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I love when Charles Berthoud breaks out the fretless, and he did just that on this all-bass cover of Metallica’s “Fade To Black.”

NAMM starts this week, but the news has already started trickling in. This week’s top 10 includes a handful of bass gear stories as a result. Check out this week’s reader favorites list.

No Treble reader Christian Kussmann sent us the latest video by his band, Almost Nailed It, which is powerful musically and visually. We really dig this band. Enjoy “Terra Rosso.”

This video from 2016 just hit my radar, and it’s a great one. Tedeschi Trucks Band took the stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with some special guests. Here they are performing Freddie King’s “Palace of the King” with Billy Gibbons and Jimmie Vaughan.

Hadrien Feraud has released another video from his “Bass of Doom Sessions,” where he plays Jaco Pastorius’s legendary bass. "These Were the Days" was co-written by Feraud and vocalist Ericka Guitron.

Muriel Anderson was visited by Roy (Futureman) and Victor Wooten recently, and thankfully, she recorded it. “We try out some tunes we’ve never played together and talk about our latest projects,” Muriel shared.

In September, the JammJam brought back the Life Is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas with Cory Wong and Friends. In this clip, Cory Henry and Elmo Lovano join the band to perform “Sir Duke,” with Moe Hill grooving hard.

Tal Wilkenfeld was a guest on Lex Fridman’s podcast, and she shared this segment, reflecting on her 2007 Crossroads performance with Jeff Beck.

NAMM news is starting to come in, and some of the stories so far have been quite popular. Add to that some great bass videos, some early Jaco Pastorius solos, news from Warwick, and the latest “From The Bottom” episode, and you have this week’s top 10 reader favorites.

In 1985, three award-winning musicians – guitarist Steve Morse, mandolinist David Grisman, and bassist Rob Wasserman – performed together for the first time on the Merv Griffin Show.

I saw a video on YouTube titled, “Buddhist Priest Plays: Jaco Pastorius ‘Portrait of Tracy’,” and of course, I immediately clicked on it. Yuki Sugahar was inspired by the Robert Trujillo episode of Geddy Lee’s “Are Bass Players Human Too?” and recorded this after.

Charles Berthoud took Victor Wooten’s “Classical Thump” and added some twists of his own. Or as he said, taking Vic’s hardest solo, and making it harder.