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In the Gear category, readers loved the Chillbass Pantera, our bass of the week, plus our Custom Shop interview with Mike Lull, and the all new Le Fay Fan Fret version of the Pangton Headless bass. In player coverage, the news of Jason Newsted reuniting with Metallica for their 30th anniversary – and the video – made the top ten,...

We featured several reader-submitted videos in November (one of our favorite things to do!), showcasing the awesome No Treble community of bassists, and the videos they love. This included a Bass Play-Along Week, where bassists play along to their favorite tracks and show off their transcribing and performance skills. Another week featured all-bass covers of famous tunes. Readers responded with...

In gear, our Bass of the Week – JanAid Guitars’ Bob Abbott Yolanda 5 – brought out a lot of comments as many custom basses do – equally loving and not so loving. That helped propel the feature to the #1 most read article for the week on No Treble. Our coverage of Glockenklang’s Blue Soul Bass Amp, G&L’s new...

Last week we celebrated Jaco Pastorius’ 60th birthday with our own tribute and the most popular Jaco videos we’ve featured here on No Treble over the years. Readers responded with their own stories, making this quite a celebration for the bassist who changed it all, and who we dearly miss. On the lessons front, Thomas “MarloweDK” Risell returns with his...

Lessons and how-to’s reigned supreme in November, starting with a new video lesson series by Grant Stinnett, and the return of Thomas “MarloweDK” Risell with a new series on Practical Theory. Readers enjoyed our exclusive interviews with the extreme metal bassist Alex Webster and the 7-string fretless guru, Jeroen Paul Thesseling. Damian Erskine’s conversation on Bass vs. Guitar: The 6-String...

We’ve featured a lot of Jaco Pastorius videos in our 2+ year existence. We looked back at the top ones based on views, to come up with this special Top 10 list, in honor of Jaco’s 60th birthday today. Which one is your favorite? Share your thoughts below. 1. Jaco Pastorius: Unreleased “Teen Town” Live Video 1978 Here’s some amazing...

Gear. Videos. How-to’s. Readers can’t get enough of them (neither can we). Last week, Evan Marien’s “Soulseek” took top honors, with Viz Maurogiovanni’s solo performance of Fauré’s “Pavane, Op. 50” and the duet of Grant Stinnett and Michael Manring performing “Money Talks” making the list too. Our gear coverage ranged from old school cool to weird and wacky, plus a...

We kicked off a new bass video series, focusing on all-bass arrangements of great cover tunes. No Treble readers responded with tons of views, putting Zander Zon’s “Stairway To Heaven” and Thomas Morgan’s “Karma Police” in the top 10 for the week. Our bass of the week, the Maruszczyk Instruments Frog Omega Europe 5, came in at #3 and caused...

The videos we featured in October, 2011 were among most popular (most viewed) videos of the year. The mega-popular video featuring John Entwistle‘s isolated bass on “Won’t Get Fooled Again” ranked #1. Rounding out the top 10 is our own wacky “How to Fix a Guitar” video, plus some amazing performances by Daniel Rey, Tal Wilkenfeld, Victor Wooten, Scott Ambush,...

We had a lot of fun with the Bass Play-Along Week last week, featuring several No Treble readers and their awesome bass skills. Readers seemed to love them too, as two of our top 10 features on No Treble were just that (and the others closely followed). Check out Adrian Bartol, who nails Pino Palladino’s bass line on the live...

Last week, No Treble readers really dug Davie504‘s FleaBass Funk video which took the top slot overall, and Magnus Sjoquist‘s big sounding uBass video made the top 10 as well. Our interview with extreme metal bassist Alex Webster was a happy addition for many of our readers, who responded with their clicks and positive comments about putting extreme metal in...

No Treble readers must be busy practicing these days, because three of the top 10 articles last week were how to columns. Damian Erskine shared “A Practical Guide to Modes and Scales”, Ryan Madora posted her latest Blues Bass how-to, “Jump Blues, Two-Beat and ‘The Bump'”, and Dr. D shared his insights on practicing on his latest lowdown column, Dedication:...