Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.
BILL WYMANWith the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I’ve always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
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Because of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any money doing it.
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If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
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I’m not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I’m quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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When I record in a studio I don’t use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound – which is my favorite sound.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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It’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old – apart from a few hits – is never played on radio to the young public?
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