be playing piano. Lee Sklar has been a prominent figure among Hollywood session bassists dating back to the 1970s and ever since. His major source of income is his career as an electric guitar bassist. There's work going on, but I see the same faces that I have for years. [5] Sklar is a Ukrainian surname meaning glazier, a person whose profession is fitting glass into windows and doors. Got an old sports car that you've outgrown, or maybe it's time to downsize from that full-size . The bass uses fanned frets, which result in longer low strings and shorter high strings. This philosophy extends to a healthy disrespect for gear obsessives, his comments above about his equipment notwithstanding. But, he did a bunch of photos when we were in the studio with The Immediate Family, doing the new album. It all made sense with that bass.. Of Jackson Browne, he said: "I didn't know anything about this guy Jackson Browne. This guy This is pretty unbelievable., Rick: Yeah. No - nothing!. Look at The Stones. Leland Sklar: Well, primarily. When I get called in for a session, they like a nice clean bass sound.". He was born on May 28, 1947, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Peter Asher asked me to do a tour. This bass was built in 2012 as a custom project. [6], Sklar spent five years at San Fernando Valley State, but never graduated, because his own music career would intervene. [26][7], Sklar owns a Hfner bass he uses only as the song demands. In 2018, reuniting several members of The Section, a new group was formed, The Immediate Family, with Leland Sklar on bass, Russ Kunkel on drums, Danny Kortchmar and Waddy Wachtel on guitars and vocals, and musician/producer Steve Postell on vocals and guitar. It was through this connection that Sklar would later work with Post on every one of his TV shows: The Rockford Files, Magnum, P.I., Hill Street Blues, The A-Team, to name a few. Leland Sklar: Yeah. But, if you go into it because there is no Plan B, his is what you need to do in your life is play music. It was really great, says Sklar, asked if he enjoyed the Taylor/King reunion. "If I had any real advice, it would be to play with people. And we went in and in a week, we nailed the first album. [16], In 1967, Group Therapy had been signed to the Canterbury[14] label and went into United Studios in Hollywood to record. [31], On January 2, 2022, Sklar was seen performing in concert with James Taylor and Carole King in the CNN documentary "Just Call Out My Name. 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 . He played it exclusively until 1974. A 400 turbo and a completely built Jag rear end, and stuff. I cant play a note of guitar. As a subscriber enjoy big savings off the shop price! Mike Deasy, Dennis Budimir, Al Casey and Tommy Tedesco were on guitars. Sklar started studying piano just after turning five years old. "The problem with the bass was that it was really heavy. So, I got rid of everything, and just kept the hot rod. Incidentally, Sklar attended San Fernando Valley State with Tom Scott, the great sax player, and actor/comedian Cheech Marin. Jimmie fit right into that. IM - Legendary Session Musician Embraces the 'Brave New World' With more than 2,600 albums under his belt as a session musicianas well as decades on tour with some of the biggest artists in the music industry and musical contributions to countless Hollywood films and major television showsbassist Leland "Lee" Sklar has guided his career by a simple . That was my initial reaction when I first saw the video for Phil Collins' smash hit, "Sussudio", in 1985. Im not one of these guys whos completely dedicated to his rig and his gear. . But, I couldnt do it, because I was already committed to James Taylor at that point. Sklar (born Leland Bruce Sklar, May 28, 1947, Milwaukee, WI) has more than 2000 albums to. [6], While at San Fernando Valley State, Sklar played in the orchestra. David November 19th, 2022 Pep Talk See more ideas about leland sklar, leland, musician. What's the story behind that Eagle double neck bass you used to play? Rick: So, you were working with who, mostly? That you can afford a guy to help you. But, theresa lot of misconception as to what this is. Its actually very comfortable. I would say Ive probably heard maybe at the very outset, maybe 100 of them. And The New Christy Minstrels, a lot of people came out of that group. Nowadays the world and its sales rep wants Sklar to endorse their products, and its a situation that makes him a little uneasy. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. So, unless they actually sent me it, or it got radio play, I really wasnt that aware of it. Roam the world of youtube videos of some of your favorite artists live performances or official videos and often youll find a guy playing bass with a cascading beard. At one point, the men tried out each others' basses and found they were nearly unable to play the other's instrument: Sklar set his action[43] very high and Entwhistle set his string height very low. I was sitting on the other side of the glass, looking at them with my mouth hanging open. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). The presence of mind. Leland Sklar: Rarely did we get a copy of it. [Laughter], Rick: Well, they are family, arent they? Ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the top fifty bass guitar players of all time, Sklar can count coup on laying down bass lines on such well known tracks as: Youve Got a Friend (James Taylor), Running on Empty (Jackson Browne), No Other (Gene Clark) and literally thousands more by the pantheon of Rock n Roll Hall of Famers. Who plays bass for Phil Collins? "I talk about this with some of the guys from my generation, who came up a little bit after the Wrecking Crew. And then after that, we all sort of went our own ways. In various configurations several of the group members were members of Asylum Records The Section, the legendary session players who laid down instrumentation and sometimes backing vocals for Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon for the label, and at other times for various labels for Carole King, James Taylor and many more top artists. I don't think I've ever played a part the same way twice. Sklar rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coaleced into a group in its own right, The Section. But, that should be really great. The juices of creativity that flowed through the room were staggering. Sklar recalls the path that led him to become a bass player, and unsurprisingly - given his laissez-faire attitude to gear - it didnt involve any high-quality instruments until some years into his playing career. I love an old Boss OC-2 Octave Divider. And I studied classical piano until I went into junior high school when I was 12. Some of the artists caught my attention, that a lot of people may not know. His bass playing has appeared on over 2600. Leland Sklar: Thats when everybodys counted you out. And he was a member of that and played banjo within it. They backed other artists, such as Jackson Browne. Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American bassist and session musician. And that really is because theyre covered in autographs, and the autographs are irreplaceable. "The only time it gets a little bit squirly is when you get up to the last six frets of the neck, because if you look down at the dot marker on the upper side of the fretboard, the note youre going to finger is about a half-inch away from that. And there was something about him that, like he could have been in Zappas group, kind of thing. And then we went out and did the Finally, The First Farewell Tour, was I think around 2004. The Beard Behind The Bass: Leland Sklar YouTube interview In this episode, Leland talks about his new band, The Immediate Family, as well as what its like to be on tour with Phil Collins, writing and recording music during COVID, and what advice he would give to new musicians just starting out. Upcoming Leland Sklar Interview [NEW] Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Chris May, Jul 31, 2014. The whole thing probably cost $80 at the time. And its fun doing with The Immediate Family, because Waddys connection with Warren is so deep. So he pulled out this old, blonde upright and showed me a few things, and within a week I was in love with it. Rick: Yeah. MusicRadar caught up with Sklar to talk about how he approaches sessions, what's different about the recording world of today from when he started, what basses and gear he uses, and to find out what advice he has for players looking to break in. [35], For larger stage venues, Sklar uses an EA iAMP Classic and an EA iAMP Pro for redundancy with a four 10" speaker bottom (Euphonic Audio NL-410W) and optionally attached to that is a Euphonic single 12" speaker cabinet (Euphonic Audio NL-112) with a Yamaha Subkick placed 1/2" in front of it. Biography: In addition to being a very active correspondent on the TOTO Network, Leland (Lee) Sklar has been a prominent figure among studio/touring bassists dating back to 1970.Sklar (born Leland Bruce Sklar, May 28, 1947, Milwaukee, WI) has more than 2000 albums to his credit (and still counting), and is considered to be one of the "A" players in the highly selective L.A. rock music . They called me - me and Russ Kunkel, the drummer - and we showed up, and Carole King was the piano player. Leland Sklar: Thats why I like clubs, too. You've heard his bass parts on a huge number of albums in a wide variety . I was still in college, but I decided to go on the road. 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