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My great friend (and No Treble’s Managing Editor) Kevin Johnson does so much for the bass playing community. Time to give him some well-deserved love. Check out this great video by The Plate Scrapers, with KJ holding it down!

Following the success of his “Quarantine Collab” video, Charles Berthoud is back with another. He asked musicians to send him videos of them playing something in A minor at 124 bpm. He then edited them together into a single song - with over 50 bassists.

Miki Santamaria recently shared that he’s part of a new fusion project, along with drummer Alfred Berengena and keyboardist Sergio Delgado. From Inkalawa’s new EP, “Awapit”, here is their performance of the song, “Welcome Elna.”

Here’s another great virtual collaboration video to share. In this clip, Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante, Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick, Suicidal Tendencies bassist Ra Diaz, and Crobot vocalist Brandon Yeagley perform Rush’s “Red Barchetta.”

Add The Main Squeeze to the list of groups making the most of this challenging time. In this clip, the band performs The Beatles’ “With A Little Help From My Friends.” And they got help from 65 of their own friends to form the backing choir.

Renaud Garcia-Fons recently shared this incredible video of a double bass/tabla duet he recorded with Prabhu Edouard. “This piece might not have seen the light of day in this form without this incredible and disastrous health crisis,” Renaud shared.

Michael Manring released a masterpiece of a record recently, which was the first solo album by him since 2005’s “Soliloquy”. In this clip, Manring performs “Sardonic Grin” from “Small Moments”.

We love sharing excellent bass videos, and April was a great month for them. Here are the top 10 No Treble reader favorite videos for the month. Enjoy.

Any time I see a video featuring Abraham Laboriel Sr., I drop what I’m doing to watch. Spectrasonics put on an event to showcase their gear, with Kiefer Shackelford and his band. They also had a surprise in store: inviting Laboriel Sr. to the stage.

There are some pretty amazing videos being shared during this time of social distancing. Here’s one by The Band Geeks, who put together their “Quarantine Edition” cover of the Yes tune, “Roundabout.”

Our friend Rob Waxman shared this video on Facebook, and it blew me away. The video was released in 2015, but it was new to us. Antoine Baril put together this massive medley of Rush tunes and then proceeded to play the bass, guitar, and drums.

It has been a while since we’ve been able to feature Spare Parts. They’re back with a new “Quarantine Collaboration” series of videos, and they’re sounding as good as ever. Check out their performance “Herbie’s Tune” - in honor of Herbie Hancock.