Message in a bottle bass solo

[exiledarchangel]

I usually get sleepy with this kinda stuff, but I like this thingie. Brilliant!

[clankenstein]

thats cool.i like his distorted sound at the end.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I can't get past the sampled string rattle/electronics noise in the main melody sample.

I did sound for Howie Day before he had his hits.  All he had was an old beat-up acoustic and a Line 6 Delay Modeller. He was the first performers I ever saw that did the whole sample/band bit, and he did it very well; nice guy too.

[Pilgrim]

Fantastic musicianship!

It's nothing I'd care to play (fortunately for me, as I'll never come within a mile being able to), but it's beautifully done.

[nofi]

it's 4 minutes too long.

[uwe]

It's playing classical guitar on a bass and sounding like a classical guitar too. But it's musicianly executed and tasteful which is more than you can say about most bass solo spots.

[Barklessdog]

Great musicianship, but I always am jaded against pop songs turned into virtuoso instrumental scribbling. I can see why they do that-so the non musician audience will recognize something simple. Even with Hendix's Star Spangled banner I just never saw it being better that the original.

That is the problem with the genre (non singing instrumental rock / jazz) - getting non musicians to listen. Joe Satriani did it by playing over repetitive head banger loops to cater to the rock / metal crowd.

Don't get me wrong I like when artists do their own versions of songs - Bob Dylan songs were always better by someone else.