The best bassist ever!

JimmyM · #1 04-15-2005, 12:38 AM

http://www.archive.org/movies/detail...ionid=SoundieF

From there just click your choice of streaming video or save it in any size you want. But do yourself a favor and watch it. It's an almost all-girl vibraphone band from the 20's, but they have the best bass player I have ever seen. The ease and grace with which he plays the bass is a thing of beauty. Check it out...then thank me.

anonymous0726 · #2 04-15-2005, 01:40 AM

My sound card isn't working, and I won't have one working until next week. I can't wait to hear the thing.

What does stand out to me, though, are a couple of things. Either everybody there is left-handed or someone managed to get the film in the projector upside down. Also, there is only one vibraphone on stage, what looks like an old Deagan set. All the other mallet instruments are marimbas. I've never seen a left-handed set of marimbas or vibes -- and these all appear left-handed.

I don't know what the bass players sounds like, but he definitely needs a sedative.

Aaron Saunders · #3 04-15-2005, 01:46 AM

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An amazing short by an "orchestra" of vibraphone players.

Some viewers have noted that this film seems to be a mirror image of how things are supposed to be. This is because original Soundie films were printed backwards so that they could appear correct when played in the Panoram machine (an early film jukebox).

From the site. That explains the "left handed" thing.

The Mpeg4 won't play, so I'm downloading the 68mb one. I'll watch it in the morning, 'cause I HAVE to go to bed now (I just finished a summative essay for english that was due last week -- nasty.)

JimmyM · #4 04-15-2005, 03:21 AM

Ray, with that bass player you're going to nitpick about the vibes? BTW, I don't know that a soundcard is necessary to enjoy the clip, although the sound does make it more fun. But just look at the guy...you don't need sound to know he's the greatest bassist who ever lived!

Doug Ring · #5 04-15-2005, 05:47 AM

Mmmm.

Clearly I need to bring more animation to my own playing.

On the other hand, maybe I want to get through a gig without a heart attack...

Alexi David · #6 04-15-2005, 07:15 AM

This video reminds that it's REALLY good I stopped smoking rocks!

Paul Warburton · #7 04-15-2005, 07:25 AM

I'm having trouble getting this download......I have MSN Dial up, and all the downloading goodies. I keep getting a Failed Connection notice on this. I'm dyin' to see this....any suggestions? I've never had this happen before.

Alexi David · #8 04-15-2005, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton

I'm having trouble getting this download......I have MSN Dial up, and all the downloading goodies. I keep getting a Failed Connection notice on this. I'm dyin' to see this....any suggestions? I've never had this happen before.

It's a bit finicky on their end - I tried the MP4 version of the clip and it worked - try that one

hdiddy · #9 04-15-2005, 10:10 AM

Wow, that guy is ahead of his time..... at headbadnging of course!

neilslorance · #10 04-15-2005, 10:43 AM

that was amazing, im inspired

pklima · #11 04-15-2005, 03:36 PM

Yeah. Very impressive! I'm going to have to seriously rethink my technique after watching that.

Paul Warburton · #12 04-16-2005, 01:47 PM

YES!!!!
That ranks right up there with the bass pictures in my bathroom.
What a sense of balance....When he holds both arms in the air at the same time, the bass balances right out there on the end-pin. I wonder if that's the EGG-Pin or just one of them Rabbath style hand-bent ones OR what? If he hadn't moved the bass and his own-self down in front, ((where the bass player belongs, by the way) I was figuring he'd taken off the crutch tip and pounded the sharp shaft right into the stage!!

JimmyM · #13 04-16-2005, 10:25 PM

It was grainy, but to me it looked like he had a sharp point on the end. And I think it balanced when he wasn't touching it because he was bracing it a little with his body, and he didn't take his hands off it long enough to lose balance. You will notice that when he does the whole notes right before he takes it down to the front that it started to fall backwards. So he's definitely not propping it up with anything or jamming the point into the floor. What he should have done is what Lucille Ball did in that episode of I Love Lucy where she pretends to be a bass player and has a bass with a plunger for an endpin and plops it hard on the stage and the plunger sticks there.

JimmyM · #14 04-16-2005, 10:26 PM

Just a thought...are we actually having an intellectual discussion over this guy's technique?

Marcus Johnson · #15 04-17-2005, 12:04 PM

With all the chicks in that band, I think I got a hunch what he's holding up the bass with.

arto alho · #16 04-18-2005, 05:20 AM

The Supporting Member...?

Paul Warburton · #17 04-18-2005, 05:51 AM

YOU TWO ARE DISGUSTING!

I do love ya!

Doug Ring · #18 04-18-2005, 07:02 AM

Yes, with all the chicks in that band, maybe he can't believe his own luck. That could make a guy a little frantic after all.

Alexi David · #19 04-18-2005, 07:10 AM

Maybe he just has Tourette's............

EJ_Dad · #20 04-20-2005, 02:14 AM

I'll show it to my percussionist child who thinks only drum set is cool and mallets are boring.