Monster Player + Custom Bass - You Tube Find

stingray69 · #1 08-22-2007, 11:11 PM

Just wanted to share an awesome player I stumbled across while browsing YouTube tonight. Maybe some of you have seen the vids before? Sweet custom 6-string bass he's playing too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exn9C...elated&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmPX4...elated&search=

chutsk10 · #2 08-22-2007, 11:37 PM

Great find man, I like his funk solo.

Nice bass too.

JimmyM · #3 08-22-2007, 11:40 PM

Great player. Does some nice stuff with his thumb. He's gotta tone down the creepy look in that first video, though. He just stares at the camera with that deadeye.

ROON · #4 08-22-2007, 11:40 PM

Thats me!!!

I kid I kid.

He's pretty good!

stingray69 · #5 08-22-2007, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmyM

Great player. Does some nice stuff with his thumb. He's gotta tone down the creepy look in that first video, though. He just stares at the camera with that deadeye.

LOL - agreed!

The Hammer · #6 08-23-2007, 05:58 AM

heres what I found posted about his bass

handmade by Giovanni Panzarea,santeramo in colle,italy.
maple body with wenge and padouk inserts,bubinga fingerboard,bartolini pickups

cnltb · #7 08-23-2007, 06:09 AM

Nice playing!!
Even the tapping comes off musical.

Baryonyx · #8 08-23-2007, 06:55 AM

Some very cool stuff there, and the bass is gorgeous too!

Rusty Chainsaw · #9 08-23-2007, 07:08 AM

I like!

It's rare I see Youtube vids that I actually find interesting and inspiring (the last one was probably Dominique Di Piazza) but this chap is one of that rare few that make me want to pick up my bass and practice.

spade2you · #10 08-23-2007, 07:30 AM

Interesting techniques on the funk piece.

Rumblefisher · #11 08-23-2007, 07:35 AM

Leave it to an Italian to use Bartolini pickups

He's very good; I enjoyed the funk solo a little more. It feels like it had more feeling and a little less experiment.

Oldboy · #12 08-23-2007, 09:36 AM

I'm sorry,but it did nothing to inspire me at all.I see a guy with a beautiful instrument and I HEAR, albeit clever,absolutely ziltch that says to me OMG what a brilliant bassist!It's very sophisticated fingerpickin'.Doesn't even sound like a bass.He's good,but you cant help asking yourself,what would he be like if asked to jam with a good solid rock band.The funk video was better,granted,but I can honestly say,it didn't make me reach out for my bass,metronome, and book of scales,which believe me,I need to do.

Webtroll · #13 08-23-2007, 09:53 AM

I thought it was pretty cool myself and his facial expressions cracked me up

Fender32 · #14 08-23-2007, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Oldboy

I'm sorry,but it did nothing to inspire me at all.I see a guy with a beautiful instrument and I HEAR, albeit clever,absolutely ziltch that says to me OMG what a brilliant bassist!It's very sophisticated fingerpickin'.Doesn't even sound like a bass.He's good,but you cant help asking yourself,what would he be like if asked to jam with a good solid rock band.The funk video was better,granted,but I can honestly say,it didn't make me reach out for my bass,metronome, and book of scales,which believe me,I need to do.

The same dark thoughts were going through my head for the entire duration of the first "Hello Dolly" number

. If he'd been holding a classical acoustic guitar and playing exactly the same thing, nobody would bat an eyelid!

Still, the "Funk" clip was confirmation for me that the guy has a vast amount of natural talent along with a firm grounding in the more traditional elements of bass-playing (i.e. rhythm, groove, scale usage etc.).

I'd say he's as impressive as any of the "great" bassits that I've seen, has an amazingly precise yet varied technique and could almost certainly turn his hand to any style of bass playing. FWIW, although I would never buy a bass that looks like that myself, it was a pleasure to see a player like him demonstrating just why such basses exist

! Awesome!

He's pretty young, too! Maybe it's not that last time that we'll be seeing him on our screens

.

JoeyFunk · #15 08-23-2007, 10:34 AM

what would it sound like if there was any good and tight drummer playing along...the bassplayer seems to have no good timing feel and groove lacks.

spade2you · #16 08-23-2007, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by JoeyFunk

what would it sound like if there was any good and tight drummer playing along...the bassplayer seems to have no good timing feel and groove lacks.

I was watching the funk piece and he seemed to have reasonable timing for the first part.

Yvon · #17 08-23-2007, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Fender32

The same dark thoughts were going through my head for the entire duration of the first "Hello Dolly" number

. If he'd been holding a classical acoustic guitar and playing exactly the same thing, nobody would bat an eyelid!

Funny. I thought the exact same thing!!

Akito · #18 08-23-2007, 01:24 PM

Maybe the guy will post something of himself with a good drummer, until then we don't know what else he can do. Funny how he gets judged not for what he is doing, but for things that we have no idea about. How can you possibly judge his performance with a drummer or as a rock bassist when you haven't seen or heard him do those things???
I personally can't stand it when a 3 minute clip is used to make judgements about the entirety of a player. Makes me wonder why people bother sharing their work and ideas at all?
It's bad enough we get bass snobbery from other musicians and the general public, I don'tunderstand fellow bass players looking down on someone for doing something they don't expect or don't immediately connect with on the instrument.

stingray69 · #19 08-23-2007, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Akito

Maybe the guy will post something of himself with a good drummer, until then we don't know what else he can do. Funny how he gets judged not for what he is doing, but for things that we have no idea about. How can you possibly judge his performance with a drummer or as a rock bassist when you haven't seen or heard him do those things???
I personally can't stand it when a 3 minute clip is used to make judgements about the entirety of a player. Makes me wonder why people bother sharing their work and ideas at all?
It's bad enough we get bass snobbery from other musicians and the general public, I don't understand fellow bass players looking down on someone for doing something they don't expect or don't immediately connect with on the instrument.

+1 Well said...

I'd hate my 23yrs of bass playing to be boxed up, categorized & wrote off inside of 3 minutes. I just thought the guy had some really nice chops & a very clean technique. I certainly can't do some of what I was seeing on the video.

FWIW, I believe I read somewhere in those older comments about the video that the guy is actually a drummer among other instruments. Might explain the great syncopation he has going on in some of those clips.

JimmyM · #20 08-23-2007, 04:36 PM

I agree with Akito, too. I'd be willing to bet that he kicks much ass with a drummer with his timing, which is pretty well right on, JoeyFunk.

See, the problem is that the vast majority of people on Talkbass are not experts, but whereas most smart people will refrain from trying to sound like an expert if they're not, on the internet, some people who aren't experts have zero problem trying to pretend that they are. I have seen some of the absolute worst advice that flies in the face of sanity being given by people on here with less than a year's experience who think learning how to play "Higher Ground" makes them as good as Flea.

I think Talkbass should institute a "Bad advice = 30 day ban" rule.