The bass player on tour with P!NK, Eva just released an EP of her own last month. Eva is also the first female artist to have a signature bass with Fender. She has also toured with the likes of Gwen Stefani, Cher, Moby, and Veruca Salt. She did this interview from Germany, where the tour currently was playing, but lives in the greater Los Angeles area. Listen to hear how she ever got the gig in the first place - playing bass on tour with P!NK, which she has done for twelve years now.
"Technology is where it is at now to where I can actually have a small enough little recording rig and just my laptop and just wrote these songs pretty much on, in between shows, on days off, before heading to soundcheck and any little moment that I could."
"The way that people consume music now anyway, it's not like you have to do a full album anymore. A lot of people release singles now 'cause that's just the way that people listen to music now and consume music. Gone are the days where everyone's sitting down and putting on a record and listening to it from start to finish 'cause it was designed as a journey."
"We're in this well-oiled machine, chugging along, and I'm traveling to all these wonderful places and meeting all these wonderful people."
"Every gig that I've played, meeting someone from that show - the musical director, or one of the musicians - they recommend you for other things down the line because they know your work ethic, they know who you are, they know you're cool to hang out with, you're a great player, you come prepared, all these things that come with wanting to work with someone and recommending someone. That network is very, very important."
"This is my twelfth year with P!NK and I'm still one of the newest members of the band. We've been together a long time. So, it's a family. It's definitely a family."
"Who you are as a musician is like, when you're on-stage you have to be aware. You have to be aware of the other people in the band. You have to listen to the drummer. You have to listen. You have to listen, you have to be aware. You have to be open. And, the same goes for when you get off-stage as well. You have to be aware. You have to be open. You have to listen. You have to be considerate. It's a lot of the same rules."
"You're still playing the same show whether there's two people, twenty people, two thousand, because you know what? Maybe that bartender that's there that night knows somebody who knows somebody. Or maybe they're in a band. Or maybe - you never, never know - or maybe they're later on down the line they'll become a musical director. You just never, never know who you're going to meet down the line."
"The way that I got the P!NK gig was, a call that I got from someone, I did an audition for a TV show, and, I didn't get that audition... but the musical director from that show remembered me and called me two years later when P!NK was looking for someone because he was also her musical director."
"These (P!NK) shows are just so epic. And, the show is at a level now where everyone's just on top of their game. Wembley (Stadium) was like a pinnacle for me considering that it all started out with my dad who was a bass player and he was from London."
"If someone is dedicated and motivated and has a good attitude and a positive attitude and is in to being open and meeting people and playing different kinds of shows and being a versatile player and continuing to grow as a player and as a person and not just saying, 'Oh, I went to school. I know everything that I know. Here's my shtick,' ... that can make you a more valuable player and if you're open to those things... sure, anything's possible!"
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