there is no one like Stan the man. Stanley is my dad. Jaco is my other dad. if you dig this you may like my band mojoceratops. (end of spam.) thanks for sharing this. I've seen Stanley live many times, no one else can hold thousands of people in rapt attention by playing solo upright like this. he strums it like a uke, and plays with as much, if not more energy now they he did 25 years ago, and he's what, 60 now?
Saw him live in 1994 or so in Hannover. He came on stage in shabby T-shirt, sandals and a Wallmart Jeans. Concert was just 60 mins. But he still is a genius and an approval that god exists. Such a talent. (Miles Davis was a character, too , by the way)
awe inspiring performance, I got to see and meet him recently, quite a thrill as he's my musical hero. check out my band if you like progressive/Fusion music! thanks for posting this clip!
...every gotdamn thing is about race on these sites. Why can't you people get over your prejudices, especially in America. This musician has a talent that this audience likse and respects and that should be all that matters.
@jocee3 Race is the most important defining characteristic in perpetuity to everything throughout the universe. Get over it. Prejudice is just an ugly little word that people who can't be honest about stereotypes use.
Dear Audiences, we understand you are feeling the groove, and want to be part of his awesomeness (Stanley Clarke), BUT we also know audiences cant hold a beat well.....no, they cant hold a beat at all, so in the future, SHUT YOUR DAMNED HANDS UP! Sincerely, All levelheaded fans.
Anyone that can capture someones attention by making the air waves vibrate entertainingly , is an artist at heart. Who give a shit what color their skin is. I close my eyes most of the time when listening to master musicians get down
Anyone that can capture someones attention by making the air waves vibrate entertainingly , is an artist at heart. Who give a shit what color their skin is. I close my eyes most of the time when listening to master musicians get down.
One of the best upright jazz bass I heard in a long time and there is other but tehre is only one Stanley Clark and Iam bless to hear and see this gift from god the music he share the love he play's thank God for Stanley!
Why is it that when I dicked around like this in high school I got scolded yet when he dicks around like that he becomes one of the best upright jazz bassists in the country?
@mattlittlej Because he's clearly not dicking around. And if you were that good in high school your teacher wasn't a good music teacher if you got scolded.
This man is and his abilities are why I stopped playing bass guitar, and why I started enjoying my own potentials on the bass guitar. This guy, Jaco, Dixie Dreggs, Entwhistle and numerous others are to be admired as inspirational .
poliphaha---mate, if you knew a little about music you would realise and accept that this is what is called a Cadenza---look it up, you might learn something.
Ho visto un concerto di Stanley once in Roma (italy) and he was very upset for the sound no good at all, in Castel s. Angelo, was 1980's (think so) almost ... BTW he kiked a speaker very BIG into people ... was so funny! ;) ciao sassandro
And music and dance is from within our soul and exuded by our spirit! Great expression! Color has nothing to do with the rhythm we possess! I am a french vanilla thin skinned woman with a dark chocolate soul, as does my husband..and music is my food - interwoven into the tapestry that makes up our life!
Combine extensive classical training (Julliard) with inventiveness and fearlessness, and this is the kind of technique and sound you get. Way to go, Stanley! You are f___ing awesome!
was lucky enough to see RTF 2008 at the Holland in Omaha.Stanley played the most amazing upright solo. When he finished I literally jumped out of my seat to applaud and the rest of the audience did the same.I have seen great audience reactions before but I would rate the Stanley reaction #1.Awesome
It's so fuckin sad that the f.c.c. don't stop asshole's from lieing & twisting my email's I don't have to lie i saw stanly clarke play school days @ the hippodrome in Baltimore ! i still have my ticket it was june 14,2004 @ 8:pm. & jeanlucponty was Any body there who saw him ?
Can somebody please send me a email and let me no if this was @ the hipbootron In balto md because i was there and i saw him play shool day's and i steel have my Ticket he was playing with jean -luc ponty on my ticket the dat is jun 14, 2004 @ 8pm
Ah, Stanley! This is a wonderful concert video of his prowess on the upright bass. I've never seen him do renditions of "School Days" on acoustic, and love it. It's really a medley of "Strings for Spanish bass" from the "Brown Album", updated and upgraded and "School Days" included.
another great performance...Stanley is/was the first bass player to go on his own and sell out arenas, stadiums etc. as the major act.....Not Jaco, not Enwhitsle, not anyone before him.... Innovation has nothing on him, I've seen him in arenas, stadiums, ampitheaters, 400 seat clubs, hotels and he never disappoints....
@killerdec21 i disagree, every culture has some speciality. Gipsies can play the voilin, it really cries and black people has sence for this... And sorry for my english :-)
@popliphaha Well, when you play bass this well, or better and post a video of it here on youtube, we'll be around to mock YOU and say that you're not that good.
@pcaislinn Just coz I can't play the bass as well Stanley (I'm a drummer anyway), doesn't mean I can't have a valid opinion. I restate my view that this is indulgent; and I would add, artless and pointless, a misuse of talent. Give me Jaco please!
@killerdec21 But the culture of people with different colors might have something to say though! More africans grow up playing rhytm-stuff than lets say norwegians.
...Tthat IS what s/he is trying to say. They are saying that skin color =/= rhythm. I'm pretty sure s/he was pretty clear. A pen is just going to be a pen, unless a master author picks it up and writes a masterpiece.
@killerdec21 it can't be proved [or disproved] one way or another in a lab,so why not leave it alone. it is essentially a discussion with no begining and no end. that is, skin color and rhythm.
Jaco said he was part Black in an interview. Its not much but its there. how do you think he had some much rhythm? It's in his DNA. He said the KKK burnt a cross on hs mother's lawn
@PhuckHue2 Every performing solo musician has the same problem. 'Common', that is, non-musical people have worse rhythm than educated players who can count a solid beat forever.
@PhuckHue2 Yeah it is like school - the teacher has to stop and teach the black high schoolers simple math - because math is culturally bias. Right? LOL It was probably a white crowd because it cost to get in - and blacks don't work.
Well TiedinChains, if you feel the urge to correct people, I'll correct you. It's technically called the Double Bass. I call it a Bass Cello because it was originally designed to play the bass notes
for the Cello in a Symphonic Orchestra.
It has several other names including the Upright Bass. Like a Violin is also called a Fiddle to some. Presumably you.
The only reason I corrected you, is because I thought you assumed this was a Cello with a lower range of notes, but still no an upright bass (you might have thought that because it was a solo, and some people think the bass can't do that) Yes, I wasn't aware of that, but still, I was only trying to help, not being arrogant.
Actually, he started out playing an upright, at least when he started playing jazz. As he lived in South Florida, the weather kept destroying his instruments. He found it too expensive to keep replacing them. That is why he took the frets out of his electric bass, so that he could get an upright sound from an electric bass.
I saw him about thirty years ago playing with Chick Corea and Al Dimeola. He is an Amazing player and man. I wish there were videos of those days. Man, Sooo much talent on the stage.
Anyway, Stanley is the MAN as far as bass goes, for me, and I've seen a lot. Jaco was great (also amazing) but I think Stanley's got it over him.
Agreed (and it's not a competition) but go see Bela Fleck and the Flectones, featuring Victor Wooten. Best of all, they are sharing the stage, and Jaco is certainly there in spirit!
wow i cant believe the comments on this video. if any of you negative nancys can post a video half a good as this, i will promise i will shut my mouth. stanley clarik is legend.
that's very ignorant :P I mean John Cage composed that was literally just 4 minutes of silence, and that was considered a piece of music, I actually had to perform it at school, and you're saying this isn't music? ha!
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I agree 100%, man! While I do see Clarke's historical importance for the emancipation of the bass and I do appreciate his technical skills, I consider him one of the most overrated bass players ever. To me, most of his stuff sounds like someone whith respectable technical chops getting hopelessly drunk and playing pointless isolated phrases over and over again at high speed, strumming fifths, slapping deadnotes, but not saying anything musically at all in the end.
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That's right, the only thing in there that appears to have a point is the extract from School Days, but as said, isolated becomes merely meaningless. But I don't think he's that overrated. He is, but give him some credit for his actual songs. Jean-Luc Ponty(backstage at the moment), in other hand, is great soloing. I'd prefer to hear something from him.
amazing, inspiring
RedEyes4eva 3 weeks ago
Brings back so much good times. Thanks.
usergently 1 month ago
Outstanding!
matitreum 1 month ago
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I just had a seizure cause his hand was moving so damn fast that he was making the light strobe.
aharonfreeman 1 month ago
this song has not that good as bass
brycefordboy 2 months ago
there is no one like Stan the man. Stanley is my dad. Jaco is my other dad. if you dig this you may like my band mojoceratops. (end of spam.) thanks for sharing this. I've seen Stanley live many times, no one else can hold thousands of people in rapt attention by playing solo upright like this. he strums it like a uke, and plays with as much, if not more energy now they he did 25 years ago, and he's what, 60 now?
MobiusBandwidth 2 months ago
wow
GregMagDrums 2 months ago
I think I'm in love..
shineyredguitars 3 months ago
This is what your parents could do, and they want you to do, young niggers.
Reach to your sky.
SeerTrulth 3 months ago
there is no better
spindal69 3 months ago
klasse!!!
waltero1958 3 months ago
Saw him live in 1994 or so in Hannover. He came on stage in shabby T-shirt, sandals and a Wallmart Jeans. Concert was just 60 mins. But he still is a genius and an approval that god exists. Such a talent. (Miles Davis was a character, too , by the way)
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I wish more people new about this guy, he really is up there with entwistle, flea and all the other greats
Frobe1357 5 months ago
Fun fact: Victor Wooten transcribed this entire album by ear when he was 13.
cursedswordsman 5 months ago 5
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CHECK CHICO GOMES OUT,PEOPLE...
revolutionary...on youtube,he is old himself
invented THE TRIPLE DOMINIUM for bass
GabrielDhalaman 6 months ago
I wish Obama could do this.
TeeAreify 6 months ago 20
awe inspiring performance, I got to see and meet him recently, quite a thrill as he's my musical hero. check out my band if you like progressive/Fusion music! thanks for posting this clip!
mojoceratopsofficial 6 months ago
God I love STANLeY CLARK......
tejastiger61 6 months ago
Stano Clerk is a great Ukulele player
MegaHoneyDude 7 months ago 2
it s like spanish folk but it s great
luzander777 7 months ago
...every gotdamn thing is about race on these sites. Why can't you people get over your prejudices, especially in America. This musician has a talent that this audience likse and respects and that should be all that matters.
jocee3 7 months ago
@jocee3 Race is the most important defining characteristic in perpetuity to everything throughout the universe. Get over it. Prejudice is just an ugly little word that people who can't be honest about stereotypes use.
NguyenVanThock2185 6 months ago
@NguyenVanThock2185 What do you mean by "honest about stereotypes"? I sure hope you don't believe them.
cursedswordsman 6 months ago
@NguyenVanThock2185: Shut the fuck up, you greasy little Asian.
pepper669 5 months ago
I love u
englocoast 7 months ago
Dear Audiences, we understand you are feeling the groove, and want to be part of his awesomeness (Stanley Clarke), BUT we also know audiences cant hold a beat well.....no, they cant hold a beat at all, so in the future, SHUT YOUR DAMNED HANDS UP! Sincerely, All levelheaded fans.
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Anyone that can capture someones attention by making the air waves vibrate entertainingly , is an artist at heart. Who give a shit what color their skin is. I close my eyes most of the time when listening to master musicians get down
martyfishon 9 months ago
Anyone that can capture someones attention by making the air waves vibrate entertainingly , is an artist at heart. Who give a shit what color their skin is. I close my eyes most of the time when listening to master musicians get down.
martyfishon 9 months ago
Outstanding! Still amazed by this guy! Thanks for posting.
JasonLeonPike 9 months ago
omg at 4:59 to 5:35! SEX IN A PAN BY VIC WOOTEN! SO SEXY! GO STANLEY CLARKE!
twphilosopher 9 months ago
@twphilosopher without Stanley there is no Victor. We are thankful to have had the pleasure of hearing both masters of the art!
britprik 8 months ago
dope shit bra
LowRagg 11 months ago
Thank you for uploading this video..I don't think many people other than musicians realize the improbability of this solo
mojodawg 11 months ago
One of the best upright jazz bass I heard in a long time and there is other but tehre is only one Stanley Clark and Iam bless to hear and see this gift from god the music he share the love he play's thank God for Stanley!
littlebigR 11 months ago
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I prefer Justin Bieber.
Thumbs up if you hate me.
mihighrox 1 year ago
@mihighrox I'm sure yo do....
detestsheeple 1 year ago
@mihighrox thats advanced trolling
ZupraVisor 1 year ago
@mihighrox I'm not going to please you...
gorto27 9 months ago
Why is it that when I dicked around like this in high school I got scolded yet when he dicks around like that he becomes one of the best upright jazz bassists in the country?
mattlittlej 1 year ago
@mattlittlej Most probably because he's skills are a lot higher than yours, lmao.
xturban 1 year ago
@mattlittlej Probably he got scolded too, but he had the guts to go on with his passion despite what others told him to do
jdom1 1 year ago
@mattlittlej Because he's clearly not dicking around. And if you were that good in high school your teacher wasn't a good music teacher if you got scolded.
sk8rbuoi 10 months ago
This man is and his abilities are why I stopped playing bass guitar, and why I started enjoying my own potentials on the bass guitar. This guy, Jaco, Dixie Dreggs, Entwhistle and numerous others are to be admired as inspirational .
gnewchi 1 year ago
I've never heard this on acoustic bass. Nice!
Seattlecarnut 1 year ago
I am stunned. Genuinely stunned.
Megajosh2 1 year ago
The Master Class !
StellarChi 1 year ago
Sweet
StellarChi 1 year ago
I'd need 25 fingers to play 0.1% as good...
vrtzlbrmft 1 year ago 12
The Jimi Hendrix of bass.
Tessmage 1 year ago
two words..... Thee Best.
banjobubby 1 year ago
I never seen a player ho play contrabass and it's so cool^^ and this al techniek for bass now they came all from contrabass?? Oo
Diskozado 1 year ago
i feel like stanley was much better in the 70s and early 80s. he's not as funky anymore and it sucks
basshumpinyoface6 1 year ago
poliphaha---mate, if you knew a little about music you would realise and accept that this is what is called a Cadenza---look it up, you might learn something.
shmerbombero 1 year ago
Ho visto un concerto di Stanley once in Roma (italy) and he was very upset for the sound no good at all, in Castel s. Angelo, was 1980's (think so) almost ... BTW he kiked a speaker very BIG into people ... was so funny! ;) ciao sassandro
sassandro 1 year ago
Lemme spell it out, folks, one word; V I R T U O S O
fortuenti 1 year ago
has to be the best bass player i have ever heard,exellent.
fats3167 1 year ago
School Days was the jam!!!
woodie62 1 year ago
And music and dance is from within our soul and exuded by our spirit! Great expression! Color has nothing to do with the rhythm we possess! I am a french vanilla thin skinned woman with a dark chocolate soul, as does my husband..and music is my food - interwoven into the tapestry that makes up our life!
Mainegrilledherbs 1 year ago
@Mainegrilledherbs You're kind of a poet as well! Cheers. .
woodie62 1 year ago
i like the faces he makes wile hes playing
dylanwhaley87 1 year ago
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RriverJJ 1 year ago
@RriverJJ fuck you, man, what are you smoking?
MrMrPajosh 1 year ago
Marcus Millerと聞いて、若き日にStanley Clarkeを追いかけていたのを思い出す
shuko09 1 year ago
@shuko09
なかなか上手いこと言いますね...今治好いですね
maidoodesu 1 year ago
Marcus Millerと聞いて、若き日にStanley Ciarkeを追いかけていたのを思い出す
shuko09 1 year ago
Stanley Clarke...The master!!!
997decio 1 year ago
Big Stan ain't no joke!!!!!!!! Keep doing it Stanley
MrContrabasso4 1 year ago
great!
dagar57 1 year ago
Combine extensive classical training (Julliard) with inventiveness and fearlessness, and this is the kind of technique and sound you get. Way to go, Stanley! You are f___ing awesome!
kevinkgillette 1 year ago
I read somewhere that, after he stopped playing, the bass disintegrated.
fanofthemusic1090 1 year ago
was lucky enough to see RTF 2008 at the Holland in Omaha.Stanley played the most amazing upright solo. When he finished I literally jumped out of my seat to applaud and the rest of the audience did the same.I have seen great audience reactions before but I would rate the Stanley reaction #1.Awesome
STEVE25406 1 year ago
thanks for sharing... that's pure art...
BloodOnTheRooftop 1 year ago
1 saw you in Greenvich Village in 1976. I will always remember the experience. Thank You, Scotti
scottigay 1 year ago
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holdersteven 1 year ago
@holdersteven funnily enough its on the school days album lol
andymcguitar 1 year ago
Thats a huge upright!
woodenfret 1 year ago
@woodenfret Stanley is a huge guy he barely has to strech his left arm to fret a electric bass
Skidhblanir 1 year ago
It's so fuckin sad that the f.c.c. don't stop asshole's from lieing & twisting my email's I don't have to lie i saw stanly clarke play school days @ the hippodrome in Baltimore ! i still have my ticket it was june 14,2004 @ 8:pm. & jeanlucponty was Any body there who saw him ?
airbrush504 1 year ago
Can somebody please send me a email and let me no if this was @ the hipbootron In balto md because i was there and i saw him play shool day's and i steel have my Ticket he was playing with jean -luc ponty on my ticket the dat is jun 14, 2004 @ 8pm
airbrush504 1 year ago
@airbrush504 gosh! how can ppl just ignore video descriptions!?
"Live At Montreux, a 1994 concert with Jean-Luc Ponty and Al DiMeola"
larusso83 1 year ago
Ah, Stanley! This is a wonderful concert video of his prowess on the upright bass. I've never seen him do renditions of "School Days" on acoustic, and love it. It's really a medley of "Strings for Spanish bass" from the "Brown Album", updated and upgraded and "School Days" included.
Incredible......
Ironclad35 1 year ago
can't wait to see him at the toronto jazz fest
Solis1112 1 year ago
nice pirate shirt. does wearing a shirt with baggy sleeves make you good at bass? because if so, i will buy one immediately.
jonboch123 1 year ago
Simply mesmerizing,WOW!!!!!
JAA2090 1 year ago 2
another great performance...Stanley is/was the first bass player to go on his own and sell out arenas, stadiums etc. as the major act.....Not Jaco, not Enwhitsle, not anyone before him.... Innovation has nothing on him, I've seen him in arenas, stadiums, ampitheaters, 400 seat clubs, hotels and he never disappoints....
amazing man....
troutonahook 1 year ago
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I find it very sad that i have not heard of this genius until today!
futureNFL2 1 year ago
I find it very sad that i have not heard of this genius until today!
futureNFL2 1 year ago 7
this guy is just bloody amazing.
rishathra1 1 year ago
Serious condition of bass face
alstocko 1 year ago 2
Look no farther than Youtube if you desire racist opinions and remarks about anyone and anything
whopperplate 1 year ago 3
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OMG HE SUXX!!
HEIL HITLER!!!!
karlsmutter 2 years ago
@karlsmutter Hitlers dead get over it...
realguitarshredder 1 year ago 2
Your skin colour has nothing to do with having rhythm.... Its simply your skin colour...
killerdec21 2 years ago 82
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holdersteven 1 year ago
@killerdec21 to whit: Geddy Lee gots rhythm and he's Canadian!
gmgartner 1 year ago
@gmgartner
pino palladino is a white whelshmen xD and he's one of the grooviest bassplayers ever. check out his work with D'Angelo
CptChaos88 1 year ago
@killerdec21 i disagree, every culture has some speciality. Gipsies can play the voilin, it really cries and black people has sence for this... And sorry for my english :-)
MrMrPajosh 1 year ago
This is indulgent. Not that good.
popliphaha 1 year ago
@popliphaha Well, when you play bass this well, or better and post a video of it here on youtube, we'll be around to mock YOU and say that you're not that good.
pcaislinn 1 year ago
@pcaislinn Just coz I can't play the bass as well Stanley (I'm a drummer anyway), doesn't mean I can't have a valid opinion. I restate my view that this is indulgent; and I would add, artless and pointless, a misuse of talent. Give me Jaco please!
popliphaha 1 year ago
@killerdec21 But the culture of people with different colors might have something to say though! More africans grow up playing rhytm-stuff than lets say norwegians.
FlasKamel 1 year ago
@killerdec21
What are you saying here ? Makes no sense to me !
Rhythm is a gift from God .
God has no skin preferances !
A Gift is for all too unwrap !
ukraininoak 9 months ago
@ukraininoak
...Tthat IS what s/he is trying to say. They are saying that skin color =/= rhythm. I'm pretty sure s/he was pretty clear. A pen is just going to be a pen, unless a master author picks it up and writes a masterpiece.
Faeness 9 months ago
@killerdec21 it can't be proved [or disproved] one way or another in a lab,so why not leave it alone. it is essentially a discussion with no begining and no end. that is, skin color and rhythm.
brainsareus 8 months ago
@killerdec21 You must be black :D
Felexor7911 6 months ago
White and holding a serious beat = buddy rich, steve gadd, vinnie colaiuta, dave weckl, steve smith, etc. etc.
deltadogful 2 years ago 20
Jaco
Everythingmeans 1 year ago
Inspiration.
Craigisnotcool 2 years ago
gosh
Hellisokornot 2 years ago
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this guy is...
terrible.
salsa2good 2 years ago
turun
pedofilicpunk 2 years ago
stanley you are a big artist.!
philparis89 2 years ago
WHOA that croud has NO Beat when they start clapping thats horrible!
KreatorOfDeath1985 2 years ago
haha yeah i knoww!
it threw him off
that would annoy mee
hitmeuponthelowdown 2 years ago
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white audience. Jaco had the same problem during his live solo. Jaco had to stop his solo and put the audience on beat
PhuckHue2 2 years ago
im white and jaco is white xD
we have beat
i think its just a tottaly drugged failure crowd
KreatorOfDeath1985 2 years ago 3
Jaco said he was part Black in an interview. Its not much but its there. how do you think he had some much rhythm? It's in his DNA. He said the KKK burnt a cross on hs mother's lawn
PhuckHue2 2 years ago
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lol ok maybe im half fillipino thats why i have beat xD
KreatorOfDeath1985 2 years ago
@PhuckHue2 Every performing solo musician has the same problem. 'Common', that is, non-musical people have worse rhythm than educated players who can count a solid beat forever.
JPastorius3 1 year ago
@PhuckHue2 Yeah it is like school - the teacher has to stop and teach the black high schoolers simple math - because math is culturally bias. Right? LOL It was probably a white crowd because it cost to get in - and blacks don't work.
IbanezDog 1 year ago
when you are all done jerkin each other off here about clarke...u forgot...the whistle....
65ludwig 2 years ago
he's a mad cunt, in a good way.
NeatSquash 2 years ago
Stanley will always be the greatest because very few other bass guitar players can also play the
BASS Cello. When he plays the bass guitar I prefer him when he was part of Return to Forever
or when he released 'School Days'. There he was surrounded by equally great musicians like Chic Corea, Al DiMiola, Lenny White,
Steve Gadd, Billy Cobham. There has never been music as great as that put out since
plutaris33 2 years ago 3
Yep! Theres Stanley Clarke ....and everybody else......when it comes to the bass
Maxharddrive64 2 years ago 2
It's not bass cello. Its upright bass
TiedInChains 2 years ago
Well TiedinChains, if you feel the urge to correct people, I'll correct you. It's technically called the Double Bass. I call it a Bass Cello because it was originally designed to play the bass notes
for the Cello in a Symphonic Orchestra.
It has several other names including the Upright Bass. Like a Violin is also called a Fiddle to some. Presumably you.
plutaris33 2 years ago
The only reason I corrected you, is because I thought you assumed this was a Cello with a lower range of notes, but still no an upright bass (you might have thought that because it was a solo, and some people think the bass can't do that) Yes, I wasn't aware of that, but still, I was only trying to help, not being arrogant.
TiedInChains 2 years ago
I still think Pastorius in his prime, was better.
johnwiseman17 2 years ago
He was, but didn't play upright.
Kazzzzzo 2 years ago
Actually, he started out playing an upright, at least when he started playing jazz. As he lived in South Florida, the weather kept destroying his instruments. He found it too expensive to keep replacing them. That is why he took the frets out of his electric bass, so that he could get an upright sound from an electric bass.
johnwiseman17 2 years ago
Bummer, I didn't know that.
Kazzzzzo 2 years ago
you bore us all....
huhuhhehe 2 years ago
does it matter?
PhuckHue2 2 years ago
If I had fingers like his, my girlfriend wouldn't have left me!
B3RRY86 2 years ago 121
As a woman, I can confirm you are right!!!!
Girlshine 2 years ago
@B3RRY86 lol get to practicin..lol
Poopyfuck 1 year ago
@B3RRY86 are you sure it wasnt your face?
connorbassplayer 1 year ago
@B3RRY86 Giggity
Skidhblanir 1 year ago
@B3RRY86 ahahahaha that's fuckin' true
whiteshirtable 1 year ago
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it funk? Is is it jazz? Or a cross between flamenco and Indian raga.. wonderful...
redcrowdemon 2 years ago
Great performance in Orlando 08'.
gluttonousfeast 2 years ago
I saw him about thirty years ago playing with Chick Corea and Al Dimeola. He is an Amazing player and man. I wish there were videos of those days. Man, Sooo much talent on the stage.
Anyway, Stanley is the MAN as far as bass goes, for me, and I've seen a lot. Jaco was great (also amazing) but I think Stanley's got it over him.
sepulchre10 2 years ago 2
Agreed (and it's not a competition) but go see Bela Fleck and the Flectones, featuring Victor Wooten. Best of all, they are sharing the stage, and Jaco is certainly there in spirit!
Nyquistic 2 years ago
Stanley can do it ALL...!
Did he ever.... ever...... jam with Jaco???
RTF in Miami last year was Awesome..!
mrprogjazzgto 2 years ago
wow i cant believe the comments on this video. if any of you negative nancys can post a video half a good as this, i will promise i will shut my mouth. stanley clarik is legend.
jayvulpix 2 years ago 4
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He's got some chops, but this isn't impressive. He figures our a riff or an arpeggio and plays it over and over again.
eyenhailee 2 years ago
5:10 one of the coolest riffs ever
drinkincococola 2 years ago 4
this is good 1 before iy was born
vincieboy4 2 years ago
I wish I started out on a stand up
ManDudeYeah 2 years ago
Wish someone would post Stanley Clarke's Quiet Afternoon.......me and DH did some naughty thing off of that song.
bassfima 2 years ago
Id guess not much is i know i can play this so i will since he started on upright
NealBrantner 2 years ago
i really really like it but it sems like so much of this stuff is in the other popular stanley upright solo video
how much is improv and how much is okay... here, ill do this lick that i know i can play...
idk, its different from his electric playing
still lots of good upright things here
very calm, soothing moods... almost like asian rock garden feel :D
I'M CERTAINLY NOT A HATER...
jtgroleau 2 years ago
hahha every1 thumbs down your posts dont even try to give an opinion on youtube because everyone in life sucks only you know whats good fuck all else
drummrguy 2 years ago
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For me, it's not "music", only a video of using grat techniques to play the bass.
XCrazyXChefkochX 2 years ago
that's very ignorant :P I mean John Cage composed that was literally just 4 minutes of silence, and that was considered a piece of music, I actually had to perform it at school, and you're saying this isn't music? ha!
bendinggreenvans 2 years ago 2
its all music STFU
drummrguy 2 years ago
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XCrazyXChefkochX 2 years ago
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i agree, it is no song,
only one instrument,
he has great techniques, but it's like we are listening to a rehearsal tape of someone jamming on a session or something
haytionette 2 years ago
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I agree 100%, man! While I do see Clarke's historical importance for the emancipation of the bass and I do appreciate his technical skills, I consider him one of the most overrated bass players ever. To me, most of his stuff sounds like someone whith respectable technical chops getting hopelessly drunk and playing pointless isolated phrases over and over again at high speed, strumming fifths, slapping deadnotes, but not saying anything musically at all in the end.
rmns1234 2 years ago
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That's right, the only thing in there that appears to have a point is the extract from School Days, but as said, isolated becomes merely meaningless. But I don't think he's that overrated. He is, but give him some credit for his actual songs. Jean-Luc Ponty(backstage at the moment), in other hand, is great soloing. I'd prefer to hear something from him.
TheRockandroy 2 years ago
Maybe you'll grow up one day and learn what music is.
db32137 2 years ago 3
Go fuck yourself. This is great
gluttonousfeast 2 years ago 5
Just has to be my favorite bass solo of all time: Stanley Clarke seems to cover every facet of bass playing. Just amazing
4Thelowerbass 2 years ago 2
Holy flippinn galaxy units.
No.
I really mean it.
tiktoffG13 2 years ago 3
bass beast
nicoptw 2 years ago
One of my greatest wishes is to see dr Clarke live at Nišville Intl. Jazz Festival :)
The man's a living legend :D
mrmotinjo 2 years ago
srbija.....:D.......!
prepasni 2 years ago
nunca pude distinguir quien rifaba mas o stanley o jaco; ahún hoy en dia me es dificil, pero las composiciones de stanley me agradan mas.
este tio me dejo boquiabierto.
theMarsFusion 2 years ago
is that a 3/4 size or a half size or...?
woggleboggle 2 years ago
i guess u can slap an upright... aaaammmmaaaaaazzzzzziiiiiinnnnngggg!!!!!!!!!!!11
sikrobator 2 years ago
amazing! hes the only person ive ever seen slap a double bass.
schecter420 2 years ago
I've seen photos of this dude where his fingers look like they're jointed backwards as well! Incredible!
PhiZappaCrappa 2 years ago