STEVE LAWSON - SOLO BASS
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- I met Steve Lawson (UK) last week at Musikmesse. He's playing his one-of-a-kind Modulus Q6 carved top bass, equipped with an East preamp and Elites strings. We recorded the audio track straight into an audio interface. Buy Steve's music: stevelawson.ba...
bass, audio editing: Steve Lawson
camera, recording, video editing: Gregor Fris
location: Musikmesse Frankfurt 2014 (Germany)
Thanks for watching! :)
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Out of all the amazing bass playing I’ve ever heard, this is still my favourite piece. It’s so moving and beautiful. Thank you Steve!
Outstanding! loved the composition and harmony & performance is superb, especially as you're playing live in public!
After an enormously stressful day...I have found the best cure seems to go back, open up this video, and wind down with the music....excellent piece, good sir.
Almost a year later and this is still super relevant to me.
I'm so glad you're still enjoying it :)
I hope one day this kind of playing becomes relevant in pop music...my first thought is "I wish I could play stuff like this on a regular bar/club gig".
Then again, guitarists are already tuned as low as "us", and if we compare a surge in bass - fronted music to what the 80's were for guitar playing, it could turn this instrument into a gymnastics competition, and it would take us decades to recover.
***** I will never stop being impressed by showboating,but it loses its charm after more than a minute because the showboat is the goal, not the music. Im listening to your music. It's dark and weird and sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom. You may be my new favorite bass player! Stormy night is awesome, Descent into Death is gnarly too. Thought about getting your music into movies or doing composition for the same?
Absolutely STUNNING solo bass composition, really beautiful playing ... Thank you for this, cheers from Brooklyn, NY
I will have this on repeat today - perfect music for the morning after the night before!
Godda Love the Modulus.... Great performance and song....
Gotta love that jazzy shape.
The shoes are great.. The playing with harp precision.. And Beautiful contrary motion!
Great Artist!! Wonderful
Nice bass, relaxed playing, I have always been a Modulus fan, now I am a Steve Lawson fan aswell .
thank you! that's really good to hear. There's a lot more you can find at music.stevelawson.net if you want to dig a little deeper :)
really enjoyed this vid, love the tone and the composition which was based more on the flow rather than focused on technique and speed as with some of the other vids of the other players, great job, looking to forward to seeing more of steve's work.
This doesn't even sound real. By far one of the best pieces I've ever heard. Nicely played brother.
***** thanks so much! :)
Awesome playing. This is one type of playing on a bass that I like. Thanks for the video. Hope I can play this way some day soon.
Fantastic, I love the harmonics, and I love the place.. Muy. Buena canción.. Felicidades!
Very calming, relaxing...overall superbly pleasant, thx.
Long time fan, the melodies you manage to get out of the instrument really do show the true potential.
One day i'll get this good!
Thanks Ricky, that's really encouraging. Hope you end up way better than this ;)
Steve, listening to you and Scott on the podcast.....you are too fun. "Just curious about things'. Behind those glasses I get the feeling there is a lot of John Lennon spirit coming back to us through your open heart and free spirit. Thank you for what you do. I will not shy away from the next gig the band leaves to play solo....I will play. :)
thanks Peter! So glad you enjoyed the podcast - that was so much fun to do!
I'm a huge fan of your looping stuff but to me the natural melody of this is inspired. My day got better as I listened. Thanks Steve.
beautiful.
Really, really nice.
stellar
cheers!
Very nice composition Steve.
Lovely!
Just Lovely. Calm and effortless, you make it look sooo simple!
so glad you enjoyed it. 25 years of messing around with ideas like this makes it a bit easier than it would otherwise be ;)
This was awesome. Smooth and perfect. Thank you for this video
thanks for watching! Really glad you enjoyed it :)
About the 5th time I listened to this, still good :) I know it's probably mostly improvised, but I would really like to hear a complete arrangement of this piece.
We have to sit and talk a bit next time we meet!
in as much as I had no idea what I was going to play til I hit the first chord, it's all improvised. The chord progression's pretty easy to replicate. It's a vibe I've messed about with a few times. We'll see what happens with it next :)
Steve Lawson Great Job !!!
Saw you at the London Bass Show in March (I flew over from Ireland especially for the Show) and also witnessed your performance at the Albion Pub After Show... Trying to find Vid Footage of the Performance you did with Jon Thorne. I'm not a Solo Bassist, I'm more of an "in the Pocket" kinda Player, but I do love Technical playing (though I'm not into the Mark King or Billy Sheehan ways of playing, I more prefer Scott Thunes (Zappa) or John Alderete (Racer X and The Mars Volta). I love playing some Zappa Pieces like Zombie Woof or anything by Jamerson.
soeffingwhat the entire duo bit of that gig at the London Bass Guitar Show is coming out as an album on the 1st of July - it'll be at music.stevelawson.net :) So glad you enjoyed it.
Absolutely love this. Steve is great as always. Big inspiration to my playing
+Jordan Astley thanks Jordan! that's lovely to hear
Cool! Modulus hasn't seen any love here yet I don't believe but it's good to see one of their instruments. Never heard one of their semi hollow models either.
Love the casual background with the music. Im gonna have to try this!
it's a pretty strange experience to record like that - sat out in public, with headphones on and people wandering past not being able to hear you, just thinking you're some crazy dude ;) I'm going to try it again!
+Steve Lawson You are some crazy dude :D
Got sent this link by a friend who's a bass guitarist... This is utterly beautiful :) X
+sensual166 thank you :)
Thank Stu. B, for sending me the link :)
finally i got to hear the full and particular sound of a semihollow quantum, being a quantum fan , it is beeing a long time coming. I knew i should have ordered a semihollow Q5 wide while they still building basses, I blame the neverending vintage sound trend ,
Hi Claudio - I've got two semi-hollow moduluses - fretted and fretless 6s. This one is a one-of-a-kind as it has a carved top, and sounds a little different to any other modulus I've ever heard. My fretless is unique in that it has a matte finish on the body (which had to be replaced after an airline smashed the original one) and as a result has a more 'open' sound than any other fretless I've tried. But I'm a HUGE Modulus fan, and am looking forward to seeing what Joe Perman does now as JPerman basses. :)
do you have something else to say about jp basses? i own a very special built from modulus, a birdseye maple fingerboard Q5 wide.
claudio barragan Only that apart for a short time in the mid 2000s, Joe WAS Modulus in terms of build and design for a very long time, so expect the same kind of design ethos, quality of build and tonal ideas from him as from Modulus. I'm excited to see what he does next :)
Beautiful !!!
the music or the shoes? ;)
Steve Lawson The music.. no doubt about that ;)
Awesome playing as always sir. You are the best! Doug
thanks, Doug! Hope you're well.
That was fuckin great
Yeeeeah!
damn she's good.
woooow!
thanks, really glad you enjoyed it :)
Woah! When did Geddy Lee start playing a 6-string! j/k, you're awesome, Steve!
Dude has stolen everything else about my look, the 6 string has to be next ;)
k-mart still sells these instruments. $62 and 4 malt-o-meal coupons. great guitars.
I........am...........so ........................calm.............................
Kinda mellow .
No one could hear you nearby? Serious loss to those around! Great sound!
Hey man, that's a wonderful piece you played there... I've listened it at least 6 times during my day today. I'm just wondering... What strings are you using? What gauge also? That's a lovely tone you got there.
Thank you! The strings are Bass Centre Elites, Player Series (Nickel wound). They go from .125 to .030 :)
Thank you very much! õ/ I'm buying a 6-strings in the next week, and i'm looking for that kind of tone. Thank you for your attention Steve, sucess!
Kevin Garcia the other key factors on this are that it's in passive mode, and on the neck pick-up. The semi-hollow body helps too :)
call it 'Or some'
what is the exact model name of that bass??
It's a Modulus 6 string, but it's a one-off custom version based on their OB6 semi-hollow idea, with an added carved top. If you contact them, I'm sure you could work something out to get one made, but it's not going to be cheap ;)
How is this tuned? Is it going up in pitch in 4ths from a low B, or in standard tuning of some kind like E, or even something completely different? Anyway, this was really nice. =)
thejaxter1995 I'm not 100% sure, but it's probably standard B to C
Standard B-C :) I've experimented a little with altered tunings, but have barely scratched the surface with standard tuning yet ;)
Ah, awesome! Good to know, thanks guys. ^.^
i think every video ive seen of these guys play in public they all have been wearing audio technica ath m50s....thats the only headphone ive seen...and every color choice too :p
We've been using these for a couple of years now cause I really dig them for bass stuff. AT was so kind to send us a few more some months ago, which is great. Now everyone involved hear hear what's going on and not just the bass player :)
I own a white pair myself and I just adore the sound signature :) such detail and separation plus the bass is fun ;)
I'm asking, where is Modulus Guitars gone?
they officially closed their business just a few weeks ago
Nice, is it 34" scale, looks shorter. I love my 2 Quantum Modulus basses and am sad they're gone.
Nope, it's a 35, same as the regular Q6s. the body may be slightly bigger which makes it look like that. Glad you're enjoying it :)
angel by gotthard?
Wow, people are still so fixed on your nails and failing to notice your playing. Steve has rocked nail polish for...well, I can't say, but it's at least a decade. Some say it's because it makes his nails harder, but let's face it, I've seen him in black polish when a clear coat would work just as well.
It's like Bruce Lee said "It is like a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory."
His playing is still, as beautiful as it ever was, or more so.
My Dad was a serious amateur Classical Guitarist, toward the end of his life he wore fake nails, on his picking hand, because his real nails were fragile.
I enjoyed this video when I close my eyes. When I saw his nails oh.............
Dude, you are way too easily distracted... ;)
where is that place? it seems the best place to live...
it's filmed at the Frankfurt MusikMesse. Believe me, it would be a *terrible* place to live ;)
what??? why? haha
because what you can't here is the sound of 30,000 awful musicians and about 20 REALLY great ones all playing at once. Different songs, different keys, all at eyeball-bleeding volume. Be thankful this was recorded without live mics ;)
hahah maybe is cause i don't hear all the louds of the messe that i like to live there haha:D anyway cool solo and awesome sound ;)
Selling all my Modulus's was the biggest mistake of my life :(
I just finally bought one again :)
will never let it go this time
Elie Kh that's good to hear :)
Thank god :) jajaja
Aaron Baquerizo :D got really lucky finding one, they are becoming extinct! :(
WHY LACQUER???
plays too
That must be one tight truss rod.
it does have a truss rod but as I've never had to adjust it, I've no idea whether it's under any tension or not. For years Modulus basses were made without them, and very few ever needed any kind of adjustment at all… so I'm guessing there's not much tension there. Graphite is pretty stable :)
Beautiful. Reminds me of Avishai Cohen: open.spotify.com/track/
high praise indeed! thanks, Shawn!
I had to ask what's with the nails?
Chazz-J Black that's my question too
I have to ask - what's with the ear stretchers, or your non-conformist haircut..? A form of personal expression I suppose? :)
Silver nail polish makes the roundwound strings brighter, green polish for better sustain, silverish green, best of both...
Chris Davies he probably plays with a plectrum
indeed alex lofoco with roundwounds strings and no nail varnish sounds more morbid.
what is with the nail polish?
no idea!
Steve Lawson Oh, so you are a comedian too, good for you. I thought it was a valid question considering I am a bass player and end up watching your hands while you play, and at times depending on color it is kind of distracting to me. So I thought I would ask why. I am not British so maybe I missed your humor, but if you take the time to write something, the actual answer would have been nice.
As I've commented elsewhere, ask the next 10 women you see wearing nail varnish why they wear it, and my answer will be the average of all theirs...
If you don't like people asking, you could wear clear and not have to answer it at all, but you obviously like the attention, so go figure.
and if you are going to answer, why not answer, instead of the snippy comments?
Eric Tipton
Sometimes snippy is all you deserve.
Maho body, chechen board, walnut top?
something like that :)
Did you see? Silver fingers...
really?? where? ;)
that's a lovely bass /place / musician but.....the shoes...come on man ...pink ?!
Hm...Public loneliness on the background of vacationers
Wow, I pity anyone who ends up at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt on their vacation... that's a really shitty holiday destination ;)
he must be really old. his fingers have greyed with his hair
Nope, I'm a cyborg. Both fingers & hair are fibre optic. :)
??????...........why not play a jazz guitar instead