Flea - Thinkin About You (Frank Ocean Cover) (Live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) [Jazz]

Amazing!  ❤️ 

Damn I hadn't thought about this since high school - thanks for the blast from the past mate

I don’t hate it, but it is still bad.

"Who's Geddy Lee?" "Geddy Lee! Best bass player, ever!"

I’m not a huge fan of the band but surely John Myung deserves a mention as well

My cousin was his daughter’s nanny and she never had a complaint about him, on the contrary she always said how nice he was to her and everyone that worked for him that she got to be around. My son also went to his music academy and he is loved there! Idk where all this stuff comes from.

You're probably correct about the jazz bass side - that's not his thing but who cares I guess? It's like criticizing Michael Jordan for playing baseball at a mediocre level

How HATEFUL of you 😂

He sang Media Blitz on the Small Circle of Friends tribute to the Germs and somehow managed to make a Germs song unlistenable. The f****** Germs. And I say this as a fan of the Germs. Flashy bass playing aside, I honestly think his musical sensibilities are just not that great.

It sounds objectively bad because every instrument in the group is tuned to the same relative pitch except for his trumpet. So he is just tooting along and either he can’t hear the difference in pitch, or he doesn’t care and no one in the band had the guts to say “tune your trumpet, a******.” If Frank Ocean sang it flat when he did it on SNL, it wouldn’t be fine either.

It's not fine, it's shit. It doesn't matter how many instruments someone plays, if they're not in tune it will sound like shit.

You made some Interesting assumptions such as Flea hasn’t spent time learning how to play jazz trumpet. One other point I didn’t make in Flea’s journey is that in 2008 Flea [enrolled in the University of Southern California](https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/flea-returns-to-school-to-study-music-175834) taking Theory, composition and jazz trumpet and RHCP took a 2 year break at the time so he could do that full time. Again that particular song played live sounded flat to me but again I don’t know jazz….. But assuming he “has not spent the time necessary to make his trumpet sound good” sounds more like you talking out your arse then having any actual knowledge of Flea or his skill. I’ll also point out this is not [Flea’s first jazz album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burns_(EP))… So even if you d******* (as you have done) Flea’s early musical education, it is clear Flea has been working on his jazz trumpet seriously since at least 2008…. So some 18 years now

lmao do you even know anything about John Coltrane? Yeah, nothing challenging about Om, Ascension, or his later quartet performances. Even Giant Steps is enough to put most people off.

Simply not true……PERIOD!!!!

Yes he can’t stay in tune. He has no motif ideas for his improvisation, he’s playing outside the changes and not in a hip way (like cells or pentatonically for example). He is playing out of time, and not in a hip way. His tone is rough and not centered. Listen, it’s art I guess so ultimately it’s in the eye of the beholder but he clearly hasn’t spent the time to work on this area of his craft. I guess he doesn’t have to? But it’s like a celebrity finger painting and people throwing it up in the MOMA next to a Keith haring… eDIT - "changes" = harmony. The most important thing in improvisational music is harmony first. Sorry I'll try to give an example. First a quick background. IN improvisation, people generally think about it in one of two or both ways...as a notes of a chord, and/or a scale. So for example, let's say you have a C major chord - C E G. But in jazz, the 5th is optional (G), and you have extensions, 9 (2), 4 (should be #4 generally in Major because a natural 4 conflicts with the 3rd, E, and #4 is typically represented in #11, and 13 (6). The basic harmony would generally be C6 (C E A), or CMa7 (C - E Bnatural). C is the bass. With everything, it might be CMa13,9,#11 (would never be notated like this but bear with me), which is a scale. C D E F# (G), A, B natural. All these notes should good. Then you can add leading tones and the chord tones generally are great on downbeats. There are exceptions to every rule, but this is a good starting point. Flea doesn't do any of this shit. Which is really odd because he follows a lot of these improvisational guidelines in his funk bass playing, it's very confusing.

You've just compared them

Big fan of both.

He was off here that’s for sure but that doesn’t speak to his whole musical career. Huge fan of both him and frusciante. Both are talented in their own way but flea has more experience and breadth.