Stanley Clarke on David Letterman 1986 

Stanley Clarke...the Seventies...epitomizes the time...that sound...the bass out front...I wish Hendrix and Stanley could have met...Thanks Stanley...my Favorite....

No body and I really mean no body has played bass like this guy before or after. As great as everyone knows he is I still think he's underrated.

Yes! Legendary ground breaker and innovator. Once Stanley Clark got that Alembic bass in the seventies, that was it. Like Billy Cobham and his legendary clear Fibes double bass set. Spectrum album.

Stanley broke the mold!!!!!! No one on earth plays electric or upright bass like him!!!

That was a great band Letterman had, for sure.

wow! Stanley Clarke Awesome musician

I saw this shown on shitty 19" tv the night it was on.

The first 6 seconds of this Dave Letterman clip was a snippet of the song “Cosmic Slop” by the group Funkadelic. Lol! You have to have been old enough to have caught!

Wooowwwww I've never seen this performance. Incredible....

all while wearing jordans haha...incredible as to be expected

What a treat. Thank you.

The reason bass players the world over started playing chord progressions! From Marcus Miller, to Ol' Les Claypool..

Everyone in the band probably went out for beers after with Letterman,good vibes!!!

Hilarious about the cello at the end! LOL

Thank you for posting this Rick. I love this.

Superb

Stanley Clarke & Will Lee playing together!!!

I stayed up late to see this back in the day. Guy is crazy good.

FANTASTIC PLAYER

bass has come a long way in such little time...

NICE! I have this on an old VHS tape too! I recorded when I saw back then... I need to transfer it... the tape is getting old.

Love his trousers....

Also Stanley produced Howard hewett from shalamar solo album

saw him around this time,,holy crap! the beverly theatre

Stellar innovater of the bass, this is fantastic footage would have liked to hear more of Will Lee but Stanley played in Dublin Ireland a while ago, gave the monitor engineer a lot of uncalled for flack during his upright solo, which was amazing. Only saying.

Will Lee, in the pocket as always.

Ich sah ihn 1986 in der Mensa der Hochschule für Technik in Bremen. Genial, werde ich nie vergessen. Wird Zeit dass er mal wieder längskommt.

crushin !

explosive

Very cool. The CBS orchestra and Mr. Clarke. A chance to step up.

Thanks for missing all the Bass bits :) Always a good tune :)

Pauls havin fun

Anton Figs cymbals are so high he's looks like he's fighting to get his point across.

Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1987.

Sad that he had to play a song that was ten years old at the time.

School Days.The Cliff Notes version.

what type of strings does he use here? they are so flexible!

Ladies and gentlemen lets hear it for....Will Lee on bass and Stanley Clarke on guitar!!!!!!

Exactly! Those guys are all incredible musicians. Yeah, we know it's hard to beat Mr. Clarke on bass, but these guys like you said, "[C]an back up just about ANYBODY." The guy that you replied, is obviously an idiot, who doesn't understand music. I feel as though they new where to be at the right time and it was a great performance.

poor will lee! having to share the stage with stanley! lol

Where is Ray Gomez ? SORRY BUT IT'S NOT THE REAL VERSION WHITHOUT HIM

paul at 2:00 :)

Stanley beating up that Alembic bass..! YeeeehHHHHH

And Sid could shred with anybody!

Was that song right at the beginning Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic?

I want his dunks

To bad its not Hiram and steve Jordan * in band

I wonder why Jaco,was never invited on the show,he knew Will Lee??

two bass players ?

Who was that Drummer???

something sounds off here

Love his sneakers...

I can't hear the main SOLID bass player. Just drums, Stan, elec guitar and some keys! Turn up the bass!

I dont care how well you play the bass Stanley, here is never an excuse for plastic trousers.

stan the man,but even these guys cant keep up with him

What about Bootsy !

Bada bamp bamp baaahh, behh bep behh, bep behhh, bamp baaah, bamp baaahh. LOL.

Stanley and a bunch of hacks.

mha...mi ha sempre fatto cagare..nothing to do with Jaco...only pentathonics

Paul kinda messes up trying too hard and his sound is far off

The guitarist is terrible...where are you Raymond?

The black one is better..

Get rid of the guitarist

Awful tone