Geddy Leesburg
so i asked the people who have been playing with me recently to send me a pic and blurb to put on the new site. my friend todd wright - who’s been playing bass with me but isn’t really a bass player - sent me this:
When Jaco Pastorius passed tragically in 1987 he left a deep crevasse in the collective heart of the bass wielding community. A dark cavernous void unfilled until now…
Todd Wright wandered this earth for 37 plus years aimlessly wondering what his true purpose might be. Singing..no. Writing..no. Guitar…hell no. Keys…dear sweet Jesus no. Then one fateful night in Vienna, VA on a stage in a barn his instructions came whispered from the lips of God and carried on the wings of a maltese falcon…”Play the fucking bass like it has never been.”
Wright, doing things with two strings that others wouldn’t try with four, went on to astound the DC music community with a fascinating new technique known asThe Truth Between the Notes.”
“There is Shakespeare, there is Michaelangelo and then there is the symphony that lies in any and every whole note i fret ” says Wright.
Truer words have never been spoken. He also said that but we forgot to put it in quotes.
Like the aforementioned Pastorius, Wright suffers from mental illness and substance abuse and has been dubbed “The Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived” although not by Bass Player Magazine but by Linda his one true fan.
Fans can presently bless the ever loving shit out of their unworthy ears by attending a Luke Brindley gig to experience Todd Wright’s mastery of the bass guitar.
