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Facebook friend and bassist Edmond Gilmore shared his impressive take on Jaco Pastorius’ take on “Donna Lee”. Edmond said, “This clip was made with full Conga Cover… testing my amazing Fbass AC-5.” Well done, Edmond. Have a video to share? Send it to [email protected].

Last week, No Treble readers were knocked out by Daniel Rey‘s amazing technique, in the solo bass performance of his composition “Palenque”. Other top videos included Victor Wooten and Carter Beauford recording Vic’s “Resolution”, and our how-to video on fixing a guitar (No Treble style). On the gear front, Fender’s new Modern Player Series basses took the top billing on...

Here’s an incredible fan-shot performance by Richard Bona, paying tribute to Jaco Pastorius and Joe Zawinul in this medley of tunes by the legends. It starts with Jaco’s “Liberty City” and moves on to the Weather Report, Zawinul-penned “Black Market” with a little “Birdland” used to bridge the two tunes. Bona’s solo in the middle is pretty incredible as well,...

Slipknot’s second album, Iowa, is being re-released in an special anniversary edition on November 1st. The anniversary edition is a two-disc set, packaged in a digipak with new artwork and photography. Disc one includes the original album with an added bonus track remix of “My Plague”. Disc two offers the complete live audio from the band’s Disasterpieces DVD, a performance...

Once again, Fabio Meridiani caught our ears with this performance of “The Sync”, a cool and funky solo bass piece from Fabio’s album Subline 2.

Korn is releasing their tenth studio album, The Path of Totality on December 6, 2011. But the band states this one is unlike any of the previous nine. The new album is an experimental one by the band, which includes Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu on bass. For The Path of Totality, the band explores new territory through collaborations with leading dubstep...

Facebook friend Matt Lewis shares this video of Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner performing “Daylight”, at The Echo in Los Angeles. This performance was part of Thundercat’s record release party, celebrating the release of the bassist’s solo debut, The Golden Age of Apocalypse. Thundercat has also performed with Suicidal Tendencies since he replaced Robert Trujillo in 2002.

Esoteric Recordings is re-releasing Hot Tuna’s 1975 album, Yellow Fever, featuring bassist Jack Casady, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and drummer Bob Steeler. This is the “power trio” line up of the group, with Yellow Fever being the group’s second release together, following the successful America’s Choice. Yellow Fever was also another step in the group’s direction away from acoustic music to...

Source Audio has added to their line of bass pedals with the release of the Programmable EQ Pedal, a compact, cast aluminum stompbox offering hands-free access to four unique and user-programmed EQ settings. The Programmable EQ offers +/-18db of range across seven frequency bands with an additional frequency band at 62Hz, which is accessible with the device’s Octave Extend function....

People (us included), really really dug the last video we featured by the Tedeschi Trucks Band, thanks in big part to the awesomeness of bassist Oteil Burbridge. So, here’s another, shot at the same concert, with Warren Haynes and David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) joining in this time around. Sit back and enjoy.

Meet bassist Keith Gibbons, a working musician and songwriter from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Keith is our player in the spotlight for October 4, 2011. Bio: I’ve been a songwriter as far back as I can remember, but I didn’t realize that until a few years ago. I started playing bass because being in a band and writing pop-punk songs seemed like...

When you dream, dream big. Our question of the week: If you could have any bass in the world, what would it be? Answer below in the comments, or on our Facebook page.