Patax "Piscinadona" feat Alain Perez on bass

On the first week of February 2012, percussionist and composer Jorge Perez put his band together plus some guests and recorded his dvd " Patax Live From Infinity ". This is one of the 13 tunes recorded life for this album. The tune, written by Jorge is called " " Piscinadona " and here we can see Jazz Great Jorge Pardo and amazing Alain Perez completing the trio..

Patax "El tiburon" feat Carlos Sanchez on bass

Victor Wooten 'Solo' Live : EMGtv

Victor Wooten performs live at EMGtv showcasing the EMG JVX Set pickups. Between sound check and a live show, Victor Wooten stopped by the EMG soundstage to lay down some "on the spot chops" - This is another excellent performance!

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VICTOR WOOTEN OFFICIAL SITE

** thx to my fellow bassist Ahmad Yahya Alrawi for the video sharing (you're the man dude)

Marcus Miller - Renaissance

The New Marcus Miller Official Website

Barry Likumahua Bass Solo

Warwick Announces Steve Bailey Signature Bass

by Kevin Johnson

Fretless bassist Steve Bailey has joined up with Warwick as an endorsing artist, and the company has just unveiled a new Steve Bailey Signature Bass. The model is a six-string fretless based on their Streamer, though the design has been modified for better access to the upper register of the neck.

The Steve Bailey Signature bass features bolt-on construction and a 34” scale. The swamp ash body is matched with an ovangkol neck that has a signature asymmetrical profile, topped with a snakewood fingerboard.

A pair Seymour Duncan active Soapbar pickups are coupled with Bailey’s signature Seymour Duncan active 2-way electronics. The bass is rounded out visually with a black high polish finish with a polished stainless steel pickguard.

Steve Bailey Signature Bass

An Interview with Victor Wooten

by Kevin Johnson

Fifteen years ago, Victor Wooten released a solo electric bass album that inspired countless bassists to push themselves to new limits. Today, you’d be hard pressed to find a “best of” or “reader’s choice” list of top bassists without him.

Victor is a busy bassist, teacher, and more recently, record label owner. We caught up with him during one of his stops on the Spring Road Trip Summer 2011 tour with Stanley Clarke, to discuss his new album, label, the Flecktones, his camps, and his career so far.

What is it about bass that keeps you playing every day?

I would say it’s less and less about bass as I get older, and it’s more and more about music and connecting with people. It’s almost like you having a bass voice or a tenor voice. It’s not so much about the pitch of your voice that keeps you talking. It’s about having something to say and communicating with people. I just happen to do it on a bass. And I like the bass in general, because the bass is designed as a support role by nature. The whole role of our instrument is made to make other people sound good and make other people feel comfortable, so I like that just from the nature of the instrument. But I would say not even that keeps me going every day… I think it’s just the relationship with the people, you know? Because I’d probably do it anyway, but probably not every day if I wasn’t doing it on tour. So I think it’s the people… the people that come to hear it. I hadn’t thought of it… [that] was a good question.

You just released A Show Of Hands 15. Tell us a little about what brought that about.

I had originally planned on releasing or recording another strictly solo bass record, 10 years after the first one. That’s what I thought. But 10 years came and it didn’t feel necessary to me. It didn’t feel like I needed to make that statement again. For one, because there were many other bass players making that statement and doing it well. You know, Michael Manring had solo bass records and not even all the people were making the bass records but people were capable of it. There were people now doing solo shows… you know, we were meeting people at camps. Steve Bailey actually had a solo bass competition… we heard great stuff. So it just didn’t feel like I needed to do it again.CLICK HERE FOR MORE...

Basic Funk Formula, Bootsy style

by Corey Brown

Bootsy Collins, one of the funkiest bassists ever, shares his formula for a basic funk line.

Just keep it on the one, and you can do anything you want with it!

WATCH HERE!!

Web Searches Surge for Frances Cobain

by Mike Krumboltz

On April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain took his own life at his home in Seattle, Washington. Tuesday marked the anniversary of the Nirvana rocker's death. His daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was not yet two years old when her father died. Now 18, Frances is focusing on her future, and online interest is heating up.

Over the past 24 hours, web searches on "frances cobain" and "frances bean cobain" have doubled. Lookups for "frances bean photos" are also jumping. Considering how famous her father was (and how controversial her mother, singer Courtney Love, continues to be), it's interesting to note that Frances has kept a relatively low profile.

Interviews with Frances Bean are rare, but online queries are not. Of particular interest to Web searchers: her middle name. According to TMZ, she earned the unusual middle name after Kurt saw an image of her on the ultrasound. Kurt allegedly remarked that the as-of-yet unborn Frances looked a bit like a kidney bean. The name stuck.

Frances, like many celebrity children, has famous godparents. Michael Stipe of REM is her godfather and Drew Barrymore is her godmother. She's interned at Rolling Stone magazine in recent years, but it does not appear that she is focused on journalism at the moment. In 2010, she gave an art show in Los Angeles under a different name, the mysterious moniker of "Fiddle Tim."

Why the alter ego? It could be a desire to earn success without family connections. She clearly has problems with those who, in her opinion, rely on famous family members. In 2009, she let those thoughts be known on social networking site Twitter. Frances ranted about Lindsay Lohan's younger sister Ali. To Ali, she wrote: "You blatently (sic) don't care how your recognized, its the objective to get famous and that is what makes you replaceable and a recycled idea." yahoo buzz

Sound-Off: Rihanna's 'T.M.I.' Description of Sex Life

by Jamilah-Asali I. Lemieux

In the new Rolling Stone, Rihanna offers an extremely revealing look at her sex life (and at her amazing body... what's in that Barbados water and how can I import some?). In addition to a few predictable questions about her former abuser, Chris Brown, and her upcoming role in the "Battleship" film adaptation, the 22-year-old singer gave a few details about her fetishes and desires that have started tongues to wagging and men to salivating.

Here she describes the autobiographical tone of her single "S&M":

"Being submissive in the bedroom is really fun," she says. "You get to be a little lady, to have somebody be macho and in charge of your s**t. That's fun to me... I like to be spanked. Being tied up is fun. I like to keep it spontaneous. Sometimes whips and chains can be overly planned -- you gotta stop, get the whip from the drawer downstairs. I'd rather have him use his hands."

Oh. Well now. Good to know if I'm ever over Rihanna's house and planning on trying to seduce her.

Don't get me wrong. I'm hardly conservative when it comes to sexuality and I fully support Rihanna's right to be grown and free with hers. However, I can't help but wonder why we were given such personal details... and why via Rolling Stone? Isn't this material more fitting for a women's magazine, where ladies come together to share sex tips and dish on what we like to do in the bedroom? Here, it feels like it was deliberately offered to titillate readers and provide fantasy fodder. Or to keep her name on the blogs. Or all of the above.

Between the article, the body baring photos and the singer's recent Vogue appearance (dressed in a sheer frock that is a bit more provocative than what we are used to seeing on cover models), it just seems like the "RIHANNA IS SEXY AND WILD" memo is being pushed a little bit too hard. I can't help but feel like her camp's attempts to avoid a victim characterization in the wake of the 2009 Grammy night incident have rendered her some sort of sexual object. And it again begs the question: why are Black women in the media so often required to be either hypersexual or asexual? MORE ....

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Actress Elizabeth Taylor has died, age 79

Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79.

She died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, said publicist Sally Morrison.

She was surrounded by her four children when she died. “My mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love,“ her son, Michael Wilding, said in a statement.

”We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts.”

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World’s Most Luxurious Celebrity Homes

With celebrity life comes fame and fortune, something most A-listers use to splash out on cars, plastic surgery and every fad going. However some of these high flyers take the more extravagant option; spend millions on a home and refurbish it inside and out. MORE...