Jeff Berlin's "Tears in Heaven" video???

i didn't know there was a video...i just heard the soundclip...i'd be interested in seeing this

 

audio
http://music.lib.ru/j/jeff_b/alb0.shtml

 

ANY footage of Berlin is tough to come by. Other than his instructional video and the Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe tour (long out of print and the camera is hardly ever on the bassist for long anyway), the best thing I've seen featuring Berlin is the Spice of Life tour (1987) live in Japan w/Kazumi Watanabe on guitar and Bruford on drums. Excellent audio and video quality. A couple times throughout the concert Berlin kicks in some distortion and wails away. 'NNNNiiice. It's pricey though (around 45 bucks I believe) and I think it's still readily available online...

 

Listening to "Tears in Heaven" right now and it's awesome... until that synth kicks in at the end.
Still, that guy can play and I even kind of like his tone on that recording.

 

Holy crap!

I downloaded the song from the link posted above...

Jeff berlin is now my bass god!!

 

How many strings is he using?

 

Last time I talked to him he was using 4 strings

 

I'm pretty sure Jeff is a 4 string fretted player exclusively. The man is a monster, truely one of the greatest soloists ever IMO. Too bad stuff he's on is few and far between.

 

AFAIK, Berlin has rarely played anything other than fours. I think he on occasion has used 5-strings when playing as a sideman (for easier on-the-fly transpositions I gather), but sticks to 4-strings on his solo material.

 

As far as I know, Jeff plays strictly 4, so the recording should be a 4 string as well. I don't think Jeff "cheats" and uses sixers in the studio.

 

I would love to see the video, anything by Jeff is pretty much gold.

This link was posted a while back:

http://www.kataweb.it/community/live/jeff_berlin/index.html

Not exactly Tears from Heaven, but considering the lack of videos out there, it is an excellent find. It features Jeff playing with his trio and Miroslav Vitous. Jeff has such a great sound on this video, he's one of the few bassists you can recognize just by listening to a couple of notes.

 

He's been my bass god for 25 years now. lol

 

He's a fretless player also.


My Highschool is (near south-eastern, MI) is featuring him in our Jazz Festival. I cant wait.

 

Wow this brings back interesting memories....
My Japanese teacher would walk around class singing it.......
it was hilarious..

 

Im pretty sure jeff only plays fretted,i read in a interview that he didn't want jaco comparisions so he vowed not to play frettless.