You saw my reaction when he said it... I had no idea that was how he was going to open. It was very kind of him to make that reference and include so many of he fans who have been around the channel for a long time.
@@janekgwizdala I loved that intro..and your reaction too! 🙂 You have been(and of course you are!!) a massive influence and inspiration for so many of us around the world. Here in Italy, me and some friends had a chat named "hello coffee drinkers"(I know, it sounds a little bass-nerdy) just because of you. 😃
Ah man, my pleasure! Doesn't get a lot more legit than being blindfolded too! 🤣 Like I said in the video, such a nice feeling bass with so many useable directions to go in for any bass player. My first time playing one of your instruments, but I'm going to hazard a guess it won't be the last. 👍
The greatest thing about Ian is he is an unabashed fan of the bass and all things bass. He's the furthest thing from jaded...and as a player who is the same age as you guys (but kept music as my hobby instead of profession) his energy is so fun to watch. You guys are great together. Long live the coffee drinkers!
That was also way more fun than I anticipated! Hats off to Ian and Janek, both! I truly didn't expect to make it to the end of this video! I'm so glad I did!
Janek is such a force in the Bass and YT field. I so love the collab with SBL and to see the fun side of Janek with Ian! Crazy how Janek is able to play these different Basses blindfolded with the thrown in false harmonics too ... great footage!!! And yes, I know the time of the Vlogs too ;-)
Totally enjoyed this. I enjoyed the camaraderie and the playing and the humor. You have always struck me as someone who is almost obssessively(in a positive way) curious and studious and always up for something different, even if it's a bit uncomfortable...Good one, thanks to both of you!
I guessed at which basses Ian would pick and I was right about the majority of them but I did not expect the BB. Also I was also *so* convinced he was going to throw a Spector in there for sure. Big props to Janek for playing so well blindfolded like it wasn't even "a thing."
Great video! Amazing how your personal voice always comes through, regardless of the instrument. I also loved your interview with Ian. It would be great to see more of you two together and your individual approaches to different instrument and/or gear.
because of how much time he spent in Berklee bass sphere in his career, I assume he'd be able to guess any of the American boutique builders in a heartbeat (Ken Smith, Fodera, etc.)
That was incredibly FUN to watch. Great summation at the end around the goal being to have fun and make music. They’re all just tools for that. (Still incredibly fun to watch)
This video was very fun thanks for the idea and concept, you expose us to basses we may never get to play but had the delight of listening to you guys give us such a sumptuous experience 🎉
This was so entertaining to watch Janek! You made that smith sound so damn good! So are we having Stu on your podcast soon!?!? I absolutely love your loop jams!! You and Ian gel so good together! I loved this!
i'm not sure about the guees the bodyshape test, but that loop-part on the mike lull bass still grows on me. i looped that part for myself, but i couldn't get near to your fluid melody lines. great stuff and enough homework for the next days.
I loved the sound of the Fender Coronado. It's a bassy bass that sounds great when you are mainly in a supporting role in a band. I still think the different feel and sound of each bass affects the player much more than the listeners. In a recorded mix some the of unique sound qualities of each bass are less distinct. Live even more of the unique qualities are a bit lost in the mix. We tend to obsess endlessly about the tone of each of these instruments but I still it think it has far more to do with the player than the tool.
Brilliant video thanks Janek and Ian. You kind of have to get a Coronado now. When I first saw them I just thought they were one of the most cool looking instruments. They sound great too.
This video was infinitely entertaining! It was a trip to see you playing a bunch of basses that were outside your wheelhouse...but an ABSOLUTE TESTAMENT to the time you've put into the instrument! 👏👏👏 Serious talk - you sounded FANTASTIC on the fretless, despite being blindfolded in someone's basement in Minnesota 🤣Maybe a Coronado and a fretless are both in your future? :D (But now I need to run my fretless through my brand new HX Stomp XL [Thanks, Janek and Ian! 💖]) And don't forget the tone you got out of your Boutique Blindfold at the end!
Great advice about using whatever have well. Busted my arm recently and could only manage squier bronco while my strength came back because of weight and soreness. I'm used a 6 string bass. But honestly, the bronco is awesome. Be where you and love it.
Money talks & bullshit walks, showing how much of an utter legend Janek is! Thanks so much, two of my fav teachers/bass players in one video. That was great!!
Really really enjoyed this one. Ian and Scott are both fantastic. Also I wanted to congratulate you on Night Watch - to me it's your best album since The Space in Between which is one of my all time favourite albums.
It's a song called "The Last Dance" that I wrote for Bob Reynold's 2020 album "Runway" open.spotify.com/track/2KUcSoy2c0Jve29qW2lS0Q?si=9697e241a5e64400
What a great collaboration, I have so much respect for both of you fellas. Janek - your demeanour and playing got turned up to 11 with that Wal, and it sounded incredible. Just saying!
Amazing. It's so weird to play a new instrument after you get used to one. For the past 20 years I've play a six-string ESP tuned from low E to high F.
I love the music master too! I still have my first bass which is a music master. It was perfect for me having short scale when I was 9. Now I’m going back to the short scale having had lots of issues with rsi and neuropathy. Love your videos Janek!
I think I was served this from Scott’s Bass Lessons, but I can’t wait to explore Janek’s channel! 5 string, high c, looper, reverb and harmonics? Fantastic!
Janek I love what you said at the end. I connect to it very much, even though I have new multiple basses within the last few years, I spent almost 20 years of my playing life with just one or 2 instruments, and whenever, often, I would find myself in some situation without my own basses, I would figure out and play with the first piece of wood called "bass" we found in the area, and I always had great fun, music was always my only goal. But inside my head I always dreamt and still dream about gear, and Im pretty attached to my basses even the worst shitty ones....but I can easily say that the best gigs of my life were all on the baddest or only basse I had and on borrowed cheap basses..Im not a pro, just a regular player... but it is way more important to think like that, like put the music and the connection, also with fellow musicians and band mates, and audience, than to be identified and connected with the material world. We all love gear, and we always never be truly satisfied I guess. But we can be it differently. In this I still hold on mly older self with that mentallity "I just got my stadard passive JB, a cable, an amp and a cab, sometimes those are not even mine, but I play and I create the some of the most dearest memories in my mind. And it seems to be in total accordance with the fact of getting the true value of the things you have or experience, nothing in life is granted ever!!
Janek, could you please record that loop you made on the coronado bass and like make a song out of it or something. that was the one of the sickest things on a bass ive ever heard in my life.
Reminds me of this TV show in the 80s somewhere in Europe, I think Holland. They did a blind guess of a bass just by sound. Mark King was playing the bass and the contestant had to guess and it was so incredibly niche, but it was a thing.
I enjoyed this video so much!! Can’t believe you didn’t hand him a Spector…😂 Seriously: Had a big smile in my face the whole time. Please make another one like this, showing off your disgustingly amazing Bass collection. ❤
Just a question for Ian: I own a super mint conditions 1984 shedua facings mk1 and mine sounds way worst than yours... it also have been refretted and checked by the Wal company itself. i'm Still try to find the way to make it sound punchy ike yours without any success... Suggestions?
This was placed in my feed because I watch videos Ian is in. Janek handled this with aplomb, hats off. if anyone can tell me what that pedal it that makes it sound like an 8 bit vintage computer game bass line, I'd be very grateful. As soon as I heard it , it sounded like a must-have pedal.
This is crazy! How can we honestly believe he never knew there's such thing as a Thunderbird BASS when he's actually using the word Thunderbird to describe the Thunderbird he's bloody got in his hands!😂
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Ian brings a new level of silliness out of you and it's just wonderful. Two nuts in a sack 🎉
Two nuts in a WHAT??
"hello coffee drinkers" ...man, so many memories with these simple three words... ❤🙌
You saw my reaction when he said it... I had no idea that was how he was going to open. It was very kind of him to make that reference and include so many of he fans who have been around the channel for a long time.
@@janekgwizdala I loved that intro..and your reaction too! 🙂
You have been(and of course you are!!) a massive influence and inspiration for so many of us around the world.
Here in Italy, me and some friends had a chat named "hello coffee drinkers"(I know, it sounds a little bass-nerdy) just because of you. 😃
Thank you for the free commercial, Janek 😜😊🙏🙏 - Spencer Lull
You got the pedal board treatment - a vote of confidence!
Ah man, my pleasure! Doesn't get a lot more legit than being blindfolded too! 🤣
Like I said in the video, such a nice feeling bass with so many useable directions to go in for any bass player. My first time playing one of your instruments, but I'm going to hazard a guess it won't be the last. 👍
@@janekgwizdala means the world coming from you my friend. Can’t stress that enough 🙏❤️
The greatest thing about Ian is he is an unabashed fan of the bass and all things bass. He's the furthest thing from jaded...and as a player who is the same age as you guys (but kept music as my hobby instead of profession) his energy is so fun to watch. You guys are great together. Long live the coffee drinkers!
The Coronado loop was sick!
Can we more please sir.
This was such a treat. 50 minutes just flew by. Thank you, Janek and Ian!
That was also way more fun than I anticipated! Hats off to Ian and Janek, both! I truly didn't expect to make it to the end of this video! I'm so glad I did!
NOW I REALLY WANT JANEK TO RECORD A FULL ALBUM WITH A CORONADO 🤯
I give it a 100% chance of happening in the next 12 months...
@@janekgwizdala 🙏
Yes more please.
"mystery to me" was and still is one of the best albums of the 2000s. youre a legend. glad do see you are on youtube!
Janek is such a force in the Bass and YT field. I so love the collab with SBL and to see the fun side of Janek with Ian! Crazy how Janek is able to play these different Basses blindfolded with the thrown in false harmonics too ... great footage!!! And yes, I know the time of the Vlogs too ;-)
Totally enjoyed this. I enjoyed the camaraderie and the playing and the humor. You have always struck me as someone who is almost obssessively(in a positive way) curious and studious and always up for something different, even if it's a bit uncomfortable...Good one, thanks to both of you!
I guessed at which basses Ian would pick and I was right about the majority of them but I did not expect the BB. Also I was also *so* convinced he was going to throw a Spector in there for sure.
Big props to Janek for playing so well blindfolded like it wasn't even "a thing."
Great video! Amazing how your personal voice always comes through, regardless of the instrument. I also loved your interview with Ian. It would be great to see more of you two together and your individual approaches to different instrument and/or gear.
We had a Fender Coronado come through the store I was working at several years ago. Just a gorgeous tone and playability.
Janek knew that Wal as soon as he grabbed it.
It’s the weight.
He knew the Smith right off too
@@trance9158 yep!
because of how much time he spent in Berklee bass sphere in his career, I assume he'd be able to guess any of the American boutique builders in a heartbeat (Ken Smith, Fodera, etc.)
Cause of the mic setup it sounds like ian is yelling at you from like a room away, but that makes it funnier
Agree, turned out to be a nice addition to the format haha
I just bought a 1968 Fender Coronado bass, very glad that someone else felt the way I did when I picked it up! Instant music indeed
I really hope Janek will record the loop that he made with the Fender Coronotto. I would love where can go with that loop.
This whole video is a joy
I LOVE this video. Fun, goofy and also so cool to hear this parade of instruments twiddled by Janek.
That Thunderbird sounded gorgeous like wow. I did not expect them to sound that smooth
WAY too much fun! Thanks for letting us in the game!
PS. I want to see the blooper reel! Anyone else?
The Coronado! Of all the basses… he made music right away, and damn good too!
That was incredibly FUN to watch. Great summation at the end around the goal being to have fun and make music. They’re all just tools for that. (Still incredibly fun to watch)
This video was very fun thanks for the idea and concept, you expose us to basses we may never get to play but had the delight of listening to you guys give us such a sumptuous experience 🎉
Nice to see Janek from a different perspective . Great video !
you went to TOWN on the Coronado!! And Ian's sig bass! I wasn't expecting that with the Fender, but instantly into the zone...what a great video.
I can watch the both of you for hours on end. Entertaining, down to earth, geeking on bass stuff and just having tons of fun !
This was so entertaining to watch Janek! You made that smith sound so damn good! So are we having Stu on your podcast soon!?!? I absolutely love your loop jams!! You and Ian gel so good together! I loved this!
Stu is slated to come to the studio to film an episode of the podcast in early May. can’t wait!
What a pleasure having you in the same room!!!
I'm loving all the content with Ian! Definitely a lot of fun to watch!
Very fun video! You definitely need to do some more like this.
So much fun!!! Love IMA!
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I loved every minute of this. Such a fun hang. Wonderful choices and guesses!
absolutely awesome vid man, super interesting!
This might be my favorite video yet. Well done Janek!
i'm not sure about the guees the bodyshape test, but that loop-part on the mike lull bass still grows on me. i looped that part for myself, but i couldn't get near to your fluid melody lines. great stuff and enough homework for the next days.
I loved the sound of the Fender Coronado. It's a bassy bass that sounds great when you are mainly in a supporting role in a band. I still think the different feel and sound of each bass affects the player much more than the listeners. In a recorded mix some the of unique sound qualities of each bass are less distinct. Live even more of the unique qualities are a bit lost in the mix. We tend to obsess endlessly about the tone of each of these instruments but I still it think it has far more to do with the player than the tool.
Fantastic video! Would love to see a follow up with Ian in the hot seat! And that thumbnail is hilarious!!!
Give me an hour and I’ll give you a record. ~Janek Gwizdala, 2024.
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If I would have sold a Wal 17 years ago, I would cut the cameras and would ask for a 15 minutes of crying session. You handled it very well Janek! :))
I am LIVING for that Kubicki experience!!
Brilliant video thanks Janek and Ian. You kind of have to get a Coronado now. When I first saw them I just thought they were one of the most cool looking instruments. They sound great too.
Thanks guys, this was really interesting & fun ! Gear going missing, l think that happened to Primus recently.
Having said that, absolute joy seeing and listening to the video. Thanks both of you.
This video was infinitely entertaining! It was a trip to see you playing a bunch of basses that were outside your wheelhouse...but an ABSOLUTE TESTAMENT to the time you've put into the instrument! 👏👏👏
Serious talk - you sounded FANTASTIC on the fretless, despite being blindfolded in someone's basement in Minnesota 🤣Maybe a Coronado and a fretless are both in your future? :D (But now I need to run my fretless through my brand new HX Stomp XL [Thanks, Janek and Ian! 💖])
And don't forget the tone you got out of your Boutique Blindfold at the end!
Great advice about using whatever have well. Busted my arm recently and could only manage squier bronco while my strength came back because of weight and soreness. I'm used a 6 string bass. But honestly, the bronco is awesome. Be where you and love it.
What a nice video. I felt like I was quietly sitting with you guys in the same room. 50 mins just flew by!
I really enjoy this video. You guys give me so much fun I feel like I was in Ian's basement. Thank you !
Money talks & bullshit walks, showing how much of an utter legend Janek is! Thanks so much, two of my fav teachers/bass players in one video. That was great!!
Really really enjoyed this one. Ian and Scott are both fantastic. Also I wanted to congratulate you on Night Watch - to me it's your best album since The Space in Between which is one of my all time favourite albums.
Great job; it looked like it was good fun too!
That Coronado loop was awesome. Channelling some Skuli!
You guys are so fun together - go bass!
Really enjoyed watching this.... thanks gents!
Jesus what a boss of a bass collection
That's probably just a 5th of the collection. Or a 10th?
27:59 please does someone knows the title of the piece ? I heard Janek plays it several times in others videos… But I didn’t find it on spotify
It's a song called "The Last Dance" that I wrote for Bob Reynold's 2020 album "Runway" open.spotify.com/track/2KUcSoy2c0Jve29qW2lS0Q?si=9697e241a5e64400
What a great collaboration, I have so much respect for both of you fellas. Janek - your demeanour and playing got turned up to 11 with that Wal, and it sounded incredible. Just saying!
Amazing. It's so weird to play a new instrument after you get used to one. For the past 20 years I've play a six-string ESP tuned from low E to high F.
What is the effect starting at 9:40 ? I'm in love with this kind of sound
I love the music master too!
I still have my first bass which is a music master. It was perfect for me having short scale when I was 9. Now I’m going back to the short scale having had lots of issues with rsi and neuropathy.
Love your videos Janek!
I think I was served this from Scott’s Bass Lessons, but I can’t wait to explore Janek’s channel! 5 string, high c, looper, reverb and harmonics? Fantastic!
Loved the video... and is there a better sounding bass than the wal??
Janek I love what you said at the end. I connect to it very much, even though I have new multiple basses within the last few years, I spent almost 20 years of my playing life with just one or 2 instruments, and whenever, often, I would find myself in some situation without my own basses, I would figure out and play with the first piece of wood called "bass" we found in the area, and I always had great fun, music was always my only goal. But inside my head I always dreamt and still dream about gear, and Im pretty attached to my basses even the worst shitty ones....but I can easily say that the best gigs of my life were all on the baddest or only basse I had and on borrowed cheap basses..Im not a pro, just a regular player... but it is way more important to think like that, like put the music and the connection, also with fellow musicians and band mates, and audience, than to be identified and connected with the material world.
We all love gear, and we always never be truly satisfied I guess. But we can be it differently. In this I still hold on mly older self with that mentallity "I just got my stadard passive JB, a cable, an amp and a cab, sometimes those are not even mine, but I play and I create the some of the most dearest memories in my mind.
And it seems to be in total accordance with the fact of getting the true value of the things you have or experience, nothing in life is granted ever!!
It puts the blindfold on. It does what it is told!!
Lotion, basket, horses...
OMG, what a fantastic bassist! I love it!
Janek,
could you please record that loop you made on the coronado bass and like make a song out of it or something. that was the one of the sickest things on a bass ive ever heard in my life.
What a treat to see 2 “kids” having fun in a basement playing with their preferred toys, really funny, inspiring and refreshing. ❤
Great video! Super fun!
Janek - what a player. All under the fingers. String numbers, scale length, action - truly impressive 👏🏻
Great video I wish Janek would’ve used the looper with the Ken smith I love that bass and it sounded so good in his hands
You two have a great chemisty, enjoyed every second of it!
Reminds me of this TV show in the 80s somewhere in Europe, I think Holland. They did a blind guess of a bass just by sound. Mark King was playing the bass and the contestant had to guess and it was so incredibly niche, but it was a thing.
I remember that bit! The niche of niches.
This is a heart warming bromance. They are a string or two from being real musicians but i'm willing to let that slide this time :)
Thanks Guys - This was so much Fun !!
Countdown until Janek buys a Coronado!
Clock is definitely ticking...
Great Job!!! Loved this! Fun video!!!
So entertaining! Great blind bass shootout.
I had never fantasized about being blindfolded in someone else's basement until today. Now I'm shopping for liability insurance. Thank you.
That Wal killed everything!!!
I love Ian's collection so much he has so many cool relics
Very entertaining indeed. The shape give it away most of them. Next try it with just sound identification.
Loved the blindfolded loop!
Man that loop and solo on the lull, incredible! What is it??
Kind of loosely based on my tune The Last Dance that was recorded on the 2020 Bob Reynolds album “Runway”
Thank you, man, so beautiful, the tune is looping in the amp now. Thanks for the discovery
Someone has far too many basses. But lots of fun. I'm very impressed.
5:04 rizzler action
nice one. next time throw a cheapo squier or something just for fun!
What a great video! 😍😍😍 very much educating and funnnn🔥🔥🔥
such a cool idea !!!!!! thank youuuuu
I am honestly so surprised Ian didn't hand you a Spector bass !
I think he knew I might have been expecting that, and was really shrewd about his choices for the confusion factor!
What song are you playing at 8:20 ?
That was all improvised.
@@janekgwizdala It reminds me of something but I can't really say what, really nice riff
Awesome vid! Love this
I enjoyed this video so much!! Can’t believe you didn’t hand him a Spector…😂 Seriously: Had a big smile in my face the whole time. Please make another one like this, showing off your disgustingly amazing Bass collection. ❤
Just a question for Ian: I own a super mint conditions 1984 shedua facings mk1 and mine sounds way worst than yours... it also have been refretted and checked by the Wal company itself. i'm Still try to find the way to make it sound punchy ike yours without any success... Suggestions?
That ibanez fretless is the best one of them all followed closely by the wal. Great collection.. got me jelly over here Allison...
That Yamaha is an oversight, but overall... yeah.
This was placed in my feed because I watch videos Ian is in. Janek handled this with aplomb, hats off. if anyone can tell me what that pedal it that makes it sound like an 8 bit vintage computer game bass line, I'd be very grateful. As soon as I heard it , it sounded like a must-have pedal.
I'm using a combination of an MXR Vintage Bass Octave, with the Fredric Effects Bugcrusher for the sample rate reduction.
This is crazy!
How can we honestly believe he never knew there's such thing as a Thunderbird BASS when he's actually using the word Thunderbird to describe the Thunderbird he's bloody got in his hands!😂
Loving the love for dUg.
What song is he playing at 8:54? Is that a Sting song?
That's was improvised in the moment.