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  • I would pay so much fucking money to see Les Claypool and Mic Todd just to jam n slap some fucking bass.

  • nice Jaco Pastorius Teen Town Cover

  • It's just fucking music why are people bitching this is beast. And Usually people that play the upright/Double Bass Are called "Bassists" While people who play the electric bass guitar are called "Bass Guitarists". So wtf was that other guy talkin about? Clearly Mic is playing an electric bass guitar. . I agree with @ClaudioHomme69 There's pretty much no difference.

  • Why all the hate, it's music just chill

  • COHEED WONT BE THE SAME WITHOUT THE TODD!!!!!

  • @zrecer SO DEPRESSED :(

  • yeah lets watch chris ride the fuck out of his hi hat you fucking idiot

  • @thevoid330 f you wait and listen about after a second after the "watch chris!" sounds like someone says "NO"

  • @thevoid330 Hahaha, that made laugh out loud! Lol, some might say, Love it.

  • give me your geddy lee jb now

  • MIC TODD IS AMAZING!! :D

  • We ask that you please don't feed the trolls...

    Coheed and Cambria Rocks.

    Come What May.

  • Being on the road has nothing to do with it. It has to do with having SELF CONTROL. If he needs help fighting his addiction......then he needs to get the FUCK OFF THE ROAD and into REHAB. Which I do not feel he will have any problem with now...... the boy's looking at some serious time.

  • slop

  • Not Impressed - this band will not be losing much when this dumbass goes to prison

  • @wolfkarel dude fuck you . he's one of the best bassists of our time . your a sack of shit, aint no bassist out who could outclass such a funky feel . do drugs and see how you feel . he'e been trying to take care of his addiction problems but its a little hard when out touring all the fucking time .

  • @matthewsinist3r Funky feel? lol ..ooooooK..... I used to use drugs.......and I've been clean for years now. Got clean all on my own...no help. Do not use the lame excuse of being out on the road all the time biz......That Dog Won't Hunt. As far as being one of the best Bassists of YOUR time...yeah...maybe...but he's exactly that....a BASSIST....NOT a Bass Guitarist. So he can copy Jaco and play "Teen Town" ........ he lacks the SOUL that Jaco and too many other Great Bass GUITARISTS had/have.

  • @wolfkarel this time jackass, he's done plenty of his own original solos . and your not on the road all the time having to deal with drug addicion without treatment about 10 months of the year . and dude, he's a fucking rock star, i doubt you've done as much drugs as mic in your lifetime ,he's a heavy ass user . he is a bass guitarist . everybody is different you cant compare him to older bassists in the past . your living in a past time and accept the future . he's great, not saying the greates

  • @wolfkarel Well his bass playing definitely speaks to me, I wouldn't say he doesn't have soul. I wouldn't compare him to Jaco though.

  • @wolfkarel It's ignorant comments like this that make me facepalm. What the FUCK is the difference between a bassist and a bass guitarist? They are the SAME THING, only a fucking jagaloon like you would think any differently... And your clean for years now? I could really give a fuck, as your so quick to condemn someone who is the same position you were in not so long ago, insofar as he is addicted and not at his best.

  • all you guys who talk shit about mic are assholes, but if claudio was the one having the same problem you'd all be on clauds dick . people who are talking shit about mic have no compassion .

  • @wolfkarel That just is not true.  He is one of the best bassists alive.

  • COME UP WIT YER OWN SOLO FUCKER. JOCO ALREADY DID THIS ONE

  • haha oxycoton robbery

  • arrested for armed robbery lol

  • To Bad He Got Arrested Today......

  • I can't believe he is playing Teen Town

  • Got to love that Geddy Lee signature bass! He got it back after SSTB and removed the scratchplate.

  • Met Mic at a bar next to the electric factory once before a show, real cool guy and definitely a master at the bass!

  • Teen Town!

  • "WATCH CHRIS WATCH CHRIS!"

    "...no."

  • lol @1:12 JACO PASTORIUS!

  • isn't that teen town?

    ive only heard the song once but it sounds like it

  • Man, I would kill for skills like that. Or atleast a tone like that.

  • what the fuck. this is so great. I wish there were more videos of him playing.

    lmfao, the guy @ :42-:43 saying, "oh!"

    way too funky for him. he came.

  • Dude is good.

  • i was watching another vid and some nobody was talking about how Mr.Todd isn't even an asset to the band... apparently hes not a musician though cus its obvious this guy is great all his basslines are sick

  • @g8mboi He is one of the best bassists in the world. In fact I have a very hard time naming any better. To play that many different styles of playing along with that many genres of music, its just incredible. Best bassline I have ever heard is when Coheed covered Red Rain at Bonarooo, please search it on here, it is nasty.

  • @Shabutie97 Watched it amazing thx for the recommendation dude

  • @g8mboi No problem. I loved the fact that the audio was bad, but the bass was way more audible than ever. I cannot even imagine what he would come up with, if this was a funk, blues type band and not so guitar-driven. He does amazing in any situation though.

  • @Shabutie97 i would agree i as well try to play a bunch of different styles on the bass but its gonna be a while b4 i catch up to him

  • Pretty chill. In the long run though mad props to Jaco Pastorius.

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  • im friends with this awseome dude

  • did anyone else notice that once that dude said 'watch chris, watch chris', a guy in front said no?

    cracked me up :p

  • lol he teen town

  • This is good, but check out his work in the Bonaroo Red Rain cover. One of the sickest basslines I have ever heard.

  • micheal todd- the john paul jones of our time

  • He's the reason im learning bass

  • @Nikch20s He's the reason I cry myself to sleep knowing I'm not half as good

  • could b better quality

  • Such a great bassist

  • i absolutely LOVE this band, and i agree 100% that mic todd is a very underrated player. i never see his name on top prog lists. HOWEVER, theres no way in hell he's "the best" in the world. i know its relative, but there are loads of contemporaries that can play circles around him. Billy Sheehan, Dave LaRue, John Myung, Dave Meros, Tony Levin, Pete Trewavas, Sean Malone, Jordan Eberhardt just to name a few.

  • @bassrocketsauce you wouldnt know that unless you put em in a room together . all those guys are from totally different genre's of music .

  • "watch chris watch chris"

    fuck that! Watch mic!

  • WHAT THE FUCK! why dont we see him on the cover of Bass Magazines! the man is soooooooo underated its not even funny and his style is like no other.

  • damn, mic's got such a unique style

  • Mic's a very underrated bassist.

  • @domdabombabc  i no he is so good

  • Probably one of the SICKEST bassists around today. Very cool dude. Learning his stuff for my bass theory class right now. O.o

  • Type in "coheed and cambria red rain" That is the best bassline I have ever heard.  It is the video from Bonaroo

  • check out steve harris!

  • I expected nothing less from these guys!!!

    I hate you Mic!!! I wanna play like that!!

  • now thats how you know Mic is a great bassist. He's influenced from Jaco!

  • mic shreds that bass!

  • ok this is pretty fucking sweet. What is coheed and cambria doing playing jazz?

  • They're Prog Rock, so that pretty much means that when they play live, they can go into these SUPER sick, EXTREMELY long epic solo/jam sessions.

  • This guy is the reason I ever even picked up a bass. I started on guitar and because of Mic I switched to bass and stayed there. Gotta' love Mic! I met him and the rest of Coheed back stage too and I gotta say Mic was the coolest and nicest of the group, though they were all nice.

  • I sense a little Flea influence here.

  • i am very influenced by flea.... years ago when I was first learning.....

  • no way did the actual mic comment on this lmao so awesome

  • I'm super inspired and influenced by flea as well as you Mic. Awesome getting to see you guys this up close. Missed neverender, but I'll catch you guys again sometime.

  • @MichaelRobertTodd I'm still imfluenced by flea, even though i've encountered several new styles of bass through my time playing. I remember starting off just wanting to play some basslines of Uplift Mofo Party Plan. Good times.................

  • @MichaelRobertTodd Most bassists born after '80 are, myself included.

  • mic todd is really underrated IMO.

  • that was fucken sick

  • TEEN TOWN! Thats sick man

  • I shat brix.

  • mic todd plays the guitar riffs alot on his bass its amazing

  • I just jizzed my pants with respect for Mic.

    It does suck that someone as good as him is stuck in the background of CoCa.

    If only they did more shabutie type stuff with more spotlight on the bass.

    that fact that he plays Teen Town blows me away.

  • You all need to watch the Nevrender DVD he is great throughout all of the 4 nights.

  • mark hoppus, huh?

  • hahahahahaha go hang yourself with that crusty sock you jack off into every night

  • Mic Todd is undoubtably the best.

  • dam....idk anything of bass but.....MIC PWNS!!!!! he plays so freakin fast....

  • dude, Mic and Claudio are, like, gods to me.

  • i never knew that there bassist was that good, most of their songs have pretty simple bass parts and the bass is usually really quiet.

  • yeah,mic todd really doesnt give himself enough like...i dont wanna say credit,but he doesnt let himself be heard enough :/

    but yeah,hes pretty sick man :P

  • mic is the best bassist in music today.

    and none of treir songs have simple bass parts. (i would know i can play 90% of them)

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  • thats a huge overstatement. best bassist in music today? have u ever picked up a jazz cd at all?

  • Wayman Tisdale was the best...RIP

  • bill dickens or vic wooten are the best in my opinion

  • i dont understand why people are giving you thumbs down..his bass parts are not the most intricate, but they definitely not easy. your right though, one of the best bassists today.

  • yes he is very good, it's a shame the bass isnt more audible in coca with the guitars

  • the guy that says "watch chris, watch chris" needs to be kicked in the nuts.

  • yes please

  • thats an incredible understatement my friend... there needs to be far worse consequences for yelling for someone other than mic during one of his rare solos.

  • @bassist13 I believe he was saying that so people could the beat when they were clapping along, and not necessarily trying to deter attention away from Mic. Just sayin'

  • @bassist13 Chris' drumming is nowhere on the same level of Mic Todd's bass. As good as he is, Todd is a God.

  • @GodModeGaming I don't mean to butt into this conversation but, comparing 2 musicians who play completely different instruments is just stupid. You could never do that. You don't play the instruments in the same way. Unless you put Mick on the drums and Chris on the bass, you could never compare them that way.

  • @zagorith14 Or you could compare Mic as an apple to the other apples in the world and Chris as an orange to the other oranges in the world and see that Mic is pretty much one of the best apples there are, whereas Chris, albeit a good orange that is very talented, just isn't on the level of being one of the best, there are several oranges with similar taste and juiciness, however there are many more that are above and beyond his level of orangeness.

  • @GodModeGaming For 1: I'm not 7 years old. So you completely wasted that comment. 2: As I said before you can't compare 2 musicians who play 2 completely different instruments. I play drums, a friend of mine sings. I can't compare myself to his singing when I don't sing. And he can't compare to my drumming because he doesn't drum. Unless he played drums as well as sing and I sang as well as played drums. I couldn't compare myself with him. It works the same way with Mic and Chris.

  • @zagorith14 I'm comparing their level of talents. Doesn't take a genius, but apparently you aren't up to the mental abilities necessary of doing so.

  • @GodModeGaming Hahaha! That's coming from someone who tries to compare the level of abilities of 2 incredible musicians via apples and oranges. Dude... Enough. You are just making a fool of yourself. Lets just end this dumb argument with this: They are good musicians at THE INSTRUMENTS THEY PLAY ( I used caps instead of underlining them, so you can understand). You can't compare different musicians if they don't even play the same instrument. Even by level of talent. You just can't.

  • @GodModeGaming Oh! Btw. That last sentence you typed. "Doesn't take a genius, but apparently you aren't up to the mental abilities necessary of doing so." You should have stated it like this, "It doesn't take a genius, but you don't have the mental capacity for doing so." I don't mean to be a douche bag, but when you state that I'm not, in other words, smart enough to compare musicians when I'm a musician myself. Is completely contradictory to the truth. Thusly, you are an idiot AND a liar.

  • the final cut is amazing, so is mic, his solo in final cut is unreal!!

    when i went to see coheed, and they played the final cut, chris pennie did a 20 minute solo at the end!! COHEED ARE THE BEST!!

  • teen town os so difficult to play. props Mic

  • EPIC BASS PLAYING!!!!

  • that guy is insane

  • wow i never knew how good mic was

  • than u clearly dont pay enough attention to coheeds basslines because he is one of the best bassists to come around in a very very long time. hes phenominal in very many ways. i would also like to point out that i would get extreme enjoyment out of beating the dude that said "watch chris watch chris!!"... bassists get few solos as is, let alone mic takes even fewer solos and its rare of him to have one, so dont ruin it, take it in. when its chris's time you will know it he make sure of that

  • lmao, i was thinking the same thing about the watch chris guy.

    though i do love chris as well, let mic have his moment :)

  • i just figured the guy was a dumbass and thought mic was chris lol

  • haha jaco from weather report. I'm sure the majority of people at that show didn't even know what he was playing

  • no but after ive watched this god knows how many times...i finally picked out one dude yelling "JACO PASTORIOUS!"..i never heard that before til now

  • jaco :]

  • teen town

  • dude, Mic Todd is fucking amazing!

  • sorry typo thats supposed to be Im glad

    8-)

  • Mic Great bass player, but what I find funny is that half those people at that concert probly didnt even what song he was playing. I glad to see that Jaco and Jazz still live on

    8-)

  • What an awesome choice. Mic Todd is such an under rated bass player. That guy should be on the cover of every bass player magazine available to mankind.

  • i know right!!

    i never really noticed until one day i was listening to coheed and i was listening to the bass in all their songs and i realized that he's fucking amazing!

  • Guys, it's Teen Town by Weather Report...

    You can easily find a notation of it online or in the Jaco book.

  • ....didnt we establish that about...oh idk? 8 months ago?

    yes,at first,its a solo by mic todd,in the song the final cut,and it transitions to teen town at about :36 secs

  • Half a step down, E Flat etc.

    Was just figuring this out on my bass haha, tis classy.

  • hey,anyone know what tuning this is in? it sounds like drop D to me,but its a little tough to tell

  • Heh... i get to meet him... chicago neverender tour vip pass..

  • dude i didnt have a pass!! i bumped into mic when i went for a cigarette after the gig...happened twice. i tried to blag a marlboro red...he wasnt having aNY OF IT

  • I have the huggest thing for this guy..this video give me the chills.

  • omg you guys were close enough to touch him... I would've peed.

    Mic really is amazing, as a person and a bassist.

    ...And I am more than jealous of whoever gets to meet him xP

  • Dude, i got to hang out with them all for like an hour after the show. They're all really nice, but Mic and Claudio are especially shy :D

  • hah,thats a little funny,and i envy you T.T

    youd think claudio would be uhh....not shy? lol

    he sings in front of thousands of people every day o.0

  • Aww that's so cute x3 I could definitely see Mic being shy but Claudio?

  • @modestmus I thought the same thing. When they played in Rochester last year they had an autograph session/meet and greet before the show. Claudio seemed to be uncomfortable being there. As if he was thinking, "why are all these people here just to see me?"  Nice, friendly, answered questions, took pictures, etc. but they just seemed to be surprised hundreds of people would show up just to meet them. And the meet and greet was limited to the first like 200 people, I'm sure more would've went

  • I cant wait to see them on Neverender. Ive always wanted to see Mic in action live. Im going to the good apollo fear through the eyes of madness one. I hope during the final cut mic todd does this.

  • i like how he uses some chords in this solo, at the end of the final cut. he's an amazing bass player

  • yay jaco

  • ANY BODY KNOW WHERE THIS IS

  • This was at a private concert in Hollywood. SIR Studios

  • oh it looks like the concert i was at

  • got to love the attack face mic makes when he's getting itno it :D

  • Yeah Todd is sick! Love the down to business face!

  • MIC TODD FTW!!

  • mics got some nimble fingers :D

  • Ya....that's cause its...a cover. They transitioned "The Final Cut" into an homage to Jaco Pastorius

  • right it started out as the finalcut but at like 35-40 secs it goes into teen town

  • so funky

  • ALA VERGA. Mic pwns. =D

  • Wow! Way to nail some Jaco!

  • i not worthy, i not worthy

  • dude i think mic sold his soul to the devil for that outrageous solo

  • What Kind of Bass is that??

  • Fender Geddy Lee Signature Jazz Bass

  • Right, that's not my point though. Though they might not have been directly influenced by Rush, Mic plays Geddy's signature Jazz Bass all the time. So even if the influence is indirect, it's still there.

    That bass channels Geddy Lee's mojo.

    CHANNELS it. ;)

  • I wish people would stop reaching to make comparisons that aren't there. Claudio and Geddy both sing very high. The comparisons end about there. The fact that he plays a Geddy Lee signature bass is a coincidence not an indirect comparison.

  • I think it's funny that everyone in these vid comments is like "OMG COHEED IS NOT INFLUENCED BY RUSH AT ALL WTF RUSH SUX"... when Mic is playing a Geddy Lee signature Jazz Bass. Food for thought.

    Also Teen Town never sounded creepier. Pure awesome.

  • I just got that same exact bass. Man it is freakin KILLER. Such a good bang for your buck deal of a bass.

  • They're actually not influence by Rush at all. Claudio's stated that in many interviews. He's also said that he had never heard any Rush material at all until 2004.

  • actually he had heard some of Rush's work before that he just didnt like it back then, A friend of mine cut out a magazine artical for me with Claudio Sanchez from sometime in 2003 around the time of IKSSE in it he was talking about a band he was in during his teen years and the guy he was in said they were gunna play Rush covers and i remember Claudio's reaction was "Who the fuck is Rush" so that shows he must of never cared in the first place.

  • Well I saw an interview with him and the band, and the interviwer asked Claudio if he was influenced by Rush and if he modeled his singing voice after Geddy Lee's. Claudio told him that nobody in the band was influenced by Rush, and Mic and Josh actually hate them. Claudio said during the time when they were recording IKSSE:3 he had went out and picked up some Rush material and wasn't a fan of it. He said he had heard of the band before that, but he had never heard any of their music.

  • Mic is amazing. He doesn't get enough credit.

  • What the balls? Coheed covering Jaco? My mind, she is blown.

  • wow Coheed and Cambria just earned my respect for playing Teen Town

  • Wow sick solo, pissed me off when some kid yells watch chris watch chris HELLO theres an amazing solo happening.

  • i was just hoping hes dumb and thought chris was the bass player....

  • jaco would smile

  • sweeet !