The Amazing Stan Sargeant - Bongo Nuts Beware

[Brian]

Bongo Fans - dig our good friend and endorsee Stan Sargeant on the bongo...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyyGjvRkZmw]YouTube - Stan Sargeant bongo bass solo[/ame]

-Brian

[Kirby]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing the link. That Bongo sounds awesome!

[Grand Wazoo]

Very nice, Al Jarreau is also a great singer, I have noticed Stan Sargeant plays leftie but with the strings upside down same as Jimmy Haslips. "Bass"ically as if it was a rightie bass turned upside down

Cool, way too cool

[strummer]

Great vid, lovely Bongo and what an amazing bit that was, with the intro to the song

[Oldtoe]

That kicked bootie!

[Big Poppa]

Beautiful...You have no idea how rewarding to see The Bongo in Stan's brilliant hands

[Psychicpet]

stunning, stunning, stunning.

and definitely no mistaking the tone of the Bongo!

seeing it strung the way that it is I can't help but think that Stan's bass' tension must be a thing of beauty. nice long E then decending to a shorter G (after the nut) ... awesomeness.

[MingusBASS]

Nothing short of badass.

[Zippydog]

Friggin' HOT!

[Black Lake]

OMG...That was awesome.

[Colin]

was Stan on the Leno show for awhile?

[Bass Invader]

Stan Sargeant is just fantastic. I find it hard to even conceptualise playing a bass upside-down.. I mean you'd require a completely different approach to fingering. Just mind-blowing.

[Grand Wazoo]

And to finish that performance with their rendition of "Black Market" by Weather Report was also a very cool surprise.

As for the playing upside down yes you are right it is mind boggling, these people are self taught "monsters" who have had to figure out their own scales, chord shapes and even take a total different approach to the slap technique, becaused their "slap" is achieved by tapping the heavier strings with the tips of their index and middle fingers and their "pull" is achieved by pulling with the edge of their thumbs.

I know cause the teacher who taught me plays like that and so does Jimmy Haslips of Yellow Jackets. The plus side for my bass teacher was that even being a leftie, he could just pick my bass turn it upside down and show me a scale or a lick with no problem as if it was his own bass.

Super!

[Bass Invader]

As for the playing upside down yes you are right it is mind boggling, these people are self taught "monsters" who have had to figure out their own scales, chord shapes and even take a total different approach to the slap technique, becaused their "slap" is achieved by tapping the heavier strings with the tips of their index and middle fingers and their "pull" is achieved by pulling with the edge of their thumbs.

Precisely. What is staggering is just that - self-teaching takes on a whole new meaning when you approach left-handed playing this way, and that exemplifies the incredible dedication and hard work which players like Sargeant and Haslip put in. Anything to just make it work, to just get a good bass line. For self-taught bassists like myself, it's very inspiring.

[Big Poppa]

ITs just funny....Im left handed buy play right handed as I think that the left hand does most of the work..but more importantly that is what felt naturally to me...For some true lefties all this stuff only makes sense lefty. In stans case I bet that some righty had a bass when he was starting and it just didnt feel right so he flipped it the other way