Moments Frozen in Time with Bassist Tim Starace of YYNOT

I have never interviewed anyone on camera before, and much less a popular bassist known as “The Guy” that can play any Rush song well, but be known as the most accurate one doing it.

I usually cringe at videos of anyone covering Rush songs on bass because so many gave the effort insufficient dedication to do it correctly.

I literally stumbled onto Tim's videos because I was looking for other Rickenbacker bass players to see how they took care of their basses from a maintenance standpoint. Tim Starace recorded several videos of him playing along with Rush songs, and I was dumbstruck. I then discovered he is a member of a killer Rush tribute band that also releases their own original material on two distinct CDs at the time of this interview.

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I thought, “Now there is a person that might have a story to tell”. Indeed, the story of his career has been told comprehensively across several interviews he has done in the past. But I was primarily curious as to what it was like for him as a beginning bass player. We all started at some point and had to face numerous challenges in order to either continue on the journey before us, or give up in frustration for a variety of reasons. I wanted to know that side of Tim's story.

I reached out to him on FaceBook, and was stunned that he thought it was a good idea that a fledgling content creator on YouTube would interview him. I panicked because I had no idea what I got myself into.

In this video, it is quite obvious that a few things were going on.

We were all exhausted after a long night, but Tim was so wonderfully positive and upbeat.

I was really worried about wasting his time, or keeping him from something else more important at that time like tearing down and heading home, so when he seemed to be done at the half way point, I tried to let him off the hook by taking the mike back from him to thank him, but he was not about to do that at all. I guess he was just getting comfortable, and I didn't was to interfere.

I was nervous as all get, but he seemed relaxed after a minute or two, so I breathed a sigh of relief and stuck with it.

Special thanks to my wife Sharron Cruz, who was gathering the B roll footage with one hand, and lit us up with a hand held LED flood light in her other hand.

Special thanks to my daughter Terra Cruz for gathering the main video during the precious moments we had with Tim.

And of course, a massive amount of gratitude for how kindly and positive Joel, Billy and Rocky treated us whenever we interacted with them before and after their show.

BAND BIO:
YYNOT ®was the coming together of award winning-Grammy ballot nominated Guitarist/Songwriter/Producer Billy Alexander (John Waite, FEEL, Ron Blair-Tom Petty) and Florida based virtuoso, bassist Tim Starace. Alexander saw Bassist Tim Starace post videos of his mind-blowing and accurate bass covers. So Starace and Alexander started collaborating from opposite coasts to create online videos.Their videos gaining over 2 million views overall on Facebook and YouTube.

Alexander recruited then 19 year old Rocky Kuner after seeing her perform a jaw-dropping version of Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” while she was still in highschool!

Drummer Joel Stevenett came into the fold having come from an extensive national touring and session career.

YYNOT’s live shows are designed to take the fans on a journey back in time as well as deliver a fresh new spark and bring back the power and majesty of hard rock that the fans have an undeniable hunger for.