In my opinion, the best Mono Neon interview yet. McBride was able to engage Mono so well and get him out of his Introvertedness.. the educationist in McBride is able to really help Mono articulate and express himself with clarity...two amazing musicians generations apart, genres apart just having awesome conversations - I really learnt a lot about you Mono from this one. Keep rocking Mono!

CAN WE ALL TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE. SO MUCH. NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE EVER. WE LOVE U xoxoxo

Always a pleasure to hear from two talented musicians.

I love his guitar playing too!

Two of the great bass players of our time. And one of their goals, in this peak of their careers...is how to get their basses to play farts. Amazing.

❤️u MonoNeon❤️🥰

Great interview Brotha McBride!! You both are 2 of the greats on Bass, great to hear this convo.

Omg he’s so much more of a genius than I could have imagined. Thanks for all you do mono

50:25 Agree with Mono. Sonny T and Michael B are my fave Prince rhythm section ever too. Untouchable, like he said.

Best interview of Mono I’ve seen.

Great to hear Mononeon expound. He's a deep artist. More power to him. And thanks to Mr. McBride for a great interview. First hear Mono with the Ghost Notes. Blew my mind. (Dadaism: ) Dadaism's main purpose was to challenge the social norms of society, and purposefully make art that would shock, confuse, or outrage people.

Two beautiful musicians, who truly appreciate each other. What's better than that?

Mono is so cool mane. He doesnt have to be shy we'll accept him

Amazing to hear Chris Squire namechecked as a favourite by such a differently brilliant player. My whole mispent prog-loving youth feels validated!

It's good to hear this dude have a conversation. Sounds like just a regular cat who has a lotta drive and creativity. I guess it fits that his influences include folks like Johnny Taylor and Frank Zappa !

Maaaaan as a trumpeter, my fav cat is Lee Morgan and he is from Philly There’s something to it! 🔥

Gospel music, Frank Zappa & HERMETO PASCOAL (multi-instrumentalist from Alagoas, Brazil). It doesn't need more comments. You are fucking amazing, Dwyane!

I had the great pleasure of bumping in to mister christian mcbride this past weekend. he is such a truly bright-spirited human being. almost immediately afterwards, my phone suggested I check this interview. (my phone already knows I love mononeon, but... did it know I was standing right next to christian mcbride for a few minutes? maybe. kinda creepy. anyway...) such a great conversation between these two greats!! yaaaay!!

Big fan and so happy to hear Mono mention our hometown hero's Sonny T and Michael Bland!!!

I completely agree with Mr. McBride on all comments. Great interview! Mononeon is an entertainer, comedian and overall artist but this is the first time hearing him out of ‘character’ if you will. It is all good…

Here are two bassists that took the world on with their musicality. Big things, big things. It's real cool to see them chatting it up.

I saw mononeon in Newport festival in that same year and I got instantly hooked in his style, the way he plays and look on stage I can wait to see him again this year in Newport jazz festival

This was an awesome interview. I stumbled across Mono via social media. Clips he put out. At first it’s the visuals that draws you in, then his bass playing knocks you out. That’s how it was for me. He’s nerdy, shy and a country bumpkin of sorts…he’s a Memphis native…but you CANNOT sleep on him. Well rounded, astute, innovative, intriguing, humble, spiritual, weird, artistic, eccentric, funny. A one of one. I’m a fan.

This interview was so amazing I had to take notes... literally

it's so great to hear mono talk and mcbride light up with joy!!! so lovely thank you

Pure gold .. thanks for posting.. Mono is awesome .. waiting years for this ..

Anthony Jackson, his playing is like the bubbles in a glass of champagne, uniquely amazing! Great interview, you cats covered a lot of ground by way of inspirational influences and to hear the both of you bass giant's chopping it up is beautiful!

😊😊😊 This was so nice to see. Thank you for posting this, Mr. Mono. Most of us here know you as an artist and a bad man on the bass, but don't really know you as a person, so thank you for letting us in to see a small part of your world. Nice that you and Mr. McBride could talk about bass and music and share some thoughts for us. Most of us here are already way into what you're doing as a musician, so this just makes us appreciate you even more. Thank you!

thanks for sharing all this. A playlist made from all the reference albums mentioned here could give someone years of great listening.

There are few interviews I enjoy watching and this one is now one of them! Love it gentlemen. And of course enjoy both of your artistry!

Absolute best interview I have seen on Mono Neon thank you Christian McBride and Mono

Mono, you make me feel everything! I do not feel afraid after watching your videos and I always kill my gigs after I watch you. Hope to see you soon irl!

This is a spectacular interview. Thank you so much, Christian and MonoNeon!

Great interwiew!❤

Good to meet you both in here. Good talk and lots of inspiration - Thank you ( :

This is great, best interview with MN I’ve seen. Lots of fun, lots of names and albums to check out, yeah!

What a great interview! I'm a big fan of both of you. MonoNeon please come back to Olympia. We love you here. Saw you with Ghostnote at Rhythm and Rye and at Alan Roses place.

Great interview! I meet Mono Neon at Namm 2019! He was super cool!🤙🏾🤙🏾

💥💥💥 much love from jerusalem isreal great interview

THIS WAS AMAZING. THANK YOU!!!

Played with Prince, played with Snarky Puppy. That's good enough for me

Man the more I learn about you the more I love you. Stay good

Just watched this again...Good job bro!! I see you coming into your own with this stuff...thanks for the shout,but now I gotta go practice! Hahaha! Love you bro!

Koooo… great one guys!!! Loved!!!👍🏽✌🏽

Christian McBride! Such an inspiring human... And of course MonoNeon!

Great conversation with 2 modern day bosses.

two legendary bass gods! Salute!!! ☝🏾🖤👑👑

Mono is truly such a blessing to this world ❤️💙💚💛💜

Props to the Both of U.Big Props to U for Spotlighting This Amazing Artist.

Keep on doing what you do my brother!!!! It is amazing to watch you put music to spoken word or just someone's crazy conversation. Funky and funny at the same time!!! CAT BOOTY JUICE!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Live at tonic was my fav albums too!

Fantastic interview!!!

Looove seeing these cats talk about Frank Zappa... super inspirational

He mentions David “Lenny” Stallworth @ 15:38. He’s from Moss Point Ms, near me and I didn’t know of him until after he transitioned. He’s a great bassist.🕊️✊🏾💪🏾

Great interview!

Great interview !!!

Mono is from the Carntyne area of Glasgow in Scotland. He comes back here once in a while

That was so much fun! 👏🎶🖤

Mononeon great musicians be bless

the way mono still usin them heaphones AM DEAD

Thanks so much for this brotha! 🙏🔥🤙🍍

Fuze is one of the GREATEST musicians on earth!

This has 2 🐝 my favorite interview w/ Mono Neon & Chris. When u talk music he opens up & becomes an interesting guest. He’s still shy. John Cage? That’s old school. Reminds me of music theory in the High School of Music & Art back in the early 80’s.

This is so funny - I just commented on the "singin´ dog play along" clip Mono did with "Zappa´esque af" and here he says the Zappa is a big influence (and that DaDa) - love you Mono for all the genius stuff you put out!!! Greetz from Berlin/Germany... Christian + Mono, I am so thankful for you both giving us this interview! I´ve never seen Mono so honest and "normal" (sorry) and the insights into Monos´ story are so great and enlighting... the "fake lefty stuff" really got me lol I so love the Scary Pockets stuff with Sco!!! ... and the sessions with Ghost Note fo´ sho´ ... -> missing Prince

Apostrophe is every bass player’s favorite Zappa album 😎

I attended a pre-concert lecture at Moravian in Bethlehem, PA, circa 2007-2015 and he (CMcB) played some stuff on PIANI wherein he demonstrated a major third-ish bass line under minor quality chords, and some cat in audience said..."sounds okay to me"... and I did not have the temerity to raise my hand and say, "hey, C McB played some wrong shit, and you all should be able to hear that..." IT WAS THE POINT THAT CMcB was trying to MAKE! Mebbe it's just that I was the ONLY one there, and afraid of making a storm...But I wanted to let CMcB to let him know after ALL THESE YEARS that sumbuddy heard it back in the day!! peace!

The first time I saw and heard Mono Neon music, I said to myself, " That Prince Son that nobody knows about. 🤣

The Dadaism reference was eye-opening. Great interview!

fantastic interview! hahahaha Mr McBride asked you about your farts. priceless

Great interview

I got to see Christian and Brian Blade with Joshua Redman and it was awesome

much love to both of u cats!!

Mono Thundercat etc...should make disco-funk-soul music great again helping new bands in these styles to gain success .

I like how you said you only thought you wanted to be around other musicians. I felt the same way in college lol!

Come here in italy Mono, we love you.

Love Mononeon!!!

Matisse in the background! Mono knows his art

So far my interview of 2022 🙌🏿

This was a awesome interview. I would like to see Mononeon Thundercat, Bubby Lewis do something together just a all let out your bass feelings.😅 let's make it happen.

What a great conversation, so enjoyable listening to Christian and Mono.

Wow i have Learn so much

Yesss John Mclaughlin in Shakti!!!

12:23 A.J.! That makes complete sense :-D - GREAT interview, Mr. McBright!

I knew it. He just didn't pop up out of nowhere. He comes from a musical family. It's in his DNA.

Shoutout to the Moss Point Legend Mr. Lenny Stallworth!!!!

I went straight to search for catbooty juice and its fkn hilarious! 😭😭😭. I also love "wig fall off song" that killed me!

Showing some Zappa love!

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Super super super! Dada John Cage Prince... and socks

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Best ear on earth.

I want to see you in blue note in New York, I saw domi and jdbeck there and I know you play with them sometimes!

This is crazy! God sure knows how to send people my way. My wife turned me onto YT Music about a month ago. A few weeks later I decided to try to figure out how to use it and opened the app and the first thing that I saw was a Scary Goldings IV album cover with Larry Goldings, John Scofield this nasty drummer named Lamar Carter, etc. Nevervheard of Scary Goldings. I hear the bass and he's killin but don't see him and then, who is that, lefthanded? MonoNeon? Now I'm listening to this interview.

Are you gonna play the notes to Christian's speaking intro, if you'd done it live that would've been hilarious.

He likes “Hermeto Pascoal “ . Legend down here in south america

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24:26 "I thought my _aunt_ was gonna blow up"

He's inspired by Zappa. All makes sense now.

Seymore Pettigreeeeeewwwwwww! i'm looking for a runt named Seymore Pettigrew! great interview.