"A virtuoso of acoustic upright double bass, Whiton slaps, bows, maneuvers, and manipulates his instrument with orchestral precision and street-corner desperation." -Silke Tudor, SF Weekly
photo by Cody Molica
I exclusively perform using the Yamaha SVB-200 Silent Bass, D'Addario Strings and
Gallien Kruger Amplification and Speaker Systems.
February 2012:
I'm pleased to announce that the new Tom Waits album Bad As Me
(according to metacritic.com)
is the best-reviewed release of 2011...
...and I am fortunate enough to have my bass notes grace seven of the sixteen tracks...
I am, however, more than willing to lend credence to the possibility that
Mr. Waits, Ms. Brennan, Keith Richards, Charlie Musselwhite, David Hidalgo, Augie Meyers, Les Claypool and Flea
(along
with a sundry cast of characters too numerous to mention) might
have helped to sweeten the reviewers' pallettes.
I also put some of my bass notes on Eric
McFadden's new
cd Bluebird
on Fire,
featuring Dave Schools and Paulo
Baldi, among many others.
New Clips posted:
I have
been asked a few times to post some previews of my upcoming solo release
while I finish the recording:
it is plucked bass
looped with bowed bass overdubs...
delicate and violent sounds with sparing vocals...
all recorded in live, one-take sessions...
it is....and will be...in the words of one of my favorite
spoken word artists and critics...
"beautiful, unexpected and mesmerizing."
There are a
couple of mp3 clips here
and here...
below is a video filmed by John Sawyer at Cafe Van Kleef in Oakland of
a short but piquant bass solo during an EMT show.