Bass Teacher REACTS | Red Hot Chili Peppers "AEROPLANE" | Flea & Chad Smith Have CRAZY Chemistry..

[@bassimprovjams3772]

This was much needed! “Soul to squeeze” ( from the cone heads 90s movie) will always be one of my favorite basslines ever! This was a treat! His signature basses are perfect! A Jazz body with a MM pup, flea has never lost his signature tone we all know him to have! Thanks for this Mark!! Your a beast!!!

[@chivobass]

He used a signature modulus "FB4" for years and then switched to fender for most of the stadium arcadium album in 2006. A fan had gifted him an extremely rare 1961 fender jazz bass in shell pink. The bass he used on this tour is basically a hybrid of his modulus fb4 with a fender bass. Last I saw it went for around 1800 on fenders website. He now also uses Ampeg amps since John is been back. A fender jazz bass thru an ampeg amp gets my dik hard just thinking about it. It's just so bassy.

[@LowEndUniversity]

Dang, I love when you guys come in to fill the blanks. Thank you! I always learn so much from the comments 💙

[@Cake_Doge]

If I remember correctly the body and the neck is also jazz type with the neck having graphite reinforcement like and unlike the modulus which is all graphite neck. When he first switched to modulus his request was to have the stingray sound with jazz bass plability. Despite the fender jazz being seen in californication and by the way music videos most were recorded with the modulus but stadium arcadium had the jazz bass mostly and I think the jazz bass is used again in this getaway album.

[@russellward4624]

Wasn't he using a music man for a spell?

[@Cake_Doge]

@@russellward4624 he was on musicman for the first 3 albums and played it live for mothers milk, bssm and ohm tours

[@booneh]

The walking bassline at the end is very reminiscent of the Parliament song “Flash Light,” which was played by Bernie Worrell on a handful of Minimoogs.

[@larrydavid6852]

That's a great observation. I love Flashlight and had never made the connection there.

[@kaynesantor8136]

Love me some flea. Mainly because he isn't crazy tachnical, like ham or wooten, but still amazing. And he does it using the tools I have. Which gives me hope for actually being good one day, after 20 years of sucking. He's a super inspiration. Even though I'm not super stoked on most of their tunes. They have more than a handful of bangers I truly enjoy. I love watching clips of flea and Chad just jamming. To me, that is the heart of the band.

[@relevantbrother8964]

I love their song Warped ..one of their heaviest songs from the earlier days.

[@AllofJudea]

Probably Dave Navarro influence

[@RPostVideos]

I've been to three Chili Peppers concerts since last September. The concerts were so amazing. The connection you feel with other people. The connection between the boys. The energy. OMG the energy. It's addictive and beautiful. ❤🔥🌶️

[@J7C3B]

Saw them a couple months ago in Syracuse. Best damn rhythm section around. Almost like they’d been playing together for 40 years.

[@LowEndUniversity]

Jealous!!

[@miked2445]

@J7C3B I see what you did there😁

[@robdubent]

I recommend either ‘Wake your mind up’ or ‘Don’t Dwell’ by 311. A lot of their songs have some great bass lines!

[@Rodri595RS]

Love that low action and heavy pulls sound. Flea marked my style and taste more than 20 years ago of how a bass should sound 😍

[@ericdrager6281]

This was great, I’ve been procrastinating asking for some Flea. Always appreciated his bass before I was even into bass. Californication, Dark Necessities, and Soul to Squeeze always stuck with me, I’m sure there are more complicated ones but these were classy basslines imo.

[@gabrielwalker4411]

Flea right now uses an ampeg amp SVT and he has a Signature active bass from fender it’s a fender bass with a lane pour pickup and it’s a signature active bass 😁

[@windshield9112]

Your breakdown of all these songs is amazing. Thank you

[@SJW82]

Flea & Californication was my Open Door to the Chilli’s…what an absolute monster on the bass!!!! One of the first song’s I worked out by Ear, was Around The World…It blew my mind when I picked it out 😂🤯😂

[@LowEndUniversity]

Nice! "Can't Stop" was the first song I heard. I played and practiced the hell out of it when I was younger. So good.

[@keiffermilford8866]

The power of equality has my favourite flea bass work I think

[@RPostVideos]

My daughter plays guitar, but recently messed around with the bass for the first time. It was cute. She was immediately in awe of the fact that Flea can jump around while holding that heavy beast and stay completely connected to the music being played by others. 😂

[@EastTexasPatriot]

12:08 I’ve always referred to Flea’s style of playing as “Punchy”. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@seanlowry7848]

Fender makes an active jazz that is basically a musicman stingray just made by fender. He switched to fender over the musicman a fee years back

[@LowEndUniversity]

I find that super interesting! Thank you!

[@zeedy1011]

Lol it sounds nothing like a Ray. It's a jazz bass body with a custom 22 frets P bass neck and a Lane Poor humbucker.

[@thegreatnamehere5684]

Great video and analysis, just subbed !! For the next Chili Peppers video, I’d suggest If you have to ask from the Live Off The Map (2001), it’s just such a great song with a wonderful jam in it, and I’d love to see you analyze it like you did in this video.

[@EastTexasPatriot]

Two months later… And I decided to rewatch this one. I cut out of the previous to look up Fleas gear when you asked. Well… I never came back. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Until now, and I have a suggestion for another RHCP song that is a good Flea song. “Charlie” I’ve always loved the ghost notes on the verses. That makes the groove to me! There’s a decent Live version at Lollapalooza 2006 that you could check out. 😎

[@LowEndUniversity]

Hey man!! Thanks so much, I’ve really been meaning to get back to RHCP, I keep forgetting I did this one. I’ll add to my list!

[@BradMcConnell-e6g]

Loving the analysis. First vid was tool and you nailed justin had to see if you had hit up chilis. Flea has always been one of my favorite base players just because of how much fun he has and how in sync he is with chad. Would love to hear your thoughts on dont forget me. Seems like such a simple riff but its hands down my fave rhcp song.

[@edwinacosta1354]

The bass he's playing is his Fender signature! Limited run.

[@andycatchesfish]

Can we get some Death?

[@LowEndUniversity]

Coming next week! Stay tuned 😎

[@PYH-Gattata]

More RHCP please. I love Flea's Bass.

[@commanderstarstrider7176]

I think it would have been better to listen to the studio version of this. It is much better. Coffee Shop from the same One HOt Minute album is also good.

[@FranBassARG]

Awesome as usual, mate!! You shoud have a gander at some stuff from Blood sugar sex magik, like: If you have to ask, Funky monks, Naked in the rain. Its simply one of the best albums in history. Really appriciate your style and the detailed reviews, keep'em coming! Now, for the geeky part🤓: Flea is known for using a lot of different types and brand of basses throughout his career. In the first RHCP albums he used a Wal and a MM Stingray, later a Fender JB 1961, then his signature Modulus Flea Basses (Funk Unlimited) with Lane Poor pickups. Nowadays he is using his new Fender JB signature models (both active and passive). In this performance he is playing a Fender Active JB signature which is essentially a jazz bass with an active circuit and a MM style humbucker (I know, i'm a big ass nerd when it comes to basses and gear)

[@LowEndUniversity]

Hey, thanks so much for stopping by, and for the nice words. Appreciate that big time! Thanks SO much for clarifying - I don't think I've heard of the Fender JB stuff...but I'm also not the biggest Fender connoisseur. I figured it was Fender at a glance, but there are so many luthiers and companies these days...

[@chivobass]

Ya I believe the stingray was during the one hot minute era. Then he signed with modulus and used the FB4 for Californication, by the way, and some of stadium arcadium. SA is mainly the fender 61 jazz. I guess he missed his single humbucker so he created the current one with fender.

[@LowEndUniversity]

Makes sense! His tone always has that aggressive, pitting humbucker tone - I think he gravitates toward that no matter what.

[@chivobass]

@LowEndUniversity ironically one of the most slap happy songs the chili's have where flea literally slaps the entire thing (with the exception of a fill or 2) is the song "tell me baby." You can youtube a video of him doing it with his 61 jazz from AOL sessions in 2006. I would love to hear how that one sounds with his current bass live. Chad's kick verse beat is also grueling and blends so perfect with the slap.

[@leandropereira2841]

MORE MORE MORE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 🇧🇷🇧🇷🌶️ GREAT VIDEO

[@PrizeWinningPig]

Flea is currently using his Signature Fender basses and Ampeg amps.

[@LowEndUniversity]

I'm bummed he's no longer playing GK...that's my favorite amp company, and I played them for so many years. However, it was Ampeg before that! 😎

[@adamscott4199]

I saw u asked about a song recommendation from Primus (Les Claypool) and you could do 'Tommy The Cat (Live)" or 'Jerry Was A Racecar Driver". Thx for the great bass coverage...

[@Vincent_Roy]

Thanks for the videos. It would be nice to have some Return to Forever on the channel !

[@RPostVideos]

As for songs, check out their two new albums. There are a bunch of jazzy Flea sounds coming from them both. Here are a few songs to start with. I love both albums. They are different yet the same from previous albums!❤ Aquatic Mouth Dance Eddie Tippa My Tongue Black Summer There are tons of live shows on KZbin from this current tour.

[@ПавелБузыкин-п1ж]

FLEA BASS🔥🔥🔥

[@RPostVideos]

Ok, I legit don't know crap about music gear, but I know that Flea plays Fender a whole bunch and he's got a video he did with Fender taking about his bass. It's on the Fender KZbin channel.😊

[@Morbid0007]

Find a live version of "Naked in the Rain;" has a great slap line and bass solo.

[@GUI27XD]

Dark necessites pls

[@JG12101994]

The writing in 'Transcending' from One Hot Minute is extremely fun and different for the band. But over all bass playing, it would have to be 'Apache Rose Peacock' or 'Sir Psycho Sexy' from Blood Sugar.

[@brandenwilson4378]

Charlie is a great bass part. Funky ass hell!

[@IWishUWereTacos]

I always thought flea played a jazz bass... but I'm also wrong about a lot of things 😂

[@LowEndUniversity]

A couple comments above hit me with the facts! Consensus seems to be a special Fender bass modified to be like a MM StingRay.

[@jeffhayes422]

How bout some deftones?

[@RiverLionn]

if some players have a "Punchy" style of playing, Flea has a "Drop Kicky" style

[@nthnhomz5802]

How about Funky monks bass lines

[@randomhero4198]

John would never play any songs off that album live

[@KyleS.1987]

Always been a fan of John's, but it's so lame he won't play Navarro- or Klinghoffer-era songs. It's very diva-ish.

[@twentyoneHz]

@@KyleS.1987john is annoyingly diva-ish.. he doesn’t even play all of his own rhcp songs; this year he played hard to concentrate for the first time ever

[@LowEndUniversity]

Such a weird thing considering John left on his own accord at the time, lol.

[@bassimprovjams3772]

@@KyleS.1987that’s pretty selfish considering he’s out there because of the fans and for the fans, maybe no one ever told him, “it’s not all about you John” lol

[@tommyriner9914]

@@bassimprovjams3772nah he been the best guitarist of this generation, I say he can do whatever he wants

[@leandropereira2841]

great video, please make a series of red Hot Chili Peppers, I would like your analysis with Hump de Bump, Soul to Squeeze, Otherside, the power of eaqulity (live slane castle) among others. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🌶️

[@randomhero4198]

Doesn't flee have his own signature bass? I've seen him demo it in a video but never live that I have seen

[@mutedmathamatician]

Think it’s a modulus. Can’t remember

[@alexeypolevoybass]

You refer to that demo where he didn't bother to even tune it properly?

[@MJ83CK]

This bass line is the one that Flea would re-record if he could. He doesn't think it's good.

[@Fragg13Rox]

While I agree Flea is amazing live, the quality on this is lacking a bit. Listen to the album version, so much cleaner. :)

[@zeedy1011]

just wanted to write this.

[@FM-qq2kk]

Suck my kiss Live- Bass line will drop your jaw--

[@guzziguy2011]

This is my favorite RHCP album. Grossly underrated and criminal peeps slam it. Jesus, why do fans always yearn for the angst when they’re mature adults? Like, you’re not 21 anymore, fyi. You’re fatter, slower, uglier and probably broke like many of us, so just enjoy while you can. And appreciate the diversity of album content.

[@timgonzales2891]

My god those vocals are offensive.

[@LowEndUniversity]

Well, the bass playing was out of this world at least 😎

[@noahreynolds6639]

Torture me or purple stain

[@PRESTIGEworldwide32]

Flea pretty much always kills it, but god damn anthony kiedis sucks. RHCP is great as long as you ignore him.

[@ghettobrown1121]

I appreciate the musicianship of rhcp but there could not be a more boring song...imo

[@mayabass24]

Yeah you're right, he played Modulus basses for many years. He had a fender pink relic signature jazz bass come out a few years ago which was really nice as well. I think he still plays it from time to time. This is his new Fender signature bass. It is loaded with an Aguilar humbucker pickup and an Aguilar preamp; The OBP1 or something lol. I played both of his last two signatures in a store and they are great! But I'm sad he left Gallien-Krueger 🥲

[@LowEndUniversity]

Dang...I was still stoked he played GK, but this video was 6 years ago. I played GK for so many years and worked with them. What a fantastic company making fantastic products. The most natural growl I've ever heard from a solid state rig.

[@tomfoolery5680]

As a kid I remember telling my mom "I want to be a bass player when I grow up.". My mom said "Son, you can't do both.".