The Captain Meets Charles Berthoud!

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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
» 0:00 Introducing Charles Berthoud!
» 2:26 Influences?
» 11:11 YouTube?
» 13:45 Working With Schecter
» 20:28 What's Next?
» 22:11 Outro Playing!

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[CharlesBerthoud]

Thanks so much for the interview! Great to finally meet you all 🙏🏻

[fusionfan]

You can tell from Charles nervousness that he is a humble guy. He will get more comfortable in front of the camera as his fame continues to grow, but clearly it’s all about the music for him, which is refreshing.

[ALWTunes]

Like most, I became familiar with Charles from his “battles” with Davie504. Glad to see his growing success. Seems like a humble guy for all his talent.

[JamesPlaysBass]

Love seeing Charles getting more and more exposure outside of his already amazing channel. This guy is easily one of the best bassists in the world and fully deserves all the recognition he's getting and then some.

[thekhronohs]

Yes! Charles is a monster player, and I an SO pleased to see him ‘at Andertons’.
Bernth absolutely deserves a spot as well! Absolutely phenomenal player! 🤩

[GeorgeBeer]

I love charles's bass playing its amazing

[adrianmarsglam]

This guy is amazing. Superb bass player and seems to be very humble.

[jtbkilmartin]

Charles has to be considered as one of the finest bass players in the world . His playing is sublime and so varied. I never thought a bassist would interest me so much. He is impressive.

[mdankewich]

I found Charles through Davey, and I'm super glad that I did. Charles, you are one of the greatest bass players on earth today, as hard as that might be for you to wrap your head around, it's the truth.

[MAP]

I've always looked at music exactly like this young man. He is so talented & he's worked his butt off. It shows through & through.

[Russell_Optics]

The song he played at the end was awesome. It sounded like at least two people playing at once. Superb !

[sabre]

I'm so impressed with Charles. He's humble and hugely talented.

[gunkyzip]

"All my notes are Jazz notes"
Epic

[nostromoalien]

Charles is such a humble guy. Definitely one of the best bass players alive right now

[adamcogan]

You can hear Victor Wooten all over his playing! I’d love a Captain meets Victor Wooten!!

[buzzliteyear]

I literally stumbled across Charles on the Davie504 colab and was one of the 50, 000 new subscribers and have been amazed at his talent, technicality and love of music and the fact he expresses it on the bass guitar is certainly niche and super cool....and now he's a star.

[McLovin]

So happy to see Charles getting some more love and recognition. He's outrageously good and seems like such a cool guy.

[Yupppi]

Now that's an unexpected but completely sensible episode!

I like his thinking, because it took me like 20 years to notice how interesting you can be with bass lines even if you sit in the "background" as opposed to just plucking that lowest note all the time. How the bass line really sets a lot of emotions to the layers built on it, changing the whole feel by their note choice. And there's room for bass solos in songs, sometimes more than for guitar solos even. A lot of artists don't really explore that far even if they're creating rather exploratory music or even if they utilize a lot of arranging and production hooks. I think it was Tool and Opeth that hinted at me about "hey, forget the guitar, listen to what this bass is doing".

There's been some thrash metal type of songs where I've heard bass solos too, as an almost inside joke of the band, but I think they sounded pretty good. Like those bassists were always on the spot with their musical sense more than maybe the guitarists, they didn't go overboard and started kinda from the theme of the music so it was simple, brief and fit greatly in the song. Similar to how sometimes a rock/pop band's guitar solo is just a bar or few based on the main theme and that fits the song great, not going overboard with soloing. I think bassists generally got that down much better than guitarists, not overplaying. Perhaps partially due to their instrument already being slightly limiting depending on the sound, you start losing distinctness of the notes if you go too hard on the wrong part of the neck.

The outro I swear is from NES's Darkwing Duck game (which was probably "borrowed" from somewhere where Charles' inspiration comes from).

[johnathanrhoades]

Charles is one of the most technically talented bassists I’ve ever heard and is also an excellent musician. A stellar bassist all around.

[nakinaki]

Charles may be the best Bass player in the world right now