Best of 2023: The Top 10 Bass Videos

Tal Wilkenfeld is currently on tour with the Allman Betts Family Revival, and now we get to see them in action. Youtuber John Richardson captured this footage of the band performing “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More,” with Tal handling the lead vocals.

Filmed on October 13, 2023 at the River of Time Boutique & Gallery in Athens, OH, here’s Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady) performing “Death Don’t Have No Mercy.”

Tal Wilkenfeld recently joined Scary Pockets for a fantastic cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.” Now, a new fan-shot video has surfaced of her performing live with Scary Goldings at Monterey Jazz Fest 2023.

Daryl Hall dropped a new video this week from his “Live From Daryl’s House” series, and this is a great one. Robert Fripp visited and the group performed David Bowie’s “Heroes,” which included Fripp in the original recording.

Jaz Moss sent us his latest video, which is an incredibly well-done, detailed look at the work of James Jamerson. Jaz said it took three months of research to produce this retrospective on the Motown legend.

Ellen Alaverdyan is back with another episode of her top 10 favorite bass lines. In this video, she discusses and plays along to 10 of her favorite tunes.

Maarten Plukker sent us this video he created to showcase Nathan East’s isolated bass on Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.”

Damon Deluca commented on the video we shared by StickHits and their remastered soundcheck video of Rush in 2012. Damon shared StickHits’ impressive remix and remaster video of Rush’s “Subdivisions.”

Our good friend Rob Waxman shared this video on Facebook yesterday, and I was mesmerized by the performance. Barend Tromp pays tribute to Jeff Beck in this clip, playing “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” on 6-string fretless bass.

Remco Hendriks is back with another fantastic video. He puts his fretless Cortex bass to work on this cool harmonic slide funk groove, using sliding harmonics, double stops, heavy fingerstyle, palm muting, and more.