Looking for bassist for psychedelic jazz band - NO HIRED HANDS

Los Angeles CA

Description

Looking for a bassist that has the time and commitment level to join a psychedelic jazz band as a MEMBER. If the gig is paid, we will split it up equally between the other members but that’s the extent of it. If money is your motivation or reason for playing music, you can skip the rest of this ad. We rehearse in Van nuys and would probably be about once a week in the early goings until we get tight enough with about 10-15 tunes then we can focus on just gigging and less rehearsing (until there’s new material to work out). I can’t stress enough the importance of being a reasonably available dude for gigs and rehearsals. A little about what you’d be doing and the music itself: it’s all instrumental, very monotonous and droney kind of “jam band” stuff..tough (but purposely repetitive) grooves from the rhythm section (drums, bass and keys) and then the soloists (guitar/sax/flute/trumpet) do their improvisation over that. Here’s a couple more things that are last but definitely not least. Firstly, you’d need to be ok with me writing most of the basslines. I play keys but often times do end up coming up with the basslines, that’s not to say you’d never be able to come up with some however. Secondly, NO SLAPBASS WHATSOEVER lol... seriously tho, ever. You’d need a normal warm fat tone. If all this sounds cool and you’d like to hear some of the tunes just let me know. Please also include a few examples of your playing in your reply tho (MP3’s or videos) so we can check you out as well. Peace and love!