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Prog-Rockers Gentle Giant Release 1976 Live Show for First Time
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Prog-Rockers Gentle Giant Release 1976 Live Show for First Time

Gentle Giant might be the prog-rock band that casual fans of the genre overlook. However, the group had a decade-long career (1970-80), turning out creative pieces, often written by bassist/multi-instrumentalist Ray Shulman and keyboardist Kerry Minnear. Fans have long adored the band’s one previous official live album, Playing the Fool, released in the late 1970s. While other live recordings are...

Reader Spotlight: Linus Abrahamson
Reader Spotlight

Reader Spotlight: Linus Abrahamson

Meet Linus Abrahamson, a musician from Sweden who never seems to sit still and has certainly accomplished quite a lot in his musical career: three separate projects happening right now (with his fourth on hiatus due to “people having babies”), a double master’s degree in music education, and more. Linus is No Treble’s reader in the spotlight for the week...

Oz Noy, Will Lee and Keith Carlock: Steroids (Live)
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Oz Noy, Will Lee and Keith Carlock: Steroids (Live)

One of my all-time favorite videos we’ve shared goes back to 2012: Oz Noy, Will Lee and Keith Carlock performing “Schizophrenic” live in Tokyo. Here’s the trio cooking on “Steroids” from that very performance.

1975 LA Forum Show Second in “From The Vault” Releases from The Rolling Stones
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1975 LA Forum Show Second in “From The Vault” Releases from The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones have issued the second DVD in the band’s From The Vault vintage live performance series. This time out, the Stones take viewers back to a July 12, 1975 concert at the L.A. Forum. The show, which lasted more than 2.5 hours, featured what for many is the classic band lineup — then-new guitarist Ron Wood, guitarist Keith...

Bass of the Week: UNICORNbass Ozellman Master
Bass of the Week

Bass of the Week: UNICORNbass Ozellman Master

UNICORNbass is a boutique bass company out of Sweden that’s making some pretty slick instruments. The Ozellman Master is a flexible, performance-driven bass with the added touch of customizable looks. Built with either bolt-on or set-neck construction, the bass features a 7-ply neck of maple and purple heart matched to a bookmatched mahogany body topped with a choice of exotic...

Freelance Gigs: Five Tips for Bass Players
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Freelance Gigs: Five Tips for Bass Players

The last “Tips” column (on avoiding injury), was a popular one. So let’s continue this series with some tips on freelancing. 1. Be Musically Prepared If there is sheet music, review it. If there are recordings, listen to them. As much as possible, be familiar with all the parts. Be acquainted with the melodies, harmonies, key rhythmic devices, etc. inherent...

Nenad Vasilic: Vranjanka
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Nenad Vasilic: Vranjanka

Bassist Nenad Vasilic has a new album out this month called The Art of Balkan Bass, and this preview track has been stuck in my head for a week. “Vranjanka” is a traditional Balkan folk song that Vasilic tackles by himself with his upright. He perpetuates the groove with some perfectly laid ghost notes and light string slapping. Check out...

Bill Laswell Digs Into “The Process” with Chili Pepper Chad Smith
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Bill Laswell Digs Into “The Process” with Chili Pepper Chad Smith

Eclectic bassist and producer Bill Laswell has teamed with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and New Orleans pianist/keyboardist Jon Batiste on the new album, . “The original idea was to film unfamiliar musicians playing together in a room with no preconceived direction. Over time it began to transform into making a record,” Laswell said. The movie was never...

Weekly Top 10: Jaco: The Film, Harmonic Substitutions, New Bass Gear, Top Bass Videos, A Lightbulb Moment and More
Weekly Top 10

Weekly Top 10: Jaco: The Film, Harmonic Substitutions, New Bass Gear, Top Bass Videos, A Lightbulb Moment and More

What a way to end the week… with the best from the world of bass! It is always a bonus with a top 10 list contains a top 10 list… and that’s happened this week with the top 10 bass videos of the month. Plus, all the other No Treble reader favorites for the week of November 8 – 14,...

Colin Trusedell’s Quartet of Jazz Death: The Escape
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Colin Trusedell’s Quartet of Jazz Death: The Escape

Colin Trusedell is an active duty Air Force bass player and Colorado State University bass professor. He shared this new video of a tune from his new funk/fusion electronic jazz album, Quartet of Jazz Death. The tune “The Escape” features some seriously beefy bass tone, lots of grooves and solos. Skip ahead to the 1:13 mark if you want to...

Job for a Cowboy Releases First Album with New Bassist
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Job for a Cowboy Releases First Album with New Bassist

Job for a Cowboy’s fourth album, , featuring bassist Nick Schendzielos (also of Cephalic Carnage and the YouTube channel Bassfordays), has been released to critical acclaim. Alternative Press calls it one of the year’s best metal albums. Sun Eater marks the band’s departure from its earlier sound, in favor of “futuristic tones” and “slightly more ancestral song construction,” according to...

Karl Clews: Bass Cover of Stanley Clarke’s “Pop Virgil”
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Karl Clews: Bass Cover of Stanley Clarke’s “Pop Virgil”

Back in 2012, bassist Karl Clews knocked us out with his solo bass performance of “Come Together”. We’re featuring him once again thanks to his impressive cover of the Stanley Clarke tune, “Pop Virgil”, which appeared on Clarke’s latest album, Up. Karl says he’s playing “a 2003 Status Kingbass Artist, direct into a Presonus Audiobox interface and Sonar X3, [with]...