Bass Player Live

hvacfreak

cool vid...all amazing players. -M

Paul Fredricks_3

Last weekend...

I was in NYC for Bass Player Live. Basically a trade show for bass players. The clinics are put on by the best in the business. The manufacturers reps are there with all the latest. At the end is a concert and lifetime achievement awards. Lee Sklar has played with everyone from James Taylor to the Doors to Reba MacEntire. They figure your can hear him on over 2000 albums. Tony Levin has played with many as well and is a member of King Krimson. In person, just regular guys.

Any bass players out there should definitely put this on their list for next year.

ScottMP

WOW

Cool beans Paul.

Leland has played for EVERYONE. He was with John Lennon for awhile also.

Scott

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Paul Fredricks_3

And you can hear Tony Levin on Lennon's Double Fantasy album. Other notables were Stu Hamm, who played with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani; and Chuck Rainey who has played with Quincy Jones, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin and was part of the opening act for the Beatles at Shea Stadium.

Yeah, it was cool.

hvacfreak

I need to..

...get out more. Can't get enough of Jeff Berlin and this guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6c6zWpzlQk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-SmPmjGRjo

ScottMP

Wow

I've never heard of these guys ... Niacin huh ?

Nice version of Birdland.

Great stuff, I'll have to check them out.

Scott " Sox Rule " Milne

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Dave Larsen_9

bass players

Q; What do you call a bass player who just lost his girlfriend?
A: Homeless!

Q: how do you get a bass player off your porch?
A: Pay for the Pizza!

Supply House Rick

Paul try this (turn it up)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZidKFVLSPKw

Tony Levin, Jan Hammer & Eddie Van Halen at a Les Paul Tribute show in 1988. Now this would be a tour. Levin ripping it up. One of the most rockin' video's ever!!!

Timco

Didn't Billy Shenhan play for Vai, or was it for David Lee Roth? I liked his tunes...

Tim

Bob Harper_2

vid

I like Leland in the Phil Collins video with the little dog peeing on his leg on stage.

Paul Fredricks_3

Here's one I love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-TM9GA3Tg

Steve Ebels_3

HEY NOW!!

I resemble those remarks!! Well............not the girlfriend part.........

Now..............drummers are a whole 'nuther category.

How do you tell when the stage is level?..........The drool is running out of both sides of the drummer's mouth

Unknown

Old Tony Levin...

Stumbled across this, thought of this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbOdgevxDE

Paul Fredricks_3

Thanks, "M", that was great. That whole album is a favorite of mine. Anyone know what show that was from?

Unknown

My pleasure...

Something was said about it being on a show called "Fridays" which was similar (I guess) to SNL and that it was around 1982 when it aired. I was guessing '83 myself so I was pretty close...

If you scroll down to the comments somebody listed the players. Robert Fripp is the handsome, smily guy in the suit and tie. But you probably knew that...

Paul Fredricks_3

Ah yes, Fridays. The west coast version of SNL. Great show. Among others, Michael Richard came from there (later to play Kramer on Seinfeld).

For more info look up Andy Kaufman and the famous Friday's incident.

ScottMP

Paul

Did you notice ( I'm sure you did ) Tony Levin playing the Chapman Stick ?

Great Stuff.

Scott

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Unknown

It's a shame,,,

You never hear this stuff on the radio. Too complicated for the general masses. I have a bud who had a band that played all this kind of stuff, "Yes" perfectly, the whole thing. They would empty bars, nobody wanted to hear it. They wanted, "FREEEBIRRRRD!!"

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Well, except for the bars stopped hiring them. LOL...

Paul Fredricks_3

There was a guy playing the Chapman at Bass Player Live, though I think he was just foolin' around with it. So much noise there I couldn't here what he was doing.

Most technical stuff is lost on the masses. Main stream sells. The stuff that musicians appreciate the rest of the world just doesn't get. A shame

Unknown

Agreed

I've always thought the problem came from the affinity for school boards to cut things like art and music when the budgets get crunched. But I preach to the choir...

So to speak

Unknown

Double click

whoopsy...

Dave Larsen_9

Best Bass player of all time!

The best to ever pick up a bass was James Jamerson from the funk brothers. Listen to the bass line in Marvin Gaye's What's goin' on. Possibly the best bass line ever written, and he wrote it smashed, laying on the floor at motown in the middle of the nite. Sheehan and so many others admit that they can't hold a candle to Jamerson!Any true Bass player that say's they weren't influenced by his work is lying.IMHO

Paul Fredricks_3

Love his bass lines. We do Reach Out by the Four Tops. That bass line runs the whole song.

Dave Larsen_9

Jamerson

I've spent many hours learning his lines thru the years. There are notes that just shouldn't fit, but they DO somehow. amazing stuff!

hvacfreak

Berlin

James Jamerson is great for sure.

Check out this weird 1970's Jeff Berlin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjWu9p-GTT4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSM-jMMuoiU

ScottMP

Damn

You guys find the BEST STUFF !!

Does anybody make this music anymore ???

Scott

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Supply House Rick

Larry Graham & Grand Central Station-The Jam

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HSewT1jcG-g

One of the funkiest bass players ever, credited with inventing the slap bass technique.

Enjoy the groove...

Rick

hvacfreak

Really...

...can we forget this guy...

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=19138&fr=

ok , someone is brilliant wasting the youtube vid.

That is a cool riff.

Supply House Rick

Or this guy- Jack Bruce

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rkm9OiYvmPc

Crossroads is a killer bass jam