You can tell from Charles nervousness that he is a humble guy. He will get more comfortable in front of the camera as his fame continues to grow, but clearly it’s all about the music for him, which is refreshing.
I literally stumbled across Charles on the Davie504 colab and was one of the 50,000 new subscribers and have been amazed at his talent, technicality and love of music and the fact he expresses it on the bass guitar is certainly niche and super cool....and now he's a star.
Davie might have helped a lot in making people aware of Charles, but can't deny how incredibly fast he was able to adapt to that and grow his channel as much as he did. Charles obviously put a lot of effort to ride the wave while it was hot and it takes a lot of hard work to be successful at it, kudos to you! You are awesome Charles!
Love the design of the bass, but if it was mine (which it will never be), I would match the headstock to the body, namely brown wooden stripe through the middle and brown wood edging, with the Schecter logo in black set into the centre wood stripe.
Love Davie504, but nah, forget about Davie. You've got a new subscriber thx to having Charles on the show. I'll check out some of your other stuff after this interview. Hoping to find some theory and songwriting stuff!
For the Captain, Vandeweghe is not a french name proper, it is dutch. There are certainly french peoples with this name, especially in northern France but the name itself is of Dutch origin. In french it would be "De la Route" or "Von Der Strasse" in, German.
Like most, I became familiar with Charles from his “battles” with Davie504. Glad to see his growing success. Seems like a humble guy for all his talent.
Love seeing Charles getting more and more exposure outside of his already amazing channel. This guy is easily one of the best bassists in the world and fully deserves all the recognition he's getting and then some.
Now this guy is amazing. If he'd been active in the golden age of rock he'd be mentioned in the same breath as Entwistle et al. Technically, of course, he is miles better. He really is the Guthrie of bassists, or vice versa.
@reilly-vc1rm which is why I used the word "technically". Try reading the whole comment. Entwistle was way cooler, and brilliant, but there's literally nothing he played that Charles couldn't learn in an hour. Technically. Would he have the same raw power? No. But show John a piece of Charles' music and he wouldn't have a clue.
Yes! Charles is a monster player, and I an SO pleased to see him ‘at Andertons’. Bernth absolutely deserves a spot as well! Absolutely phenomenal player! 🤩
Charles has to be considered as one of the finest bass players in the world . His playing is sublime and so varied. I never thought a bassist would interest me so much. He is impressive.
I found Charles through Davey, and I'm super glad that I did. Charles, you are one of the greatest bass players on earth today, as hard as that might be for you to wrap your head around, it's the truth.
Now that's an unexpected but completely sensible episode! I like his thinking, because it took me like 20 years to notice how interesting you can be with bass lines even if you sit in the "background" as opposed to just plucking that lowest note all the time. How the bass line really sets a lot of emotions to the layers built on it, changing the whole feel by their note choice. And there's room for bass solos in songs, sometimes more than for guitar solos even. A lot of artists don't really explore that far even if they're creating rather exploratory music or even if they utilize a lot of arranging and production hooks. I think it was Tool and Opeth that hinted at me about "hey, forget the guitar, listen to what this bass is doing". There's been some thrash metal type of songs where I've heard bass solos too, as an almost inside joke of the band, but I think they sounded pretty good. Like those bassists were always on the spot with their musical sense more than maybe the guitarists, they didn't go overboard and started kinda from the theme of the music so it was simple, brief and fit greatly in the song. Similar to how sometimes a rock/pop band's guitar solo is just a bar or few based on the main theme and that fits the song great, not going overboard with soloing. I think bassists generally got that down much better than guitarists, not overplaying. Perhaps partially due to their instrument already being slightly limiting depending on the sound, you start losing distinctness of the notes if you go too hard on the wrong part of the neck. The outro I swear is from NES's Darkwing Duck game (which was probably "borrowed" from somewhere where Charles' inspiration comes from).
Glad to see Charles starting to get more recognition and exposure, been watching him for a few years and cant understand why he isnt out there more (that other stupid slap guy has more subs wtf) - awesome to see
Bro your bass heroes are actually the ones that I never liked... Cliff, Flea, Victor, beerk... Really mine are James Jamerson, Jaco Pastorius, Paul McCartney (the real one not the Billy Shears impostor).
Charles did you check out their bass selection on the floor of their store and ask why it's so small? It's in a literal dark corner of the store, at least it was the last time I was there just over a year ago.
