Willie Weeks - Bass Solo

[fela001]

i've been playing bass for a few years now..when i started out i never had any "idol" so to say, you know someone to look up to... sure there are may great bassists out there, but none never had the...umm.."thing" that i was looking for, until i heard Willie's work on Donny Hathaway Live a year back..i just said to myself "that's the man right there" !!

[talentscoutjoe]

Willie is awesome!!!!

[MrGoDisco]

Willie "groove" Weeks!

[SuperK9111]

like it !

[foxybrown2]

You guys must out of your mind Victor is the most grooving percussive person on the bass I have heard besides Damien Erkstine this wiilie is very good old school style of grooving but that is nothing like what victor does he so many ways of percussive playing and so does Al Di Meola the jazz guitar player

[Bluesub6]

I've seen Clapton three times with Weeks... and he's never played a bass solo when I've seen him! Boo.

[huopcd]

@Bluesub6: Wow! I should consider myself then pretty lucky, huh!? What an amazing solo!

[Bluesub6]

@huopcd You are very lucky. That man can jam. I'm envious

[simmy80]

@Bluesub6

the man doesnt solo PERIOD....the only recorded solo of his is on Donny Hathaway Live but he is so damn fierce EVERY NOTE that young man plays is a SOLO!!!! FIRE!!!!!!

[TomoFujitaMusic]

Willie Weeks!!!! If you don't know him, please check out Donny Hathaway's "Live"

[crustascio]

master

[blakebranchbass]

So Victor Wooten doesn't groove? I'm not saying one player is better than the other, but Victor isn't just about technique and he can groove quite well.

[kissmecrazy1]

its really nice to see my big brother doing his thing he bought me a bass i still havent learned how to play yet.

[noprocrastination]

I wouldn't compare his style to Vic Wooten's, they are both in different leagues. Willie Weeks is the best in what he does (the groove master) and Vic Wooten is a Technique Master...Jeff Berlin Rocks your socks off period! All completely different styles but the best in their category...

[kperk014]

He's also a nice, humble guy.

[TheGpfan]

When I heard him play with al jarreau ( I think it was your song) i'm a huge fan of him.

wonderfull bassplayer

[WhiteLightnin3]

holy shit, I was at this concert, that was a goos show

[vdeo8]

Good Job Cuzzo Keep it up. this is Sherry's Oldest son

[Leftjab1]

Thank you for posting this...WOW WEEEE...Gotta go listen to it 80 more times...GREAT!

[Fjord76]

I've read an awesome interview with Willie(Bass Player August 2007) There's a link in Willie's Wikipedia page :-)

[SlikkTim]

This is what a bass solo should be. Like a song into the song.

[jeffisalive]

nice video.

[smoothie6ft3]

I would like to see Willie and Roco Prestia trade back and forth on stage or at least on recording.

[prs1246]

clapton always plays with the grooviest bassists. willie, carl radle, jack bruce, amongst all the others, man can they jam

[Soul74]

Don't forget Duck Dunn and Nathan East.

[whyarizonamusic]

pino palladino... he's a huge fan of willie.

[BigBoiJC]

now it makes sense why Pino is so sick on the bass!

[whyarizonamusic]

exactly. he's picked some of the greatest bass players to have ever lived and tried to emulate/twist their style.

[Gorgolada]

The baddest bass player in the country as Donny put it . Thanks Eric .. your generosity with othert great musicians is underestimated .. Duane , Derek , Albert .. fearless Eric - God bless you !

[NYVoice]

I saw Willie when he bassed for the Doobie Brothers at Belmont Park in 1980. I fact he opened the show with the My Sharona bass line leading into Taking It To The Streets. Awesome. I have it on 8mm film as well.

[franklindavidson]

big pimpin ya'll

[loosestudios]

One best solo ever record Bass wise at the

4;30 part and at 5:51 genius Weeks' playing on Donny Hathaway's Live (1972), including a 3 1/2 minute bass solo on "Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)", [1] is regarded by many bass players as some of Week's most acclaimed work. Weeks played a 1962 Fender P-Bass through an Ampeg B-15 amplifier on the recording. Weeks also played on the 1975 No. 1 single "Fame" by David Bowie

[Rumpleproofskin]

He's right. Impeccable solo -- timing is exquisite and never loses it. Besides, the album itself is the best live one ever made. I'd loved to have been there.

[fricorico]

i agree best live album of all time-my friends mom was there at the Troubador.

[ssbubbly]

I will take any of willie's work before listening to guys like vic wooten jeff berlin ect...

[Rumpleproofskin]

favourite bass player of all time. check out donny hathaway live album too

[wannabeemarlowdk]

thanks for the direction ,,,

[TNasty243]

Amen man. that's the best bass jam I've ever heard in my life.

[backbus3]

Pino Palladino,Anthony Jackson,Willie Weeks the last 3 Yoda's the ultimate groove players on tha planet

[llewellynturner]

this cat is really grovvviiing, jammin in the pocker, it's inspiring!!!!!!

[Kharmaireth]

duuuuude

[ssvar]

listen to the fattest rhythmic bass of willie weeks on donny hathaway's live album track every thing is everything

[pekoe67]

Amen! My favorite bass solo of all time

[monkeyfudgedude]

that solo got me into the berklee college of music!! it took me a month and a half to learn

[Rumpleproofskin]

I was at Berklee too. In 1978.