@toofpick151 listen to his other stuff. hes probably my favorite bassist and this is such a disappointing video of him. its good and all but his other stuff is so much better
@SuperEnigmation Nope, in fact it's Jonas who learned it to Mister Norris ! It's the same kind of rhythmical technique than John Mac Laughlin or Vernon Reid, not the slapping but the way the notes are played a few milliseconds before in comparison of a regular musician not as gifted as Jonas. I'm personally a very bad musician but I have the arrogance to think that I have an ear (or two !) when it comes to exception...
It is pure impressive when he plays bass holding great grove over Indian's complex rhythm structures like 55-57-59, then 555-777-555-999 while Niladri's playing the sitar (or whatever his Indian collaborators are playing) This video is very old. His music has evolved so much over the years and became good music "composer" rather than just a bassist. I really hope people go and dig his recent works.
This guy is good. He may be better than Flea. But in the same respect Flea has built a reputation as a great bassist in one of the greatest bands of my era. Props to this guy though, no need to cut him down. He's where its at.
definitely! I agree that Marcus is great, but that doesn't explain why you think this is grooveless. What defines a groove and how does this lack it? Be objective
@jdthebassmanissick Marcus Miller has been pretty boring ever since he left Miles Davis. Technically great, innovative and a good composer but boring as hell. I liked him 100 times better as a sideman. What he did back then used to be far more exciting and showed his true class as bassplayer.
not taking anything away from flea...but the only real reason he got so much recognition is cause there was no one in the mainstream rock slapping like him...not sure if he would have stood out in any other style cause in realty there's 1000's of bassist that can play like flea out there
Ever heard of Mahivishnu Orchestra? If you haven't then some ppl here need to go & do their homework. Flea is good but was still in short pants when Jonas started.
Well....I sure would take Flea's bank accounts to the others listed in this text comments. This Hellborg dude sure he got fast fingers, but I dont think the people be shaking ass to this shit.
Well Flea plays bass in a rock/poppish band and Jonas Hellborg is mostly a solo player. Obviously he HAS played with groups and worked with others alot, but he's best known as a crazy bassist/musician in his own right
Flea is fast, Jonas is fast too, they are both great bassists in their genre. You can't compare Flea with Jonas, it is like comparing apples wich pears.
@hbalazs09 sure you can, why not? music is like anything else, it has good players, it has amazing players and it has terrible players, so in pure bass skill you can compare them. Jonas is FAR FAR FAR better then Flea EVER could be. I like flea and don't get me wrong he is a great bassist, but Jonas has worked with the best of the best (john mclaughlin, mahavishnu orchestra, buckethead, shawn lane, mattias Eklhund, Jeff Sipe, etc) and Flea has worked with the Chili peppers, who are good.
@hbalazs09 I see where you were coming from, and I understand. Music is about expression and its hard to say whose expressions are better because its all art, and enjoy it all right? You can definitely look at it both ways and to me both are correct in their own way.
I suppose there is no real criteria for determining whose better. If there was it would be: pure skill, technical ability, who you play/played with, how you play, speed/precision, improv ability, and expression.
@FlashW22 Jonas hellborg is one of the, if not THE fastest bass player out there, and no thats not all he has. But ya, fastest bass player currently. Has played with at least 2 or 3 of the fastest guitar players (fact) who ever lived. Shawn Lane and Buckethead, and also Mattias Eklhund. and you can throw john mclaughlin in there for good measure.
dude, agree with you on the wooten but come on - Flea? he's a good player but he is definitely not in the same caliber as say Hellborg, Pattitucci or Jaco Pastorius.
victor wooten rocks. and id love 2 see a bass battle between this guy and wooten but 2 be honest i prefer wooten's style he has grace this dude just slams down on the bass (which sounds awesome) also is som1 gonna mention flea (from RHCP) as one of the best bassists ever or is that gonna be left 2 me lol
Awesome bass player and bass guitar. I've owned the same custom bass in this video (he designed) since I was a teenager in the 1980s. You can check it out in my videos on my youtube page.
What a ridiculous list. Patitucci and a few of the others are great of course but, jeez, Sheehan and Levin are not remotely in this league. And if you are trying to make a point (dumb though it is), why leave out, say, Adam Nitti, Kai Eckhardt, or Dominic DiPiazza...or any number of acoustic players like NHOP, Charnett Moffett, etc.?
I dont think I was being dumb I was simply stating there were better players than Hellborg, fact is I believe sheehan and levin ARE better in essence that they have originality to their styles unlike Hellborg who seems to be mimicking many other players. Speed doesnt make you good
Your original use of "destroy" definitely implies technique, not something else like originality or prettiness or whatever. Levin has limited technique (by the standards of a Hellborg). I'm also not a fan of speed but as for originality no one was playing like Hellborg in the early to mid 80s and Hellborg himself doesn't much like this nowadays.
Flea owns!
opathomas 7 months ago
looks like someone has been watching Mark King videos... and he plays with Cobham... I'm not worthy............
nanker95 7 months ago
It's a great solo but it's a shame the only note he plays on the low E is the low E every few bars
afroman1419 1 year ago
fast but no funk.
toofpick151 1 year ago
@toofpick151 listen to his other stuff. hes probably my favorite bassist and this is such a disappointing video of him. its good and all but his other stuff is so much better
nickfromdtown1992 1 year ago
i prefer Miller, but it'sreally impressive.
Mortycakes 1 year ago
I watched him years ago in Istanbul with McLaughlin and couldn't believe bass could be performed like this. 5 star, man.
birsenguven 1 year ago
Wher's da funk?
zaaxon 1 year ago
pretty cool, wish he changed the groove a little bit but other then that some pretty flashy slapping
sandiegoDM 2 years ago
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the rape and grotesque disfiguring of larry graham's slap bass invention by white people is worse than all slavery and all colonialism combined
khalithistle 2 years ago
@khalithistle Buddy,it's a a fugin bass solo,get over it.I Saw him in 1984 here in toronto and Jonas rocked....
Freakqlibrium1 1 year ago
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fucking boring he doesnt even know what he is playing
bozz21000 2 years ago
yep. it's the pits. pure wack.
voncoolio 2 years ago
brutal
triviani1234 2 years ago
the one and only
tomrozen1984 2 years ago 2
Jonas was doing these bedroom licks some 25 years ago.
gregzeebass 2 years ago 6
bedroom licks!!!!
addictedtobass42 2 years ago
Combination of Flea and Jaco. I wish I was that kinda ugly
luckyeights84 2 years ago
He kind of looks like Jaco, in a way
deepislandboy 2 years ago
Jonas has a trick : he plays forward ! And for people who say it's grooveless I feel sorry for them !
chucku00 2 years ago 17
@chucku00! Plays forward?
justusleejolliffe 1 year ago
@justusleejolliffe A little bit before the time.
chucku00 1 year ago
@chucku00! LOL! Now I get it! Cool way of putting that!
justusleejolliffe 1 year ago
@chucku00 by "playing forward," what do you mean? It must be a technique that Jonas Hellborg learned from Chuck Norris.
SuperEnigmation 9 months ago
@SuperEnigmation Nope, in fact it's Jonas who learned it to Mister Norris ! It's the same kind of rhythmical technique than John Mac Laughlin or Vernon Reid, not the slapping but the way the notes are played a few milliseconds before in comparison of a regular musician not as gifted as Jonas. I'm personally a very bad musician but I have the arrogance to think that I have an ear (or two !) when it comes to exception...
chucku00 9 months ago
@chucku00 YOU understand that and it seems your one of the only ones on youtube!
vetmusician 8 months ago
Um.... holy mother fucking shit... thats what I call fast.
malepanda666 2 years ago
Jonas is so amazing.
It is pure impressive when he plays bass holding great grove over Indian's complex rhythm structures like 55-57-59, then 555-777-555-999 while Niladri's playing the sitar (or whatever his Indian collaborators are playing) This video is very old. His music has evolved so much over the years and became good music "composer" rather than just a bassist. I really hope people go and dig his recent works.
lovekurt 2 years ago 2
This guy is good. He may be better than Flea. But in the same respect Flea has built a reputation as a great bassist in one of the greatest bands of my era. Props to this guy though, no need to cut him down. He's where its at.
knatesaddiction 2 years ago
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grooveless
jdthebassmanissick 2 years ago
eh?
samkeen 2 years ago
like i said grooveless EH!!!!
jdthebassmanissick 2 years ago
ok, how would you define groove, and how does this not conform to your view of it? enlighten all of us
samkeen 2 years ago
one person, marcus miller. need i say more.
jdthebassmanissick 2 years ago
definitely! I agree that Marcus is great, but that doesn't explain why you think this is grooveless. What defines a groove and how does this lack it? Be objective
samkeen 2 years ago
@jdthebassmanissick Marcus Miller has been pretty boring ever since he left Miles Davis. Technically great, innovative and a good composer but boring as hell. I liked him 100 times better as a sideman. What he did back then used to be far more exciting and showed his true class as bassplayer.
klustjerauw 1 year ago
@klustjerauw i agreed!!!
funkeety 1 year ago
not taking anything away from flea...but the only real reason he got so much recognition is cause there was no one in the mainstream rock slapping like him...not sure if he would have stood out in any other style cause in realty there's 1000's of bassist that can play like flea out there
nycbassist76 2 years ago 7
I personally like Les Claypool alot more. The guy is just a creative genius.
knatesaddiction 2 years ago
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jooooooonassssss shiiiiit
neilraoufsw 2 years ago
ooh I sweet. i thought he was a jazz bassist.
renzolikescheez 2 years ago
he is
jazzbass3826 2 years ago
What i meant was i thought he was just a jazz bassist.
renzolikescheez 2 years ago
Ever heard of Mahivishnu Orchestra? If you haven't then some ppl here need to go & do their homework. Flea is good but was still in short pants when Jonas started.
jaco0639 2 years ago 6
i love 1:37 to 1:38
sleipner94 2 years ago
Sick, is this on his fretless or not?
QuinnyGoth 3 years ago
lol No Quinny it's not a fretless
Wyndojo 3 years ago
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he is fast but it dont sound good at all
EVEPRAY 3 years ago
i totaly agree with wxb200
polowall 3 years ago
years before flea
orcgoat 3 years ago 6
well, that's a waste of notes...
mdc333 4 years ago
where the fuck is the christmas island?
Neidhardt84 3 years ago
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camthebassist 2 years ago
arachnid?
;)
increaz 4 years ago
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sevenhor 4 years ago
Mark King is one his heros
wjhandy 4 years ago
lol i have the same strap as him
rh18rh18g 4 years ago
I bought his bass-amp in 1984!!!
thomasvaarala 4 years ago
If only you could buy the amp he had now... XD
the4stringking23 3 years ago 3
what makes him great is how he can play any genre.....EVER
dookiebl 4 years ago
I'm not a fan for fast as hell slapping, but Jonas kicks ass.
wxb200 4 years ago 4
He is a solo bassist or he play in a band? Very good funky slap...
JazzGuru17 4 years ago
Well....I sure would take Flea's bank accounts to the others listed in this text comments. This Hellborg dude sure he got fast fingers, but I dont think the people be shaking ass to this shit.
IdiotObvious 4 years ago
Word!!
originalsky 4 years ago
Well Flea plays bass in a rock/poppish band and Jonas Hellborg is mostly a solo player. Obviously he HAS played with groups and worked with others alot, but he's best known as a crazy bassist/musician in his own right
Wyndojo 4 years ago 5
Flea has nothing on this guy...
DRGasMoney 3 years ago 39
@DRGasMoney why say that?
korvidkrow96 1 year ago
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@DRGasMoney Flea is much better and faster :)
FlashW22 1 year ago
@FlashW22
nah
bassmusicmanAHS 1 year ago
@FlashW22
Flea is fast, Jonas is fast too, they are both great bassists in their genre. You can't compare Flea with Jonas, it is like comparing apples wich pears.
hbalazs09 8 months ago
@hbalazs09 sure you can, why not? music is like anything else, it has good players, it has amazing players and it has terrible players, so in pure bass skill you can compare them. Jonas is FAR FAR FAR better then Flea EVER could be. I like flea and don't get me wrong he is a great bassist, but Jonas has worked with the best of the best (john mclaughlin, mahavishnu orchestra, buckethead, shawn lane, mattias Eklhund, Jeff Sipe, etc) and Flea has worked with the Chili peppers, who are good.
munkierunner 8 months ago
@munkierunner
well that is true. sorry for my comment it isn't true if i think it over
hbalazs09 8 months ago
@hbalazs09 I see where you were coming from, and I understand. Music is about expression and its hard to say whose expressions are better because its all art, and enjoy it all right? You can definitely look at it both ways and to me both are correct in their own way.
I suppose there is no real criteria for determining whose better. If there was it would be: pure skill, technical ability, who you play/played with, how you play, speed/precision, improv ability, and expression.
munkierunner 8 months ago
@FlashW22 Jonas hellborg is one of the, if not THE fastest bass player out there, and no thats not all he has. But ya, fastest bass player currently. Has played with at least 2 or 3 of the fastest guitar players (fact) who ever lived. Shawn Lane and Buckethead, and also Mattias Eklhund. and you can throw john mclaughlin in there for good measure.
munkierunner 8 months ago
@DRGasMoney no but Claypool is above all !!!
chungazrevenge 7 months ago
Melvin Gibbs man. Melvin Gibbs.
Dee Dee funkt yall.
DuncanDonuts3 4 years ago
check him oput here with John Mclaughlin
youtube com/watch?v=8cbd4X_rbCI
CoffeeHouseMusic 4 years ago
dude, agree with you on the wooten but come on - Flea? he's a good player but he is definitely not in the same caliber as say Hellborg, Pattitucci or Jaco Pastorius.
CoffeeHouseMusic 4 years ago
victor wooten rocks. and id love 2 see a bass battle between this guy and wooten but 2 be honest i prefer wooten's style he has grace this dude just slams down on the bass (which sounds awesome) also is som1 gonna mention flea (from RHCP) as one of the best bassists ever or is that gonna be left 2 me lol
kakeup 4 years ago
he's a genious
emyk88rem 4 years ago
Awesome bass player and bass guitar. I've owned the same custom bass in this video (he designed) since I was a teenager in the 1980s. You can check it out in my videos on my youtube page.
CyberDurden 4 years ago
why do morons argue who's the best bassist...Each player is good in their own unique style...
Just give it a rest..
debolt666 4 years ago
I guess we're looking at different versions of the same picture my friend, wow, your knowledge of bass players IS impressive...
yyzcadigan 5 years ago
patitucci,hamm,manring,clarke,sheehan,levin,willis,Larue and pastrorius would destroy this guy never mind wooten
syaowolf 5 years ago
What a ridiculous list. Patitucci and a few of the others are great of course but, jeez, Sheehan and Levin are not remotely in this league. And if you are trying to make a point (dumb though it is), why leave out, say, Adam Nitti, Kai Eckhardt, or Dominic DiPiazza...or any number of acoustic players like NHOP, Charnett Moffett, etc.?
Soamsey 5 years ago
I dont think I was being dumb I was simply stating there were better players than Hellborg, fact is I believe sheehan and levin ARE better in essence that they have originality to their styles unlike Hellborg who seems to be mimicking many other players. Speed doesnt make you good
syaowolf 5 years ago
Your original use of "destroy" definitely implies technique, not something else like originality or prettiness or whatever. Levin has limited technique (by the standards of a Hellborg). I'm also not a fan of speed but as for originality no one was playing like Hellborg in the early to mid 80s and Hellborg himself doesn't much like this nowadays.
Soamsey 5 years ago
i guess youre rite i was simply making a generalization and was just adressed to the people thinking hellborg was something better than wooten
syaowolf 5 years ago
victor wooten got nuttin on this guy
yyzcadigan 5 years ago
fucking awesome as well as a great fretless player
RYAN2642 5 years ago
are you watching spice girls? this is the real deal.
friggin A1 AWSOME.
eggnation 5 years ago
Im a proud swedish man to say that he is also swedish :D
xiz90 5 years ago
genial
estanmm 5 years ago
deeeaaaaamn
D4ni31 5 years ago
that was an amazing bass solo!
veronicahd 5 years ago
amazing
rugdoctor 5 years ago
OMG!
dancedancetotheradio 5 years ago
unsung hero
fergface 5 years ago
wow²
frizzouille 5 years ago
wow
spartan9180 5 years ago