Bass Videos - Page 239

Cody Wright a real funkmeister, which is why it’s perfect that he’s helping to create the soundtrack to the new Toejam and Earl video game. Here’s a clip of the bassist getting down on the quacky “Funk Funko Potamus”.

The Kinky Wizzards are gearing up for a new album and they’ve just released this brand new in-studio video as a preview. “The Snake” features the excellent drum and bass brother duo of Jonathan Griffiths and Matthew Griffiths with guitarist Ryan Elliott tearing it up overtop. Matthew lays down a strong pulse and some seriously cool syncopations. The instrumental trio...

Rich Brown is always cooking up some great videos for us to share. “[Here’s a] short video of me playing one of the Bach Violin Partitas,” he said. “I love this stuff and I had such a blast learning this piece. I hope you and your readers enjoy it.” We think you will, as much as we did.

Kike Mora shared this video of him performing a solo bass arrangement of The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” We couldn’t think of a better day to share this video than today, which is Paul McCartney’s birthday.

Antonin Rubatat is a professional bass player who recently teamed up with drummer Romain Chenard to form a bass and drum duo named Hungry Beats. He shared one of their first videos for a tune they call “Vol. 1”. We’re looking forward to hearing more from these guys!

We’ve featured Rebecca Johnson before. In fact, we’ve featured her playing Jaco Pastorius’ “Come On Come Over” too. But this one is a newer version, with a new lineup – and a new bass. And it is too good not to share again. “Thought I’d send you a new link from a killer gig we did last week,” Rebecca shared...

Jody Miller shoots some impressive videos. He shared this one with this note: “This is the second installment of Jonathan Scales Fourchestra from their stop through Chicago. I met Jonathan last year when I shot some video with bassist Cody Wright… Jonathan is an extremely talented Steel Pan player who is traveling the world with some of the baddest players...

Stuart Clayton is working on a major update of his book, Giants of Bass. One of the bass giants he’s featuring is Billy Sheehan, who has done a lot in his career since the first version of the book. In this video, Stuart explains the update and the story behind this new track for the book.

Many of you will remember bassist Tim Carey from his videos with vocalist Amanda Taylor. Tim sent us this video saying “It’s different than what I’ve shared before but I think the community will really dig it. It’s an arrangement for septet with the extremely talented Isabella Du Graf on vocals which features sections of chordal tapping in the bass...

Bassist Kinga Glyk stunned us all with this excellent cover of a cover of “Tears In Heaven.” The original is by Eric Clapton. Kinga’s all-bass performance is a cover of the one by Jeff Berlin.

Regular readers here know we’re big fans of Juan Nelson. So hearing him back with Ben Harper (& The Innocent Criminals) is a thrill. From the band’s latest release, Call It What It Is, here’s “Shine”. We hope they’re here to stay.

Kenny Brault sent this to me saying, “Chris Squire’s bass tone and style back in 1969… Amazing. Well established back then.” These videos were recorded for the German TV show “Beat-Club” in 1969. The two videos below include: No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed Looking Around And the lineup: Jon Anderson: lead vocals, percussion Peter Banks: guitars, vocals Chris Squire:...