{"id":132,"date":"2016-04-28T22:56:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T02:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funkopuslive.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2025-05-30T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:20:09","slug":"meet-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/28\/meet-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>DIRECTOR, BASS PLAYER: \u00a0 Phil Clemons<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-67 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fieldses.org\/funkopus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/philbio.jpg\" alt=\"philbio\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/philbio.jpg 500w, https:\/\/funkopus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/philbio-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Phil began playing music 10 yrs. old, starting on saxophone by the teaching of Mark Fernandez.\u00a0 He also played with his junior high marching band on drums, \u00a0In the high school jazz band as the lead alto sax player and later as jazz bass player. \u00a0At that time he and Paul Bonam started a band, entering shows for awards and record contracts. \u00a0Winning a local contest to be on a Hollywood show titled \u201d Big Breaks\u201d by Natalie Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the years Phil has crafted his skills on 4, 5 and 6 string bass, drums and keyboard.\u00a0 He has recorded and played with great musicians, such as Kevin Mccord, Andrea Austin,\u00a0 Paul\u00a0 Bonam, Mike Bynes, Rod Byrd, John Unger and Rayse Biggs. \u00a0His musical influences include Marcus Miller, David Sanborn, Jaco, Victor Wooten &amp; Wayman Tisdale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As Director and Bass player for Funk Opus, he keeps the Groove in the Pocket and the Band Tight!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIRECTOR, BASS PLAYER: \u00a0 Phil Clemons Phil began playing music 10 yrs. old, starting on saxophone by the teaching of Mark Fernandez.\u00a0 He also played with his junior high marching band on drums, \u00a0In the high school jazz band as the lead alto sax player and later as jazz bass player. \u00a0At that time he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-band-bios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funkopus.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}