Surely the Boss of Bass?

Nibulniblin

My first visit here - I'm a Strat/Tele player - but happened upon this piece of unbelievable musicianship and invention which may not have reached this forum. yet.  Gasp. 

DrCornelius

The guy is unbelievable. My son plays bass and showed me a couple of his sillier jokey slap videos and I dismissed him a bit as another internet celebrity.  Since then I’ve luckily seen a few others where he is actually playing and he is soooo musical . I’m guessing he is in high demand for sessions and not just you tubing ?

Musicwolf

Normally I would say that Bass Players who slap should themselves be slapped, however, this clever little bastard actually sounds good.  Just a pity that he's unacceptably Ginger.

stickyfiddle

He's really good, obviously. But I couldn't listen to it for more than a couple of minutes unless it was in a mid-90s racing game. 

But honestly OP doesn't include McCartner, Dunn, Jameson so it's moot. 

fretmeister

Charles is awesome. Genuinely up there with Victah.

His arrangements are very clever. Never loses sight of the tune itself. I hope he gets all the sessions work he can cope with.

guitarfishbay

Awesome musician. Capable of writing nice melodies and arrangements and playing seemingly anything on bass

CaseOfAce

Crazily skillful. 
BUT...
I can't count the amount of lead bass players I've encountered over the years and resultant band drama. 

Too loud, toppy bass trampling all over the guitar frequencies, over-playing, no pocket, slap at every available opportunity
(mercifully Billy Sheehan tapping less so...).

There are times I truly wish Flea had never picked up the instrument and put a sock on his willy.

fretmeister

Billy Sheehan wannabes never seem to understand that 99% of his work is solid traditional bass playing.

He does a massive amount of session work in a wide range of genres because he’s very good at that.

axisus

Amazing player. I've posted a few threads about him in the past.

LastMantra

stratman3142

Yes an amazing player. I've followed his channel for quite a while now, after finding out about him on this forum.

dazzajl

The real trouble with bass players like this is that many many guitarists don't like bass players that are more talented and more musical than they* are

*we

RocknRollDave

Very talented, and a very musical piece. That said, I can't help but think that this would sound better if it featured a whole load of other instruments instead of everything being on bass. I can hear a soul singer really knocking the melody out of the park, I can hear keyboard stabs, bit of funk guitar on there. No need for a "bass only" composition to exist in the world anywhere, ever, IMHO!

ToneControl

I saw some of his stuff last year, nice bloke and very impressive.
I suppose the flashier stuff is the equivalent of many guitar solos, i.e. impressive but not something most people would like to hear very often during a song

Funkfingers

Jamaaladeen Tacuma is the Boss Of The Bass. Gramavision, 1991.

roberty

dazzajl said:

The real trouble with bass players like this is that many many guitarists don't like bass players that are more talented and more musical than they* are

*we

If it was down to individual musicians you'd have a metal guitarist, a funk bass player and a jazz drummer all playing over each other

roberty

And some singer doing acrobatic runs over the whole thing

Philly_Q

I don't know much about bass but I quite often watch Charles Berthoud's channel.  His playing's mindboggling but somehow if seems fun (and musical), nit just showing off for the sake of it.

Just in case anyone hasn't seen his channel, Davie504's another great YouTube bass player (with an enormous number of subscribers).  

dazzajl

roberty said:

dazzajl said:

The real trouble with bass players like this is that many many guitarists don't like bass players that are more talented and more musical than they* are

*we

If it was down to individual musicians you'd have a metal guitarist, a funk bass player and a jazz drummer all playing over each other

I was that bass player 

axisus

Philly_Q said:

I don't know much about bass but I quite often watch Charles Berthoud's channel.  His playing's mindboggling but somehow if seems fun (and musical), nit just showing off for the sake of it.

Just in case anyone hasn't seen his channel, Davie504's another great YouTube bass player (with an enormous number of subscribers).  

I have to admit that I find Davie504 a bit too arrogant and annoying, although he's clearly very good. Charles is just a really nice guy.

LuttiS

Those guys are good.. but there is only one funk daddy.