Been away for about 15 years...Who did i miss?

[Gizmo]

So i've been out of the BASS/Bassist loop for a little while & after feeling the pull of the low end once again i thought i drop a post to ask  about catching up on Who/What i've been missing out on for the past 15 years or so? 

 

My fav's of yesteryear player were/are guys like Bromberg/Manring/Hamm/Caron/Wooten/Malone/Miller/Larue/Campagnani/Nitti...etc, so all the slapper/taper/soloist kind of bassist that do the fusion/prog type stuff id guess, I've been catching up on these guys & sofar some good & some WTF is this mess moments

 

Now i did drop by Youtube first to see what was  up/down....BIG MISTAKE, WTF is with all this BASS BATTLE/Bass influencer stuff ? (no doubt at 52 im guessing its that i  just "don't get it") 

 

2 Guys that have popped up on the radar that i have on playback loop atm are Alex Lofoco & Fernando Molinari, both monster players that also have great tunes/groove...Id say that Alex is like all my fav player fussed into one with a health amount of himself, shame he only seems to have released one album in like 8 years?  

 

So any recommendations for me ?

 

Cheers

[dannybuoy]

Joe Dart without a doubt

[ezbass]

Michael League in Snarky Puppy

[Mrbigstuff]

13 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Michael League in Snarky Puppy

Funnily enough I think their first masterclass and gig in London was platoons 15 years ago. It has to be my greatest ever musical experience.

[itu]

Women: 

kingaglyk.com 

Alissia Benveniste 

Mohini Dei 

 

Men: 

Tom Kennedy 

Richard Bona 

charlesberthoud.com 

 

I don't think you lost a thing. These are flashy players but I still think most of the bass work is done in half or first position and with roots and fifths. Good timing is still the key. 

[Count Bassy]

The ubiquitous use of Class D amplifiers and Neodymium magnet speakers. ie speakers and cabs are smaller and/or lighter.

 

 

Playing with a pick and playing slap bass, and flatwound strings are now illegal, so don't be tempted.

 

Edited 23 hours ago by Count Bassy

[spencer.b]

Mononeon 

Nick Campbell Destroys

Gabriel Severn

[police squad]

not who but what

Dingwall

road worn

single cut basses

class d

oh there's probably a new Fender bass, based on an old fender bass, with or without a Fender logo, made somewhere else in a factory, somewhere

[Norris]

Whatever bass you can think of, Sire have made a cheaper copy - and usually decent quality

[AlexDelores]

I dread to think how many marketing emails from ScottsBassLessons you’ve missed out on in the last 15 years 👀

Edited 15 hours ago by AlexDelores

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

There is a modest , underrated and highly talented bass maestro who is revered and lauded on Basschat ..Danny Sapko. Worth checking out .

Davie 504 is better entertainment though imho ..” check mate ! “ 

Lots of headless basses with varying designs and quality control issues ( cort space 5 , Ibanez EHB etc ) 

[Hellzero]

Hadrien Féraud who simply replaced Anthony Jackson with Hiromi is a hell of a player, even if, sometimes, he plays too much

 

And as mentioned by Anti, Kinga Głyk is certainly the most promising bassist around (she is Polish, by the way).

 

Charles Berthoud is the best YouTuber around for sure, but even if I admire his playing, his records are really meh, I mean he's a talented player and arranger, but on the poor side when it comes to composition.

 

Concerning the basses, Harley Benton is proposing excellent stuff at super low prices.

 

Amp wise, we entered the fully digital era ultra lightweight items.

 

Everything software based (modelling or sampling) is simply amazing these days.

 

And, sadly a lot of companies have gone away in 15 years and, now, you can't afford a Wal anymore...

[Killerfridge]

Most of the big boys/girls have been mentioned already, but there's a couple that sometimes fly under the radar:

 

Federico Malaman

Vincen Garcia

[fiatcoupe432]

Also one that many people don't know that I absolutely love is 

This guy 

 

 

 

So much good stuff

[Dood]

15 hours ago, Gizmo said:

So i've been out of the BASS/Bassist loop for a little while & after feeling the pull of the low end once again i thought i drop a post to ask  about catching up on Who/What i've been missing out on for the past 15 years or so? 

{snip}

Cheers

 

Welcome back Gizmo! It's been a while ey! 

Do you still have the basses you made? Will you be planning to get the luthiery tools out again? 

 

All the best!

 

Dooooood

[tauzero]

18 hours ago, Gizmo said:

So i've been out of the BASS/Bassist loop for a little while & after feeling the pull of the low end once again i thought i drop a post to ask  about catching up on Who/What i've been missing out on for the past 15 years or so? 

 

On the hardware front, Barefaced has now been overtaken by LFSys as BC's favourite speaker maker following collaboration between @stevie, @Phil Starr, and @Chienmortbb on a DIY 112 which evolved into the LYSys series of cabs.

 

Ninety zillion multieffects pedals varying between a single pedal size (even mini-pedal size) and aircraft carrier deck size have been released. Everybody loves at least one of them, and everybody has found something to moan about with at least one of them.

 

Basses are still being made with scratchplates, unfortunately.

 

Some things never change. The big tonewood debate still erupts occasionally. It's not entirely certain whether the fence that some are sitting on is made of tonewood.

[SumOne]

 

[Killerfridge]

25 minutes ago, SumOne said:

 

Can't believe I forgot this beast

[Lozz196]

Darkglass is now the metal sound

[SteveXFR]

To get famous as a YouTube player, you need to slap 100 notes a second with an expression that suggests you've farted and its bad news. The playing should absolutely not sound good. 

 

New basses should be attacked with various abrasive tools to scrape off the paint in areas it would never actually wear through use.

 

Joe Dart is mostly about the smug expression. 

 

Metal bassists must own every Darkglass product and a fan fret, 5 string, active bass.

 

Jazz bassists now only use BC Rich Warlock basses.

 

Picks are now compulsory. 

Edited 1 hour ago by SteveXFR

[jonno1981]

Amps have got smaller, cabs got lighter, p basses still sound great, gigs pay the same!

[tauzero]

Every manufacturer must produce a fan-fret headless bass with at least five strings (a four string option is permitted), with the exception of Fender, who have been given a 50 year grace period to adjust and to find some other huge pointless piece of wood that they can put their logo on.

[SteveXFR]

31 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Every manufacturer must produce a fan-fret headless bass with at least five strings (a four string option is permitted), with the exception of Fender, who have been given a 50 year grace period to adjust and to find some other huge pointless piece of wood that they can put their logo on.

 

I believe Gibson have the same exception. Neither Gibson or Fender have created a new product in 50 years.