With the return of his long-dormant alt-rock attire Dogstar in 2015, Hollywood legend Keanu Reeves advised the world that he’s more than simply among the most well-known action heroes in the world; he’s a bass gamer, too.
In a world-exclusive interview, Bass Player took a seat with the John Wick star to talk whatever bass: what drew him to the instrument in the very first location, the advancement of his rig and his all-star jams.
One emphasize of our discussion focused around (naturally) Expense & & TedWhile its stars– played by Alex Winter and Reeves, respectively– are understood for their hair-metal guitar shenanigans onscreen with Wyld Stallyns, off-camera the set played bass. And they played it together– motivated by each others’ licks and, er, other things …
“Alex and I would have bass jams,” Reeves laughs. “It would resemble two-bass jams. Which was goofy, great enjoyable.
“Someone would begin a main riff, and the other individual would walk around whatever that riff was … At the time, I will not state that there wasn’t any weed included!”
Naturally, the duo required to identify from each other tonally throughout their low-end wigouts. And Reeves had simply the important things.
“And then I may include possibly some distortion,” he remembers. “Once in a while when I played by myself, I would put the old distortion pedal through it.
“The jam area at my home in the ’90s had a Marshall ampand in some cases I played the bass through the Marshall head and had fun with the distortion there, which I believed was cool.”
Regretfully, he likewise exposed that making William ‘Bill’ S. Preston Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan bass gamers in the motion pictures was never ever on the cards– although the series’ own bass hero, Death, would later on display his own low-end abilities in 1991’s Costs & & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Among a variety of Hollywood stars who are likewise bass gamersReeves just recently partnered with Fender for a brief movie called Do Not Quit Your Day Dreamthroughout which he explained the purchase of his very first bass as “like a bass drug offer”That video has actually now gotten nearly two-million views in 2 months.
Stay tuned to Guitar World for the complete interview with Keanu Reeves, where he describes why he does not consider himself worthwhile of a Fender signature design, what he truly gained from his bass lesson with Flea, and exposes the response to the olden concern: what bass would Neo play?
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