Sick puppies emma anzai biography of donald
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Never another podcast episode or article
“Wait… did I miss something? Why is there an article about a bass podcast on Six Pixels of Separation?”
Here’s why:
In the late nineties my first job was as a music journalist (actually, my first interview was with Tommy Lee from Motley Crue right before the band released Dr. Feelgood).
I spent many years interviewing musicians and artists for local weekly alternative newspapers, national and international magazines (and even published three music magazines – before we had the Internet).
I also studied and played the electric bass (in high school and post-secondary) and always felt like bass players never really had a chance to tell their stories.
So, about ten years ago, Seth Godin introduced me to Corey Brown (founder of No Treble – one of the world’s biggest bass platforms – and he also worked on Squidoo with Seth).
From there, Corey and I decided to try this monthly podcast where I would interview bass p
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: Oh yeah! Dallas is always a great time for us, that was a fun one!
: It’s one of those songs that people either love or they hate. I don’t know what it is about that song but when people hear the album or we play it live people say, “I really love that one song "Gunfight" or you get people who say, “I don’t know about that song "Gunfight"”. I don’t know, I guess it was just one of those songs that we wanted to do because when we
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Interview with Emma Anzai: Bass Player for Sick Puppies
The rock grupp Sick Puppies hails from Australia and took a chance when they moved to Los Angeles in 2006. That chance paid off as they quickly rose to fame with their “Free Hugs” film featuring their single “All the Same” on YouTube that has garnered them over 74,000,000 views. The band members are Shimon (Shim) Moore (lead vocals, guitar), Emma Anzai (bass, backing vocals) and Mark Goodwin (drums, percussion, backing vocals).
With two previous albums under their belt, Dressed Up as Life and Tripolar, their most recent album, Connect, was released on July 16, 2013 by Capitol Records and hit #17 the week following its release, making it the best debut album bygd the grupp in their career.
Currently on tour with their new album Connect, we had a chance to meet up close and anställda with Emma and Shim at The Masquerade in Atlanta before their show, and discussed how the band was formed, their new skiva, connecting with th