Bass Videos - Page 469

Stu Hamm’s take on the Led Zeppelin classic, “Going to California.” [Editor’s note: check out our transcription of this performance.]

Here’s a clip of James Genus’ bass solo to open up the Randy Brecker tune, “Harpoon”. The performance comes from a date with the Brecker Brothers in Madrid, Spain in 1994.

On the tune “Metamorphos”, Dave Holland and his quintet show an unstoppable stream of ideas that eventually change styles by the end of the song. The clip is from the 2002 Newport Jazz Festival, and includes some commentary by Dave himself about midway through the piece.

Primus made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel live last week. Here’s Les Claypool and company performing “Tommy the Cat” on the show.

Here’s a funky jam by bassist Mike Flynn, with a little help from his EBS Wah One Pedal and Boss RC2 looper. If you dig this, check out Mike’s album, Homespun.

Larry Graham gets down and dirty in this performance with Graham Central Station in Germany from 1996, flipping between a nasty distorted solo style and a clean funky slap with some singing mixed in. Don’t let Armageddon catch y’all sleepin’.

This is a cool documentary clip showing the process Metallica went through to replace Jason Newsted, who left the band. In the clip, bassists making appearances include Scott Reeder (Kyuss), Jeordie White, aka Twiggy Ramirez (A Perfect Circle, Marilyn Manson), Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity), Chris Wyse (The Cult) Eric Avery (Alanis Morissette, Jane’s Addiction) and Robert Trujillo, who the...

Here is a cool video from Zon endorser Alex Bershadsky. Alex resides in Israel, where he performs with his band, The Looney Tunes. His composition, “Butterfly Trap”, evolves from a thoughtful solo bass idea into a full band ballad, and then into a funky fusion jam before returning to solo bass.

There’s not a lot of detail about this live performance by David Pastorius (other than being called “Jazz Jam”), but there’s plenty of bass.

Here’s a crazy video of 13 year old Brazilian bass prodigy Pipoquinha ripping it up on his tune “Rei Artur”, which translates to King Arthur.

Bassist Juan Nelson brings the funk in this live performance with Big Advice, live on the Sunset Strip.

During the 1993 Jazz Gipfel Stuttgart festival, bassist Miroslav Vitous, drummer Peter Erskine and saxophonist Jan Garbarek joined forces to perform the event. Here’s a short clip of their performance, starting with a tasty bass solo by Vitous, followed by a drum solo by Erskine. The group recorded one album together, , back in 1991.