Well that was a good way to kick start a Saturday morning!  
Thanks Dave

I saw them a few times at Pier 84 in NY in the 80s, fantastic stuff! All four guys really worked hard with great energy!  One night they were introduced by a DJ on one of the NY radio stations who gave them great praise.  Adrian slyly asked, then why don't they play their music more often?!

I saw them a few times at Pier 84 in NY in the 80s, fantastic stuff! All four guys really worked hard with great energy!  One night they were introduced by a DJ on one of the NY radio stations who gave them great praise.  Adrian slyly asked, then why don't they play their music more often?!

Saw them 3 weeks ago in Edinburgh. Tony Levin and 3 drummers!. Fantastic 'greatest hits' show although they didn't say a word to the audience all night.
 
Graeme

You had me at Tony Levin. I was all over Peter Gabriel's first album (especially because Levin plays tuba and upright bass, like me) to the point where I bought a 10-string Chapman Stick for an astronomical price, only to find out I can't play the damn thing.  
 
The bass strings are in the middle, with the highest strings to the outside. From your chin, the first five strings are tuned in 4ths - high to low, remember. Same tuning as bass, but the pitches are reversed.
 


 
 
See what I mean? Wrap your brain around that, then add the fact that you're playing with BOTH HANDS. Yikes! Like all true masters, Tony Levin makes it look easy. Next time you hear Sledgehammer, do the pat your head and rub your belly, then switch thing to get an idea of what it's like to play that on Chapman Stick.
 
Y'know, I was going to cut 'n paste something about Tony Levin, but since Dec. 8, 1980 I've always thought of Tony Levin as the bassist on John Lennon's Double Fantasy. It's comforting in a bass-centric way, somehow. So just take a moment and see how many Tony Levin bass lines you know in your head, but didn't know they were his;
 
http://www.papabear.com/discography.html (the further down that list you go, the more staggering the discoveries.)
 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Levin
 
He's created masterpieces with everyone from King Crimson to the Bulgarian Women's Choir. (You have to hear Tony Levin with Terry Bozzio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_Dangerous )
 
Please think of this as an addendumb to Dave's KC post: Tony Levin, Bill Bruford, Jan Hammer and the 1988 version of Eddie Van Halen jamming for Les Paul:
 

 
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Ed, as extensive as the list of Tony's recordings is, they left this one off - http://www.levinminnemannrudess.com/
 
It's a collaboration with Marco Minneman & Jordan Rudess. It stayed in my CD player in my truck the 1st 2 months I had it, good stuff!

I once saw TL at a Trace-Eliot showcase, after G****n bought them, and he was featured in those print ads.  He'd demo several Trace rigs with his usual MusicMans, then he suddenly whipped out the Chapman (this was after he demonstrated his technique with those sticks on his fingers) and began to play that crazy intro to that Crimson tune.  It was fabulous in that he admitted he never forgot how to play it, but he couldn't explain HOW he played it !
 
I always loved that picture on the NS Design website with Tony onstage with PG with that full-length NS upright strapped on (but at times, he really does look like G Gordon Libby:  I'm sure he must cringe!).
 
One of my favorite times I saw him was back in the day, Cinemax ran a tribute to Les Paul, and one of the performances was EvH backed by TL, Jan Hammer, and Bruford, as all three of whom seemed to be saying, 'OK kid, try that elephant trumpet thing with us, and we'll SEE what ya got', and sure enough he did, and they didn't !
Glad you remembered it too, Eddie Z.
 
Joey

More .  Nice close up of tony on the stick.
 
Graeme

Right now I'm bedazzling myself helpless with the double CD Mike Porcaro: Brotherly Love. If you haven't heard it yet, you've probably missed one of the greatest musical jems there are around. ' Nuff said...

Not to say anything against Jimi, or Roy, or Buckwheat, or any of the 35,000,000 people who've covered it, but my favorite Hey Joe has always been .
 
Peter

Tedeschi-Trucks Band at this year's Lock'n festival with Bob W. joininig in on a couple of tunes.
 

Love ^that^ Brian!
 
Peter, here's another take on Hey Joe:
 

 
I met this Todd Parks cat (playing bass) last year at a local venue, but with his regular gig. One of the most impressive bass players I ever met, and a really personable guy too.

Nice, Gregory!  Mr. Parks is, indeed good, and so is Tim O'Brien - and I don't think I have ever not loved anything Jerry Douglas has played on; the best Dobroist of all time, period!
 
Peter

Giovanni Bottesini Concerto for Double Bass No 2 in B Minor  
 

 
I love it ! I have a long way to go and improve my playing______
 
 Wolf

Bottesini Gran Duo for double bass and violin  
 

 
I am on a Bottesini kick!  
 
 Wolf