Straight, No Chaser - Marc Friedman (The Slip) Bass Solo

This solo is awesome. It's from a 1/31/98 show. Check out The Slip if you haven't and enjoy the vid.

- eugene

Open Your Eyes You Can Fly Bass Solo - Steve Swallow

I didn't come to realize Steve Swallow's genius until after learning this solo. His ability to "solo" whilst keeping a solid bass background is unparalleled. Anyway, the video that the solo if off of can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNo1VqARE7Y. I didn't necessarily dig the tone of my bass in this solo but upon further listens, I found it was a good way to distinguish myself from Swallow's playing. Enjoy

The Slip-If One Of Us Should Fall (Bass Solo)

Just a quick little solo I learned on this rainy day in Austin. This version is off the album Eisenhower, but the song has been featured in past albums such as Alivelectric. If you haven't checked them out I highly recommend them. Enjoy

-eugene

The Stroll Patrol - Ideofunk

Some Videos

The Stroll Patrol

This is a group that gets together every November for the holiday stroll that occurs every year in our hometown. We're usually home from college for turkey day, so we run a few tunes and head out into the cold. Yeah, about that... It's fucking cold. I don't know how many of you reading this (if any actually are) have played outside in the snow, but let me tell you... it fucking blows. Historically, we've gotten about a 3-4 hour slot to play in front of a little mom and pop store (which is awesome), but it's really cold. After maybe a song or two, your fingers will either go numb or be warmed up enough that it's manageable. Anyhow, here are a few clips I have of us playing.

Me - Guitar

Sean Morris - Bass

Andrew Cote - Drums

Ideofunk (Scofield)

P.S. apparently I can only upload one video per post so I'll continue this chain of videos in multiple posts.

-josh

The Slip- Yellow Medicine (bass solo)

Learned this solo last week. If you haven't heard of The Slip, you definitely need to check them out. Marc Friedman is the bass player for them and part of his genius can be seen in this solo. Hope you guys can dig. Enjoy

-eugene

Incubus Summer Romance Sax Solo on Bass

After much frustration, I was finally able to get a decent take of the sax solo in Summer Romance (Anti Gravity Love Song) by Incubus. Learned this solo a little while ago. Dig it

-eugene

Instrumental Work In Progress

10/1

I'll continuously update this with the most recent version.

First off, (in addition to being a theorist) I dabble in guitar, keys, drums, and some other stuff. Everything other than the guitar (which was recorded in my dorm) was/is being recorded back at my house.

I've pretty much got the basic structure and solos down. originally the rhodes solo was going to be temporary (just a one take fuck around), but after listening to it a million times, it's grown on me/i've come to just accept it as a solo. the synth solo was also just a fuck around first/one taker (to mess with the synth settings) but some how it turned out nasty. soooo i kept it... then earlier today i was messing with what i wanted for the guitar solo and couldn't figure something out. after a while I got a take that I'm pretty happy with. i've done better, but i'm not complaining.

I still need to work on the ending, the mellotron intro, possible additional guitar sprinkles, more rhodes work in the choruses, possibly some sax, + other things.

anyway, here it is for now (it's also pretty long)

-capo

http://rapidshare.com/files/287528613/nice.m4a.html

p.s. blogspot needs to have a way to upload audio files. it's 100% original (no copyright issues) and i can't upload it... lame...