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Archive for January 2010 - Page 7

Bass Videos

Zawinul Syndicate with Richard Bona live ’96

Here’s a video performance from the 1996 Hamburg Jazz fest, featuring Joe Zawinul’s band with Richard Bona on bass, Amit Chatterjee on guitar, Mokhtar Samba on drums and Abdou Mboup and percussion. Zawinul was promoting his just-released My People album.

Bass Gear

Gear Watch: Soundblox Pro Multiwave Bass Distortion Pedal

Source Audio will be introducing the Soundblox Pro Multiwave Bass distortion pedals at the upcoming NAMM show. The pedals feature multiband processing which is a technique that breaks a signal into multiple band and distorts them individually, allowing for more clarity and articulation. The pedal also features 23 presets and an additional clean boost/EQ mode. Each of the presets is...

Gear Watch: The Fleabass
Bass Gear

Gear Watch: The Fleabass

Flea announced his own line of affordable basses at last year’s NAMM show, dubbed the Fleabass. The basses, designed by Flea, come in junior and full-scale configurations with colorful, high gloss finishes. The basses are a part of a broader goal for Flea. As we covered in November, Flea has his own non-profit music school, The Silverlake Conservatory of Music....

Lesson: Basic Line Construction Types
Bass Lessons

Lesson: Basic Line Construction Types

After doing last week’s column, I’ve been thinking more about approaches to creating lines connecting ii and V chords. I’d like to revisit the subject and delve into some basic line construction types. Each particular technique constitutes parts that become interchangeable and apply to a wide range of bass line situations. Throughout these exercises we’ll be going back and forth...

Bass Videos

Ray Brown Trio: A Night In Tunisia

Today’s video comes as a recommendation from our Facebook friend, Eddie Lee, who posted this to our page: “Had to share this with you guys… No bass solo-shock-horror! Just a lovely little arrangement and some funky stuff from the great RB.” RB, of course, is the great Ray Brown. Here’s Ray and his trio (including pianist Gene Harris an drummer...

Weekly Top 10

Rewind: the most popular stories of the week

Here are the most popular features from No Treble last week. Lessons Jon Burr‘s video lesson series continues with On walking: Connecting ii-V’s Russ Sargeant shares his awesome lesson on live looping for bass Evan Kepner‘s lesson shows us How To Harmonize Melodies Columns & Features Damian Erskine shares his thoughts on Finding the balance Our newest feature “What’s Spinning”...

Player News

Lemmy: The Movie

Motorhead’s frontman/bassist Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister is going to be the subject of an upcoming documentary, releasing at this year’s SXSW festival in March. Directors/producers Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski followed Kilmister for three years, and interviewed other musicians including Slash, Dave Grohl, Metallica, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne and wrestler Triple H. “Lemmy never ceases to surprise me,” Orshoski said in...

Bass Videos

Stanley Clarke interview with NBC News (80’s)

In what is obviously a clip from the 80’s, here’s Brian Madden of NBC News doing an interview/story on Stanley Clarke. Is it okay if we say how glad we are that the 80’s hairstyles, clothes, eyewear and synthesizers are long gone?

Bass Gear

Gear Watch: Vigier announces 5-string Excess bass

Vigier Guitars’ 4-string Excess bass was released in 1996 and made popular by Deep Purple’s Roger Glover. Vigier has just announced a new 5-string model has been added to the Excess line. Like all Vigier’s basses, the 5-string Excess uses Vigier’s 10/90 system, which reinforces the neck with a carbon fiber strip. The bass includes a set of Delano pickups...

Player News

Slayer bassist/frontman to undergo surgery; tour dates cancelled

After dealing with back pain since an overseas tour last October, Slayer bassist and frontman Tom Araya will have to undergo surgery. Consequently, the band’s American and Canadian Carnage tour, which was to start on January 18th, have been cancelled. Also cancelled is the UK/European tour in March and April. The dates are already being rescheduled, and tickets already purchased...

Flea Plays National Anthem Before BCS Game
Bass Videos

Flea Plays National Anthem Before BCS Game

Flea performed the national anthem with Josh Groban at the Rose Bowl BCS National Championship football game a couple of days ago: Personally, we like the performance he did before the Lakers game better:

Bass Gear

Gear Watch: Two Notes Audio VM-202 Cab Simulator

French manufacturer Two Notes Audio Engineering will be presenting their new product, the VM-202 Guitar/Bass Cab Simulator at the upcoming NAMM show. The product, which is a follow-up to their VB-101 DI, takes your signal from your pre amp and runs it through an exclusive tube stage simulator, as well as their TORPEDO algorithm to simulate cabinet and microphone simulations...