Lopsy Lu by Stanley Clarke (headless bass shootout) - Karl Clews on bass

My performance of Lopsy Lu, a bass solo piece from Stanley Clarke's self-titled second album, released in 1974. The original featured Clarke on bass, Tony Williams on drums, Jan Hammer on keys and Bill Connors on guitar. In this video, I use four different basses - my Bogart Karl Clews Signature 'Silver Surfer', a Status Graphite Kingbass Artist, a Status Graphite Kingbass Paramatrix, and a Schack Carbon B2 - in order to demonstrate the difference in tone between the four instruments. All four are headless, graphite-necked basses. The Bogart and the Statuses are all active with dual humbuckers, while the Schack is passive with single coils.

Recorded directly into Cakewalk Sonar Platinum, via a Presonus Audiobox. Video edited using TrakAxPC.

Karl Clews Signature 'Silver Surfer' bass by Bogart: https://www.bogart-bass.de
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