Reader Spotlight: Florian Imbaud
Meet Florian Imbaud, a bassist now living in the UK while studying music and performing. Check out his story about switching to bass, and how he came full circle, in a way. Florian is our player in the spotlight for the week of February 4, 2013. Bio: I’am a French born bass player who decided two years ago to move...
Jaco Pastorius Band: Dolphin Dance
Thank goodness for the web and for Charles Hoernemann, who shared today’s video with us. Charles said, “The genius of Jaco Pastorius. A very rare footage of a concert around 1985 on Belgian TV. Jaco’s solo starts at 6:43. Enjoy!” Enjoy indeed.
Weekly Top Ten: The Best in Bass for the Week of January 27
Our top ten bass stories and videos included plenty from the 2013 NAMM Show – including a couple of cool videos. There’s more NAMM news, photos and videos to come over the next couple of weeks, so we expect the trend to continue. Here are the most read stories and most watched videos on No Treble for the week of...
Marcos Archetti and Ana Paula da Silva: Guata
We’re so lucky to live in the time we do. The web has afforded us so much access to great music — music that would have been near impossible to experience in any other time. No Treble friend and reader Franco Grimoldi sent me a note saying, “I’m writing just to share this beautiful video, featuring [guitarist/vocalist] Ana Paula da...
Adam Stevens: Improvised Loop Jam
So far, the videos we’ve shared by Adam Stevens have featured his interesting bass arrangements for different cover tunes. This time around, Adam is jamming an improvised tune with the help of his pedalboard with a looper and effects. He said this is essentially part of his practice routine. “I usually just pick a key and/or chord progression and make...
Vulfpeck: Outro
They’re back. One of my favorite bands over the last year, Vulfpeck, has a fresh set of tunes out and a new EP they “snuck in last week”, according to Jack Stratton. Bassist Joe Dart is a monster, and Vulpeck has more than their fair share of monsters on every instrument. Check out Joe’s fills on this tune! Dang. The...
Alfons Åberg Fusion: Swedish TV Theme Song Cover
This is cool. Dirty Loops, anchored by bassist Henrik Linder, is already inspiring other bands to take on tunes and make them their own. Here’s Alfons Åberg Fusion, a trio featuring bassist Oskar Alex, keyboardist/vocalist Andreas Eklundh Pejler and drummer Oscar Lundström, performing their arrangement of a Swedish kid’s TV show theme song. Tight!
Tower of Power: “What Is Hip?” at 2013 NAMM Show
Tower of Power rocked the 2013 NAMM Show with an incredible performance on Thursday, January 24th. It was so good to see Rocco Prestia moving and grooving with the band, which was tight, tight, tight.
Weekly Top Ten: The Best in Bass for the Week of January 20
No surprise, our weekly top 10 was dominated by gear coverage from the 2013 NAMM Show. A few other things made it into the mix too, with a couple of popular videos and Damian Erskine’s weekly column. Here are the top 10 most viewed articles and videos on No Treble for the week of January 20 – 26, 2013. As...
NAMM 2013: All the Bass Coverage
The No Treble crew has you covered for all the latest bass gear, bassist news, videos and stories. We’ll be at the 2013 Winter NAMM Show all four days, so keep it lock on this page for our ongoing coverage.
Pedro Aznar: “Muñequitos de papel” (or Bass with a Screwdriver)
Andres shared this highly unusual video with us of Pedro Aznar playing his bass with a screwdriver. Yes. A screwdriver. Andres said “the song is called ‘Muñequitos de papel’, which literally translates to ‘Little Paper Puppets'”.
Reader Spotlight: Carla Betz
Meet bassist Carla Betz, who has one of the coolest stories we’ve read among the Reader Spotlight submissions. Carla is an actress (and bartender too), and it was thanks to her acting career that she became a bassist. Her credentials are a mile long, and her answer to the “superpower” question is a Tenacious D reference. How cool is that?...