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“Rich Girl” is one of the all-time great tunes, largely thanks to Scotty Edwards’s epic bass line. Arielle Kasnetz joined Scary Pockets to do their version of the tune with the always funky Nick Campbell.

We can always count on Clive H Jones to send us cool videos. He sent us this all-bass cover of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” and it came together beautifully.

This was a big week at No Treble, including getting into the work of two bass legends: James Jamerson and Jaco Pastorius. We also shared some popular bass gear, chatted with Guy Pratt in our latest podcast, and more.

Rebecca Johnson dropped a new video from her band’s performance in April. Dig Rebecca’s tone on their version of Stephen Stills’s “Love the One You’re With.”

Meet Matt Ross, who first thought he wanted to play the guitar (after hearing Hendrix), but realized “bass is infinitely cooler.” He has one of the most hilarious superpowers too.

Drummer Yussef Dayes dropped the official video for the title track of his upcoming album, “Black Classical Music,” and it is incredible. The band includes Rocco Palladino on bass, Charlie Stacey on piano, Venna on saxophone, and Alexander Bourt on percussion.

Siân Pottok recently released this live studio video performance of an incredibly beautiful cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird.” Hadrien Feraud arranged the tune for the group.

Jaco Pastorius’s “Three Views of a Secret” is one of my all-time favorite compositions. In this video, guitarist Don Ross is joined by Michael Manring and The Atlantic String Machine to perform their own beautiful version.

Lenny Kravitz pays tribute to Harry Belafonte in this video he created following the news of Belafonte’s passing. Kravitz handles most of the instruments, including bass, on “How Long Have You Been Blind.”

Today is No Treble's birthday. In that time, we've published 17,703 articles and had 40 million visits. That's a lot of bass!

Cory Wong dropped another live video this morning, and this one is killer. Sonny T is bringing it (as is the entire band) on this live performance of “Ketosis.”

The NAMM Show happened in April this year, which means an uptick in bass gear news. Here are the top 10 reader favorite gear stories on No Treble for the month of April.