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Which bassists are you watching?

Surgeon

Surgeon

Mar 4, 2003
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#1
I was just perusing the online book/video stores and came across a Victor Wooten live at Bass Jam '98 video. I did a search here and couldn't see any discussion of best inspirational bass videos (ie: not for instruction, but just to sit back and say "Wow, that guy is awesome." :eek: )

So let me have it. I've got a credit card and an itchy mouse finger just waiting to buy some good concert/live bass performances on DVD. :p

Who do you like to watch?
Why do you like to watch them?
What specific videos/clips can you recommend for your fellow TBers?
 
#4
well, most of my favorite current players aren't on video... yet!

for a serious DVD purchase, though, I'd go with Joni Mitchell's amazing Shadows and Light. Jaco handles the low end and takes a killer solo, but the rest of the band is as devastating:

Pat Metheny on guitars
Michael Brecker on sax
Lyle Mays on keys
Don Alias on drums
the Persuasions on backing vocals

heady stuff!

from the lows,

Stew
 
#6
Lee Ritenour - Live at The Coconut Grove. Anthony Jackson plays for most of the concert and Brian Bromberg fills in on URB. Very good stuff.

Calle 54. You should have this already! It has an awesome performance with Michel Camilo, Anthony Jackson and Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez. Also has plenty of other great latin music including a performance from Tito Puente just weeks before he passed.

Drummers Collective 2002. It's available from Hudson Music and has Vic, John Patitucci, Dave Weckl Band and Steve Gadd. This is a great purchase as well.

It won't be available in the US till May or June, but I suggest checking out the clips for Lee's new DVD. You can see them here, scroll down a bit. Invalid Link Removed

EDIT: Speaking of Now Live from Pat Metheny is a very good DVD. Richard Bona has a cool solo towards the end.
 
#7
Right now anyone. Since I am a beginner bassist I am looking at technique and such from others.

I have Santana Supernatural Live DVD, Benny Reitveld plays on that.
I also have Rush in Rio on DVD.
And the new blues tribute DVD, Lightning in a Bottle or something like that. Some of the songs are played by a guy with an upright, some are played with a guy on a pbass.
 
#15
Bela Fleck And The Flecktones Live At The Quick, not only because Victor Wooten. The whole band is awesome. You can see Vic playing "Amazing Grace". BTW, maybe someone who has watched this video can answer a question I've had: Is it humanly possible to incline forward (is "stoop" the English word for it?) to the angle Victor reaches in his duel with the tabla player? There must be a trick there, right?
 
#18
Surgeon said:
Who do you like to watch?
Why do you like to watch them?
What specific videos/clips can you recommend for your fellow TBers?
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Geddy Lee to cull different licks. I've seen them live, and even had the "Exit Stage Left" laser disk in the 80's, but I never paid close attention to his right hand. It's like he's strumming with his middle and ring finger, and he slams the heck out of stuff with his index. I'm all over "Rush in Rio".

Darryl Jones (right?) the bass player for the Rolling Stones 40 Licks tour. I have the 4 DVD set from Best Buy, and that guy is phenominal. He can ride the root, play the 1-5-7, or funk it up and sound just as at home in each of those environments. One word: Fan-fricking-tastic.

Cliff Williams for his picking style. He's like a freight train, driving through AC/DC tunes with raw power and precision. "Live in Donnington" proves you don't need more than 4 strings to do your thing.

Tommy Shannon in "SRV Live at Monterey". The blues are owned, and Double Trouble holds the key. I get so many licks from those videos (it includes 1982 and 1985). I'm not a huge blues or SRV fan, but that video rocks with such intensity.

Let me not forget "Led Zeppelin" with some band... um... Oh yeah Led Zeppelin. Of course, JPJ rules. If Geddy Lee didn't study his style, I don't know who did. (of course, GL had a serious "Plant" voice on "Rush") What's not to learn on that album? How do you keep the low end, lock in the melody to the rhythm, and play so effortlessly in funny clothing? John Paul Jones shows you how to wear princely garbs and a Dolly Parton hair-do and still be THE MAN!

[edited to add] Oh, jeepers, and Queen, Live at Wembley! Man, what a guy. If you can't learn something from the way John brings it on all over the neck, you've got issues. Too bad he's not touring with the rest of the band.

4-string heroes!
 
#19
Alvaro Martín Gómez A. said:
BTW, maybe someone who has watched this video can answer a question I've had: Is it humanly possible to incline forward (is "stoop" the English word for it?) to the angle Victor reaches in his duel with the tabla player? There must be a trick there, right?
Click to expand...

I've wondered how he does that myself....?
 
#20
Boozed, Broozed, and Broken-Boned (BLS live in Detroit) Trujillo is a monster!!!

Rush/Rio (Rush) Geddy...nuff' said

Unplugged (Alice In Chains) Inez is very tasty with his Guild A/E

Never Say Die (Black Sabbath) Geezer...broke the mold after him...simply amazing chops.
 

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