After reading some of the coments I must say some things : -There's no right or wrong way of playing bass. Billy Sheehan has his own style and sound. He has been playing all around the world since early 80's with several bands and artists .so if the thing he does works for him.. who cares? -If someone has doubts about Billy's musical skills , please take a look to his second solo record. -Sheehan is a bass player but, more than this, he's a rock musician. What do you expect? A Jaco Pastorius cover in a hard rock show? -People who goes to a Sheehan show want to see Sheehan playing the way he does.
The first two minutes of his solo are just him rocking out, like he is known for. But starting from 2:18, the rest of his solo is a demonstration of why he is one of the best bass players alive. Melody, finger dexterity, speed, accuracy, and his own chorus filled, distorted expression. Billy Sheehan is phenomonal
I'm glad I saw your comment - because I had already disengaged. Yes he is fast, but where was the music, the feeling, the expression? Well, as you say, it starts at 2:18, and lasts for a while.
it's not a mess it's an arrangement of speed, skill and scales with accurate playing the man has what most bass players strive for! it took time and dedication to get this good!
This guy is so unreal it's friggin scary...definitely takes playing bass into a whole different realm and influenced thousands of others to look outside the box and be different..Love his style of playing..
The height if immaturity is coming to CZcams, watching a legend di his thang, and only commenting about how many players are better. Its a concert. A solo. It's not a goddamned competition.
+Mikael Salander You are not right, melody, harmony and rhythm are basics, and they don't need to be all three at a time. For example in this improvisation solo - there is melody, mostly i can read it , most of it are scales, but still melody. And there is harmony when he plays chords or taping with two hands. And in many places there is a rhytm too. So it's music. Many people think if it doesn't sound catchy than it's not music, you're wrong.
It’s just like a guitar solo on bass. It’s still musical, and even as a guitar player this is unbelievable. I don’t play bass so I can’t get my fingers to do stuff like that, hell nah. So that coupled with what he’s doing with his fretting hand, it’s honestly unbelievable.
@@jacurururur8848 it’s a bit of both cuz he goes from crazy speed, to a bit slow beautiful tapping. It really goes to show that bass can be an expressive instrument.
@@nar____ theres only a few parts with any decent melody, but most of the slower parts are unremarkable. like whats with the note choice at 4:35? that sounds like garbage
I may get absolutely roasted for this...but if I listen with my eyes closed I would totally believe this is Cliff Burton, the tone, the speed and precision, completely and totally admirable by all extent. Billy is an absolute monster and legend, much love.
I will say I don’t think Cliff was quite to Billy’s level, almost, but not quite . Cliff also died at 24 years old, during his time as a musician his playing was not only evolving but improving as well, its a fucking shame we never got to see hime even 5 years older, let alone 20 or 30 years older. Its so sad. What i’m saying is that Cliff would have inevitably gotten to a point to rival Billy, but he just never got there. One set back Cliff would have though is that he couldn’t use his right ring finger to play due to a fishing accident when he was younger, so he would have that working against him. I think the biggest shame is that we never got to hear him play Orion live. I guess instrumentals didn’t do as well live cause they didn’t play Ktulu for a long time either
We lived in a time when we got to see Billy Sheehan, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones and Cliff Burton all alive and playing the bass, with Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page on the guitar. Believe me when I tell you, there will NEVER be another generation where so much once in a lifetime talent was all alive and playing at the same time.
@@ettorereventon2667 Lemme tell you why that is, and why this performance is fucking insane. The bass is known for being played with two fingers when fingerstyle. Then there's slapping and tapping. The rest are chords, melodics, double stops and so on. Billy Sheehan basically said 'heh, cute' and plays fingerstyle with three or four fingers. HOW CAN YOU PLAY WITH THREE OR FOUR FINGERS??! He controls his bass's feedback like the master he is and makes it a statement, a warcry, while he makes it sing with two-hand tapping. The rest of us can 'play' bass, but Billy *understands* it.
@@mrduck6720 he doesn’t play the bass as an instrument. That bass is part of his freaking body, just like his fingers are. It’s like what victor wooten says: he plays the bass just like he speaks English. Music is his language, the bass is his mouth
The amount of different techniques on display here is just fucking insane, the man’s a walking encyclopedia of ways of playing the bass. Fucking insane
It really pisses me off that people say that he is just playing really fast and making noise, he is extremely talented and has vast amounts of musical knowledge, I can understand why someone might not like this but you cannot deny this guy is good. EDIT: weird coming back and seeing comments I left over five years ago. I don’t remember caring about Billy Sheehan this much. Retrospectively, this is honestly pretty unmusical as impressive as it is technically. The harmonics and tapping parts are pretty cool though
mike walter OH sorry! ARE YOU FAMOUS?, OHH NNO!!! MIKE WALTER, YOU ARE NOT! SO PLEASE SHUT UP! HE IS THE BEST HARD ROCK BASSIST! HE IS THE BASSIST OF THE MILENIUM! SO SORRY MAN! PLEASE THERE IS THE DOOR , MR, JAZZ SCALES!
mike walter I don't see what my little dick has to do with music but ok. I guess big penis with balls the size of tangerines carriers like loved by the sun then? Hahahaha holy shit
In my head, he's categorized alongside Steve Vai as "one of the guys whose music I don't exactly have an opinion on, but are just really fun to watch."
I used to see him live back in the early seventies with his hometown band in Buffalo NY.......TALAS!!!! He was amazing back then and has progressed greatly over the years, happy to see he has done so well.
He has a great creativity and a cool sound with a fascinating chorus. Met him in 2011 at Tc Electronic booth (at that time he was a Tc endorser) during a a demo of mine in Italy, he is also a very simple person, friendly and very focused on the new tendences. Billy you are a great inspiration!
this guy is truly a huge inspiration for me. makes it look so easy and cool. and paired with paul gilbert, what a duo. god damn. I used to use his pearce BC-1 preamp for the longest time for all my bass tones. loved that thing
I have watched and listened to this many times over the last three and a half years, and for the first time now I'm checking it out at 0.75 speed (a You Tube feature--see the top). I have been more amazed than ever at the speed and capability of the playing. I guess I'll check it out at 0.5 speed next.
As a guitar player of 35 years, I attempt playing the most VERY basics of bass when I record a song. I mean, I own a couple bass guitars, but I know I'm terrible, and would never insult a bass player by calling myself as such. Hearing/watching someone who DOES play bass well is just memorizing for me. I love the sound of bass, and love to attempt playing it. Big props to all the bass guitar players out there. Much respect.
Look at that crowd ! Super groups ! What a monster outs amount of talent !! Billy is definitely a shredder but also a master of holding down the pocket and making a great song . And a great singer…
I always remember thinking he's so much better than Mr. Big. I guess it's proof how a true, great musician, knows what not to play, as well as he knows what to play (and when).
I love all the people who think they need to teach Billy Sheehan the very basics of playing the bass in the comment section. I mean... it's not like the guy played bass all his life and has been around for 30 years kickin ass on stage. I wonder what those people in the comment section have contributed to the music industry to justify such statements...
That's easy, it's just a bunch of mentally prebuscent assholes who think they know anything about music, and think their opinion is a statement. Can't appreciate skill or have the hearing to comprehend what is going on. There are many factors that play on it, and between these, there's also jealousy.
Met him last year after a small club show in NH. Very nice and approachable guy. Most of the night was just great groove playing. He plays the same way whether he is playing for a few hundred people or 20k. A real musician’s musician. Thanks Billy, please come back and see us again soon.
I met this guy at a small bass clinic in Michigan and he was such a nice guy and eager to show techniques and share his love for music he was just such a wonderful musician and human being
Just cause you picked up bass cause it was "easier" than guitar, doesn't mean people, professional musicians, should limit themselves to make you comfortable in your own definition and guidelines of music. Music is subjectively enjoyable, and it is objectively wrong to call any piece "bad". This dude achieves amazing bass licks and great entertainment, (in my opinion, slow down) and I will always be open to experimenting with my bass to come up with new, inventive, and interesting ways/techniques to express myself on new levels with music. Constructive criticism is one thing, being boring and jaded is another.
Billy and Chris Squire are my wish who I could hold my own to which I never will be as good as either of them. And then there comes a kid Charles Berthoud that can make us all bow down and want to quit playing because his ability is truly earned and immortal. No matter how much one can practice Charles and a guy named Davy are honestly unreal and so amazing to watch. Being old school I will never lose any respect for the many players of our day however a new day has arrived. Live long and well Mr. BIG! You are very respected.I 👍✌️
When I started bass I couldn't stand Billy, he was just a show off.. But the more I learn and play the more I see how great he is, and listening to his basslines in songs shows me that although he can do this, he always writes the perfect line, fast or slow, showing off when there's room and when the time is right, but always serving the song first. One of the greats for sure.
I remember watching this many years back when I started bass, have grown up so much in my music since then. I enjoy doing the three finger technique and practicing it. Of course not as fast as Mr. Sheehan... but... someday.
How the fuck does no one mention Sheehan on the best bass players list while fucking Flea and Cliff Burton are a must mention. It makes it so much harder to find legends like Sheehan.
+Wayne King you are so right. Billy is a great player but all technical & no soul. Reminds me of all those shredders from the 80's were everything was a pentatonic scale played at warp speed or some kind of classical music played with surgical precision. I have the Talus albums but really stopped listening & following him when he was with David Lee Roth's solo project & in an interview in guitar player magazine put down John Entwhistle, Chris Squire & Geddy Lee for being sloppy bass players & if they would learn to tighten up their fingers they could be good players. That's did it for me.
I have heard him play live with Steve Vai, he can play with soul as well as shred. Vai's style of playing and Sheehan's bass playing complement each other, and Vai is one of the most melodic guitar players around. Egos aside, Sheehan is up there with Tony Levin, Jack Bruce and Les Claypool in technical masters of the bass. I think he deserves more recognition, this guy is the Yngwie of bass playing(loves to shred but can also be very melodic.
Well, you can take a look at Erlend Casperen, take a look on yt, you will see art there, well, if they don't mention Billy in one list it's because they don't like him, and you should lnow that there is no better musican in any way, just different.
+Dingo D. Manhunter dingo my friend you must fuck all these top ten list and make sure you go out and find out about people like I do Just a tip right there :)
The man is shredding on a bass, finger style, clearly just being a show off for its own sake, and it’s fucking KILLER. Anyone who looks at this and gives it criticism for being “not real bass playing” can fucking blow me. There are no rules in music, Sheehan is having the time of his life here, and it shows.
And that's my friends is called bass shredding...i went in a steve vai's concert with him in the bass,at the end he pushed the bass towards the crowd in the front ,telling them to slap it...it was cool man
Mr. Sheehan: "No Billy, for the last time, you are Not getting a guitar. You need to follow Sheehan tradition and play bass like me, grandpa, great grandpa, so on,& so on... Billy: "Ok FINE!! ...Hold my Beer!" Mr.Sheehan: 😱😱!!
After reading some of the coments I must say some things :
-There's no right or wrong way of playing bass. Billy Sheehan has his own style and sound. He has been playing all around the world since early 80's with several bands and artists .so if the thing he does works for him.. who cares?
-If someone has doubts about Billy's musical skills , please take a look to his second solo record.
-Sheehan is a bass player but, more than this, he's a rock musician. What do you expect? A Jaco Pastorius cover in a hard rock show?
-People who goes to a Sheehan show want to see Sheehan playing the way he does.
Spoken like a true gentleman
And with him being in all those bands, with different styles of music, he's added many different techniques and honed his style masterfully.
Well, of course they do, and people go to a New Kids on the Block show for the same reason, what's your point?
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Going back more like 70's .He got his first bass in the late 60's I believe.
The first two minutes of his solo are just him rocking out, like he is known for. But starting from 2:18, the rest of his solo is a demonstration of why he is one of the best bass players alive. Melody, finger dexterity, speed, accuracy, and his own chorus filled, distorted expression. Billy Sheehan is phenomonal
I'm glad I saw your comment - because I had already disengaged. Yes he is fast, but where was the music, the feeling, the expression? Well, as you say, it starts at 2:18, and lasts for a while.
Never saw anyone shred a bass like that. The amount of sound he was creating and the ways he was making it blew me away. Awesome performance.
Billy Sheehan, Also known as that guy that does what most bass teacher don't want you to do and does it magnificently
Have fun tabbing this out.
I'll give that a miss
It's kinda impossible but worth it
Steve Vai might be able.
thank god for software
bill sheehan is a good bass player
Billy Sheehan is the Eddie Van Halen of bass. Love him
Speaking of Van Halen, David Lee Roth from Van Halen had his own band and Billy Sheehan played in his band
@@mattmatenko78 The universe is interesting and crazy that way isn’t it?
I always like to say Billy Sheehan is the Eddie Van Halen of bass and Jaco was the Jimi Hendrix of bass
@@ethanlocke3604 dude be serious... sheenan is not even miles away from the other 3 you mentioned
He is the Cliff Burton of Mr. Big
Few bass players can play a solo that's melodic and rhythmic and holding audience for that long
billy didn’t prove that he could in this one lol
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John Entwistle, case closed
@@jacurururur8848 aint that the truth! Melodic?!? Lmao
2:46 Billy briefly becomes Steve Howe.
4:31 Billy briefly becomes Steve Vai.
nah, just billy
it's not a mess it's an arrangement of speed, skill and scales with accurate playing the man has what most bass players strive for! it took time and dedication to get this good!
Yes, it's a complete mess
It’s free expression, the culmination of countless hours of practice.
speed, skill and scales [and arpeggios]
He clearly can play, but, yeah very messy and noodly. Idk this kinda thing does nothing for me.
@@88cgdan He is just showing speed...but yeah, he clearly has the skills to make it a better one IMO.
This guy is so unreal it's friggin scary...definitely takes playing bass into a whole different realm and influenced thousands of others to look outside the box and be different..Love his style of playing..
So under rated, so technical. One of the most awesome bass players of all time. He is the Eddie Van Halen of bass players.
This is NOT FAIR!!!! Human ears cannot catch all those frequencies, we know there is more right there, deep in paradise. This is amazing!!!!
Wow. Between this guy and Entwhistle, Claypool, Flea, I just had no idea how versatile this instrument is. Awesome.
You want to see how versatile a bass can be? Check out Mike Kerr from "Royal Blood."
They are all good. They just have different styles on playing. That's just it!
let's add Tal Wilkenfeld to the group.
Getty Lee is a beast too.
You should definitely have a listen to Jaco Pastorius then.
The height if immaturity is coming to CZcams, watching a legend di his thang, and only commenting about how many players are better. Its a concert. A solo. It's not a goddamned competition.
+Scott Patterson It's not music.
Actually, it is music. It's just not your music.
*****
Nah mate, music must have 3 things, melody, harmony and rhythm, and this has none.
No no no no. Melody, harmony and rhythm are just common elements in music, you don't need all three at all.
+Mikael Salander You are not right, melody, harmony and rhythm are basics, and they don't need to be all three at a time. For example in this improvisation solo - there is melody, mostly i can read it , most of it are scales, but still melody. And there is harmony when he plays chords or taping with two hands. And in many places there is a rhytm too. So it's music. Many people think if it doesn't sound catchy than it's not music, you're wrong.
Bassists = "oh my God this guys incredible"
Everyone else = "dudblublubludududhddiddlediddlediddleblubblubblubdingdingding"
its fast to the point of sounding muddy or blurry, this solo showcases extreme technical prowess but is hardly musical
It’s just like a guitar solo on bass. It’s still musical, and even as a guitar player this is unbelievable. I don’t play bass so I can’t get my fingers to do stuff like that, hell nah. So that coupled with what he’s doing with his fretting hand, it’s honestly unbelievable.
@@jacurururur8848 it’s a bit of both cuz he goes from crazy speed, to a bit slow beautiful tapping. It really goes to show that bass can be an expressive instrument.
@@nar____ theres only a few parts with any decent melody, but most of the slower parts are unremarkable. like whats with the note choice at 4:35? that sounds like garbage
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I may get absolutely roasted for this...but if I listen with my eyes closed I would totally believe this is Cliff Burton, the tone, the speed and precision, completely and totally admirable by all extent. Billy is an absolute monster and legend, much love.
You know it does sound a bit like Cliff. Very similar sound. Both the setup/effects and the fingers. Well spotted.
You are absolutely correct, they both played the bass basically like Van Halen played guitar. Cliff used a lot of distortion
I will say I don’t think Cliff was quite to Billy’s level, almost, but not quite . Cliff also died at 24 years old, during his time as a musician his playing was not only evolving but improving as well, its a fucking shame we never got to see hime even 5 years older, let alone 20 or 30 years older. Its so sad. What i’m saying is that Cliff would have inevitably gotten to a point to rival Billy, but he just never got there. One set back Cliff would have though is that he couldn’t use his right ring finger to play due to a fishing accident when he was younger, so he would have that working against him. I think the biggest shame is that we never got to hear him play Orion live. I guess instrumentals didn’t do as well live cause they didn’t play Ktulu for a long time either
We lived in a time when we got to see Billy Sheehan, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones and Cliff Burton all alive and playing the bass, with Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page on the guitar. Believe me when I tell you, there will NEVER be another generation where so much once in a lifetime talent was all alive and playing at the same time.
Cliff Burton who?😅
The fact that he can run across the stage and still play like that is pretty cool
Not only is he a great musician, he's also a great guy..talked to him a few times,no rockstar attitude whatsoever.
As a non-player of a string instrument, you can't imagine how much I don't understand how he does what he does.
It's really impressive.
Grand Mestre des Poulpes I play the bass and I understand even less than you 😂
@@ettorereventon2667 Lemme tell you why that is, and why this performance is fucking insane. The bass is known for being played with two fingers when fingerstyle. Then there's slapping and tapping. The rest are chords, melodics, double stops and so on.
Billy Sheehan basically said 'heh, cute' and plays fingerstyle with three or four fingers. HOW CAN YOU PLAY WITH THREE OR FOUR FINGERS??! He controls his bass's feedback like the master he is and makes it a statement, a warcry, while he makes it sing with two-hand tapping. The rest of us can 'play' bass, but Billy *understands* it.
@@mrduck6720 he doesn’t play the bass as an instrument. That bass is part of his freaking body, just like his fingers are. It’s like what victor wooten says: he plays the bass just like he speaks English. Music is his language, the bass is his mouth
As a player of a string instrument, you can't imagine how much I don't understand how he does what he does.
It's really impressive.
@@mrduck6720 it’s not hard to play with 3 or 4 fingers, but it’s hard to play what Billy can with 3 and 4 fingers.
I live for the that single beautiful arpeggio at 5:34
First time listening to Billy and I’m blown away! Nothing he did was easy but everything was just cool.
The amount of different techniques on display here is just fucking insane, the man’s a walking encyclopedia of ways of playing the bass. Fucking insane
Billy has always been a killer bass player. Loved him with David Lee Roth and all the other bands he's been in. Monster chops!
Billy is the man! Love the way he plays! Aint no other like him!
It really pisses me off that people say that he is just playing really fast and making noise, he is extremely talented and has vast amounts of musical knowledge, I can understand why someone might not like this but you cannot deny this guy is good.
EDIT: weird coming back and seeing comments I left over five years ago. I don’t remember caring about Billy Sheehan this much. Retrospectively, this is honestly pretty unmusical as impressive as it is technically. The harmonics and tapping parts are pretty cool though
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1. This solo is a bit stupid. But it's the right solo for a hyped-up rock crowd.
2. He _is_ amazing. Better than this solo could ever convey.
People always have something to say
But not to do
He's amazing thats a fact❤
世界で一番好きなベーシスト
I loved that bass guitar solo.
Absolutely incredible, the things Billy do with a bass guitar.
Happy Birthday, Billy and Thank You for the music.🥳🎉❤️
This is his art. He's expressing himself and having fun. If you don't like this solo, don't listen to it.
I wont.................but I'll invite him over for a lesson on how to play BASS!!!!
mike walter OH sorry! ARE YOU FAMOUS?, OHH NNO!!! MIKE WALTER, YOU ARE NOT! SO PLEASE SHUT UP! HE IS THE BEST HARD ROCK BASSIST! HE IS THE BASSIST OF THE MILENIUM! SO SORRY MAN! PLEASE THERE IS THE DOOR , MR, JAZZ SCALES!
tucker mcclung thanx for noticing he sucks
mike walter I don't see what my little dick has to do with music but ok. I guess big penis with balls the size of tangerines carriers like loved by the sun then? Hahahaha holy shit
mike walter Chill out buddy boy, you might burst a capillary.
I feel bad for all these bassists in the comment section who feel they can only do one thing. I guess limiting yourself makes life simpler.
Billy Sheehan is the reason I push myself musically every day. He’s my music role model.
And when they do play like him same people like you would say they're just a copycat. They don't know what pleases you anymore
This man has his own trademark bass line.. the one and only : mr Billy sheehan.. 👏👏
I'm no expert but, I'm pretty sure that bass is pregnant.
Shamphere 😂
With a toddler
That is some funny shit right there.. pregnant
Agreed. This is some orgasmic fuckery going on there.
Wow dude you're hilarious and original.
In my head, he's categorized alongside Steve Vai as "one of the guys whose music I don't exactly have an opinion on, but are just really fun to watch."
I used to see him live back in the early seventies with his hometown band in Buffalo NY.......TALAS!!!! He was amazing back then and has progressed greatly over the years, happy to see he has done so well.
Now this is what a solo is all about. Take your instrument to the freakin' limit.
Pffff, most ten year olds can do that, it's all easy tricks he looks like a fool to us who knows, he can play, but nothing out of the ordinary
Gotta Love His Signature Basses!! Always seems so cool in interviews as well. What many of us aspire to be.🤙🤙😎
Always a pleasure listening to Billy Sheehan
Everyone in Mr.Big is so Legendary
Only time i ever saw Billy Sheehan live was at a small vinue in Portland, Oregon on the B3 tour with Jeff Berlin and Stu Hamm. What a show😎👍
He has a great creativity and a cool sound with a fascinating chorus. Met him in 2011 at Tc Electronic booth (at that time he was a Tc endorser) during a a demo of mine in Italy, he is also a very simple person, friendly and very focused on the new tendences. Billy you are a great inspiration!
right out of the gates.... PURE Sheehan....
Hey Lance, I love your videos :D
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***** Awesome, I'll be sure to watch it, Cheers from Australia
he a little bit like my dad he plays like my dad preety good
Legend! Absolutely mind-blowing.
Every time I'm watchin' this video, I just wanna cry. So beautifull and full of emotions
this guy is truly a huge inspiration for me. makes it look so easy and cool. and paired with paul gilbert, what a duo. god damn. I used to use his pearce BC-1 preamp for the longest time for all my bass tones. loved that thing
One of the best bass players of all time
2:20 to 3:18 is incredible. It sounds like you're in the clouds.
Right? As soon as he played that lick at 2:20 I was almost brought to tears. It hits you directly in the heart.
誰が何と言おうと、彼は最高のベーシスト
I have watched and listened to this many times over the last three and a half years, and for the first time now I'm checking it out at 0.75 speed (a You Tube feature--see the top). I have been more amazed than ever at the speed and capability of the playing. I guess I'll check it out at 0.5 speed next.
Now while I'm not personally a huge fan of this style of bass playing, it is FUCKING hard to shred on a bass, so respect for this guy either way.
Вот это да! Виртуоз, одно слово.. представляю, какие эмоции испытывает музыкант, когда так играет.. Браво! 👏🤓
I have been following this guy for 35 years now! Billy is amazing and he is without RELENT!!!
Niacin is amazing!
Dennis Chambers and Billy Sheehan on drums and bass it's jus a masterpiece.
Two tottally different backrounds make it A-MA-ZING
his wife’s a lucky woman
Yes,I'm a bass player from India
@@AnkurRAxom Lol, you don't get it do you? Your wife will be happy too!
I'm a bassist from India as well
I guess were all bass players from india
Except me.. I'm a bass player from India-na
@@erickhuanangoable nanana Batman
As a guitar player of 35 years, I attempt playing the most VERY basics of bass when I record a song. I mean, I own a couple bass guitars, but I know I'm terrible, and would never insult a bass player by calling myself as such. Hearing/watching someone who DOES play bass well is just memorizing for me. I love the sound of bass, and love to attempt playing it. Big props to all the bass guitar players out there. Much respect.
Look at that crowd ! Super groups ! What a monster outs amount of talent !! Billy is definitely a shredder but also a master of holding down the pocket and making a great song . And a great singer…
I always remember thinking he's so much better than Mr. Big. I guess it's proof how a true, great musician, knows what not to play, as well as he knows what to play (and when).
I am sorry, but mr big is super awsome band with great musicians.
If I practise every day, maybe one day I'll reach 1% of this guy's immense talent.
I love all the people who think they need to teach Billy Sheehan the very basics of playing the bass in the comment section. I mean... it's not like the guy played bass all his life and has been around for 30 years kickin ass on stage. I wonder what those people in the comment section have contributed to the music industry to justify such statements...
That's easy, it's just a bunch of mentally prebuscent assholes who think they know anything about music, and think their opinion is a statement. Can't appreciate skill or have the hearing to comprehend what is going on. There are many factors that play on it, and between these, there's also jealousy.
amazing as always, Those double jointed fingers work to his advantage so well.
中3の時、はじめてNV43345を聞いてぶっ飛んだ！
あれから35年。ビリーはまだ現役バリバリ！
いつまでも活躍し続けてください！
He made a Nintendo System out of a Bass Guitar. Brilliant!
Tem que falar que é bom né?! Lindo! Esse solo é muito lindo! Que som lindo! Da pra ouvir por horas!
Met him last year after a small club show in NH. Very nice and approachable guy. Most of the night was just great groove playing. He plays the same way whether he is playing for a few hundred people or 20k. A real musician’s musician. Thanks Billy, please come back and see us again soon.
I met this guy at a small bass clinic in Michigan and he was such a nice guy and eager to show techniques and share his love for music he was just such a wonderful musician and human being
Nobody:
Billy Sheehan: I bought the whole bass, I'm gonna use the whole bass
Just two words: MASTER BASS!!!!!!
I'm a simple man I see Billy Sheehan and I click!
I've played the bass since the early 80'es. I copy'd every great bassblayer, I could find.
Today I have developed my own style inspired by this man!
i loved him also when he was with Steve VAi. Grande!
Just cause you picked up bass cause it was "easier" than guitar, doesn't mean people, professional musicians, should limit themselves to make you comfortable in your own definition and guidelines of music. Music is subjectively enjoyable, and it is objectively wrong to call any piece "bad". This dude achieves amazing bass licks and great entertainment, (in my opinion, slow down) and I will always be open to experimenting with my bass to come up with new, inventive, and interesting ways/techniques to express myself on new levels with music. Constructive criticism is one thing, being boring and jaded is another.
Billy and Chris Squire are my wish who I could hold my own to which I never will be as good as either of them. And then there comes a kid Charles Berthoud that can make us all bow down and want to quit playing because his ability is truly earned and immortal. No matter how much one can practice Charles and a guy named Davy are honestly unreal and so amazing to watch. Being old school I will never lose any respect for the many players of our day however a new day has arrived. Live long and well Mr. BIG! You are very respected.I 👍✌️
I am absolutely in love with the tone and sound. Its so controversial bc its so unique and you love it or hate it and i myself am blown away
When I started bass I couldn't stand Billy, he was just a show off.. But the more I learn and play the more I see how great he is, and listening to his basslines in songs shows me that although he can do this, he always writes the perfect line, fast or slow, showing off when there's room and when the time is right, but always serving the song first. One of the greats for sure.
Glad you turn around.
I saw Billy and Steve on the Eat Em and Smile tour with Diamond Dave, OMG...
Omg just too much !! So much talent and technique all wrapped up in a concise solo !
I remember watching this many years back when I started bass, have grown up so much in my music since then. I enjoy doing the three finger technique and practicing it. Of course not as fast as Mr. Sheehan... but... someday.
Now that is how you make love to a bass
+Aidan Vig more like sexual assault
thats not making love to a bass. thats brutally raping it. for the most part
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Alonzo Zimucha i already made that joke and made it way better, get your own material bozo.
😗 love you
How the fuck does no one mention Sheehan on the best bass players list while fucking Flea and Cliff Burton are a must mention. It makes it so much harder to find legends like Sheehan.
+Wayne King you are so right. Billy is a great player but all technical & no soul. Reminds me of all those shredders from the 80's were everything was a pentatonic scale played at warp speed or some kind of classical music played with surgical precision. I have the Talus albums but really stopped listening & following him when he was with David Lee Roth's solo project & in an interview in guitar player magazine put down John Entwhistle, Chris Squire & Geddy Lee for being sloppy bass players & if they would learn to tighten up their fingers they could be good players. That's did it for me.
I have heard him play live with Steve Vai, he can play with soul as well as shred. Vai's style of playing and Sheehan's bass playing complement each other, and Vai is one of the most melodic guitar players around. Egos aside, Sheehan is up there with Tony Levin, Jack Bruce and Les Claypool in technical masters of the bass. I think he deserves more recognition, this guy is the Yngwie of bass playing(loves to shred but can also be very melodic.
Well, you can take a look at Erlend Casperen, take a look on yt, you will see art there, well, if they don't mention Billy in one list it's because they don't like him, and you should lnow that there is no better musican in any way, just different.
+Dingo D. Manhunter I think it's because 9 year old kids are easily impressed by nothing. They don't know any better.
+Dingo D. Manhunter dingo my friend you must fuck all these top ten list and make sure you go out and find out about people like I do Just a tip right there :)
absolutely love the video of him and Vai trading off licks at the david lee roth eat em and smile show. best of the best!
One of the best to ever do it. Top 5 on my list for sure.
this is like an ode to the gods
I can picture him breaking into my house at night and bass shredding
Now this is showmanship along with upper shelf musicianship!
The man is shredding on a bass, finger style, clearly just being a show off for its own sake, and it’s fucking KILLER. Anyone who looks at this and gives it criticism for being “not real bass playing” can fucking blow me. There are no rules in music, Sheehan is having the time of his life here, and it shows.
the term "bass groove -talibans"is almost as brilliant as Billy´s playing!
i love victor wooten more after watching this
Oof
you cant compare wooten to other bassists its just flat out not fair, most famous bassists would probably agree
Legend has it, he can hear the bass on and justice for all
SIMPLY THE VERY BEST EVER !!!
5:10 hes sweep picking with a bass!!!!!!!!! lol
justin g sweep fingering
LOve it
And that's my friends is called bass shredding...i went in a steve vai's concert with him in the bass,at the end he pushed the bass towards the crowd in the front ,telling them to slap it...it was cool man
Gracias maestro!
Legend has it that every time when he fingers a girl, he kills them.
This joke has been so overused it's not even funny anymore.
Who said it was a joke
Shawn Michaels playing bass? XD
d generation x
That spin at the end, what a great exhibition.
Now that’s how you go all out on a bass love it!
Backstage, after the show: "Dude! You did realize that we were playing Smoke On The Water, right?"
Mr. Sheehan: "No Billy, for the last time, you are Not getting a guitar. You need to follow Sheehan tradition and play bass like me, grandpa, great grandpa, so on,& so on...
Billy: "Ok FINE!! ...Hold my Beer!"
Mr.Sheehan: 😱😱!!
GREW UP WATCHING/WORKING WITH HIM IN CLUBS WITH HIS NY BAND TALAS... HE WAS THIS GOOD AT 20, AND THE SOLO ACT HASN'T CHANGED ALL THAT MUCH...
So many ebbs and flows in this solo. Amazing !