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Archive for November 2010 - Page 7

Weekly Top 10

Rewind: Top 10 Bass Videos, Les Claypool Asks for Help, New Bass Gear & Upright Bass Tunings

Here are the most read, most popular stories and features on No Treble for the week of October 31 – November 6, 2010. Top 10: The Best Bass Videos (October 2010) Video: Esperanza Spalding: I Can’t Help It (Michael Jackson Cover) Player News: Les Claypool Asks Fans For Help News: New Film to Feature Duff McKagan’s Loaded Player News: Krist...

Gear Watch: Gadotti Guitars King Bass
Bass Gear

Gear Watch: Gadotti Guitars King Bass

Gadotti Guitars has introduced their newest model, the King Bass, available with 4, 5 and 6-string configurations, and fretted or fretless. Manufactured in Brazil, the bass is a neck thru body design featuring Honduras Mahogany and Maple for sustain and brightness, with a Cocobolo fretboard. The electronics include Kent Armstrong H4BE active pickups as well as Kent Armstrong active circuitry....

The Funky Bass Book
New Albums

The Funky Bass Book

Backbeat Books has released The Funky Bass Book, compiled and edited by former Bass Player magazine editor Bill Leigh. The 256 page book offers a huge collection of “funked-up wisdom and inspiration”, tracing back to the pioneers of R&B, soul and funk, to the latest hop-hop, neo-soul and Gospel. The book’s forward is by Bootsy Collins. The Funky Bass Book‘s...

Stanley Clarke: School Days (1990)
Bass Videos

Stanley Clarke: School Days (1990)

Here’s a live Montreux Jazz Festival of Stanley Clarke‘s “School Days”, performance by Clarke and George Duke. The video gives you a close up look at Clarke’s Alembic bass (and playing!)

RIP Jim Clench, Bassist for April Wine and B.T.O.
In Memoriam

RIP Jim Clench, Bassist for April Wine and B.T.O.

Jim Clench, a bassist from Montreal who performed with April Wine and Bachman Turner Overdrive, has passed away at the age of 61. Clench had been battling lung cancer. Clench was with April Wine from 1970 until 1975, performing on the band’s hits including “You Could Have Been a Lady” and “The Whole World’s Goin’ Crazy”. After his break from...

New Noel Redding DVD Due in December
News

New Noel Redding DVD Due in December

A new documentary called The Redding Experience, featuring the late Noel Redding, is set for a December 6 release date, according to antimusic.com. The DVD will include a never before seen interview with the bassist, who was part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, filmed in 1988 in his home in Ireland. During the interview, Redding opens up about his time...

Miles Mosley: Take Me Home
Bass Videos

Miles Mosley: Take Me Home

Another great live performance by our friend Miles Mosley, performing “Take Me Home”. What a kickin’ tune!

Bootsy Collins Dives Into The World Of Fine Art
Player News

Bootsy Collins Dives Into The World Of Fine Art

Funk master Bootsy Collins has announced his debut into the world of fine art. According to his new art website, the project is “the release of an art piece of which 300 drafts will exist, all numbered and signed.” Bootsy said on his Facebook page that the work will be a “MASSIVE piece of art,” and that each piece will...

Gear Watch: Darkglass Electronics Microtubes B3K Overdrive Pedal
Bass Gear

Gear Watch: Darkglass Electronics Microtubes B3K Overdrive Pedal

Darkglass Electronics is now shipping their Microtubes B3K bass distortion pedal. The pedal features hybrid JFET and CMOS gain stages for a natural dynamic response, with Level, Drive, and Blend knobs as well as Attack and Grunt switches to dial up your sound. The Attack switch replicates the “Ultra Hi” option from many tube amps, and gives a treble boost...

Les Claypool Asks Fans For Help
Player News

Les Claypool Asks Fans For Help

Les Claypool recently sent a heartfelt newsletter reaching out to his fans for help. In the email, he thanked fans for supporting the recent Primus tour, and went on to share some bad news he’d received following his Oddity Faire Tour. “I received the very traumatic news from my brother Ron that his little baby boy, Matthew, had been emergency...

Slam Stewart: Flat Foot Floogie
Bass Videos

Slam Stewart: Flat Foot Floogie

Dig this! Slam Stewart was one of the most if not the most recorded jazz bassists in the 40s, known for his bowing and singing along with his impeccable bass lines. Seeing him live was a treat nobody could forget. Here he is live with the Benny Goodman Quartet.

Blues Rock: Bass Play-Along Volume 18
Sheet Music & Instruction

Blues Rock: Bass Play-Along Volume 18

Hal Leonard has released Volume 18 of their Bass Play-Along series. Blues Rock is a 72 page, 8 song book featuring tab and CD tracks for each classic blues tune. The melody and lyrics for each tune are also included. The CD includes audio with and without bass, so you can hear the bassline first, and play along with the...