My hero and inspiration for picking up a basss

@RHCPtv1

3 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@juliusrock4214

3 жыл бұрын

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@copsy87

3 жыл бұрын

Was brought up with their music and my first gig i went to was on my 12th birthday and was rhcp at Wembley arena in 1999, I've still got the t-shirt I brought and because of flea, I've played bass since I was 10 and he is the man!

@errollbrantley

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, meet him in new Haven during the positive mental octopus tour, I was fifteen. And have been playing bass since, I’m 47 now. My mom met him too. When I said I wanted to play bass she started playing me Ohio players, brothers Johnson, funkadelic and meters albums. She’s a white Irish woman and my dad is black. She played Curtis mayfield and my dad played zeppelin and Hendrix, Black Sabbath and dp, I was a skate punk listening to beastie boys and jfa, bauhaus, husker du, black flag, descendants and suicidal, so flea brought it home, then I found fishbone and saw the truth and soul tour, 24-7 spyz, follow for now and primus. I was raised by the best, there are so many more I would ramble on

@888bam

3 жыл бұрын

He’s my inspiration for putting down the bass.

I was somewhere among that crowd. About 20 beers down and in tears of awe.

@justaleopardthatfellfromac5584

3 жыл бұрын

Ok

@phylazen5649

3 жыл бұрын

i was gonna call BS on the 20 beers, but then i remembered the one time i went to a redskins game with my dad and drank about ten in the parking lot tailgating then proceeded to drink 7 or 8 more in the stadium and finished off the, expected, loss with a few tequila shots at the bar LOL

@kefenuts3284

3 жыл бұрын

among?!? Us!?

@TheSwitch747

3 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you felt bro.

@justaleopardthatfellfromac5584

3 жыл бұрын

@@phylazen5649 stfu

Oh it's that guy from back to the future!

@v5r223

3 жыл бұрын

No. This guy from "The Big Lebowski"

@ancheta650

3 жыл бұрын

back to the future 2 and 3

@shinywalrus8856

3 жыл бұрын

No no no ur think of baby driver

@user-vs6ol5sc7e

3 жыл бұрын

What's the matter? Chicken?!

@electricfil

3 жыл бұрын

Son in law.

First time I picked up the bass after playing the guitar for years I realised how hard it is. To organise all your fingers to pluck, slap and pop strings on the bass is crazy. Then flea makes it look effortless and flies up and down the neck

@tehf00n

3 жыл бұрын

I found it a lot easier than guitar. You have to be a bit heavier handed because of the string gauge but with a good set of pickups you can counter that. What you can't counter is the techniques that apply to guitar over bass. Where guitar requires fine-tuned harmonics, and with some guitars an exact location between frets, the bass can get away with low end frequency distortion hiding some of the misses. If you listen to this solo carefully, you will notice it's actually really bad. He may have had bad monitors or something but his runs were inprecise and merely a quick-step noodle to the next note, which wasn't always the right one in the mode.

@pastry8281

2 жыл бұрын

Once you learn the technique it's not all that difficult.

@tylerlennon9955

Жыл бұрын

@@tehf00n “say you don’t respect bass players without saying you don’t respect bass players”

@dank5018

Жыл бұрын

​@tehf00n I agree this solo is not very good, but I also get a sense that you don't really know that much about modes

@annihilation777

Жыл бұрын

​@@tehf00n HAHAHA

I know Flea is a fan of Metallica, it sounds like he took a page out of the Cliff Burton book when he did this distorted bass solo. Flea is the man and an absolute killer god of a bass player that can play practically anything. I am a huge fan. Extremely talented dude.

@villian99918

2 жыл бұрын

The way he's playing mirrors a lot of Anesthesia too

@Amp5150

Жыл бұрын

soul to squeeze is his best baseline

@msh4281

Жыл бұрын

Bass solo take one...

@sullygaming1137

Жыл бұрын

Big Lebowski and more recently Kenobi

@avaleloc1513

Жыл бұрын

​@@Amp5150 fucking love soul to squeeze, every part of that song is perfect, especially the bass. Criminally underrated

This bass player has a promising future ahead of him.

@annanhildebrand9667

3 жыл бұрын

Yo where have you been the last 20 years?

@lesbomonky2528

2 жыл бұрын

@@annanhildebrand9667 j….j….joke undetected

@purifiedwater4217

2 жыл бұрын

@@lesbomonky2528 joke? What joke?

@nictimoulete7651

2 жыл бұрын

Douglas J. Needles agree with that

@AlexOshino

2 жыл бұрын

@@purifiedwater4217 Irony

We want new album. We're dying for this 😭

@matthewflynn2164

3 жыл бұрын

Dude, John is back and they are working on it as we speak! 👍🏻👍🏻

@fabricio.almeida3

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewflynn2164 that's why I'm dying lol

@fabricio.almeida3

3 жыл бұрын

@Lillian spears don't you like red hot chili peppers?

@fabricio.almeida3

3 жыл бұрын

@Lillian spears got it, what kind of music do you like?

@fabricio.almeida3

3 жыл бұрын

@Lillian spears where you from?

✳️ *Around the world incoming*

@nightshadespectre409

3 жыл бұрын

I could literally tell that was the next song to play just by the bass tone! LOL And I’ve never seen this live show.

@jaredmarshall9439

Ай бұрын

That last chorus tho lol

I was there! Remember listening to around the world from this set on BBC iPlayer a few times over the following days as it blew me away

loved this playing since the beginning, controlling so many Technics and still hanging kept his place in the whole synchronicity of the band...awesome player and truely one of my heroes. Even love the compassion which is often misunderstood by anger or temper. a driven sou lwith a golden heart ❤

Reading the comments on here gives me the impression that some people just hate Flea because he's popular. Nobody cares that your favorite jazz snob bassist can play a superhypermetamegaultraepic locrian passage in a 420/69 time signature in their sleep. I still don't think that bass is a solo instrument, but if one MUST do it, throwing on some dirt and playing with attitude will get the average listeners attention. Which (fun fact!) makes up the majority of most audiences. Flea gets people moving, either with the band or solo, and has stage presence. Music is not a meritocracy, and it never should be. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

That extra sound that comes from hitting the strings super hard with your pick hand is something only a bass player will understand.

I absolutely love flea as a musician and an amazing human being!

Saw them live in Cologne back in 2016. Flea played a similar solo as the intro Jam for Around the World. The whole Arena was shaking! miss this night...

Flea is a stud ! Great solo ! ❤

😮Le da para mucho más. Lo que hace la vida no? Groso!!! Gracias por tanto!!!

Why Needles and Marty McFly never recorded together is one of music's big mysteries.

@Vortigan07

2 жыл бұрын

"He's an asshole"!

@zackzallie8735

2 жыл бұрын

"What's the matter? Chicken??"

Everything about him is beyond this world, legend

Go flea! Your my favourite bass player and when I play my bass I really imagine me being just like you when I grow up

Feels like they’re about to go into Around the World!! 🤘🤘

Always a crazy outfit, always a great bass sound. Flea is so adorable and magical. Such a nice guy and best friend of his band members. I like RHCP since beginning and forever. 🙏❤️👏❤️👌❤️🤗❤️

Thanks Flea.😀🦘💜

I could listen to RHCP all day long.

He still has it He will never lose it Rock Forever

Mostro fleaaaa ! 🎸🔥🤘🏼❤

A solo by a bass player is quite rare. This pushes the woofers to their limits.

Just got done with Acid for the Children, didn’t think I could love him anymore

We love You Flea - and we Love Federico Miller - Johhny Frushiante 4 ever Àmen Greetings from Magyarország

loved his playing since he beginning ,wide spectrum of Technics and a keen ear stating in line with the sinq of the band.. fucking straight A

Awesome! Chili peppers I think are one of the most talented bands out there.

Wow, I have the same pants! I only wear them at funerals and court appearances.

Mmmmmmmm i love this solo

Flea is the heart and soul of funky 90s rock.

Actually, FLEA influenced me a long time ago on bass also. I went on to singing and writing, but the best thing by far about the RHCP is this man's bass chops. He could probably have a solo career just going around doing crazy instrumental shit, and I kind of wish he would.

So awesome

i owe everting to this man and this band, with what I became as a musician. still to this day i have no shame in admitting that my whole style image and ability on stage originated, stemmed and grew from this man playing bass. 2002 i had never picked up a instrument in my life......current music at the time to me was a unknown, i was born and bred on the 70s, Zeppelin, purple, who, sabbath, Floyd and the rest . But for the awful fear of been left out of social groups in high school with a number of new bands starting to form, everyday, i came out with the words to my friends...I'll learn the bass!!!.. I then went through life changing problems and struggled with life in general from some time then a song called Brendan's Death Song came on and it change everything . until from then on I went on a absolute unbelievable Journey teaching my self everything about bass and taking lessons from amazing tutors' (Ben, if you are reading this its Deane Peacock and i mean you!!!) on bass to a point where no teacher local to me could get me any further. only then did i realise just how fantastic a bassist cloud be, i learned everything from all the best. but still only one man sat deep inside me with how i wanted to play. i then counited my journey to write records with a home based bands that sold well on the likes of iTunes, Spotify, and KZread while continuing to play with the energy, passion and raw funk that flea had implanted on me. unfortunately the band split. but still to this day nearly 7 years since i last played live, ill pick up that bass up and give it everything i have. every inch of skill. just like flea always has ,110% passion, heart, emotion and love for music untill the day i can no longer hold a bass in my hands. Flea (Michael Balzary) i thank you to the bottom of my heart for the bass.

Gotta Love Flea 👌🏿!!

Even his bass is sweating 😮

The spirit of Hillel Slovak lives on in the Peppers music. Back in the day he took Flea under his wing and taught him how to play bass guitar. Decades later, Flea would still get emotional when talking about the experience. Flea knew that being in a band was a huge deal to Slovak, and the fact that he chose him, a guy that had had never played bass before, to fill that role in his band made Flea feel wanted and loved, a sentiment he did not find in other areas of his life.

@WilDBeestMF

2 ай бұрын

This is a lovely story, but it's wrong in its entirety. Well before Flea ever met Hillel, Anthony, Jack Irons, etc he was an accomplished trumpet player and was well into playing bass by then too.

A true bass legend

Hitting it hard with his right hand finger atttack! With authority! my friend. :-)

Holy shit that speed is incredible!! 😳

My second favorite bass player

This was at reading and Leeds 2016 I remember watching this with my parents a week before I started year 5 ( 4th grade) and I think it was before around the world and I think it was the first time I saw them performing it with Josh.

@STDGaming99

3 жыл бұрын

I was there. You r correct

@anythingspossiblemusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thought it was and I was there.

That's dope

I play drums but Flea is starting to get me into Basses

@gamesmaster1060

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah same, I picked up bass a few weeks ago

O melhor contra baixista do mundo! Henrique, de Campinas, estado de São Paulo, Brasil!

I was watching a video of Nikki Sixx performing a bass solo. Most comments praising his bass playing skills. Then this video shows up on my recommendations. Well I’m not much of a RHCP fan, but this Flea guy sure can play!

incredible bass player!

i was backstage at RHCP. Every person was cool as hell. Anthony wouldnt even acknowledge me. Like imagine standing right next to someone saying Hi...hello...reaching ur hand out and they just denied your existence.

Woooow AMAZING FLEA!!!! THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! Thank you so much lovely friend. I LOVE YOU!!! ❤❤❤😘 Keep it up! 🎸❤🎸❤ Big Like for you

Anybody who cares, watch the old interview with flea and River Phoenix. It is truly epic. Flea is brilliant.

That bass looks just like you think it would. He whoops it’s ass on a daily basis! Wow!

Great🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Somebody told me that bass is boring without the guitar forgot his name but he commented on the video when John Frusciante breaks his string in the 1999 brazil performance which was uploaded by this channel well it was an amazing solo from I'm huge flea fan it's been years they've realeased a new album I know how much it takes to realese an album I think because of covid everything is getting delayed and they announced They'r working on an album let's wait for the mean time

Love thiiiiiis

Flea eres un genio en ke nivel estas idolo❤❤❤

Esto es como droga 💊❤

Dope

The Hendrix of bass

Flea has always been great, Flea is great now, Flea will always be great

MARK KING.......GRACIAS

The first time we can truly say that we really can hear the bass

Rhcp are the best one of the best to ever do it

This guys is good bass of the world

It's wild to think this is the man who voiced Donnie off of the wild thornberrys. Go Donnie, go!

"Well, a, good god damn," Bootsy Collins' reaction to Flea's dope ass bass solo.

Oh boy!!!

I've played that solo a couple of times. Mine always sounds better but then I wake up. Love me some Flea

Good video always succes for you

over the top playing

The things he did on Mother's Milk still gives me chills 😳

A Fender Jazz with a MM pickup? Never seen that before

Michael Peter Balzary (Melbourne, Victoria, 16 de octubre de 1962), conocido como Flea, es un músico, bajista y actor australiano-estadounidense. Es uno de los fundadores de la banda de funk rock Red Hot Chili Peppers. 61 AÑOS. (62) 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝

I'm about to start crying 😭😭😭, he's sooo fricking good 😭

Es un asombro bajista

Happy Birthday, Flea! :)

💗💗💗💗💗

❤️

I still miss fleas modulus tone although this is similar that modulus just had a bit more of a bite to it

Wow

In the world of modern darkglass, he still love his old ass ODB3 . What a loyal man

Incredible solo.. wait a second..yes I am smoking something..

"That's so adorable!" -Billy Sheehan.

INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Juossssss Idolaaaaa😍😍😍😍😍😍👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

Best player ever,

Im hereeeee

I hope someday learn how to play bass!!

🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍

Cool😎

Shavo Odadjian (System of a down) and Flea got me in to playing bass guitar :) They're my inspiration

@Jerry-yd8pj

11 ай бұрын

I tried learning Subway to Venus yesterday and now all my fingers hurt and I pulled a muscle in my left forearm. \m/ fuck yeah. I'm stuck on the outro though, and I'm not fast enough yet to play the first barr.

flea is just godlike

Flea top top top 🎸🎸🎸🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

They should do a sports science on this dudes forearms

Beautiful!

Incredibly clear bass tone live he has built

The funny thing about this title is it applies to every Flea bass solo.

🤯🤯🤯❤❤❤

God