You're a bass player and I'm watching this video. I really hope you do. Who this gentleman right here is. If you don't know, his name is Lee Scalar. Lee or Lee Lam Scalar has played so many bass sessions. I would guess possibly him and Dave Denise would be probably two of the most prolific recorded live playing whatever bass player's in history. Guess what? Here he is! What is... Memorex? I don't know. You tell me which one of us is real. He actually has more depth than I do. He's also wearing a wristband. I know. I lost my wristband. I can't get parking validation. Is that what it is? Well ladies and gentlemen, this is the bass player's bass player. If there ever was one. Hey, do you know what I'm doing? Excellent. What a great meeting we had last night, huh? You saved my life. It was hilarious. No, it was... This is always such an adventure coming to the Nam show. Of course. Normally I spent all four days here and have a great time, but I was out working on the East Coast. Yeah, I was in Florida, so I flew in last night and I have my Sunday here to catch up with everybody and say hi. It's crazy. I love it. I love it. So for the very few people who don't know, some of the big... Maybe they maybe know, but what I want to get is some of the big famous baselines of all time that you recorded. You know, I mean, for me, I live sort of outside, but the kind of stuff people come to me and they talk about, they go like, you're smiling face with James Taylor or Doc Amaiyes with Jackson Brown or Stratus with Billy Cobham. You know, I've worked on... I didn't know maybe 2,500 albums. You know what I'm saying? I'd say you and Nate, the East are probably the two most recorded baselines of all time. Carol King. Oh, well, how could I forget Carol? No, no, no, no, no, that's the well that so much of so many of us drew from. Very true, yes. But you know, I just feel really... I feel very blessed at this point. I'm still a working musician. That's all I care about. I think for me as a fan, the most epic thing was you getting five days notice to do this hotel, not only show, but DVD. That was amazing. We did the DVD, on the second week of the tour. Simon and I would look at each other and kind of like six months into the tour and go, this would have been a great time to be recording the show because it had taken on on light-balled songs. But I was in doing Luke at their solo album and Mike was just getting so profoundly ill at that point that they were about to cancel. They had like a year's work of work left to do and it was just no way physically he could do it. So Luke said, look, it's right there. It's just a very nice way to do it. And they basically sent me a coffee of the show and I just immersed myself in it for a week and we did one rehearsal and then headed to Dubai to do the jazz festival and... But I love working under pressure and the thing is like there were no charts involved because I'm the kind of player. If I had charts in front of me, it's real hard to get away from them. And I figure I'm joining a band for this tour. I have to look like I'm in the band. So I just played the stuff like a kind of like a lab animal. Like do you even sleep? I'm not a guy slept but I just you know because I just immersed myself and when I was driving around through town I would have that going all the time and it's a it's a it's a hard thing to do. But I've done this many times. I did a one-off with Lyle Lovehead and I basically had to learn 35 songs to go do a corporate with him. Wow how long did you have the prepared for that? A couple of days. Did you do that on a fan-friend instrument as well? That's the other thing to believe me why I was doing that. I'm not really that concerned about if I'm playing a normal fredded or a fan fredded. The fan-fredding I absolutely love because so much of my work is replacing synth base. Yeah fair enough. And guys that program synth base love to be at the bottom end of the keyboard. So I really needed to find a base that reproduced down in that register and when I met Sheldon Dingwall got it's been like 15 years ago with that extended fan fredding with 37-inch B-string all those low notes, red as notes and not just air moving. But still all the touring I'm doing right now I'm doing on the Warwick Star Base. That's the race I use on tour. Wow. And that's the one that just got damaged by the air line. Yeah which we was talking about yesterday. Yeah it's horrible. But you said you played it with tight holding the bike. Well it was basically the body got damaged but the electronics were all intact. So like on this where you're seeing it I had a gaffer tape all the way up to that point. Wow that's a long distance. Yeah and it's all cracked from this point up it's everything in here is all cracked and this this seam here separated. You got to love it. It's pulled it together and taped it and then I mean it still works but they're taking it back to Germany and they're going to repair it for me and ship it. Because the thing that I love about this is it's not a custom base. This is their Marlin. I'm playing an off the shelf instrument. Like a lot of a lot of guys you know they always think that the the guys like me get all this custom stuff made from some guys do I really like having off the shelf stuff so that if there is a problem I could just get another one sent to me and it's not like it requires all this special stuff. The only thing I've done with this base that isn't standard and they would probably do it if you wanted it is I put mandolin fret wire on all my bases. Oh okay. So the thinnest frets you can get. Yeah I've been doing that since the mid 70s and I just love the feel of that other than that it's totally stuck. That's right well see there you go. So as we've already discussed in other videos this weekend some musicians really change their gear but lead ways that straight off the rack minus the frets. That's yeah obviously you could grab one off the rack and just play it live. Yeah I mean if it's not a horrible instrument I'll play anything. I've got a couple of bases that I bought at flea markets for like $90 that I love playing. What is it? Yeah and one of the worst bases I ever had was like a $10,000 base and I dumped it. I'm not going to see who it was. But John Antwistle bought it from me because he wanted to hang it on his wall. And so I only lost a couple of hundred bucks on it. Well that's amazing. Why you must have an extensive sizable collection. No I'm not a gear head at all. Oh really? I've got about a half a dozen bases. Wow and it's only stuff that I use in the studio. I sold a lot of stuff over the years and I've given a lot of stuff away to if I have friends that have kids that want to study I figure it's better to start with a decent instrument so I'll find something I haven't been using a lot and I'll let them borrow it and have it and if the kid really sticks with it then I'll give them the base. I always tell him to look if he doesn't want to do it I want it back or if they have a daughter that wants to know say if they're not going to stick with it I want it back as I'll pass it on to somebody else and I just gave a couple of amps to some friends that really couldn't afford a decent amp and they're good players and I thought they deserve a good amp they're good players. See there you go you get to the top of your game and you're in Humble that's the way to get this. Say Humble on you why out because there's a lot of branches to fall on on you why back down. Oh absolutely a lot of people have had that trouble yeah. Thank you so much for your time. My pleasure it's great to see you again. I'm glad you saved my ass unless it's fine but it's my pleasure it's just time in place wasn't it. You got it, it's serendipity as they say okay cool. Thank you.