Bass Musician Magazine - SPECIAL March 2014 Issue | Page 12

know, that’s good.
That’s really good. The track of “Get Lucky”
is so ingrained in everyone’s head, but
when you played it live on the Grammys
you got a chance to stretch out on it. You
were playing some great lines.
Well, we were talking about the fact that
they wanted the exact band that was
playing on the record. I actually had to
move a gig to get to do it, but I wouldn’t
have missed it for the world. And so what
happens is that when you have the guys
that played on the record, any liberties
you take are ok. [Laughs]
How did it feel to be performing live on
the Grammys in front of all those people?
It felt amazing. It felt like you were in the
center of the musical universe. When
you’re playing and you look out and you
see Paul McCartney and Ringo, and Yoko
Ono, and Katy Perry, and then you look at
the very top row in the nosebleed seats
in the Staples Center and see people
dancing, it was like, you know what? This
is why I got into music.
That’s pretty surreal.

Well I was actually backstage when they
were playing but it was great, I mean,
those guys couldn’t be more gracious. To
me they invented the wheel, in terms of
what we do today.
By the way, how did you get involved with
the Daft Punk recording?
Funny enough, I just got a phone call
when they were putting their Random
Access Memories album together. I think
they made a conscious choice to kind of
go outside of whatever their normal way
of recording was, and they picked a list of
their favorite people that they had been
following and listening to. And I was just
happy to be on that list, because I got to go
in there and make music. Obviously I had
known of them, and had seen what they
did on the Tron film. I was honored to get
the call, and it’s great to have been able
to make that album with those guys. You
think about this song “Get Lucky”, alone,
has been number one in 102 countries.
Just amazing. And hopefully you’ll be back
again at next year’s Grammys picking up
a few of your own. As my wife was telling
you before, we’ve been playing your solo
album non-stop around here, we just
absolutely love it.

It’s pretty surreal, is what it was.
Speaking of Paul and Ringo, did you get
a chance to watch them together out
front when they were playing, or were you
backstage?
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Well, thank you, and I appreciate Camille’s
sentiment, I’m hoping that a large majority
of the people feel that way when they hear
this record. It’s definitely been something
that we’ve poured a lot of love into, and I’ve