Wow Joe, you got it! My wife would go into
Aldo some times and I saw some really pointy-toed shoes, thought they would be perfect for playing bass pedals - my feet are wide, I was always stepping on adjacent notes at the same time, so I used them for the first time at this recording session - Greg never heard of Aldo Nova, but when I told him about the Aldo shoes, he said Nova Aldo and it stuck!
Any thoughts you or anyone else have on the mix are appreciated. I really like this one - I feel like this very much represents a major part of who I am as a bass player and a musician. I can hear a bunch of different influences from throughout my life - Chris Squire (especially the live version of "The Fish" from
Yessongs), Lemmy (even though I'm not using distortion), even songs like U2's "40" and Pat Metheny's "Two Folk Songs: Two" from
80/81 with Charlie Haden.
This will probably be my last post for 2010, so happy new year everybody!