Before ericandre became the comedy anarchist he is today, he was just a kid blowing six figures on tuition at Berklee College of Music 🎻 Photographed by Jeremy Liebman and styled by Marcus Correa for our Spring 2023 issue.
, he was just a kid blowing six figures on tuition at Berklee College of Music. An upright bass player since his teenage years, André gave up his dreams of anonymous gigs in jazz clubs to become one of the mostBEN BARNA: I learned something about you that I feel like a lot of people didn’t know, which is that you used to play the upright bass.BARNA: And that you were a major at Berklee College of Music before you went into comedy.
BARNA: I saw a picture of you playing electric guitar in 1997. Why did you settle on the upright bass over that?bass is more rare, and with scarcity comes more work. I also liked the way it looked. I don’t know, I was a teenager. I wasn’t really thinking.ANDRÉ: No, I got a new one a couple of years ago that’s way better. Basses are very expensive.ANDRÉ: You’re going to want to spend at least 10,000 bucks. And that’s a cheap one.ANDRÉ: Barely. I’m not good at it.
BARNA: When you’re playing it, is there a proper way to move? Are you moving your head or rocking back and forth? ANDRÉ: I don’t know if you want to do head movements or rock back and forth. You can if you’re feeling it, but you want to be efficient and conserve all your energy for playing, so it’s not good technique. You want to take a deep breath before you play, you don’t want to be tense. It’s hard to stay relaxed, but that’s crucial if you can. You got to play the bass, you can’t let the bass play you.ANDRÉ: It helps if you’re obsessive, because practicing is very tedious.
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