+Jessica Obrien I can't read maps and I am a male. So what? It's not important if you hide a penis or a vagina behind the bass. A penis is not required to play a bass like that. Calm down.
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***** yah it's easy to do the tapping . But creating and doing it in different way is hard. You need to spend time to practice and think how to make it unique .
Lilith Ballard The problem is that most bassists wouldn't ever have the determination and apply themselves as much as this one has. Unfortunately a lot of bassists do fit the category of "The bad guitar player"
This was amazing! I always saw bass quitar as important support instrument but never actually heard a solo before. Now I could listen to this whole day.
Brooooo I love bass so much, that sinister hum you can get that buries itself into your limbs and makes you want to set the world ablaze! That sound is So damn cool!
He literally plays the 1st movement of moonlight sonata for about a minute of this and I love it that's how you shred and show respect to music culture at the same time
Nice country solo for a change. Cool to hear "Orange Blossom Special" and "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (Great BLUEGRASS standards) in that kind of a setting.
No other bass player ever blew my mind like Stu Hamm did. No one. He toured Australia with Satch in 1990(?) and did a clinic at the old Bass Player shop on Parramatta Road at Annandale. 20-30 people there, and I've never seen, or even heard of the guy. Best clinic I've ever seen. Played, spoke and and chatted for ages. The nicest, most humble musician I've ever come across. Played this exact solo amongst other things, but was perfect. No bum notes anywhere. Just perfection. I knew then I'd never get as close to a virtuosic as this in my life. Thanks Stu, your legacy lives. 🤘😝🤘
@@unfunnydave5485 Billy Sheehan and Les Claypool I'm very familiar with. Les is a favourite for sure, and they're both insane, entertaining, inspiring - but not mind blowing like Stu. Victor Wooten I only know by name, so sadly I can't comment.
@@stevebrickshitta870 I would check out some Wooten song like “classical thump” or “me and my bass guitar.” Billy Sheehan and Les Claypool are 2 of my bass heroes. I respectfully disagree, have a great day man.
I love Stu Hamm's work. He knows how to support the rest of the band 90% of the time, and do some seriously creative, jaw-droppingly virtuosic soloing when all eyes (and ears) are on him
0:04 to 0:43 moonlight sonata 0:44 to 1:23 flow my tears (the policeman said) 1:24 to 1:51 sexually active 1:52 to 3:27 country music (a night in hell) yeahhh i know allll
Really bassists? This is Stu Hamm!!! If there is any real real bad player that questions this cats abilities isn't a knowledgeable bassist. I'm no fan of his or anything, it's just common knowledge as a 25+yr player that Stu has pocket. Check out his resume! & then for all you who still doubt his skills, check out his net worth... I didn't think this was the greatest thing to my ear's, it took skill's however but I'm no hater so when your good your just good that's all!!! No magic just hours of woodshedding!
Hahaha, I am a bassist player and actually I have learn trough the years this: "No matter how beautiful you play slap, don't do it" a lot of people hate slap tecnique, I m only use this tecnique rarely, when the song need some funk or kind of this.
I saw Stu do a couple of the beat bass solos I have ever seen last week that waaaaay blew my mind like psychedlic-wise but stone cold sober!!! He IS the music!!!
It's so encouraging to see the bass guitar evolving into more of a solo-friendly instrument. Back in the "stone age" the classicists were writing pieces for the bass viol, and they received no outcries of 'self-indulgence' or the like. I'm buying a new EADGC five-string just so I can better explore Bach, Beethoven and the like. In a few centuries Satriani, Hamm, Van HALEN, Claypool and Sumner (i.e., Sting) will be named among the classicists. But Stu did all this on a 4-string bass!
Fantastic! I have seen this video thousands of times since it was uploaded. And I always enjoy it. At the beginning of 1990 I heard Kings of Sleep for the first time. I started playing bass a few years before and the impact that Stuart Hamm caused me was tremendous. In those years the access to the clinics was not very simple in my country. So to try to make the bass sound like him without having seen how was his tapping technique was, believe me, very ... entertaining so to speak . Years after the opportunity to see it live. The last time was a few years ago with Greg Howe and it was a delicious moment.
Never tire of watching this. Stu Hamm is one of the most talented bassists I've ever seen or heard. He's capable of playing his techniques in so many genres.
I saw this solo on this tour in ´88 when they visited Sweden. Stu was best in show, hands down! He even used an enormous fake thumb during the funk part 😅 Great thanx for sharing 😊
Rowan Healy That's Chris Squire. He's Yes's bassist, and that song was recorded in 1971. Stu is much younger and didn't start getting gigs til he graduated college in the mid 80s
I saw Joe Satriani with Stu Hamm on bass, and it was around this time, like 1988 or so. It was at the Palace Theater in Albany NY, and when he did this solo, just Wow!!! I started to buy cassettes and CDs of them. Quaohogs anyone?
i have indeed just seen the greatest bass solo ever many guitarists would give their eye teeth to play like that let alone a bassist stuart hamm you are the greatest i have seen
Stuart Hamm (with Billy Sheehan) is simply the best bass guitar player on all planet Earth. There are many bassists worldwide, but non one can match Stuart Hamm. He produces such beautiful sounds with his instrument. He has also innovative techniques. He plays bass guitar like an electric guitar. Stuart Hamm is an icon and a legend. He's the best bass guitar player in the world.
That was pretty bad-ass 25 years ago. Nowadays, everybody plays circles around it. But, you can never take away the fact that it's a classic. Definitely a Classic!!!
