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Charles Berthoud
- Thread starter rylie
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Love that movie so much even if it’s not historically accurate.
I don’t see anything wrong with letting the OP know about the search function. ???
That guy is sooo incredible at bass guitar. Undeniable!
I was thinking the other day.. if I could ask the 16 year old version of myself this question:
You can either listen to Joe Satriani’s Surfin’ with the Alien OR the entire Al Green catalog for the rest of your life. What do you choose? That dumb kid would have chosen the former.
Charles is fantastic but I can’t get any joy out of listening to him play. He’s so surgical/chops oriented. Give me Robbie Shakespeare, Pino Palladino, Chuck Rainey, Ray Brown, etc. I’m not sure if there’s a point to this rant besides listen to what your ears tell you and enjoy doing what you do. Charles may offer a lot in the way of inspiration to players but little in the realm of real world song application for gigging bass players. He’s definitely a 1% player and without a doubt at the top of his class.
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“…but little in the realm of real world song application for gigging bass players”
Circling back on this.. of course he doesn’t need to. That’s not the point. I just realized that came off a little tone deaf.
I was thinking the other day.. if I could ask the 16 year old version of myself this question:
You can either listen to Joe Satriani’s Surfin’ with the Alien OR the entire Al Green catalog for the rest of your life. What do you choose? That dumb kid would have chosen the former.
Charles is fantastic but I can’t get any joy out of listening to him play. He’s so surgical/chops oriented. Give me Robbie Shakespeare, Pino Palladino, Chuck Rainey, Ray Brown, etc. I’m not sure if there’s a point to this rant besides listen to what your ears tell you and enjoy doing what you do. Charles may offer a lot in the way of inspiration to players but little in the realm of real world song application for gigging bass players. He’s definitely a 1% player and without a doubt at the top of his class.
Edit:
“…but little in the realm of real world song application for gigging bass players”
Circling back on this.. of course he doesn’t need to. That’s not the point. I just realized that came off a little tone deaf.
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Exactly. I 1000% agree but I didn’t know how to put my thoughts into words. Because he is truly talented.
I keep wanting to ask "Yeah, but can he function in a band" and then I realize that he has just toured successfully, doing exactly the same as in his YT videos, but with a band. So there is as market for his style. It's not me, but it exists.
Yo-Yo Ma plays a lot of solo pieces but I don’t listen to them because they aren’t in a band context. Plus they’re mostly covers.
So musical success, great art, is defined by whether there is a market for it, to you?
That's kind of sad.
You do know that YouTube works on market principles too though, right?
At least he’s not as annoying as Davie504 or Sapko
The only bass YouTuber that does not fill me with impotent rage is Nate Navarro. He's nice and his content is actually useful.
BassBuzz also has a nonzero information content. Davie, Sapko, Ginger: purely for entertainment value. If you skip them you don't miss anything.
