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Absurdcus: Murmurations pt.2
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Absurdcus: Murmurations pt.2

Bassist Laszlo Demeter, aka “absurdcus”, has released a new video for the song “Murmurations pt.2” from his solo album, A Drop of Calm. Layered basses create a beautiful sonic tapestry that support the song’s soaring melodies. The video also has an artistic twist. “The Prisma-like filter app is called Artisto, it only does 10 seconds of video, so I had...

Luke Vajsar Releases “Hyenas”
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Luke Vajsar Releases “Hyenas”

Canadian solo bassist Luke Vajsar has released Hyenas, an album featuring his loop style playing as well as his abilities as a vocalist, guitarist and trombonist. His brother, Andrew, provides the percussion. Recorded and mixed at Toronto’s Skycrib Studios, the record incorporates Vajsar’s melodic playing with funk, soul, jazz, rock and psychedelia. Check out the album’s opening track, “The Stream”:...

Weekly Top 10: New Metallica, Talking Style, Defining Practice, New Gear, Top Videos and More
Weekly Top 10

Weekly Top 10: New Metallica, Talking Style, Defining Practice, New Gear, Top Videos and More

Another great week from the land of the low end is in the books, and it is time to celebrate our weekly top 10 reader favorites on No Treble. Thanks for reading, watching, commenting and sharing. 1. Bass of the Week: AMJ Guitars Fretless Bass No Treble reader Deryl Gallant wrote in to us with a cool story on the...

Victor Wooten Joins Progressive Metal Band
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Victor Wooten Joins Progressive Metal Band

Here’s something you didn’t see coming: bassist Victor Wooten is in a new progressive metal band called Octavision. The group was founded by guitarist Hovak Alaverdyan and also features keyboardists Steve Weingart and Ara Torosyan with Roman Lomtadze on drums. The band has only released a teaser for their first single entitled “Three Lives”. They describe the song as as...

Chris LaBenne: NFL on FOX Theme Song (All-Bass Version)
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Chris LaBenne: NFL on FOX Theme Song (All-Bass Version)

NFL football officially kicks off this weekend, and we thought we’d celebrate bass-style, thanks to Chris LaBenne, who sent us this video. “It’s an all-bass multitrack cover of the ‘NFL on FOX’ theme,” Chris said. “I was excited for football season to start and figured what better way to break in my piccolo bass strings? It was a hell of...

“The Bass Book” Published in Revised Third Edition
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“The Bass Book” Published in Revised Third Edition

A classic bass book is back in a revised edition. The Bass Book: A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars, covers everything from the introduction of the electric bass guitar in the early 1950s up through today. Written by by music journalist Tony Bacon and UK bass retailer and distributor Barry Moorhouse, the book includes interviews with bass makers and...

Elrick Bass Guitars Unveils Steve Lawson Signature Model
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Elrick Bass Guitars Unveils Steve Lawson Signature Model

Steve Lawson has teamed up with Elrick Bass Guitars to release a signature model. The Gold Standard Steve Lawson Custom Bolt-on Neck Bass Guitar is a semi-hollow body that features the company’s “heel-less” body design. The bass is built with a maple body topped with marbled walnut. Its quarter-sawn maple neck sports a 33-inch scale and is bolted to the...

David Bowie: “Station To Station” Live (1978)
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David Bowie: “Station To Station” Live (1978)

Here’s a great live clip from David Bowie’s 1978 tour with George Murray laying it down on bass. The band – which also features guitarist Adrian Belew – performs “Station to Station” in this video.

STS9 Goes Universal on Latest Album
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STS9 Goes Universal on Latest Album

Electronica/jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) has released The Universe Inside, which the band says reflects the messages of the golden records that traveled on NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions. According to the band, with Alana Rocklin on bass, the album is about identity “and the magical truth of who we are, where we’re going, and our...

Fund Set Up for George Mraz Medical Expenses
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Fund Set Up for George Mraz Medical Expenses

A GoFundMe page has been set up for jazz bass legend George Mraz following serious medical issues. The 72-year old bassist, who has worked with everyone from Oscar Peterson to Chet Baker to Stephane Grapelli, was operated on this summer for his pancreas. Complications from the procedure have kept him in an extended hospital stay. “On July 8th George endured...

Bass Transcription: John Paul Jones’ Bass Line on Dusty Springfield’s “Take Another Little Piece of My Heart”
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Bass Transcription: John Paul Jones’ Bass Line on Dusty Springfield’s “Take Another Little Piece of My Heart”

Dusty Springfield was a British singer whose early chart success in the UK and USA was with straightforward pop tunes such as 1963’s “I Only Want to be With You,” and more sophisticated ballads like 1966’s “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”. The 1968 Dusty… Definitely album began her change towards a more R&B/Soul sound, with inclusion of...

Nathan Navarro: Star Wars
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Nathan Navarro: Star Wars

Nathan Navarro has been bringing it with the nostalgia lately. His last video was a sick playthrough with the original Super Mario Brothers video game. Now he’s back with an all bass rendition of music from Star Wars. The clip starts out with the Star Wars theme cleanly played in five parts on his white Spector bass, but things get...