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In Memoriam: Marshall Lytle
In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Marshall Lytle

Marshall Lytle, bassist for Bill Haley and The Comets, has passed away at the age of 79 after a battle with cancer. Lytle left his mark on popular music as the bassist on the classic track “Rock Around the Clock,” a song that is often cited as the birth of rock ’n’ roll. Born in Old Fort, North Carolina in...

Hova Burian: Armenian Jazz Band
Bass Videos

Hova Burian: Armenian Jazz Band

Now this is some fast-paced Armenian jazz! Bassist Hova Burian rips it up and gets filmed while doing so.

Molten Voltage Introduces OZ Looper Controller
Pedals & Effects

Molten Voltage Introduces OZ Looper Controller

Molten Voltage has released the OZ Looper Controller, a pedal that works in tandem with the Strymon Timeline Delay to offer advanced use of its MIDI capabilities. The OZ connects with a single MIDI cable to access and control the TimeLine’s Reverse, Half-Speed/Double-Speed, Undo, and Redo functions. The OZ also has single-press, soft-touch recording and play back, meaning that you...

App Review: Set List Maker
Apps

App Review: Set List Maker

If you lead your own project, Set List Maker is probably going to be a game changer for you. If you’re like me, getting organized for a gig means being strapped to your desk with iTunes open, messing around with a playlist of all of your tunes, desperately playing with various song orders, playing the beginning and end of tunes...

Zander Zon: “Oracles of Her” Multi-Track Bass
Bass Videos

Zander Zon: “Oracles of Her” Multi-Track Bass

The one man band known as Zander Zon has turned in another exceptional video, this time performing his tune, “Oracles of Her”. The song is from Zander’s album Saturn Return (also check out the Track by Track feature on that album). In the Track by Track feature, Zander shared that the tune spanned his musical years, with a nod to...

Daft Punk Releases “Random Access Memories”
New Albums

Daft Punk Releases “Random Access Memories”

Electronica duo Daft Punk have taken a turn towards humanity with their latest album, Random Access Memories, which almost exclusively uses live instrumentation. The 13-track effort brings together a spectacular cast of guest musicians including Julian Casablancas, Pharrell Williams, Paul Williams, Nile Rodgers, Chilly Gonzalez and others. “Making music with musicians and bringing back a certain craftsmanship, that was totally...

Weekly Top Ten: The Top Bass Stories, Videos and How To’s for the Week of May 19
Weekly Top 10

Weekly Top Ten: The Top Bass Stories, Videos and How To’s for the Week of May 19

There were a couple of unplanned trends this week on No Treble… starting with the top two how to’s being focused on open strings: one to get warmed up and the other to get funky. And funk was another: the open strings lesson I just mentioned, and a video demo on developing the funk/soul bass groove. There was sad news...

Adam Stevens: Solo Bass Loop Arrangement of Bootsy Collins’ “I’d Rather Be With You”
Bass Videos

Adam Stevens: Solo Bass Loop Arrangement of Bootsy Collins’ “I’d Rather Be With You”

Adam Stevens has impressed us in the past with his solo bass arrangements, but I’m not sure I’ve enjoyed any more than this one. Here’s Adam’s arrangement of “I’d Rather Be With You”, from Bootsy Collins’ 1976 album Stretchin’ Out In Bootsy’s Rubber Band.

Phil Jones Announces Limited Edition Briefcase Ultimate Bass Amp Combo
Amps

Phil Jones Announces Limited Edition Briefcase Ultimate Bass Amp Combo

It’s been ten years since the Phil Jones Briefcase was introduced, and the company is celebrating the milestone with a limited edition version of the compact bass amplifier. The Phil Jones Briefcase Ultimate will be a modified version of the original, bumping up output from 100 watts to 160 watts. Other upgraded features include new higher power Pirhana speakers with...

Francois Lamouche: “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past” for Solo Bass
Bass Videos

Francois Lamouche: “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past” for Solo Bass

Bassist Francois Lamouche shares this video of him performing his arrangement of the song from The Legend of Zelda – A Link to the Past. He says the video is dedicated to his friend, T. Moustache, who “asked me a billion times to do this arrangement.” Francois also shared, “If you want Bass to control the world : share my...

Peter Hook and The Light to Perform New Order Albums on North American Tour
Concerts & Tours

Peter Hook and The Light to Perform New Order Albums on North American Tour

Peter Hook and The Light are gearing up for a special North American tour this fall in which the group will play the first two albums from the bassist’s previous band New Order. The band will perform both 1981’s Movement and 1983’s Power, Corruption & Lies in their entireties at nine cities across the U.S. and Canada, starting September 10th...

Organizational Skills for Bassists: A Checklist for Getting There
I Wish I Knew That

Organizational Skills for Bassists: A Checklist for Getting There

I’ve just spent the past hour tearing apart my room, searching through notebooks and drawers, on top of shelves and beneath the bed, and I still can’t find what I’m looking for. Frantically, I called a friend to create a distraction (secretly hoping that what I’m looking for will magically appear right in front of me), and his response was,...