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Bass Videos

City Sonic: Geddy Lee at Massey Hall

Here’s a cool video of Rush’s Geddy Lee talking about his hometown Massey Hall back in the day, and want it meant for him to play the place his heroes, like Jack Bruce, played when he was growing up. For more great films like this, check out City Sonic.

Weekly Top 10

Rewind: the most popular stories last week

Check out the most popular stories from No Treble last week, including our continuing NAMM coverage. Columns & Features Welcome to Mark Saltman and his new column, Bottoms Up. Mark’s first column focuses on Melodies in Bass. What’s Spinning for… John Goldsby Donovan Stoke‘s latest Lowdown with Dr. D.: Three Requirements of Attainment (Part 2 of 3: Student) Our bass...

Bass Gear, NAMM 2010

Gear Watch: Peavey introduces bass guitars to its PXD series

Peavey has introduced two new basses guitars to their modern metal inspired PXD Series: the Tragic 4 and Void 4. Both the Tragic and Void are 4-string neck-through-body basses that feature an alder body, maple neck, and ebony fretboard. Both models also enjoy the incredible tonal control of Peavey VFL active pickups, which are the same proprietary electronics that Peavey...

Bass Videos

Zander Zon: Hallelujah for solo bass

Zander Zon has posted another amazing video, this time, performing his arrangement of “Hallelujah”. He shares, “This is a really beautiful song that lots of piano and guitar players have covered. I really wanted a complete solo bass version to exist, so here it is! Hope you guys like it!” Zander also mentioned his new album is being replicated and...

Events

WesFest 5 Benefit Concert announced, with Tal Wilkenfeld

Bryan Beller recently updated us on the next WesFest Benefit Concert, now in its fifth year. The concert is in honor of Wes Wehmiller, a Berklee grad and good friend of Beller who passed away in 2005 from thyroid cancer. Each year, the concert raises funds for a scholarship endowed in Wehmiller’s name at Berklee. The scholarship winner from the...

New Albums

Anthony Jackson to release his first-ever solo album, with colleague Yiorgos Fakanas

Hard to believe that after 40 years as a pro, Anthony Jackson is set to release his first solo album this March. The album, Interspirit pairs Jackson with composer/bassist Yiorgos Fakanas, as well as Dave Weckl on drums, Frank Gambale on guitar, Mitch Forman on keyboards, and Tony Lakatos on sax. According to a press release from Abstract Logix, the...

Bass Videos, NAMM 2010

Marcus Miller and Victor Bailey NAMM Jam

Another short but cool video from NAMM 2010… this time, Marcus Miller and Victor Bailey jam at the Fender booth.

Player News

Paul McCartney “could have been” in Them Crooked Vultures

According to an article in British newspaper The Daily Mail, former Fab Four member Paul McCartney was interested in being in the successful supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. The band of course now features bassist John Paul Jones. After the Grammy awards last year, Paul had dinner with drummer Dave Grohl and the conversation turned to Grohl’s new project. “We went...

Player News

Rob Wasserman to rejoin RatDog for special event

Rob Wasserman will rejoin former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and his band RatDog for an event called the RatDog Daze, which will be taking place in Negril, Jamaica. The event begins January 23. Current RatDog bassist Robin Sylvester cannot make the gig for unspecified medical reasons. The band gave a statement, saying “The entire Bob Weir & RatDog family...

What's Spinning

What’s Spinning for… John Goldsby

I am doing a Mingus project in May with the WDR Big Band, so I have been checking out Mingus’s music recently. He has left such a legacy on several levels: his bass playing, his rhythm section playing, his band leading and his composing. All of those aspects of Mingus’s music are interconnected, and he really made strong contributions in...

Bass Videos

John Patitucci with Mark O’Connor and Julian Lage live

Here is a cool video of John Patitucci’s latest project with violinist Mark O’Connor and guitarist Julian Lage. The trio debuted January 7th at the Blue Note in NYC.

Bass Gear, NAMM 2010

Gear Watch: Ampeg announces two new SVT-PRO series heads

Ampeg announced two new heads in their popular SVT-PRO Series, the SVT-7PRO and SVT-8PRO. Both heads are light-weight rack-mountable units designed to deliver high wattage and tonal flexibility. The SVT-7PRO is a compact head, weighing in at only 15 pounds. The head features a flexible 5-position mid tone control, remote switching FX loop, and an onboard variable compressor. The tube...