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Wood Brothers Release “Live 2: Nail & Tooth”
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Wood Brothers Release “Live 2: Nail & Tooth”

The Wood Brothers have released the second installment of their live set with the release of Live, Volume 2: Nail & Tooth. The duo recorded the live sets during their 20-date U.S. tour, featuring covers from some of their biggest influences, including songs by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Allen Toussaint. Bassist Chris Wood, who also handles vocals and harmonica and...

Reader Spotlight: Josh “Bass Mountain” Townsend
Reader Spotlight

Reader Spotlight: Josh “Bass Mountain” Townsend

Josh Townsend is a bassist with one very cool nickname (“Bass Mountain”). Josh, like many others in the spotlight here, has awesome parents who helped him get his start in music at an early age. But it wasn’t until his high school years did he discover the bass, and that – as is also the case with many – was...

Avishai Cohen Trio: Remembering
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Avishai Cohen Trio: Remembering

It’s a very rainy day here today, and this tune seems to fit perfectly. Of course, any time we feature Avishai Cohen is a good day to us. Here’s Avishai with his trio, performing the tune “Remembering”. Avishai really starts getting down around the 2:25 mark!

Weekly Top Ten: New Basses, New Bass How To’s, Plus the Top Bass Videos and Nathan East’s Stories Behind the Songs
Weekly Top 10

Weekly Top Ten: New Basses, New Bass How To’s, Plus the Top Bass Videos and Nathan East’s Stories Behind the Songs

All the best of the best in bass (which is already great to begin with)… Here are the top 10 stories, lessons and videos for No Treble for the week of September 9-15, 2012. 1. Esperanza Spalding with The Roots: Live Performance of Weather Report’s “Predator” My friend Marsha was telling me about Esperanza Spalding performing a Weather Report tune,...

MarloweDK Releases “Beginning Slap Bass” DVD
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MarloweDK Releases “Beginning Slap Bass” DVD

Bassist/educator and Youtube bass phenom Thomas “MarloweDK” Risell has taken his excellent how-to approach to DVD with the release of Beginning Slap Bass DVD with MarloweDK. (MarloweDK is also a No Treble contributor). The DVD includes 25 slap bass licks and exercises, complete with onscreen notation and tab, close ups and slow motion video. Each lesson starts at full tempo,...

Groove Spoon: Barney Miller Theme Bass Jam
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Groove Spoon: Barney Miller Theme Bass Jam

I spent some time working out the bass line to Vulpeck’s awesome “It Gets Funkier”, which of course was recorded by the excellent Joe Dart. Which led me to search for more stuff by Joe. Which brought me to this awesomeness: a bass duet of the Barney Miller theme. Joe is joined by Jack Stratton, who stepped away from the...

Wolfgang Van Halen to Tour with Mark Tremonti
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Wolfgang Van Halen to Tour with Mark Tremonti

While Van Halen’s tour is on hold, due to Eddie Van Halen’s emergency surgery, Wolfgang Van Halen is going to be staying busy. The bassist is joining Creed and Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti on tour. Tremonti is touring in support of his solo effort, All I Was, and had planned to tour with bassist Brian Marshall. Marshall plays with...

Tribal Tech: Face First, Live
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Tribal Tech: Face First, Live

Holy smokes, I never get tired of Gary Willis‘ bass playing, even with the stuff he recorded almost 20 years ago. Here’s Willis laying it down with Tribal Tech, with Scott Henderson on guitar, Scott Kinsey on keyboards and Kirk Covington on drums. The quartet is playing “Face First,” the title track from Tribal Tech’s sixth album of the same...

Dave Matthews Band Releases “Away from the World”
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Dave Matthews Band Releases “Away from the World”

Dave Matthews Band has released Away from the World, the band’s eighth studio effort and first since the 2009 release, GrooGrux King. Matthews, who formed the band in 1991, recently told NPR that he’s surprised he’s made it this far. “I can remember saying ‘I can’t imagine that I’m going to be doing this when I’m 45’ — and I’m...

Reader Spotlight: Ben Clarke
Reader Spotlight

Reader Spotlight: Ben Clarke

Meet Ben Clarke, a bassist who got his start on clarinet and sax and moved on from there to the most awesome instrument on the planet. Ben is our player in the spotlight for the week of September 11, 2012. Bio: Starting formal musical training on clarinet, then baritone & tenor saxes in Junior High. Picked up the guitar and...

Top 10: The Most Watched Bass Videos (August 2012)
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Top 10: The Most Watched Bass Videos (August 2012)

Of all the awesome bass videos we shared in August (all 31 of them), 10 of them ruled supreme, based on No Treble reader views. August included our popular “isolated bass week”, and many of those made the list. Enjoy! 1. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Flea’s Isolated Bass on “Scar Tissue” Flea can be a crazy funk-rock bassist, but here...

Weekly Top Ten: New Bass Gear, “Havona” Transcription, 12 Year Old Bassist, Top Bass Videos and How To’s
Weekly Top 10

Weekly Top Ten: New Bass Gear, “Havona” Transcription, 12 Year Old Bassist, Top Bass Videos and How To’s

Here are the most read stories and most watched videos on No Treble for the week of September 2-8, 2012. Thanks for reading, commenting and sharing! 1. Vox Introduces Apache Series Bass Guitars Vox has expanded their bass lineup with the Apache series of basses, which pick up where their predecessors from the ’60s left off. The new travel instruments...