Willdabeast Goes On A Tear w/ “A+ Mentality” ft Glyph via Muti Music

Top 5 current Bass Music Artists I’m listening to :                   Top 5  Non Bass Music Artists I usually love listening to (mostly the classics) or some funk/ jazz/ hip hop:                                  If there’s a tweener sections I’d also add:

– Zebbler Encanti Experience                                                                   –  Talking Heads                                                                                                                                                    –  FKJ

– K+Lab                                                                                                    –   The Band                                                                                                                                                          –  Meute

– ATLiens                                                                                                  –  Stevie Wonder                                                                                                                                                   – Gibbz

– Apashe                                                                                                  –  Kendrick Lamar                                                                                                                                                  – Too Many Zooz

– Alexander Lewis                                                                                    –  Lettuce                                                                                                                                                              –  Moon Hooch

– Opiuo                                                                                                    –   Garage a Trois                                                                                                                                                  – Brasstracks

– (honorable mention Manic Focus)                                                         – (honorable mention Donny Hathaway)                                                                                                              – (honorable mention DJ Cam Quartet)

A major personal career struggle for me that has better shaped my character and who I am for the better would probably be split into two major components. One, is not taking myself too seriously, because for the longest time I did and it almost ruined me and my love for music. It played a disastrous role in many of my friendships both inside and outside of groups, bands, etc.  The only reason I can still stomach this is because it allowed me an opportunity to grow into the person I am now and to reflect on and recognize the type of person I don’t wish to be. Finding the tools to create for the right reasons and purpose; using creativity as a language and emotional appliance instead of strictly a commodity or what you’ve seen work in the past, allowed me to embrace the important parts of this craft; i.e. friendships and connections over money and material things. I learned in a difficult way time and time again that none of that matters in the end and there isn’t much of it anyway (money) so why burn bridges over it along the way?  What matters is the memories you build and the people you build them with.  It took me a long time to realize this and I had to go through hell and back to put this in my heart. But now I know that I’m not the most important person in the room nor do I ever want to think that way. 

The second is to try and be kind and accommodating to everyone involved in a show/festival/tour setting as often as possible.  I’ve headlined shows big and small. I’ve opened shows from no one there to giant festivals. I’ve also worked behind the scenes in production. I’ve worked the door. I’ve even run the merch table, security. I’ve gone to shows as an audience member. I’ve run lights, sound, and tried my hand at tour managing the night.  I know most folks have contracts, I know people are on long trips, I know people come from far away places. I also know how easy it is to be dismissive and rude. Whether you’re the first act of five performing that night or a stage hand or a ‘nobody’ or if you’re the headliner coming from thousands of miles away, I think that there should be some basic courtesy and respect given through and through. And so that’s something I try to adhere to. Clearly with alcohol and other additives involved it can intensify. Mix that with some ego and you have yourself a grand cocktail. I do try my very best to treat it more than just a living room or a place to trash or run through.  I try to treat each place well, but more importantly, each person we interact with well, because I know how hard it is on the road,but we also don’t know what everyone else is going through. When I was touring with the Pretty Fantastics there were some weeks we’d play 5-6 shows a week. It was very tiring. But we would try our best not to talk down to our openers, bar staff, door people and hosts. We need to be kind and share these general common practices with each other. We need to have safe spaces. We need to be able to have open areas, more inclusive, so as to help encourage the rest of our community.

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