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  • This guy sucks. A pick? For real? So he can just play really fast. Big whoop. Not very impressed.

  • @Kalam1ty89 can you do it with your fingers? its punk you fool..what you expect?

  • @Kalam1ty89 Using a pick is a matter of tone. Or a matter of style of music you want to play. This would be impossible to play with fingers and the tone would be different.

  • @Kalam1ty89 i like to see you try

  • What song is this?

  • @bieberslayer1 Maxwell Murder , but this is an extended solo of the original.

  • Well, fuck............

  • Why does Lil' Wayne get more money than this guy? He can't even rap

  • Holy shit I came!

  • orgasm

  • two words: holy shit

  • wes claypool....

  • tabs ? :D:D:D:D just kidding

  • Imagine Matt Freeman, Travis Barker, and Johnny Ramone all in a band together...

  • @StubbiestPie imagine a band like this: colin (GBH), greg ginn (black flag), matt freeman (rancid), earl hudson (bad brains).

  • @RancidPunk93 wayyy to punk for me haha

  • @RancidPunk93 freeman, rocky george(suicidal tendencies), chris cash( no ca$h), and the drummer for the bouncing souls, would be like the most amazing band ever

  • @StubbiestPie fuck travis

  • @StubbiestPie

    Imagine: you shutting the fuck up

  • @badbrain94 what the fuck is wrong with you??

  • @liammatthewsmith

    Travis Barker is an extremely overrated drummer and definitely would not deserve to play alongside Matt Freeman or Johnny Ramone.

  • @badbrain94 ok i see what you mean now hahaha

  • wow johnnyrapesboys or whatever your name is. do you know anything about bass or live sound for that matter? if you rolled off all the lows and maxed mids and highs it wouldn't sound even close to this. that "punk" sound comes from minimizing your mids similar to setting up a slap style tone. new strings help too. btw, why comment on this vid just to hate. pathetic

  • Hi hankblowsgoats. Really, Matt uses a slap bass EQ? I'd never have known to be honest because all I can hear is the trebly grinding of strings with his plectrum and little or no bottom end. I'll go hit those sound engineering manuals and do some study so I can nail that Freeman 'sound' now. Thanks.

  • I think that Matt certainly is an exceptional player, and definitely one of the best out there right now. However, I would not call him THE best; first, I would go through John Entwistle, Jimmy Lea, Billy Sheehan, Steve Harris, Gerry McAvoy, Geddy Lee, Flea, John Myung, Jack Bruce, Jaco Pastorius, Geezer Butler, and a bunch of others. Which is not to say, of course, that Matt is not totally wicked-awesome. Because he is.

  • pick?

  • i love how he says "give it up for matt freeman" and still noone cheers.

  • They're in Japan, the fans don't even know wtf they're saying.

  • it might also be hard to hear the crowd with the camera they're using.. just thought i'd throw that in there...

  • @Pr4sEoDyMiUm That's because their brains have officially been turned into shit by the sheer madness of his bass playing.

  • @Pr4sEoDyMiUm they couldn't hear him over freemans bass \m/

  • @Pr4sEoDyMiUm they were in shock from fucking amazing he can play

  • Maxwell murder...una de las mejores canciones del punk...

    Matt I loveyou man!!! I love you so much man!!!!!

    Aguante rancid...

    Mi inglish is very bad xD jajajaja =)

  • This is going to piss a few people off but I'll say it anyway. There is no real talent on display in this clip from Freeman. It's sloppy shredding at best. It reminds me of something St. Sanders would do. There's virtually no technique in his left hand at all (just sloppy runs with little dexterity) and he just goes hammer and tongs with a plectrum in the right hand. Being in the punk genre (where energy & attitude are rated higher than technique) is his only defence. Sorry but that's my opinion

  • i agree,

    but matt freeman plays good in reggae music, nice bass lines with fingers

  • I completely agree. He might as well not even use his left hand. His technique is horrific with is left hand. This is all pick; not much musical talent on display.

  • johnnyboymcgee - absolutely spot on my man.

    messy, scratchy, noisy...just plain awful.

    billy sheehan ftw :)

  • i'm afraid i disagree

  • May be true w/ regard to this solo, but he is an amazing player all around. He originally learned in jazz style. Of course he's going to put a punk twist on it though.

  • There is certainly no evidence of jazz training in this clip. This clip would put me off wanting to see any more clips from the guy to be honest. He can run through basic scales at reasonable speed with his left hand but there's just no skill in his right hand... just sloppy pick shredding; he sounds like a guitarist trying to play bass. Where is the groove, space, articulation or feel?

  • so have you ever actually listened to a rancid album? go buy, DL, steal- Rancids first self titled. "out come the wolves" and "Life wont wait" are also great but i like it before lars was in the band because matt had to do more stuff to fill in for lack of a second guitar.

  • I've listened to some of their albums... I'm sorry but I just don't think they're any good. To be honest though I haven't listened to bar-chord driven punk music since I was about 17, it just doesn't do it for me anymore. I find it musically boring and the lyrics just annoy the fuck out of me.

  • wow another metal head dissin' punk, how original...

  • thats what ill probably be like in 10, years but fro now, im only 17... and punk is sick

  • its not a jazz style it comes from originaly im pretty sure it atchully comes form blues and made punk.

  • Listen to his playing w/ Operation Ivy and tell me that. It's obvious he was trained in a jazz style early on; there's no other way he could learn all those crazy techniques.

    "Blues," lol, who the f even learns how to play "blues bass," it's like the same five notes over and over again.

  • yea its atchully blues ya prick,sutch as in songs like journy to the end of the east bay he plays from a pattern sutch as :3-2-0 or 5-3-2,tipical blues bassing,and just becous most bassist in blues bands do pretty simple styles dosent meen he dosnt(blues bass is about walking),he has a form of technique that is almost the opisit of jass becous jass players dont usualy have any its all of there heads.

  • Matt Freeman is possibly one of the best bass player in the world right now, especially in the genre of punk rock. It is near impossible to compare him to funk players such as Flea. These two men are my inspiration.

  • U don't need vintage gear to get that tone. Not sure what amp he's got but, it sounds like a solid state w/ 10 inch speakers - probably 8x10 cab. He's using a Fender Jazz bass and probably has both pickup pots (knobs) & boost pot turned up. On the amp, roll up the highs and the lows w/ the mids just up enough to give it some presence. Make sure the action on the bass is set really low & play HARD & FAST w/ med to heavy pick. It's more HOW you play than what you have.

  • This is good advice. I've been trying to get this kind of tone with my jazz bass and i've come pretty close. As you said, lots of highs and lows with the mids cut a little bit. New strings help a lot too.

  • I've spent years trying to make sure my bass doesn't sound anything like this. Thankfully I've been quite successful.

  • Good for you.. i guess?

  • Definitely.

  • Some people like a more traditional bass tone, I don't. I like an aggressive sound that cuts through well as Freeman's tones almost always do. Its not for everyone apparently. I wouldn't judge Freeman from just this one video or even any of his solos alone there are too many Rancid songs with great lines to mention. I recommend looking at the actual songs and not just one live video.

  • so you suck?

  • You want to sound like Matt Freeman? 1. get a cheap bass; 2. Get a shit amp with no bottom end (a guitar amp will even do seen as we have no interest in the bass tones); 3. Turn all your mids and trebles up; 4. play with a plectrum (taking care to scratch the strings as much as possible when you play out of time)... voila.

  • @johnnyboymcgee so youre gonna call matt's fender a CHEAP bass??? HAH $1800 bucks last i checked

  • I didn't say Matt Freeman's bass was cheap... he just makes it sound cheap. The actual make and model of bass he plays is quite nice as it happens.

  • @johnnyboymcgee i have his bass

  • Matt uses an overdrive foot switch for most of Rancid Five. Gives it that extra crusty sound. But for the ska and reggae sound you need a nice warm and booming bass sound.

  • Not even fucking close dude. They pale in comparison to him.

  • Matt Freeman is fucking Shit hot!

  • lars couldn't of said it better

  • anybody know how u can achieve such a grinding tone without vintage gear (besides buying expensive modern reissues?)

  • easy. low string tension, set the bass and treble really high and turn down the mids

  • man thats not easy at all

  • Soo a solo must be hard to play in order to sound good? I didn't know that. Hey everyone, before you're gonna play a bass or guitarsolo, make sure you ask GlebyTCK if it's easy or not, because remember: It has to be difficult to be good!

  • i hav my bass since one month... no mocking plz

  • I don't care if this solo is easy or not, the only thing that matters is that it has spirit and sounds so FUCKING GOOD!

  • is that the dude for lead vocals of rancid with crazy spiked hair at end? cause it sounds and looks like chris or wahtever from less than jake

  • its lars from rancid

  • Oh and Btw rancid has no lead vocals Tim armstrong and Lars Fredisksen both share the Lead singer Spot

  • If it weren't for Freeman, I never would have picked up bass, and damn, my life sure would be different.

    Gotta hand it to him, the man can play.

  • same here. i started with guitar when i was like 13 years old, rancid was always my favorite band (still is) , and matt freeman made me change to bass.

  • Hell yeah man, I played guitar for about half a year, and then Freemans line just appealed to me so much I went out and bought a bass, and it's a whole different story from there.

  • @UltimateEnd622 same for me, this particular solo made me not just want, but NEED to learn the bass. haha.

  • @UltimateEnd622 personally it was megadeth and Dream Theater for me, but after picking up bass I have so much respect for matt freeman

  • Epic bass solo ... What can i say ?

    He show that punk bassline is the same good like metal/funk etc.

  • badass solo that looks impossable

  • give it up for matt freeman, i gotta agree with larz on that on

  • Super trop fort Matt freeman! OMG YOU ROCK!!! Je joue de de bass your my god!

  • Pick a language! Mixing them together makes it harder to understand! ;D

  • FREEMAAN!!! Yaah this guy is my hero.y'all can go eat a hundred dicks for goin off topic and talkin about some homo sheeat

  • What kind of Bass does Matt use?

  • in this video, a fender jazz bass :P

  • the best bass player in the world!! looooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oool!!!

    where are you stanley clarke,les claypool,flea,marcus miller,victor wooten,larry graham,jaco pastorius,bootsy collins to hear that!!looooool! oh my god the guitar player said the stupid thing i've heard ever!

  • Go fuck yourself. He's not going to say "the 35th greatest fucking bass player in the world."

  • hey kiddo make better use of your language ok?

    he said "the best" by far he's the worst!he's not even in the top 100 of bassists!

  • Fuck my language use. You're obviously looking in the wrong top 100. he is 35 or 36. And you probably don't even play bass. Let's see you come up with a solo that good. Improvise that fast on the first time.

  • he is maybe 1035-1036 in the top 100! lol!

    i'm a bassist too!don't have no reason to say that if i wasn't!duh!

    playin' fast is only practise not a technique!!!!playin' fast doesn't make u the "best" my friend

  • lol hahahaha i dont even think u can play a string that fast

  • lol who said that i can play that fast???lol! the fact is that my technique is MUCH BETTER than his!!!

  • But you just make the same mistake than the guitarist said, he said that he was the best bass player in the world and you said that he was the worth but is not the worth just better than you ;) stop tlaking about who is the best bass player because NOBODY can tell who is the best player. So all the bassist that you was speaking about: Les Claypool, Flea etc... are all fucking good bass player but Freeman too.

  • mate i never said that freeman was the worth!!

    where did you see that?!

    and no freeman ain't nothin' compared to those bass legends!!he's just good and that's all but he ain't one of the best!

  • cunt

  • you have one lol

    oh did we hurt your feelin's about freeman the incredible bassist that he is...ohhh pitty... oh

  • im not a bitch

    if ur just gna flame dont bother commenting

  • who cares if you're not a bitch,u said cunt so i take it you have one,got it??

  • ur the one that doesnt get it

    the boston punx will fuck your shit the fuck up pussy

  • the boston what?! lol! oh mummy i'm so scared i'm in danger by some gay freeman's fans! lol! pathetic 5 year old moron, get a life

  • you dont even know what punk is you pussy

    suck your boyfriends dick

  • lol ok mr punk,oh by the way i didn't knew that u were so gay,cause u like usin dick words all the time,kiddo

  • dont fucking go around telling ppl what punk is and isnt. makes you seem like an egotistical douchebag

  • I AM AN EGOTISTICAL DOUCHEBAG

  • then goddammit be an egotistical douchebag the RIGHT way

  • lol i was just bored so as always i decided to flame

  • understandable

  • haha yeaa

    you like Citizen Fish?

  • yea, the subhumans r better tho but there good

  • No one knows what "punk" is. The term was coined by Leggs McNeil of Punk Magazine in New York in the 70s, and was slapped on the UK bands like The Sex Pistols, (who deny ever being a part of the movement.) After the Sex Pistols blew up all over the world, so many different bands with different sounds from different places claimed they were "punk", so who knows what it really means, and more over who cares? Just appreciate music for music. Clever insult by the way ; )

  • twat

  • Watch the only video response and decide if Flea is better than freeman

  • salssnakepit ...w/e youre just close minded...not all music will conform to progressive artists and jazz musicians you just mentioned..i love punk rock, i also play jazz and i use music theory to compose new sounds and new genres are what other musicians are making because its experimental and unique...you apparantly need to go back to grade school and take MUSIC APPRECIATION CLASSES!!! asshole

  • that solo took me forfreakinever to learn

  • sid vicious had more talent than him

    haha only a joke....

  • I didnt say it came from the 90's. I hate metal, punk and new genres. Im not saying that Metal came out in the 90's, just like im not saying punk did.

  • rancid or sum 41? who will you choose,

    Cone is a great bassist too, listen to their WELCOME TO HELL!!! you will be amazed!!!

    watch?v=7GITR9LrEvE

  • u idiot punk came out in the 70's so it nothing new, but rancid came out in the 90's

  • thanks man for telling this idiot that punk came in the middle 70s.

  • not the best in the world

  • I play bass. My favorite bassists are Chris Squire, Tony Levin, Boosty Colins, Larry Graham. Paco, Wooten, and maybe even Claypool. I HATE metal, punk, or any "New" Gernes. But I have to admit hes not bad. Not the best. But at least he can play better then the talentless fucks from the 90's forward.

  • He is the best bassist in punk.

  • If u think this is Matt's Best solo, your wrong! Go and see Rancid Maxwell Murder live at Punkspring '08, it's in the video response and in my channel, check it out, better than this one.

  • this one is better than the 08 if you ask me, the 08 one is still good, but he was a bit slopppier than he was in this vid.

  • rancid rule!

  • Maybe Matt Freeman is not the best bassist in the world, but i think hes at least in the top 10. But one think for sure is that hes the best bassist in Punk.

  • It's a tie between Freeman, Claypool, Flea, and Evil J.

    Awesome stuff

  • les claypool is better

  • I like it, but i would like it more if it weren't just single note repetitions/basic scales throughout most of it. Still, it does sound pretty kick ass

  • but thats what punk rock is....

    what you just said

    but it still sounds kick ass

  • first half of the solo was awesome. the other half, i dont know what the hell was going on

  • Dude the whole thing was insane!!

  • Ehh....its alright I guess. I mean he is talented and fast but his solos sound WAAAAAAY to repetitive and long for its own good.

  • Wiegh in- Matt Freeman (Rancid) vs. Ryan Martine (Mudvayne)

  • i don't know who the fuck is Ryan Martine, but Matt wins.

  • Ryan Martine is the bassist for mudvayne, he's great at slapping.

  • Matt pwns.

  • hes tight because there are a lot of notes (ish) and you can actually feel the groove. I am digging it and I am a straight up note lover. I love tons of notes with weird keys that are all like 24th-64th notes. fast and crazy for me, but this is good

  • OmG Fnk Nice!!

    i learn this solo 2..

  • Matt Freeman is the best fuckin bass player!!! fuck yea!!

  • he's really good but not the best. seen WAY better!

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