{"id":12819,"date":"2019-04-22T08:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2019-04-22T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:00:45","slug":"player-of-the-week-interview-with-mark-nye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/interviews\/player-of-the-week-interview-with-mark-nye.html","title":{"rendered":"[Player of the Week] Interview with Mark Nye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>This week we sat down with Mark Nye, from Cheltenham, UK.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>eBass: So, what sort of bass are you playing these days?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mark: Sandberg Marlowe DK and Status Fretless<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eBass: Nice! Any customization or gear mods?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mark: It&#8217;s a Jazz bass with Audere pre, Babicz Bridge and Bartolinis with a Status Fretless neck! Not much is original.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>eBass: So what inspired you to get started? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark: The wwner of the local guitar shop. He played Jaco lick like a demon. Forget guitar playing, I was gonna be a bass player!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>eBass: It&#8217;s amazing what an in-person experience will do to someone isn&#8217;t it!? So, what&#8217;s the toughest gig you ever played?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mark: Touring Finland &#x1f1eb;&#x1f1ee; in -30c temperatures. The gigs were in small clubs. We spoke no Finnish and away from Helsinki very few people seemed to speak English. It kinda limited my usually flowing banter!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eBass: That must have been crazy. I wonder what that cold did to your gear? So who&#8217;s your current inspiration these days?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mark: Jaco, Pino,\u00a0 Chic&#8230; gotta have a groove<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eBass: Sweet. And&#8230;your biggest fan? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mark: Milly, the drummer in the band. We\u2019ve been the rhythm section for the last 16 years!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eBass: 16 years? That&#8217;s awesome you&#8217;ve been together so long. You don&#8217;t see that too often. Well, it was great talking with you and getting to know you a little. I enjoyed it! Do you have a video or something we could show the folks at home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar<em>k: Sure thing, here&#8217;s us rocking out to &#8220;You can Call Me Al&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vsy1MNb5L48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Would <em>you<\/em> like to be interviewed as a featured bass player? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/featured-player\">Submit your entry here<\/a>.\ufeff<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we sat down with Mark Nye, from Cheltenham, UK. eBass: So, what sort of bass are you playing these days? Mark: Sandberg Marlowe DK and Status Fretless eBass: Nice! Any customization or gear mods? Mark: It&#8217;s a Jazz bass with Audere pre, Babicz Bridge and Bartolinis with a Status Fretless neck! Not much &#8230; <a title=\"[Player of the Week] Interview with Mark Nye\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/interviews\/player-of-the-week-interview-with-mark-nye.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Player of the Week] Interview with Mark Nye\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}