Bass Link Blast Halloweens Edition

1. FreekBass has a new Truefire video series with a generous amount of samples on the YouTube, you can check out the playlist here.
2. You could have met Esperanza Spalding backstage at her concert in Philly next week. If you had an extra $1,000 to spare. The auction gave all the money to Musicians On Call, so it was for a good cause.
3. Tim Lefebvre added a bunch of new tunes he has played on to his web sites music player thingy.
4. John Goldsby posted a play-along for his column in Decembers BassPlayer Magazine.
5. The original bass guy from Tool is doing a record with a new group. 
6. Huh, imagine that, Keith Jarrett  is impossible to be married to. Uncharacteristically, he says some nice things about someone other than himself in this interview and talks about his bass player, ex-Seattleite Gary Peacock. He also proves yet again he is the biggest piano playing a-hole alive today.
7. A team of Ph.d's anointed a Muse song to have the best bass line of any song ever by using the highly scientific and totally unbiased method called "asking people on the internet to pick something". You can tell what kind of sophisticated music listener voted in this poll by reading the results. "YYZ" came in second.