Lee Ritenour - RIT Special - RIO FUNK

[tatsohi]

his guitar is Gibson Chet Atkins, maybe.

[ShaifulAriffin]

Hai Friends start the New Year with this my friend make the move

[123stevemartin]

what acoustic guitar is he using ??

[aryoangga]

ccooollllllll

[girotube]

YEAH!!! thats what I'm talking about...!! Wish I was there..

[GuichoSax]

IT NEEDS MORE COWBELL POWER !!!

[Trommestikken88]

Fusion the hard way!! Great stuff..

[tucker10]

I cannot get over how great that bass solo is! 3:01 is pure genius!

[alembicfunkbass]

Jimmy Johnson on Alembic bass, great solo, keepin' the groove.

[APetulantWhiteGuy]

0:20 That guy fucking LOVES playing the cowbell.

[kaypz]

@APetulantWhiteGuy =)

[fharids]

Carlos Vega was the man! :(

[snowstorm5590]

Barnaby Finch on keys. Love it :-)

[fanqueen]

Too groove for me!!! great bass solo, awesome, what a feeling the guy has!

[Mike77154]

the funk, only the best

Fuck the pop, rebirth the funk like general rythm

[michaelofpetaluma]

Jimmy Johnson blows Lee away ! 

[cesarjazz]

Carlos Vega one of the best drum player in history...

[Oelm3n]

The basslines of this performance are ingenious! Especially the B part, with the latin groove!

[buccigm]

What makes the bass solo so great to me is Jimmy stays with a groove while soloing on top of it. He keeps the pulse while he solos on top. There are a lot of bass players who do bass solos like a guitar player. I get bored with them quickly. But not with Jimmy's style. Really great!

[intioyarzun]

Jimmy must be the most underated bass player ever. What a true intrument genius. 

[verminator01]

Amazing lineage from Carlos to Jeff Porcaro and on to Vinnie. The technique, feel, funk, and taste. Carlos on Gretsch, Vinnie's return to Gretsch, and Jeff's big Gretsch gold hardware kit which I got to see in the Oceanway Studio (1989) in Santa Monica when Peter Erskine was recording in the next room. I'll never forget the grace that exuded from Jeff and Peter on those sessions. I wish I could have been able to see Carlos play. These videos are really great! Thanks for posting them!

[chrismcm66]

Awesome video. Freekin' Jimmy Johnson and Carols Vega!! Fantastic.

[musrock]

the best version of rio funk ever i think!

[sixlbs9oz]

Nice to see the cameo by Gene Frenkel. I got a feevah.

[1Loud]

The Best!!! I love it!!!

[almatazz]

@liveforfunk yes you are right man

[ganil17]

groovve

[chiperta]

107 seconds the change.

[trigonda]

pure genius

[betterway2]

yeahhh, enjoy !!!

[Gusakov]

Beautiful ...

[MrFleabass]

Great:)

[Volodjah]

Jimmy Johnson is simply awesome!!!!

[kaBASS2009]

Jimmy Johnson on bass, PERFECT!!

[Gajaaz]

Que Guitarra es esa?

[kaBASS2009]

wow, fantastic!

[hsuyiwei]

That is really an awesome show!!! rio funk!!

[blueriq]

you'ra awesome!

[artartbass]

nice jimmy bhoi...\m/...

[jingtabs]

FLIM!!!! you inspire us all!!! wonderful solo... i hope someone posts your solo on allan holdsworths panic station...

[Peaves101]

jimmy johnson absolutely rocks that solo!

[lougar1]

More Cowbell!! I really like Lee and this is cool to see.

[thegreatgarry]

shit...

the tempo is so quick...

it's a different version..!!

[M5540]

lol!!

[kaalo67]

Great bass player !!!! GO Jimmy !!!!!

[BasoQueen]

The bassplayer is Jimmy Johnson, the only one who is able to give a refreshing interpretation of Marcus Miller's original bass lines

[zellator]

One of the greatest basslines I've ever heard ._.

[almatazz]

I love the drummer Carlos Vega. He died much too soon ! What a wonderful groovemachine !

[kaypz]

@almatazz really, he died already?

[milodaman2]

@kaypz He died at home of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. April 7, 1998

[kaypz]

@milodaman2 ow.. that's sad =(

[gabrielchains]

Is this featured on some kind of Dvd ? Great tune

[mysterytrax]

Y E S Y ES .........this is what I've been lookin' for. Thanks gutherzig for posting up this RIT Special (formerly available

on only VCR), with Phil Perry on vocals.

The song I would l o v e to find from this show, is Phil Perry singing "Is It YOU".

Any chance that you have that one or know where I could locate it ? It's from this same Ritenour & Friends Special. Been looking since 93'.

Hey....GREAT job here gutherzig

[CarbonfunK94]

Fantastic bassline omg...

[Ponzuz]

Love the smiling cowbellguy!

[paulodulac]

it's fucking great, love this, so funky

[gmanjam]

yo,... this shyt was funky as hell!!! i LOVE Lee Rit. and, who was that masked bass player??? and , Phil... well he's just incredible, as always!!!

[fags02]

cool!!!!!!!!!!

[bububuvard]

Goddamn I didn't know that bass player but god he's something! Holy cow..

[matpetheny]

It's Jimmy Johnson - in my opinion the most underrated musician in the world.

[JazzBass7]

That bass player is freakin' phenomenal!!!!

But does anyone know who the singer is???

[brentduanefoster]

That, my friend, is the LEGENDARY Phil Perry!!!!

[mwahaha91]

that head action at 0:19 is intense!

[118118whaaat]

some of the best i've ever seen

[nothingleft777]

great song!

[hopboftube]

The second song is called "rock steady", and is originally sung by Aretha Franklin.

Love this energetic verion of Rio Funk!

[Io1865]

Thank you for posting this video. I've not seen this for many years and I just love Jimmy Johnson he is No1. I too play bass and am called Jimmy Johnson but their sadly the similarity ends. gutherzig you are my hero

[atmbca]

did anybody has found his solo basslines?

[canvoodoo]

Marcus Miller is my fave bass player but I prefer the bass on this version

[clickmatist]

Who the bass man in the video? He's awesome!

[kingbass42]

hi clickmatlist the bass player name is jimmy johnson this is all ive seen of him!!! cool player.

[ackerlaw2004]

Check out some of the Allan Holdsworth vids loaded to YTube. Search "Alan" "Holdsworth" "Jimmy" "Johnson".

Phenominal bass player.

Anyone know who the drummer in this video is? Tasteful stuff.

[polosurf91]

this super drumer no other than Carlos Vega , who sadly left us some years back .

[ackerlaw2004]

thanks for the info!!

[joe700700]

yeah...one of the real greats of drum playing....Carlos Vega= Respect!

[VinylTracks]

this is the greatest concert of lee ritenor for me

BETTER THAN OVERTIME!!!