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No doubt about it: bass-focused videos are the best videos. Here’s the best of the best – the top 10 most watched videos on No Treble in 2012. Some from famous folks, some by people you may not have seen yet, some funny, all awesome. 1. Billie Jean’s All Stars, Featuring Marcus Miller What do you get when you have...

All the best of the best in bass (which is already great to begin with)… Here are the top 10 stories, lessons and videos for No Treble for the week of September 9-15, 2012. 1. Esperanza Spalding with The Roots: Live Performance of Weather Report’s “Predator” My friend Marsha was telling me about Esperanza Spalding performing a Weather Report tune,...

Of all the awesome bass videos we shared in August (all 31 of them), 10 of them ruled supreme, based on No Treble reader views. August included our popular “isolated bass week”, and many of those made the list. Enjoy! 1. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Flea’s Isolated Bass on “Scar Tissue” Flea can be a crazy funk-rock bassist, but here...

So much bass goodness, it is almost too much to handle. Almost. Here are the most viewed stories and videos on No Treble for the week of August 5-11, 2012. Enjoy! 1. Les Claypool Auctions Personal Pachyderm Prototype Bass Almost two years ago, Les Claypool reached out to his fans for help. His two month old nephew was diagnosed with...

This wouldn’t be much of an “isolated bass week” without including the legend, James Jamerson. So here’s a (mostly) isolated bass track from the 1967 Four Tops hit, “Bernadette”. There’s some disagreement about whether this is the bass on the actually released single, or if it is an out-take from the Motown vault. Doesn’t matter to us… it is still...

Based on the huge popularity of the isolated bass tracks, we’ve decided to do our second “isolated bass week”. (Check out our previous isolated bass week, after this video.) Here’s Jeff Ament‘s classic bass line on the Pearl Jam hit single, “Alive”, from the album Ten. Such a cool line, with all the right mix of awesomeness: fretless (I believe...

How much bass can you take? Hopefully at least enough to get you through this weekly top 10 list of bass greatness. Here are the 10 most read/most watched stories and videos on No Treble for the week of July 8 – 14, 2012. 1. Victor Wooten: “Isn’t She Lovely”, Live Solo Bass Performance In April, Victor Wooten held a...

June ended with a sonic boom of bass greatness. Here is the top 10 list of reader favorites for the week of June 24-30, 2012. 1. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes: Isolated Bass & Vocals Our Facebook friend Leon Wilson shared this alternate track with us, featuring the isolated bass work of Bakithi Kumalo on Paul Simon’s hit,...

Brace yourself… massive amounts of bass greatness below. Which is another way of saying, here’s the top 10 most read articles and columns, and most watched bass videos for the week of June 10 – 16, 2012 on No Treble. Thanks for reading, commenting and sharing! 1. Top 10: The Most Watched Bass Videos (May 2012) Typically, we share lots...

Typically, we share lots of videos featuring bassists doing their thing, laying down serious supporting lines, doing their solo bass thing, and everything in between. For some reason in May, we shared more than our share of funny/entertaining videos without playing. And readers dug it. The first three in the top 10 list this month include a look at the...

May was another great month for gear news (and some sweet basses of the week picks by Kevin), and No Treble readers ate it all up. We also shared the sad news of the passing of Duck Dunn, and some good news with a Jaco documentary planned and backed by Robert Trujillo. Plus, some of the best lessons and how-to’s...

The week starts out right when you start with an all-bass top 10 list. Here are the most read stories and most watched videos from No Treble for the week of May 13-19, 2012. Thanks for reading! 1. Fender Jazz Bass: The Movie G.A.S. alert! Davey4557?s Leo Fender and the History of the Electric Bass video is one of the...