Archive for August 2013 - Page 6

Meet Grant Williams, a bass player who found his calling when he picked up the bass at the age of 17. There’s a cool story behind that, and one very cool Mom who made it happen. Today Grant keeps busy playing in a band, recording – and when gigs are thin – trading stocks! Grant is the No Treble reader...

July was a big month for bass videos, and none were bigger than Jim Bennett’s all-bass cover of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”. There was also an interesting Jaco theme to this list, as it turns out. But every one of these top 10 right here are hot hot hot… and we’re not just saying that. These were the most watched...

Longtime No Treble readers may remember the Crash Kings. The trio started by brothers Mike Beliveau (bass) and Tony Beliveau (keyboards and vocals) caught our attention because they set out to get that “create a band that once and for all could be ‘The Big Rock Sound’ without guitar.” And boy did they. Here’s the group performing “Hot Fire” –...

Alfred Music has released the remaining books in their Platinum Bass series featuring the music of Led Zeppelin and bass lines of John Paul Jones. The latest round features the bass line transcriptions for Coda, In Through the Out Door and Presence. As with all books in the Platinum Bass series, both standard notation and tab for the bass lines...

Along with the reissue of the V-4B, Ampeg has announced two new SVT bass cabinets: the SVT-112AV and the SVT-212AV. Both models are stocked with 12? Eminence LF drivers, making it the first time the company has released cabinets housing 12-inch drivers in over a decade. The cabs also include a 1? compression driver with a 3-way level control. The...

Any serious musician will practice regularly. While consistency is the most significant factor in our progress, we need to make good use of our practice time if we want continued improvement. No one set of specific materials (i.e. specific etudes, etc.) will be appropriate for everyone, but any successful long-term plan will hit on a few distinct areas each day....

Once again, Zander Zon turns in an amazing solo bass performance. This time around, he takes on Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive”. The original blends rock, electronic music and dubstep. Zander makes it all about the bass.

Prog rock supergroup Flying Colors is gearing up to release a new live album and accompanying DVD of their performance from Tilburg, Netherlands on September 20th, 2012. Flying Colors – Live In Europe captures the band at the toward the end of their fall European tour and just months after their debut album was released. Anchored by bassist Dave LaRue,...

Tim Wright, original bassist for the experimental rock group Pere Ubu, has passed away. The cause of death was not announced. Wright helped to form Pere Ubu in Cleveland, Ohio in 1975. Blending punk and art rock, the band’s sound was underpinned by the bassist’s growling tone on early tracks including “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” and “Final Solution.” Wright also...

Last week was full of bass greatness in the form of some mind-bending, face-melting videos, a great behind-the-scenes look at songs from Will Lee’s vast catalog (told to us by the man himself), a great lesson, new gear and more. Here are your top ten most popular features on No Treble for the week of August 4-10, 2013. Thanks for...

We recently shared a video from the archives by Jayme Lewis and his band, and it knocked everyone out. Here’s Jayme’s band in a more recent video, performing the tune “Abby Someone” and once again delivering the goods. The tune is on the band’s release, When Will Then Be Now.

Christian McBride is keeping busy. The bassist has a new trio and they’ve released his second studio album of the year, Out Here. Joined by pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr., Out Here offers McBride’s smallest group in three years. “It’s a pretty diversified trio,” McBride says. “The real core foundation is hardcore swingin’, blues and the American...