Dywane Thomas Jr., AKA MonoNeon
 

I rarely post on this thread because there are almost too many great bass players to keep track of, but ones like this kid don't come around too often.

He was a prodigy in Memphis at 17 playing in Gospel bands.

He's perfected a way of getting quarter tones ala Ravi Shankar on a fretted bass, just using a real fast vibrato, uses it a lot in soloing. He's got about 100 videos up, all jaw dropping.

This guy is flat nuts, but he has it all, time, groove, and inventiveness beyond what I'm hearing anybody else do.

As you can see, he also has a rather unique perspective about life in general.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RLGjwuiCI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&fe...&v=s_K1yhQ3V5E



Here he is playing along with a Tye Tribbett track, the Gospel guy he plays bass with sometimes, yikes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DbA6SfYwH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&fe...&v=s_K1yhQ3V5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RLGjwuiCI

Here he is playing along with Tye Tribbett track, the Gospel guy he plays bass with, ****!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DbA6SfYwH4

Sorry about double posting the links, the first two are included in the bottom three.

+ infinity MonoNeon.