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| Flea: Adventures in Spontaneous Jamming and Technique | 
 enlarge | Actor: Flea
Studio: Hal Leonard
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 48410
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 60 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 320339
UPC: 073999203394
EAN: 0073999203394
ASIN: B00007AJEP
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Description
Flea, legendary bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers presents an introspective and live performance improvisation with Peppers drummer Chad Smith on this DVD, hosted by River Phoenix. He discusses the theories, philosophies, styles, sounds and technique
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 Not for improvement... January 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This DVD is not an instructional DVD. You won't learn anything with it. There is few tabs of riffs that Flea is playing in it, but they realy are no use...
This DVD is fun if you would like to see Flea when he was younger and if you like this guy. This inverviewer is boring and looks like he will fall asleep any minute...
If you want to improve your playing, purchase something else. If you wan't to have a good laugh and look some cool jamming that you won't learn to play, this might be for you...
 Entertaining video August 30, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This video is fun to watch. There is a lot to learn from Flea and Chad just by watching them. This is not a "how-to" video. Watch and learn. During his "interviews" with River Phoenix, Flea rambles about how he got into playing the bass and his personal philosophies. I think this was filmed shortly before River's death, and I think it shows just how bad his drug problem was. He and Flea look pretty wasted. The interview is more like a late night conversation you have with a buddy after a long night of drinking or whatever.
It's pretty fun and energizing musically, and I found the interviews pretty hilarious. It's kind of like Cheech and Chong do the bass.
 More philosophy than bass instruction August 22, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This DVD is primarily Flea's philosophy on music, love, life, etc. I would consider it more inspirational than instructional. Definately belongs under the philosophy section and not the music instruction section. The few moments of instruction are fairly basic -- thumping, slapping, plucking. All right-hand technique. Flea admits that he can't read music, tabs, etc. So he doesn't really speak to any fretting technique. In fact, he sums up his entire left-hand technique as "pressing his fingers down on the strings". You might love this DVD if you're interested in Flea, the musician. You'll be disappointed if you're looking for some significant bass instruction. Instead, I would highly recommend Victor Wooten's Live at Bass Day 1998.
 Inspirational March 5, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
OK first off this video is extremely helpful for bass players and i would say anyone really,But this footage here is extremely helpful,yes go for it.
Definitely Inspirational February 10, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you are looking for an instructional video, this isn't it. For a few minutes he explains his warm up drills, but most of them should already be familiar to the average player. He shows the slap and pop drill that he used to learn and perfect the technique, but I found that I wasn't personally able to learn it alone from his short description.
The value in this video would have to be its insperational aspect. I'm a (very) new player, and watching him play blew me away. I came a way from it with a whole list of techniques to go an try to learn on my own.
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