I started on bass in 96. I was into everything and dug guys like Stu Hamm, Billy Sheehan, Michael Hedges etc. It's criminal that I never even came across this guy's name. Glad to see he's gotten a few viral videos - they certainly were hidden gems at some point and looks like there's a few more.
When I watched Selene's "Live On Toronto with Don Ross & Michael Manring" video when I was thirteen, I was truly fascinated and it increased my interest in the bass guitar even more. Now I am twenty seven years old, of course it's still impossible for me to play this well, but I still watch your videos with admiration and pleasure. Long live Michael and thank you for everything!
As an amateur bassist and lover of the instrument, I am drawn to watch the mechanics of how you play, but as a lover of your music as a listener, I always find myself with my eyes closed so as to not miss a single note or tone. And the grace of that song… man! every time just takes me to a higher place. The recording quality was also outstanding on this one.
As a bass player myself (using the term very loosely in your company) I'm very late to the Michael Manring party. More than making up for it now having discovered you! Truly hypnotic, what a performance
It's late night in early November, Halloween is still in the air. What a beautifully eerie song. Definitely suits my environs atm. And i really appreciate that there is nothing gimmicky going on here despite the zanniness of the bass. It feels like that composition couldn't be played any other way, the form of it seems to precede the function, if that makes sense. A truly singular voice on the bass
The way you play is incredible ! And this piece of music is so deeply emotional ! One of the most sensitive tunes i heard in my life. Thank you so much.
I just wanted to say that you are a huge musical inspiration to me, and this is one of my all-time favorite compositions by anyone ever. Your playing has continued to improve and become more evocative over the years.
I cannot begin to understand what is happening technically, but the music speaks to my soul. I get the feeling I got when I first heard Michael Hedges in 'Aerial Boundaries', someone giving an instrument new wings.
This beautiful piece of music sends me on a hypnotic journey that I don’t want to end. Also kudos to the camera man for the great videography and also to Zon for having the balls to create an instrument that didn’t exist before. I read somewhere that Michael had a very hard time finding someone to bring this masterpiece of an instrument to life.
Thank you, Ricardo! You're right -- it was hard to find someone willing to build an instrument like the Hyperbass and I'm very grateful to Joe Zon for taking on the project.
I am a metal dude for the most part. My friend Ryne was kind enough to show me this piece several years ago. I was literally brought to tears upon the first listen. It is a beautifully haunting song. I was immediately a fan of Manring and sought out the material in this vein.
Same here. And I'm a metal bassist. Manring and Pastorius influenced me to the point where I primarily play fretless. Such expression. Such influence these people have. Quite beautiful.
I would say when I saw many years ago first live version of Selene I was shocked. Now I shocked more. As bassist I wan't say Michael changed my mind and vision of bass guitar. Bass not just for groovy lines. Bass as a singer instrument. Every musician and instruments around the world have soul. Michael through his play taught me to look my bass different. Everything in this video perfect. Tone, tunning, techniques. And ofcourse the bridge. This still a big question for me) All of my heart Michael - biggest Thank you. You really changed me.
This has always been one of my favorite pieces since I first heard it. If it was possible for a laser to wear down a CD my copy of Thonk would have need to have been replaced multiple times. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent with us all.
Thank you Michael for “drawing” such beautiful musical paintings 🙏 Music is far beyond you’re technique, which is already huge and In all evidence only at the service of the latter. Thank you
I had this playing on an endless loop through my head today, trying to figure out what it was. After an entire day of frustration, I layed down and remembered 'oh! It's Michael Manring!' so happy I found this song again after so many years
I came from the instagram post to watch this entirely, what a beautiful music! I remember probably like 13 years ago, a teacher show me your music but when I came back home I couldn't remember your last name, so I spend like three hours on the internet googling "michael bass player" until a found you ! It did totally worth it !
Brings me back to the first time I heard you play this live at, I think, the Jazzschool in Oakland. It was with me for days and days afterward. Thank you, brother! See you at Musicarium in July. :)
Morbidly soothing. The sounds tranquilize to a point of being ok with the end of it all, if this was the last thing to hear, though elevating the feelings of gratitude and eagerness to face another day. Thank you Mr. Manring. Thank. You. (all is good with me and this is not a declaration of intentions. Just what I felt to share after the trip of listening to Selene)
I am convinced that he is some kind of magician that coaxes sound out of wood and string and it casts its spell on to us and we travel to a whole new world as if in a dream
@@michaelmanring1 thank you for the reply i 1st heard your playing though a Michael hedges album (aerial boundaries) in 1985 and i have been a fan since that time
The first time I saw you Play this song was at Berklee College of music, you played a seminar right after Drastic Measures came out, and seeing you do live what I had only been listening to changed me forever.
Thank you Master Miike! It makes you get to a spiritual space that is so hard to get this days You are unique..and your soul is too, thanks for this wonderful Music!
I still can´t figure out, how can you have so many notes and scales and ideas in your mind...while playing this tuners' changes.ajajaj And never will. But ...that's part of the Magic! Really admired !
Michael Manring🕊Beautiful soul🕊Beautiful artist 🕊Beautiful🕊Music 🙌🏻“Selene” 🌝 Masterpiece 🎸Brilliant + clear🎸 🕊“Bass…the most beautiful sound in the world…"Manring🥳
I have loved this composition since it was released on Windham Hill Guitar Sampler Vol. 2. This is by far the best live representation of it I have heard to date. The execution and production are mesmerizing. It's really like a mantra I could listen to for an hour.
Since The book of flames, your music is inspiration for me. It is for me a spiritual experience. Music is so much more, than sound. Stay healthy and keep the melodies singing.
Very nice to hear ! I discover your Sound by Watching songs of Michael Hedges, and by listening the Beautiful "In lake'ichn, you made with Calum ! These notes, the écho and Harmony between the notes are really nice and relaxing ! Awsome way of playing bass ! Thanks Michael.
@@michaelmanring1, I can't because I had to receive my second vaccin Pfteizer-Biontech on 26th of July. I saw Andy in Marseilles in 2016, Calum in Paris 2019, so I could discover the world of fingerstyles. I saw you in vidéo playing with Michael Hedges, really BeautifuI ! I like the sound of Guitars, I'm a fan of Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I travel to Canada in 1994, Québec-Ontario but I never came to USA. The Bandcamp of Andy in Santa Rosa is surely Fantastic, place, Guitarists ! I hope I can see vidéos. Thanks to answer. Have nice concerts if you can.
Hey Michael………………I’ve got a playlist I go to sleep to every night to relax………………….this song is on it about five times, along with Come With Me My Love, I Left America, and A Better Place…………and then some Enigma songs, some Peter Gabriel like Mercy Street, This is the Picture, Blood of Eden and such. A few mellow Tony Levin songs. All of your albums are terrific. Hope to watch you in person some day, take care bud.
Michael makes statements which indicate that he thinks of himself as a bit of a weirdo. I disagree- he's an under-rated genius, and the composer of some of the most beautiful solo bass works I've ever heard. My wife and I saw him perform Selene and other tunes in a small winery in London, Ontario back in the mid-2000's. Guitarists Don Ross and Andy McKee were there as well, and it still remains one of my lifetime favourite concert experiences...
This will forever go down as one of the most beautiful and inventive song ever to be created on the electric bass.
Agreed!
Thank you 🙏🏼
This cant be said enough
Yes yes yes
I never ever get sick of hearing those harmonics shift when you change the levers, there's nothing like that sound. It's nearly ethereal
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This isn't only music, it's also magic
Thank you!
As a creature from another galaxy, Michael has done a tremendous job assimilating to Earth
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I found this in the early days of CZcams when it was still a search engine on the CandyRat channel. Absolutely love this song.
Thank you!
@@michaelmanring1
I started on bass in 96. I was into everything and dug guys like Stu Hamm, Billy Sheehan, Michael Hedges etc. It's criminal that I never even came across this guy's name. Glad to see he's gotten a few viral videos - they certainly were hidden gems at some point and looks like there's a few more.
It’s kind of ironic. You mention Michael Hedges, as Michael Manring collaborated with him quite a lot I think.
The emotional power behind this song is freaking massive.
i will never get tired of watching and listening to you play this brilliant piece
Thank you, my friend!
When I watched Selene's "Live On Toronto with Don Ross & Michael Manring" video when I was thirteen, I was truly fascinated and it increased my interest in the bass guitar even more. Now I am twenty seven years old, of course it's still impossible for me to play this well, but I still watch your videos with admiration and pleasure. Long live Michael and thank you for everything!
Thank you!
As an amateur bassist and lover of the instrument, I am drawn to watch the mechanics of how you play, but as a lover of your music as a listener, I always find myself with my eyes closed so as to not miss a single note or tone. And the grace of that song… man! every time just takes me to a higher place. The recording quality was also outstanding on this one.
Thank you, Joel!
Beautiful performance, Michael!
Thank you, Zander!
It´s very comforting, it made me fell undestood among those harmonies.
Thank you very much. a beautiful song.
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As a bass player myself (using the term very loosely in your company) I'm very late to the Michael Manring party. More than making up for it now having discovered you! Truly hypnotic, what a performance
Thanks so much, Robbie! I hope I get to hear you play sometime.
Absolute Legend!
I love how the shine has worn off on the head stock where he's grabbed it to de-tune & up-tune the strings. Someone practices a lot.
Guilty as charged.
The greatest living bassist
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Michael, this is one of the most haunting pieces of music I have ever heard. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world.
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It's late night in early November, Halloween is still in the air. What a beautifully eerie song. Definitely suits my environs atm.
And i really appreciate that there is nothing gimmicky going on here despite the zanniness of the bass. It feels like that composition couldn't be played any other way, the form of it seems to precede the function, if that makes sense. A truly singular voice on the bass
🙏🏼
The way you play is incredible ! And this piece of music is so deeply emotional ! One of the most sensitive tunes i heard in my life. Thank you so much.
🙏🏼😊
I just wanted to say that you are a huge musical inspiration to me, and this is one of my all-time favorite compositions by anyone ever. Your playing has continued to improve and become more evocative over the years.
Thank you so much, Shane!
Beautiful song ,pure feeling
Extremely, Satisfying to my ears!
Incredible.
I cannot begin to understand what is happening technically, but the music speaks to my soul. I get the feeling I got when I first heard Michael Hedges in 'Aerial Boundaries', someone giving an instrument new wings.
I so miss Hedges 😢
@@michaelmanring1 WE ALL DO, he is how I discovered you, what a Pure soul he was
"Giving an instrument new wings" is a perfect description. Michael Manring has taken the bass guitar to places no one ever envisioned.
I can barely stand how wonderful this piece is....I'll carry this with me beyond this lifetime...and into the heavens.
I well up....every.....time....
Thank you so much ❤️
This beautiful piece of music sends me on a hypnotic journey that I don’t want to end. Also kudos to the camera man for the great videography and also to Zon for having the balls to create an instrument that didn’t exist before. I read somewhere that Michael had a very hard time finding someone to bring this masterpiece of an instrument to life.
Thank you, Ricardo! You're right -- it was hard to find someone willing to build an instrument like the Hyperbass and I'm very grateful to Joe Zon for taking on the project.
It's been a beautiful trip. Thank you!
That intro is pure sci-fi majesty. Michael this performance was out of this world.
🙂
I am a metal dude for the most part. My friend Ryne was kind enough to show me this piece several years ago. I was literally brought to tears upon the first listen. It is a beautifully haunting song. I was immediately a fan of Manring and sought out the material in this vein.
Thank you! I'm a metal fan myself.
@@michaelmanring1Man, I gotta know what metal you vibe with.
@@juno3242 I'm a fan of technical stuff - Meshuggah, Animals As Leaders, Cynic, Sepultura, Faith No More, Tool, Periphery, etc.
Same here. And I'm a metal bassist. Manring and Pastorius influenced me to the point where I primarily play fretless. Such expression. Such influence these people have. Quite beautiful.
I would say when I saw many years ago first live version of Selene I was shocked. Now I shocked more. As bassist I wan't say Michael changed my mind and vision of bass guitar. Bass not just for groovy lines. Bass as a singer instrument. Every musician and instruments around the world have soul. Michael through his play taught me to look my bass different.
Everything in this video perfect. Tone, tunning, techniques. And ofcourse the bridge. This still a big question for me)
All of my heart Michael - biggest Thank you.
You really changed me.
Thank you so much for your very kind words! I agree -- the bass is capable of creating all kinds of music!
Truly phenomenal 🙌
Thank you!
This is one of those magnetic songs that I always come back to. Fantastic performance - thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
What a fantastic song. So magically emotional.
This has always been one of my favorite pieces since I first heard it. If it was possible for a laser to wear down a CD my copy of Thonk would have need to have been replaced multiple times. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent with us all.
Thank you for the kind comments!
All I can say is MASTERPIECE!! Thanks for sharing to your talent with the world!!
🙏🏼
Thank you Michael for “drawing” such beautiful musical paintings 🙏 Music is far beyond you’re technique, which is already huge and In all evidence only at the service of the latter. Thank you
🙂 Thank you, Felipe!
Love this piece, more often than not moved me close to tears. So much conveyed by so little.
🙏🏼
What a beautiful sound ,Music 🎵 For My Ears and the Power of the Bass On This Hands
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Astonishingly Beautiful.
Amazing composition Mr. Manring. Best version yet, and I love the rich tone you got out your Markbass rig!!!
Markbass does good work!
I had this playing on an endless loop through my head today, trying to figure out what it was. After an entire day of frustration, I layed down and remembered 'oh! It's Michael Manring!' so happy I found this song again after so many years
🙂Thank you, Alexander!
Incredible. Have heard many times and never gets old.
Thank you!
Fantastic, as always!
Magnificent! Such emotional depth to this playing and composition along with virtuosic skill.
I came from the instagram post to watch this entirely, what a beautiful music!
I remember probably like 13 years ago, a teacher show me your music but when I came back home I couldn't remember your last name, so I spend like three hours on the internet googling "michael bass player" until a found you ! It did totally worth it !
Thank you so much! And thank you for your effort in tracking me down. I'm a bit hard to find!
Such a beautiful song.
I think it is the most beautiful song performed on bass.
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Was listening to you for many years, sir. Pure magic. Thank you.
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Brings me back to the first time I heard you play this live at, I think, the Jazzschool in Oakland. It was with me for days and days afterward. Thank you, brother! See you at Musicarium in July. :)
Thank you, my friend!
Morbidly soothing. The sounds tranquilize to a point of being ok with the end of it all, if this was the last thing to hear, though elevating the feelings of gratitude and eagerness to face another day.
Thank you Mr. Manring. Thank. You.
(all is good with me and this is not a declaration of intentions. Just what I felt to share after the trip of listening to Selene)
😊
One of my musical heroes. Thank you so much for your music and influence!
Absolutely haunting and elegiac
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I am convinced that he is some kind of magician that coaxes sound out of wood and string and it casts its spell on to us and we travel to a whole new world as if in a dream
Thank you for the kind words!
@@michaelmanring1 thank you for the reply i 1st heard your playing though a Michael hedges album (aerial boundaries) in 1985 and i have been a fan since that time
Beautiful!
The first 22 seconds is like an outtake from 'Apollo', (Eno/Lanois/Eno) Gorgeous track!!!!!! THANK YOU, Michael!
The first time I saw you Play this song was at Berklee College of music, you played a seminar right after Drastic Measures came out, and seeing you do live what I had only been listening to changed me forever.
Many years ago! Thank you for remembering.
Powerful !
Beautiful !
Phil.
Holy wow... that ending! Put on headphones gang.
Michael, that's brilliant and stunningly gorgeous. I'm so glad you continue to evolve your pieces.
Thank you so much, my friend!
Just breathtaking
Oh my god what a genious you are! First time i heared song from dvd i was crying. Hello from Ukraine!
Watching you play this always inspire me to continue playing my bass.
Amazing work as always Michael. :)
🙏🏼
Thank you Master Miike!
It makes you get to a spiritual space that is so hard to get this days
You are unique..and your soul is too, thanks for this wonderful Music!
I still can´t figure out, how can you have so many notes and scales and ideas in your mind...while playing this tuners' changes.ajajaj And never will. But ...that's part of the Magic!
Really admired !
Michael Manring🕊Beautiful soul🕊Beautiful artist
🕊Beautiful🕊Music
🙌🏻“Selene” 🌝 Masterpiece 🎸Brilliant + clear🎸
🕊“Bass…the most beautiful sound in the world…"Manring🥳
I love how it’s a completely different way of playing the bass. Of thinking bass. Of hearing bass.
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I have loved this composition since it was released on Windham Hill Guitar Sampler Vol. 2. This is by far the best live representation of it I have heard to date. The execution and production are mesmerizing. It's really like a mantra I could listen to for an hour.
Thank you so much! It's been lovely to explore it all these years.
So incredibly beautiful. Thank you
This is one of my favourites of yours Michael , I'm happy to see its available on bandcamp and I hope to see you live in concert one day ✌
Thanks, I hope so, too!
I literally just saw you live and my jaw was on the floor. Thank you for being awesome!
😊🙏
Wow! My favorite bassist of all time! Thank you brother!!!
Thank you, Tommy!
grande
Nice work 🤘🤘🤘
Wonderful. That sounded heavenly. This rig is worthy of your playing.
Thank you so much!
Beautiful composition and excellent video editing as well!!!
Thank you! I'm getting there little by little 😄
@@michaelmanring1 Thank you for setting new levels of creativity!!
Just wow. Michael.
The song is from somewhere else.
so beautiful and peaceful, thank you, Michael!
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Absolute stellar performance! You have such a wonderful approach to the modern electric bass guitar.
Pure magic
Always goosebumps ❤️❤️❤️
Magica atmosfera creata come sempre con gusto e una tecnica incredibile.... Sei geniale, grazie per queste emozioni
Never gets old
This is fascinating . Nice vid.
Amazing Michael! Greetings from Chile!
Fantastic! 👏👏👏
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@@michaelmanring1 I didn't get that (all), due to a emoticon glitch...!!
Amazing just amazing :) thankyou for writing and performing this piece x
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You and this piece never grow old!
☺️
Top maestro!!!
Gah damn, that's the tastiest bass sound I've heard in a while, I'm marveled
Amazing music with a great tone! You're always my best bass player in the world!
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Bravo my friend! You are truly the G.O.A.T.!!! Much love & respect!
Thank you, Adam!
♥️♥️♥️♥️🎂
It’s not fair that one person has so much talent. But the world is better for it.
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Goddamn..... thats stunning
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So so so beautiful Michael
Thanks, Bruno!
The Master.
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Love love love!!!
😊
Hy Michael, your work is amazing.Wow.
The sound is fantastic.
I thank you, very much for this vid.
🙂
Since The book of flames, your music is inspiration for me.
It is for me a spiritual experience.
Music is so much more, than sound.
Stay healthy and keep the melodies singing.
@@patrickr12342 That's so kind! Thank you!
Very nice to hear !
I discover your Sound by Watching songs of Michael Hedges, and by listening the Beautiful "In lake'ichn, you made with Calum !
These notes, the écho and Harmony between the notes are really nice and relaxing !
Awsome way of playing bass !
Thanks Michael.
Thank you!
@@michaelmanring1 Have a beautiful Bandcamp with Andy, Calum, Trevor Gordon, and others friends. Hello from Marseilles.
@@marysefonta8371 I wish you could join us!
@@michaelmanring1, I can't because I had to receive my second vaccin Pfteizer-Biontech on 26th of July. I saw Andy in Marseilles in 2016, Calum in Paris 2019, so I could discover the world of fingerstyles. I saw you in vidéo playing with Michael Hedges, really BeautifuI !
I like the sound of Guitars, I'm a fan of Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
I travel to Canada in 1994, Québec-Ontario but I never came to USA. The Bandcamp of Andy in Santa Rosa is surely Fantastic, place, Guitarists ! I hope I can see vidéos.
Thanks to answer.
Have nice concerts if you can.
@@marysefonta8371 Thanks, Maryse! I'm glad you are getting the vaccine. Santa Rosa really is nice. Almost as nice as Marseilles!🙂
Sublime
magisch!
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Hey Michael………………I’ve got a playlist I go to sleep to every night to relax………………….this song is on it about five times, along with Come With Me My Love, I Left America, and A Better Place…………and then some Enigma songs, some Peter Gabriel like Mercy Street, This is the Picture, Blood of Eden and such. A few mellow Tony Levin songs.
All of your albums are terrific.
Hope to watch you in person some day, take care bud.
I'm so glad this piece has been helpful to you!
@@michaelmanring1 it’s an amazing song. What you can do with that bass, to bring out those tones and the notes you chose are just meant to exist.
@@jdssurf 🙂
Michael makes statements which indicate that he thinks of himself as a bit of a weirdo. I disagree- he's an under-rated genius, and the composer of some of the most beautiful solo bass works I've ever heard. My wife and I saw him perform Selene and other tunes in a small winery in London, Ontario back in the mid-2000's. Guitarists Don Ross and Andy McKee were there as well, and it still remains one of my lifetime favourite concert experiences...
🙏🏼😊
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