This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with double bassist Guy Tuneh, conducted over a distance of thousands of miles. It was a real pleasure to get to sit down and chat with Guy–he’s a warm, intelligent, and passionate individual, and these traits come through in his speaking just like they do in his bass playing. You can visit him online at www.guytuneh.com. You will also get a chance to hear the great jazz bassist Lonnie Plaxico perform two tunes on this episode, and you can check out Lonnie at www.lonnieplaxico.com. Enjoy!
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Jasonnnnnnnn….
he is A M A Z I N G !!!!
The next bass God !!
from today, i will start to play in other way!!
thanks guy
I would like to know if Mr.Tuneh is going to give a mastercalss
in the US in the future?
Words of an Amazing person, amazing Bass Soloist!!!
Jason, what about the rest of that interview???
if you have more from it ,
please post it!!!
Good day,
it was realy interesting to hear Mr. Tuneh’s interview.
But was short! (why?)
when can i hear the rest of it ??
Cool, his idees and his way of doing the things is one of a kind.
great personality, charming player. (for someone who came from
israel, he sounds very german.)
jason your blog in very nice and as Tuneh said, very importent for the bass world!
We will be featuring the rest of our interview with Guy Tuneh in an upcoming episode. Stay tuned to the podcast for more details. Thanks so much for all the positive feedback! It is great to hear that people are enjoying these episodes.
Hey Jason,
one of the persons that we would like to see again(me & my wife),
is guy tuneh.
we had the chance to see him live with Bottesinis Tarantella,
he played so virtuos, amazing speed but with so much music…..
we will remmember this night all our life.
its great to see that he is on your blog.
please, post the rest of that interview.
cool, great interview!!
it change somethings in me.
Mr. Tuneh is right!
the germans dont like someone who can think in his own way.
he did not say it, but if you know them you will also fill it!
Ciao Jason,
can you ask Maestro Tuneh for an internet lesson (via Webcam) ????
something like a free lesson to the world.
i think a lot of people would like it and will happy, it can realy help to me, but allso to others. Maestro Tuneh has good head!!
thank U.!
One of the most intresting things with Guy,its his tec.
Jason, it can be realy cool if you’d ask him more about his tec.
so, pleace ask him in the next half of the interview, about his way of playing the bass.
thank you.
i was waiting to hear from Mr. Tuneh about his tec, and that he will
show how to do some things on the bass….(?!)
person who speakes like this, have an onother way of playing.(!!!)
Jason,please,if U can ask him some more about his playing,would be geart.
Good day,
i was very interesting,to hear the interview with Mr.Tuneh.
for me was it very hard to understand the interview.
Herr Tuneh is very inteligent & i need time to understand his idees.
but not only because of this, the sound was not so good.
its a pitty because Mr.Tuneh has been saying very importent
smart thinks. ( also about us , the Germans)
so,for the next time, Mr.Jason, try please, to make the sound of the interview better.
Danke.
Just imagine , his philosophy in every classic profi orchestra.
this Guy is fantastic!!!
woww
Jason, i would like to take lessons with Maestro Tuneh.
can U help me to find him?
would like to speak with him personly.
thanks.
Thanks for all of the wonderful comments, and I will be sure to pass them along to Guy. We did talk more about technique later on in the interview, as well as his bass and bow, plus many other interesting issues regarding the bass. You’ll be hearing that in the next segment of our interview, which will come out in a few weeks.
If anybody would like to get in touch with Mr. Tuneh, they can do so by visiting his website at http://www.guytuneh.com.
Getting good sound quality when interviewer/interviewee are so far apart (thousands of miles across the globe) can be difficult, and I worked a lot on cleaning up the audio. I know that it is a little hard to hear everything during the interview due to the audio, but I cleaned it up with software as much as possible. If you listen to some of the other interviews, you will see that the fidelity during the interviews can often sound like we’re in the same room. Once recorded, it is hard to increase the fidelity beyond a certain point.
Still, one can get such a sense of what a great artist Guy Tuneh is, and what a fantastic bass player as well as musician. Stay tuned in future weeks to hear more from Mr. Tuneh, and please browse through older episodes to hear more interviews from bass players! We’ve got some very exciting new interviews coming up, so stay tuned!
Maestro Tuneh’s words are still making my heart worm.
i heard your interview with him more than six times.
everytime i can find new things to think about!
his videos are fantastic (i mean how he play that bass)
it is so good & importent that people from his kind are getting the stage.
he did so long way, he understand how the things are working and he did understand it alone.
amazing person, we need more people like him in the music world!!!!! (there are so many nobobys, that think that they are god).
well jason(& people), Maestro Tuneh is one of his kind…….
only because he is nice, not laying to him self (& his fans),and live in the world of looking at him self & try to be better
and asking “what can i do better” makes him in his way so special.
and i DONT think that he thinks that he is God.he knows him self
and what he can do.(i never heard a musion speaks so about himself & other thinks ,most of them are trying to make themselfs the greatest ,storyes about what and with who they did,bla bal…… & they are so sure that they are the best !….). Mr.Tuneh go on, you are the best of all of them!!
I try to get a contact with Mr.Tuneh, as you said via his
web. i gut an email from his sopprt team, they are realy nice
and fast but they told me that he is on tour with D. Barenboim.
i would like to play for him , i need a new tech.
pleace ask him for his contact and post it in the next interview.
i think that the others will also use this info !
thanks.
and Jason your blog is great .with people like Maestro Tuneh & other good bass players,
you are doing great job
Hallo Jason,
nice to have the chance to commentin your blog.
Mr. Tuneh playes very good,alot of music & personality.
a real talent, genius.
it is very good that you put him in your show, the contrabass world
& the music world need this kind of people!!
a good modle for us.
Jason think abaout to put in your show videopodcast of guy tuneh
showing his technic, with some word from him about how he does…
like a littel lesson.
i think its a good idee.
it sounds that Maestro Tuneh is a charming person.
i think that i need this kind of teacher!
pleace ask him about his studio or something.
Hi everybody!!
after i heard the interview of Mr. Tuneh, i understand why people are so crazy about him.
great to see someone who sould be there (in the top liga) because what he realy is.(& not because his smile or nice maneger)
cool.
Cool, this bass player is out of this world!
A m a z i n g …….
Maestro Tuneh is one the best bass playres that i ever heard.
i am a bass fan,so i heard alot.
his stil is one of a kind.
great to see his way of playing the bass.
normal is when someone win a job,he playes like a robot,
safe & good.but not amazing!!!
Mr. Tuneh has both, his technic is fantastic (i still try to understand the way he moves his bow !…..) and his musical taste is amazing, on the right way to a legend.
Jason i’d like to ask you to post the 2nd part of that interview with
Mr. Tuneh
thanks
Guy Tuneh is amazing good bass player, i saw hin in concert of
villa musica he is veary active on stage, alot of present of stage.
on other bassist(or other musion) has his stage personality.
good to see & to hear him again.
I knows Mr. Tuneh’s playing from a concert that he played with an orchestra in swisserland.
he was the first bass player of six, he was leading them amazing.
everyone went after him, even some of the cellos.
great orchestra player, amazing soloist.
i am looking for the chance to see him as a chambr musion.
for alomg time Mr. Tuneh was intresting me, thanks to You,Jason,
i got more information about him,that i couldnt get in other way,
or, to speak with him alone, something that i didnt got the chance to.
Wowww…
great bass player!!!
sorry that most of the musions, will not understand what he speaks about! (they will be mad and think who needs this)
well, he is amazing person !, lets hope that he will stay like this.
lets hope that the others will not make him crazy…. .
i heard about Prof. BADILA, who was a player with the same philosophy like Mr. Tuneh, everybudy tryed to make him down!
we sould learn to sopport people like Guy they are very importent
for the bass/music world, we can only learn from them!!!
Mr. Tuneh May god be with You .
Tomy is right!
so many as h….ls .
tuneh is too importent, to listen to this kind of people.
Maestro Tuneh ,be strong.
N.B – what a great bass player!!
Maestro Tuneh is person of everybudy! he is like a simbol, he dont act like he is special – but he is!
i like people who true to there fans & most importent to themmself.
he is not making games how great he is- But he is more than great!!
his motives are real love to music & his bass, not crazy EGO.
we sould all learn from him, specialy the other musions.
Put it in the radio!! & loud, very very very loud!!
that all of them will hear it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
(there is a chance that they will learn some thing realy importent)
i am a profi. musion.
what i learnd, when someone is nice to you,smile, try to be your frind ,in the end he will f..k you. (nature of some people)
Maestro Tuneh is from other kind, if he dont like you he will show you this, or will not speake with you. ( no pocker face)
he is true . he will never say somthing that he dont think like.
he will never play games with you, because of this he is a noble
person.in the moment of making music with him you will forget all
the games, you will find yourself doing or thinking about the music.
so.. when you have nothing to “say” as a musion you may start
not to like him, but its not becaue of him, its because of YOU!!
i worked with Maestro Tuneh, he is great,charming & noble person
that we all can learn from him.(if we dont have crazy EGO).
Everybody can hear in that amazing interview, what i am trying to say in that comment.
(a Viola player who played with the Maestro)
It will take alot of time to find out Mr. Tuneh’s idees(acoustic, artist, philosophy).as an orchestra bass player,i can only say, i’d never find the time to think about this.(because i have to play in the orchestra).
But even if i’d have that time i still dont know if i could get it!
Mr. Tuneh’s way of thinking is a head, i dont know if the bass players of our time are ready for this kind of philosophy, some of them ,are still thinking that the Bass place is in an orchestra !
i didnt realy get his idees but i think they are good & clever!
What a great Artist !!!!
What a great bass player!
Hi ..
i think that in some years Mr.Tuneh will be the greatest bass player of our time!!
Mr. Tuneh if you read this comment, go on your way, i am sure its not easy, but what is easy life for you, i am sure that you are not the type that wont to have the easy way.
for me you are agreat person and an artist.
Hi Jason,
We saw Mr. Tuneh in Youtube with Sonnambula.
me & my wife got crazy, he is amazing bassist & musion!!
real artist.
BRAVOO Tuneh , bravo to you that you gave him stage to say
what’s in his mind.
Mestro Tuneh is a charming individual!!
i would like to see & hear the that he play KOL NIDREI.(M.Bruch)
please Jason, ask him for that.(bring it in a podcast …)
i need to play it on my cello next year for my Dipolm. (i dont like the idees of my cello teacher).
thank you.
Very very very intresting interview!
Amazing bassist!!
was veary intresting.
This Maestro Tuneh will change the bass world in the future!!
I saw Maestro Tuneh in Malaga,with Maestro Barenboim.
they played Schonberg var. for orchestra.
Maestro Tuneh played as Solo the var. no 4, amazing!!
Bravoooo!!!
two amazing artists on one stage!!!!
We saw Maestro Tuneh in the television, in Spain.
he played with Maestro Barenboim & the orchestra.
Cool……..
Bravo
Maestro Tuneh played in Malaga,with Barenboim & his orchestra.
took time to understand that it was Guy Tuneh on stage.
what a concert, all the orchestra played fantastic, some of them played great, Maestro tuneh played awasome.
what about the rest of his interview?? (one of the best that you podcasted untill today!!)
Great interview!
Great idees.
Great player.
Great person.
Ahaa ..
Intresting!
Great Person. An Outstanding Bassist. Just Amazing words, wish that more from his kind
would be in music bis. .!
Just lost an audition….
i feel realy sad, but man, the warm words fo maestro Tuneh
make me feel better and to look at the future, specialy when a player of his level is saying this words.
Thanks for this interview.
INDEED,
Great Interview, please post more from Guy Tuneh (he isnt bass player, he is a Violin player with a soul of an Opera singer!!!)
Guy Tuneh is the Best.
Amazing Bassist
Amazing Musicion.
Amazing Person.
one of a kind!!!!!!
AMAZING…
what a great person!!
This Guy is Genius!
Its all about the music!!!
Guy is one of the most Talented musicians out there!
Guy belongs to the first row of the Great Double-bass virtuosos!
Bravo Maestro Tuneh for being a GREAT model once again.
(As you said in your Interview: almost everyone can speak, but doing… )