Clarke Miller Wooten SMV Live Studio Session 'Thunder'+talk

[vladimirpoluyanov]

Awesome

[Pokeberus]

Awesome!!!

[AdlerMow]

Nice interview and great music for a lone cloudy/rainy day. I love unstable weather and this is a perfect tribute to storms! Hail to the Thunder Gods!

[saab900sis]

WOW

[mrc1303]

this is one of the best songs ever written in my opinion. i cant stop listening to it. it has 30 plays in the last 4 hours.

[TeamQuabs]

song starts @4:18 just fyi

[thecrashinghighways]

im probably going to get panned for this but i believe that marcus has the best groove out of all these bass players. i wish i could groove like him.

[scat4u]

@thecrashinghighways lol why do you think he's the one holdin it all down in the song??

[thecrashinghighways]

@scat4u no not at all but i feel more... groovy? when i listen to his solo stuff

[JazzSXman]

just WOW 3 horses racing at full speed wow

[PJ92386]

Thanks for sharing

[frankbass3]

omg this is fucking kool

[tihii]

unlike?!

u crazy....

[yesferafrancisconi]

Fender MM the best ;D

[heenez]

3 people need to be slapped

[TheIllegalKind]

@heenez is that a slap bass joke or just a cheesy youtube joke

[RyderMcFunk]

miller's quarter note sounds so good.

[leoxavierjazz]

Fender MM the best tone...

[mikemackenziemusic]

Straight up, a better bass trio couldn't be concocted

[laskarharimurti]

2 people has jelous can't play slapping.

[Framedmact]

they should each get a kick drum. that would be awesome

[drakkk80]

amorevoli

[RTBM]

Is that Rhonda Smith interviewing SMV???????

[aberryane]

I wish I were there... Amazing

[teracite]

vic solo its just amazing :) 

[marcelorussio1]

I don't think there is ONE best bass player.

Check the brazilian bass player NICO ASSUMPÇÃO!! A MONSTER !!!!

[Bassman36100]

@0tt0kruegar, Playing with a pick limits what you can do. Finger picking is getting to be a lost art, with metal and hardcore rock.

[RDCureton2009]

Man VIC is sooo clean

[catboyzee]

Sick!

[Jokercoasters]

Who dislike this?

This is so great...

This are the best Bassplayers on this planet!

[cavmantheshort]

anybody know if theyll play the uk at any point in the future? scotland in particular.

[0tt0kruegar]

i'd like to see these guys play with a PICK!

[DoesLifeSuck]

they are masters of almost every style of bass playing. they will never die

[PR122094]

specially marcus hes my favorite

[PR122094]

what fucking badasses

[diamonddust22]

Let that be a lesson to all you punks who buy 5 and 6 six string basses when you can't even play a 4 string at all. Marcus, Victor, and Wooten all play 4 string basses. I love these younger kids who buy the 5 and 6 string basses and can't play shit.

[bassphantom94]

@diamonddust22 ... 4, 5 or 6 strings, it makes no difference at all, only 12 notes.

[diamonddust22]

@bassphantom94 Personally when I see a 5 or 6 string bass, it really turns me off, but when I see a guy who has a 4 string and he's been around for years, you just know he's a warrior. Stanley, Marcus, & Victor are elite examples of just what I am talking about.

[bassguitarkeybordwiz]

@diamonddust22

The reason I play a six is because of all these people who like to drop tune their guitars, it is much easier than say constantly changing the tuning and setup of a 4 string bass, and also I want to solo a little I have the head room to do so.

[bigdaddytorr1]

these guys make me want to pick up and put down the bass at the same time

[guscordoba1]

MOUSTROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!­!!!

[andrei320]

i'm ordering every songbook ever made by any of these artist

[andrei320]

@LegoBricKing he's either racist or doesnt know what music is :S

[DreamingTheatric]

3 of the best bassists in the world can make a single instrument fill in the parts of an entire band. That's musicianship.

[Blueindiefree]

If they added mark king to this line up, a hole would rip in the universe.

[bobbyflay]

lyrics are overrated.

[rightknowledgeman]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

[readchomsky]

So good...

[YertleTheTurtle87]

aaaah that performance puts a smile upon my face :)

[5oulPower]

I was a long-time guitar player turned bassist because of Timmy C (RATM, Audioslave)... Back then I didnt have a bass but I tried to play it anyway on my guitar because i loved it so much. It was frustrating playing bass on a guitar but I still kept on going anyway because of Marcus Miller. Then I bought my first bass (a Jazz bass) because of Jaco Pastorius and Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)... And now I'm taking bass lessons and my teacher told me about SMV. So here I am. SMV you're a godsend!!!!

[harryhirsch07]

the FEET!!

[hubbabubba133]

This is ridiculous. These guys have an incredible amount of talent

[undiscokidd42]

SMV is a godsend and should be worshiped forever. No question.

[Marorrai]

--->  :O

[mrprogjazzgto]

Thanks for posting this..!

Awesome deeeeeeep thumpin...!!

Stanley's Alembics and customizing by Carl Thompson, etc....puts out superb sounds.

Purely incredible..@^@

[TolerancEJ]

Incredible.

[australiadre]

saw them in concert, i'm so in love with marcus miller !!!

[MrJBass79]

I use a 6 string Ibanez Sound Gear (which is an awesome bass), Obviously the highest strings are A, D,G,C...but as for Stanley it appears he pops all or most of his notes, i dunno if he uses lighter strings but true enough he does have a fancy bass with all type of switches

[jaydeebassman]

hey. Try this with can headphones on!! it sounds soooooo amazing!! although they are anyway. lol

[Gyseligable]

I love watching their feet at 08.50 and past!

[scheiron]

The CD version is good but this is way awesome

[nadavmezamer]

Greetings from Israel!!

i saw them in concert over here in 10/10/08 and i even got the CD. I'm so proud of myself lol

[569013]

the melody its fucking unique

its the melody of hope

[KrizziWhite]

whats marcus tuning?

[ahadshahid]

ABCD

[heenez]

Marcus is tuned normally , E-A-D-G, but in this song he uses hipshot , its a little switch that drops your E to a D. So then it would be D-A-D-G.

[CptChaos88]

hm... interesting, i've heard he uses a piccolo bass. I tuned one of my basses (a regular long scale bass) tenor tuning once, but I couldn't get that sound (i used extra light strings). any suggestions? thanks fot the comment anyway ;-)

[heenez]

Clarke does use piccolo basses, he even "invented" them. But not in this song. How to achieve that sound while tuned to a tenor? well, i cant get that sound either, clarke uses custom alembic basses, he uses setups that are unusual for a regular bass player, sometimes more like a guitar player, he uses some kind of reverb, and he is stanley clarke :) I find when I use software modelling , like amplitube or GTR 3, I can get close to the sound using guitar-based presets.

[Bassmastasnake33]

@CptChaos88 He also uses Alembic basses

[kadabug]

@CptChaos88 Get a short scale and/or buy piccolo strings.

[sean33313]

@CptChaos88 Strange I dgot the sound once I just took my 4 string and just bought a C string and just got rid of the E string and had it A D G C

It worked well :) but I had to get the neck adjusted by a luthier and it played like a charm

[GemislandCA]

victors stubby fingers giving me hope !!!

[anamasteos]

God I love bass sets!

[saksalainenreika]

Is Clarkes bass smaller than Wooten's and Millers or does it just look that way because he's a big guy?

[CptChaos88]

it's called piccolo bass. it's tuned 1 octave higher than a normal bass, (like a guitar).

it's basically like the first 4 strings of the guitar, but with the thick sound of a bass.

[heenez]

@CptChaos88 No i am sorry its is not a piccolo bass. It is a tenor bass, meaninf an ordinary bass, tuned a quarter higher.

So the lowest string is an A just like your normal A string would be. so its A-D-G-C. Trust me , I am a clarke follower for 30 years, I met the guy twice ,seen his basses upclose ,and you can simply see it when he plays, the positions and the according that you hear, if you try play it yourself you'll be convinced:)

[pataflafla14]

@heenez It's not called a tenor bass, it's called an alto silly.

[JunsLord]

Miller got an unique bass tone. fucking awesome

[Theadrian09]

yo i thought you wrote FUNKING haha

[JunsLord]

@Theadrian09 well, in fact, this is FUNKING too :D

[c1Pacman]

Man, that's what I call a groove...

Fantastic how they makes such different sounds from playing the same instrument.

[bear26able]

im a bass player an all i have to say to stanlely vic and marcus is show me please im dieing here when i heard this song i listen to it 30 times back to back and im still shook up im hurt that ive tryed so hard to play like that smv i need you guys bad Help

[PhilAndFrankShow]

@bear26able Don't cry because you can't match them.

[KoRnithemaster]

never thought that 3 bass guitars could sound together sooo NICE!!!!

aWESOMe

[rastadrumma]

everybody's gonna love victor wooten..but man marcus is just amazing...he's my favorite outta the bunch

[syco50]

yeah i agree

although Stanley Clarke my second favorite bass player

[ManelRuivo]

agreeeeeeee.........

TONE, RITHM, PHRASES, PRESENCE, ATTITUDE, MM RLZ!

[knightmayorz]

Marcus Miller's tone is so nice

[passinginyourwords]

This is ten of the best minutes YouTube has to offer, enough said

There isn't anything quite like having three legendary bass geniuses in the same room, just grooving beautifully

[neilrobzy]

what kind of bass is stanley using?

[Bassist700]

His signature Alembic.

[davlllll]

=o !!!

[jelani82]

DString20 as a bass player, I would have agree with you 100%. Very well stated.

[jlevinsoul]

Man, killin'. I once went to a rehearsal and Marcus was there and the guy whose band I was in at the time jammed on "The Jam" by Larry Graham. Everyone's mouths were agape at these two guys (maybe 18 or 19 at the time) just killin'. The memory is forever etched in my brain. The other guy was Albert McDowell, one of the great under rated bassists of all time.

[abayoff321]

this is ONE OF the best bass-only songs of all time

[DString20]

you guys keep talking about Stanley and Jaco being the godfathers what about James Jamerson the original influential bass player, James paved the way for everybody including Stanley and Jaco, he may not have been a soloist but James had some serious basslines and what about Larry Graham the inventor of slap you guys need to get your Bass history right

[kamran9015]

AMAZING!!!!

[MoseyBurns]

I like how he plays E flat minor to a g minor without overextending the pinky finger and muting the third string that takes talent.

[BassAndPipe]

by far, Marcus Victor and Stanley are the three gods of bass. they stand miles above the others. but we can never forget the god father of bass Jaco (RIP).

[ShangoDC]

I understand your love for Jaco, because I loved his playing as well. But if you say the "God Father" of solo bass then that would have to be Stanley Clarke. Stanley was three years ahead of Jaco as a solo bass victorious. He had 3 groundbreaking, highly acclaimed albums and was the yard stick for bass playing measurement at that time.

[michigan21]

@ShangoDC I agree with you. Its so hard for some people to accept that there were people before Jaco who were better at the bass. I love Jaco, and I listen and love all jazz and always have, but I think as far as the bass goes, Jamerson is still on top.

[ShangoDC]

@michigan21 Thanks. I know for fretless bass, Jaco made tremendous technical advancements and approaches to the instruments. For many he captured the essence of solo fretless bass, but Stanley was by far equal a bass player and musician. Stanley, for his contribution advanced the instrument lyrically and melodically like no one before or after. I love James Jamerson as well, he was the foundation of all the Motown music.

[michigan21]

@ShangoDC I play fretless, and quite frankly you cant play the fretless without thinking about Jaco. Having grown up down the road from Detroit, I grew up obsessed with how Jamerson could groove like he did and gave motown its sound. There are alot of Bassist who are great. One thing people have to give credit to Stanley Clarke for is Longevity and his writing.

[ShangoDC]

@michigan21 I totally agree with your statements, I would just add to Stanley's longevity and writing skills has also been his remarkable bass playing and fresh approach to the instrument itself.

[KrizziWhite]

is marcus bass tuned in E?

[ejlarsonstratford]

Low D.

[noles33]

good ear!

[Luigitolo]

Les rois du groove, des blacks normale :p

[djfobtronics]

the musicianship is off the scale man! 3 of the greatest of all time!

[lalisong]

breathtaking...

[Mortycakes]

MARCUS!

Funky as the colour purple and green combined

[JTbassist09]

but somehow all black

[SuperHalfie]

the energy is so different in alot of black music. When the beat is nasy the spitting is hot or the funk is deep it makes you want to laugh no other music brings up such intense feelings of joy, and this right here is so damn joyful i could crap my pants. smv and return to forever are both top of there class. much love.

[om1324354657687980]

thats called grandaddy perp

[cavmantheshort]

it really is a fantastic album.

[Msh2293]

wow this is unique. Makes me feel proud about playing bass, humbles me, inspires me. People talk about how jaco build up a new bass era. i agree, but we gotta see that this guys here are the vanguard.

[ejlarsonstratford]

0:00-10:00

[saughter]

lol its all awesome!!!

[Alvarikoke16]

masterssss

[mrj24]

funky

[rob11rod]

that marcus' fender is really deep,awesome

[Bichoicho]

,it's fucking unbelievable.

[DString20]

No one is never gonna be better than this trio they are 3 of a kind, period

[AfroMafios]

Execpt the one who inspired them : Abe Laboriel ;)

[tylerjturek]

Loved them at Ottawa Jazz fest! Staney's upright bass solo was the absolute highlight.

[Bugattifan12]

it was increndoble wasnt it...i also think Marcus bass clarinet and Victors solo were cool

[Aztec1011]

Hell yeah, he did that last year too with Chick Corea it was fantastic

[ejlarsonstratford]

i think that they should have done the record without the keyboards and drums.

[will2gel]

Saw SMV last night in rochester, these guys just blow my mind! Especially when they play that sick syncopated slap s***! :)

ill never forget it

[ejlarsonstratford]

i was at that same show. INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bugattifan12]

im gonna see them tonight at the Ottawa Jazz festival!!!!

[negutzcht]

lucky!!!

[Bugattifan12]

Holy...They were awesome!!!!!

Marcus brought out his bass clarinet and they also played Milano which featured Stanley on the upright bass.

Victor did this awesome solo that was like...WOW

They first song they played was "Thunder" and then soloed then played "Mpngoose Walk" then "Milano"

This was hilarious! After they were done, they came back out for an encore and played "beat It!" by MJ

:)

[MrBenrey]

ya that was awesome wusnt it? i loved when stanley clarke started to do all the rock moves on his upright.

[GuillaumeThekkadath]

they didint play beat it.... they played school days funny guy

[ejlarsonstratford]

they played beat it during school days

[Landkrappen]

So awesome, saw them @ Amager Bio - copenhagen, Just amazing

[axedude]

This shit kicks ass. and the only thing else i can say is gimmie more more and then some more : )))))))))))

[treeisabeast]

duuude jon! whats kicken my brother! i knew we'd run into eachother eventually on one of these vid.s haha, omg, jamming yesterday was so good, i hope steve can come tomarrow, we were grovving the shitt outta that place haha, cant wait for next time haha, peace my drumming compadre!

[thedj437]

Its called, "messaging."

[treeisabeast]

bugger off cockweed

[wilko2409]

watch their feet as they come in with the song...all in unison!

I love it

peace

[wawadbassist]

it's too cool that i'm speechless.

[millerflea]

just amazing!!!

they are gods...

marcus is my favorite =)

[killaballa1209]

i agree except vic is my favorite lol

[Totnik]

They are my gods... I prey to them...

bass rules !

[TubbyOrange]

i love the way victor dont even look whilst creating his solo.

they are all pure brilliance, i cnt w8 for the next generation of bassists to be better than these guys

x.x

[treeisabeast]

omfg, that's the most bamf thing i've ever seen in my life... i need to change my pants now.... : 0 my three idols making a bass trifecta of orgasmic soundwaves! = 0 omg it's the ultimatum

[edbo2009]

these are some of the baddest cats to ever touch a bass!!!!!so is MarkKing ,Jaco and many others!!!!!!!!long live the BASSIST

[jaydeebassman]

i love the bit between 6:44 and 7:15. brill bit of improvising by miller!!

[monacaba]

I will write back after i am done smiling

[ejlarsonstratford]

this is all that i have until the magical day when i go see them!!

[negutzcht]

i just tried listening to this with a good pair of Grado headphones... it just blew my ears away!

[Seanpiano]

awesome

[BassDrumsGuitarMasta]

wow Victor is built! Can't wait to see them in Ottawa in June!!!

[zente13]

Ho my godness thanks for this vid's

Live monster

[zaqmlp1234]

wow !

james jamerson would have put a nice melody over this groove

[TBITB]

i loved the whole thing, but the ending was phenomenal!!!

[adilbassiste]

so greattttt

[PBrew2]

MY LORD IN HEAVEN - THIS IS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC! 3 living Legends. I wish Jaco, Mingus, and Jim Garrison could have been around for this.

[Satanzbrut]

who of them is making this "spitting" sounds =D i cant hear it out =D

[ejlarsonstratford]

i believe its victor

[Recanon]

Victor is =)

I'm soooo happy i'm going to see them on july the 11th at North Sea Jazz in Rotterdam =) Then i'm going to see Chick Corea with Stanley on november the 14th in ''De Oosterpoort'' Groningen(Holland) and then! I'm seeing Marcus december the 6th also at Oosterpoort. =D I'm soooo happy ! Hope i can have a little chat with them, they prob. know me by now cause i've seen them almost 10 times and always got a autograph =D

Guess im sort of a big fan.. =P

[gotagautier]

oohh men this is a good life ;)

with all this concert I can rust in peace xD

[Gian8919]

They are three bass monsters....

[negutzcht]

ah, "Leviathans" is quite like it... simply in awe!

[pharoahscurse]

Stanley: uhhmmm.. victor was 3,.. and marcus was 13.. lol!!

[koolman245]

Hey Stanley, Marcus, Victor, Louis Johnson are the best around. jaco was good in his day. Nothing compared to what bass player are doing today. as far as Mark King his good and have listen to a lot of his playing, but there know soul or n?t grabbing playing. level 42 people are just looking at him play. Now look at how the crowd respond to Marcus by himself. So don't hate the players hate the game.

[toofpick151]

The CD made me a believer. I have to say, I thought it was just too much of an allstar cast to not be a wankfest, but the CD is HOT. I mean they fit so well together. And its sincerely good music.

[DString20]

SMV are the best

[gianfrancospagnulore]

respect for all's .......but the best bassplayer in the world are two..........jaco pastorius and mark king. and stanley clarke.