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Octavision: Three Lives
You may have seen the story we posted on Sunday about Victor Wooten recording with a new progressive metal band known as Octavision. (Note: as you’ll see in the comments of that article, there’s dispute to Victor being a “member”, despite the band’s presentation on their Facebook page, but I digress.) Late last night, Octavision released the video for their...
Remastered Beatles “Live at The Hollywood Bowl” Released
A taste of Beatlemania has arrived in a familiar, remastered form. The 1977 album, The Beatles: Live at The Hollywood Bowl, has been spruced up by the Giles Martin, the son of the band’s late, legendary producer, Sir George Martin. The album features performances from three sold-out Hollywood Bowl concerts in 1964 and 1965, when Beatlemania was at its height....
Reader Spotlight: Jarrod Gee
Meet Jarrod Gee, a guitarist-turned-bassist who has a regular day gig, but that doesn’t stop him from gigging until 3am. Jarrod is this week’s No Treble reader in the spotlight. Here’s his story… Bio: I am a 23 year old guitar player turned bassist. I had always played around with bass on the side, but it wasn’t until last year...
Top 10: The Most Watched Bass Videos (August 2016)
Here’s a top 10 list that should keep you busy today… aka the 10 most watched videos on No Treble for the month of August. Thanks for watching, commenting and sharing! 1. Dudley Moore & Kenny Rogers: Satin Doll A video has been making the rounds on Facebook, thanks to Freemont’s Office – and it was quite unexpected. Dudley Moore...
Ghost-Note: Can’t Get Right
Drummer Robert “Sput” Searight and percussionist Nate Werth are already in a killer band (Snarky Puppy). Seems like that isn’t enough for them, so they created another – Ghost-Note. For Ghost-Note, Searight and Werth teamed up with bassist MonoNeon, second drummer Alvin Ford Jr., xylosynth player Nick Werth and saxophonist/flautist Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II. Here’s the band performing “Can’t Get...
Greg Christian’s Trinity Fallen Releases Debut EP
Former Testament bassist Greg Christian has teamed up with members of Nuclear Rabbit to form a new band called Trinity Fallen. The band – which consists of Scorched-Earth Policy’s Judd Mason and Nuclear Rabbit members Jason Branyan and Timothy Bailey – has just released their debut EP with some gnarly bass lines. “Trinity Fallen is ‘a band,’ not ‘my project,'”...
Bass of the Week: Emerald Guitars Balor Bass
This week we’re checking out the Emerald Guitars Balor, an acoustic bass guitar built entirely with carbon fiber. The model is the latest in the evolution of their acoustic bass models. “Physics implies that an acoustic bass should be large to properly create low frequencies at a useable acoustic volume,” the company writes. “So we have developed a completely new...
Talking Technique: Drills for Fills
Everyone loves a perfectly placed fill. That’s why today we’ll be going over scalar exercises that will help us create those tasty licks while beefing up our technique. In essence, we’re practicing a scale. Typically when you play a scale, you go from root to root in order. But we’re going to break it down and move in thirds instead!...
Absurdcus: Murmurations pt.2
Bassist Laszlo Demeter, aka “absurdcus”, has released a new video for the song “Murmurations pt.2” from his solo album, A Drop of Calm. Layered basses create a beautiful sonic tapestry that support the song’s soaring melodies. The video also has an artistic twist. “The Prisma-like filter app is called Artisto, it only does 10 seconds of video, so I had...
Luke Vajsar Releases “Hyenas”
Canadian solo bassist Luke Vajsar has released Hyenas, an album featuring his loop style playing as well as his abilities as a vocalist, guitarist and trombonist. His brother, Andrew, provides the percussion. Recorded and mixed at Toronto’s Skycrib Studios, the record incorporates Vajsar’s melodic playing with funk, soul, jazz, rock and psychedelia. Check out the album’s opening track, “The Stream”:...
Weekly Top 10: New Metallica, Talking Style, Defining Practice, New Gear, Top Videos and More
Another great week from the land of the low end is in the books, and it is time to celebrate our weekly top 10 reader favorites on No Treble. Thanks for reading, watching, commenting and sharing. 1. Bass of the Week: AMJ Guitars Fretless Bass No Treble reader Deryl Gallant wrote in to us with a cool story on the...
Victor Wooten Joins Progressive Metal Band
Here’s something you didn’t see coming: bassist Victor Wooten is in a new progressive metal band called Octavision. The group was founded by guitarist Hovak Alaverdyan and also features keyboardists Steve Weingart and Ara Torosyan with Roman Lomtadze on drums. The band has only released a teaser for their first single entitled “Three Lives”. They describe the song as as...