Gary Willis in Holland

[kawi9893]

he has to work on his dancing lol!!

[beckenbauers]

An outstanding rhythm section! I heard Sebastiaan Cornelissen with Gary Husband on keys, a monster drummer himself, and a bass player named Frans Vollink. Vollink's album is named One Spirit, Cornelissen's album is named Uturn, both are highly recommendable

[leetheviolet]

MONSTRUO DEL GROOVE!!!!!!!!

[TPCrackerman]

Yeah!!! Bounce those legs! haha

[safiyelena]

On Keys is Rob Van Bavel an amazing jazz piano player, conservatory teacher in the Netherlands.

[humislair]

nice groove @ 0:36

[leetheviolet]

sebaastian cornilesen

[6ixtymiles]

I've been into progressive/fusion jazz since the mid-1970s, plus I'm a drummer so I tend to be drawn to heavy, progressive base line music, especially when accompanied with phenom drumming... Gary freakin' BRINGS IT!! ...and his drummers too!! I really dig the cat on this vid... Tight Groove, rim slappin', bass drum funk zen master!! ...THANKS, idontcarewatuthink for posting this!

[wachojazzzzzz]

El inmortal groove de willis me salvara de la prueba a la que falte esta mañana D:

[fusion07mp3]

The "Sebastian" guy is Sebastiaan Cornelissen, a very fine Dutch drummer. He has a new record coming out on Abstract Logix in May, 2010 with some all-star fusion players.

[vkavcic6]

@fusion07mp3 hu si on the drums wwwwwwwwwaaaaaaauuuuuuuu.super­!!!!!!

[solterodeoro]

El nos protege luchando contra las hordas infernales de bajistas metralleta cada vez mas numerosas... por eso honremosle.

[DaYsteJam]

@solterodeoro perdon por preguntar un año mas tarde pero, que es un bajista metralleta?

[wallywhip42]

Better than, faster than, blah blah blah. How 'bout you just shut up, Listen and Feel!!! It's all that matters!

[paul44miles]

Gary Willis is a phenomenal musician. i loved his work with Tribal Tech as well as his solo albums. Very nice video.

[jsilence418]

No one will ever be "better" than Jaco, got a time machine so they can go back and be first where he was first,? for starters !better? you still playing that game little fellow? get into music for the right reasons for fuck sake.

[Nu9v9]

jaco is dancing wherever heis

[foxybrown2]

there are many guys out there now that are better than Jaco I admit Jaco Like Jimi Hendrix where inovators but the new generation of bass players took the game a ran with it .

[ocean4315]

Williis has some unique ways of doing things if you've every watch some of his instructional videos.

His right hand plucking, ramp, theory on how hard to play etc..

It all seems to work for him.

Although his right hand technique looks fairly hard to master, I at least think it's gotten many bassists to play with more than their index and middle fingers.

Using the thumb and the other 3 or 4 fingers can make some usually difficult passages to play much easier.

[Adoniram1986]

Fav bassist.

[indydrt]

i know gary from LA way before tribal tech...he was awesome then and and still is ,,,remember merlins gary,,don

[76alembic]

A very fine bassist,a real under rated player.His tribal tech stuff ,is just awesome!!

[erikdrum1]

Great Video....

Very Good...

this sound is wonderful...

thx...

i'm from brazil...

[jojabeau]

Jaco had the opportunity to play a five string and was never tempted from his J bass. Marcus Miller Jeff Berlin and Victor Wooten still do most of their playing on a four string as well.  Also, its had to think any bass player in this idiom is not touched by Jaco in some small way.

[AnonymousCowardX]

Well according to me, Gary Willis is one of the only guys on this planet who are on the same level as Pastorious, and even took it a bit further if you ask me.

Willis is a grandmaster

[libertatus]

An under-appreciated bassist. It's easy to hear that he's very much influenced by Jaco. If Jaco were alive and sober he'd probably be playing a signature five string fretless too.

[Zarakura]

exelent bassplayer

[isaacleedrums]

Drummer is really good.

[Caledonian2006]

I agree.

[frEbelmar]

nice

[curtisfreeman]

I've seen Gary a couple of times, met him even... saw millions of clips of him live... but have never seen him without a ball cap on! Ha... He rules though

[sumoblues]

whether one acknowledges it or not, GW is one badass mofo bassiologist whose playing, like so many others, without question, comes from the jaco time space continuum...to say there is "no jaco" in his playing is as absurd as saying there is no such thing as the "jaco school of bass playing"...(groan)

[bijouxmusic]

Gary is an amazing bass player. sadly he doesn't get the attention he deserves.

I think of him as a sort of modern Jaco. I think he studied Jaco and yet he created his own voice on the instrument. And that is masterful.

[seargentpaper]

The Drummer's name is Sebastiaan Cornelissen .

[rrrock25]

Willis rules. So much.

BTW: I don't hear Jaco in his playing at all.

[aperisimo]

gotta give credit to the drummer.

[AKindlyOne]

The drummers pretty cool too :)

[BassIsBeautiful]

Every good bassist should study Jaco just like Gary did and so many others, its normal we sound jaco-ish sometimes caus hes the one that started it all

[AKindlyOne]

I agree

[corezone22]

best modern basist in the world..

[yourmum17]

the drummer reminds of brian blade just not as good, blade is more fluid. Willis is awesome, sounds a bit jaco-ish

[colgaf]

Jaco New Actualized Version.

Amazin!!!

[rrrock25]

Totally different style, totally different technique (palm muting - never heard by Jaco). Just because it's a fretless it doesn't mean it's a Jaco clone.

BTW: Do you scream 'Jamerson' when you hear Billy Sheehan?? ;-)

[BusterMudd]

Berklee College circa 1979 just called; they want their down-a-whole-step, up-a-fourth diminished sequence lick back.

[elnombre2]

Damn, what are we all gonna play then?

[spedroblue]

lol!!!

[Achkidawa]

Great drummer, what's his name please..

Thanks for posting..awesome jam!!!

[georgeontherocks]

Sebastien Cornelissen or something. He's Dutch

[bramknol]

Sebastiaan Cornelissen.

Rob van Bavel is playing keys.

[wachojazzzzzz]

la cago este ctm.... willis hijo de perra dame un hijo xD!

PSF

[filp413]

and he's always wearing that goddamn hat!! lol

[idontcarewatuthink]

eh, not always

[fluidjazz]

@filp413 he can wear a teapot for all i care it's about the music, all about the music:p

[TheMrFunktastic2]

@fluidjazz LOL. I just pictured him playing his ass off, wearing a teapot :P

[limeyamos]

I'm totally getting a third GS112, that just looks so sick.

[cbazzpastorious]

amazing sound =O =O

[jakaboy]

too much jaco in is playing

zzzz

[powermichiel]

If you ask me he plays over the Eden head which you can see quite clearly on the very top of his stack.

[AdamFelix]

NO! It's Aguilar! -as well as the cabs!

[tbcass]

I know for a fact he plays through an Aguilar.

[TitanSound]

Sweet vid!

[toderox]

can any body tell me if he´s using a palm mute technique in some passges or just his right hand dampening string technique?

[notdavey]

It's the Gary Willis technique. Seriously - he plays like no one else. It's a little of both. It's also the bass. Check out his site for more info. He has an extensive section on technique.

[sophiecalzat]

Yes, at the beginning he uses some palm muting. I find it adds a lot of groove

[Pudsy440]

wowza ... that's some tight jazzy playin' wit those drums ... it's a fretless huh?

[airraidsiren82]

yes,it s an ibanez prestige series 5 strings fretless

[davidhilton]

sorry airraidsiren82 - its an ibanez GWB gary willis design...not a prestige.

[bassist4dalord]

check out that aguilar stack behind him... friggin' beastly!

[moderndrummer1]

Gary Willis is awesome. I love his album "No Sweat". Dennis Chambers is the drummer and they take the term "in the pocket" to a whole new level.

[tattoedsoul]

you should here Gary´s new album "actual fiction".

[moderndrummer1]

will do.

[bornagaindaemon]

Best fretless player around

[bemybamboocha]

Best fretless player ever.

[georgeontherocks]

Jaco?

[RDog4484]

ever heard of this guy named jaco?

[fretlessbass26]

Jaco pastorius, without question. another fretless player to watch is a former student of his named micheal manring, who does alot of cool stuff with altered tunings.

[brandysboi]

Awesome as always Gary! Mr. Tibbs

[zoomex]

amazing bass man -tribel tech ???

[gvdwijdeven]

it's with Sebastian Cornelissen on drums and Rob van Bavel on keys... great guys...

[adamlannerholm]

Where is all the other willis stuff? can't find them...

[didiklomberg]

this one has already been uploaded by Emilk

[idontcarewatuthink]

i guess im a bit late on this one. the audio isnt very great either