Archive for November 2021 - Page 2

As bass players, we love to pile on the low end. However, too much activity in the low register – especially with fuzzes and octavers – can muddy your sound. Zorg Effects released a new pedal called the Küth that will help clean up that mess.

Andrew Freed of Bass Freedom has put together a comprehensive video on the history of slap bass. It dates all the way back to the 1920’s and continues through today’s bassists.

Happy Turkey Day!! Eric Lawson is back with another funky video! This year, we ALL have things to be thankful for. Taking on the “U Name It” challenge a while back, he put his own twist on it.

Longtime Whitesnake bassist Michael Devin has left the group, the band announced on social media. Shortly after, David Coverdale announced the band’s next bassist: Tanya O’Callaghan.

Ryan Madora is back with a new “Keep It Groovy” bass lesson. This one focuses on adding variety to eighth note grooves by adding rhythmic and tonal accents to pulsing eighth notes to provide shape and movement to an otherwise "root centric" line.

Here’s a great clip of The Faces performing live in 1971. In this one, they cover “(I Know) I’m Losing You” with the great Ronnie Lane on bass.

Rush was a constant force in the rock world for just over 45 years. Now you can learn more about their gigs in the “Rush Gig Poster Book”, which compiles posters and ads from their whole career.

Peat Rains and You Bred Raptors? are back on the road for the first time since the world shut down in 2020. To document this brave new world, he’s writing a new tour diary for No Treble. Here’s Part 2.

Way back in the early days of No Treble, we published a review of Derek Frank’s album, “Let the Games Begin…” Derek is still bringing that music to live audiences. Here’s his band performing “Off the Top” at The Baked Potato. Funky as ever!

Thanks to the generosity of so many No Treble readers, our campaign hit its goal in just 13 days. We have about a week left on this campaign, so we set up a stretch goal with even more rewards.

Alan Cringean’s basses always grab my attention, which is why one of his latest builds - the Finn R Type 5/33 - stopped my scrolling on Facebook.

It has been quite a while since we’ve seen a video by MarloweDK, so we were thrilled when he dropped this one. Here’s Rumors Corner performing in an online concert last year. They take on Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman”.