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	Michael Manring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Manring is an electric bassist from the Bay Area (Northern California).
		Manring is regarded as a technical virtuoso, using the bass as a solo instrument and frequently taking advantage of unusual alternate tunings.
		Manring is now performing with guitarist Alex de Grassi and percussionist Chris Garcia in the De Mania trio.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Manring (227 words)

	Manring Reviews
		Manring explores similar mockery in "Theseus in the Rains" with a nervously staccato altered-scale groove (the b5 is a leitmotif ont this CD) underpinning a skittering octave melody.
		Manring's obvious quality is his willingness to create layers of textures on his bass withinteresting variations in sound.
		Manring is stretching the boundaries of electric bass sound and bass composition.
	www.alchemyrecords.com /manringreviews.html (683 words)

	CD Baby: MICHAEL MANRING: Soliloquy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael is without doubt one of the most original, remarkable and celebrated voices on the electric bass in the world today, and a performer not to be missed.
		Manring" while testing out an SWR stack at the 2005 Winter NAMM Show, this CD holds extra value to me. Listening to him live was one of the best musical experiences I've ever received from another bassist, and this CD proves his live capabilities, as it is all recorded in real-time without overdubs.
		Manring's mastery of the bass is demonstrated with a seemingly effortless brilliance, beauty, and free form of expression that captivates and inspires the minds of aspiring artists such as myself with an extremely broad range of techniques and flavors that few artists are able to express as flawlessly as Michael Manring.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/manthing (3816 words)

	Michael Manring in Bass Inside Magazine
		Michael has proven to be the source of great inspiration for a lot of bass players.
		One of the few people fortunate enough to have actually been a student of Jaco Pastorius, he is also one of the very few who took what he learned from Jaco and integrated it into his playing, all the while avoiding the trap many other bassists fall into in trying to sound like Pastorius.
		At the time of his interview, this author was drawn to say that Michael "regularly occupies a musical stratosphere most have never visited, or are even aware exists." It was clear that he heard and understood music in a manner most of us never will.
	www.bassinside.com /2002/september/manring.htm (559 words)

	Ectophiles' Guide - Michael Hedges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manring and Winston appear on a few tracks as accompaniment, but it is mostly just Michael, his voice, and his guitar and defined the early "Windham Hill" sound.
		This is a return to Michael's acoustic roots mostly because his beautiful handmade guitar, which was stolen in 1982, was returned and inspired this album.
		This album was Michael's attempt at throwing off the self-imposed limitations he had defined for himself, and is truly on of his finest works.
	ectoguide.org /genre/rock/hedges.michael&p=2 (1206 words)

	Bass Player - Michael Manring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Manring’s superior sixth outing is an overdub-free solo bass voyage that reestablishes him as the leading light among explorers of the bass guitar’s capabilities.
		Manring moves to his Zon Elite 10-string prototype to issue the disc’s centerpiece track, “A Morning Star,” which boasts Who-level propulsion and Mitchell-like alternate tunings and dynamics.
		Manring weaves short tone poems among the 14 tracks, using a Boss VFI Processor for pitch shifting on “Makes Perfect Sense to Me,” and tapping the body of his ringing Hyperbass on “When We Were Asleep in the Earth.” Elsewhere, the haunting melody of “The Orffyreus Wheel” comes courtesy of an EBow and hybrid Hyperbass.
	www.bassplayer.com /story.asp?storycode=9439 (404 words)

	Free Bass Lessons \| The Solo Bass Series - Michael Manring: Purple Haze
		After hearing the music that Manring had recorded, I realized there was much more to playing bass than just simply playing bass.
		Manring has pioneered an entirely unique approach to performing on the instrument that includes unorthodox tunings, techniques, and ground-breaking concepts.
		Throughout his career, Manring has honed his skills on hundreds of recordings as a session musician and thousands of concerts around the world.
	www.cliffengel.com /bass_lessons/online/free_bass_lessons/solo_bass/purple_haze (805 words)

	Michael Manring uses ZON GUITARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael grew up in Virginia and Washington, DC, and started playing bass at age 10.
		Michael's tasteful bass work can be heard on many Windham Hill recordings, including the most recent Thanksgiving and Christmas releases.
		Whether Michael is adding his uniquely lyrical sounds to other artists' music or coaxing the perfect note from his bass during a stunningly beautiful solo composition, he remains a true artist against whom others are judged.
	www.zonguitars.com /manring.html (259 words)

	BERKLEE \| Berklee Today
		Michael Manring recalls being completely captivated at the age of nine by the sound of the electric bass break in a TV theme song.
		Manring's solo bass act was a reaction to working with a wide variety of artists as a hired gun.
		Manring is on the road about half the year as a soloist and sideman and in the studio the rest of the time.
	www.berklee.edu /bt/141/alum_profile.html (1190 words)

	Case Study
		Bassist Michael Manring recently recorded his CD Soliloquy (www.manthing.com) himself in his home studio in Oakland, Calif. Manring, who studied at Berklee College of Music and the Peabody Conservatory, and has toured as a bass soloist for 20 years, recently had the opportunity to realize his longtime artistic vision: recording a solo bass album.
		Manring's bass guitars are custom-designed by Joe Zon in Redwood City, Calif. The Hyperbass (Manring's signature instrument) has an extended three-octave fingerboard and is proportionally similar to a bass violin.
		Manring also places ceramic transducers on the bodies of some of his basses, to provide stereo output of the high transients that magnetic transducers don't pick up.
	bg.mixonline.com /ar/audio_case_study (664 words)

	Michael Manring - Thonk: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		With Thonk [+] Michael Manring [+] has managed to create an exciting, humorous and technically amazing body of work.
		Former Primus [+] drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander proves to be a perfect partner for Manring by adding his own complexities and individual style to the mix.
		However, it is not just the playing of Manring (which would have been enough) and his stellar sidemen that separate this session from its colleagues; rather, it is his fresh approach to composition.
	www.music.com /release/thonk/1 (276 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Soliloquy - Michael Manring at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bassist Michael Manring writes in the Extended Notes to his new release Soliloquy [2005 Manthing Music], that he conceptualized the album around the idea of solitude for a number of reasons:
		Soliloquy largely succeeds at Manring's intent: an exploration of space and sound within the environment of the solo bass that envelopes the listener within.
		Manring uses a number of specially designed basses in his work (Hyperbass, Hyperbass/Hybrid, 5-string acoustic bass, 10-string prototype, and the vb-4 prototype.
	www.epinions.com /content_182676000388 (695 words)

	MICHAEL MANRING \| Multiphase Records Artist
		If you follow bass players, you probably know who Michael Manring is. You may be familiar with his recordings on Windham Hill, Unusual Weather, Toward the Center of the Night, Drastic Measures, Thonk, or his Bass Player Of The Year award, or maybe you've caught one of his amazing solo concerts.
		Michael is one of the busiest musicians around, and one of the nicest guys too.
		Michael is also with the quartet Cloud Chamber featuring Barry Cleveland (guitar), Dan Reiter (cello) and Michael Masley (cymbalom).
	www.mphase.com /manring.htm (128 words)

	FretlessBass.com - Interview with Michael Manring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of his most rewarding and intimate musical collaborations was with the acoustic guitar genius Michael Hedges, who instantly enlisted Manring's musical partnership when he first heard him play one of his imaginative solo bass compositions while Manring was still a teenager.
		Michael's newest CD, The Book of Flame is the best example yet of his extraordinary creativity.
		By seamlessly blending virtuosity, exotic tonalities and rhythms, bizarre instruments (and even stranger ways of playing them!), shades of electronica, industrial, post-bop, noise-core, ambient, and 20th century music with a refined compositional approach and a healthy sense of humor, he creates a tapestry that is rich with possibility and meaning.
	www.fretlessbass.com /html/bizdb/MichaelManringInterview.html (1188 words)

	Michael Manring: Beyond genres and niches
		Manring’s latest album Thonk is an expansive, metal-tinged effort that departs radically from his previous efforts.
		Helping Manring out on the album are a few musicians who know a thing or two about genre-blurring themselves: guitarists Steve Morse and Alex Skolnick, and drummer Herb Alexander.
		Thonk adheres to Manring’s long-standing desire to "show that the bass is a vital and expressive instrument which has a great deal to say." Throughout the record, he employs a one-of-a-kind blend of tapping, harmonics and altered tunings, largely performed on his Zon Hyperbass.
	www.innerviews.org /inner/manring.html (6426 words)

	JamBase \| A CONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL MANRING
		Manring: It was kind of slow at first and he was playing at dives, but he lucked out and got the deal with Wydham Hill right when they were taking off and did the first record in 1980.
		Manring: I went to one gig and he played two songs with the band, and then left Don Alias on stage for a drum solo and he played for twenty minutes, and after he was finished Jaco had disappeared.
		Manring: I met Paolo at a guitar festival in Italy when I was playing with Michael Hedges and I really dug what he was doing, so when he asked me to be on his first record, naturally I said let’s do it.
	www.jambase.com /headsup.asp?storyID=2710 (1764 words)

	Michael Manring in Bass Inside Magazine
		Michael Manring is clearly one of those that just prefers to tell his story through his music.
		The music itself is in pure Manring style at his best, complex and mind-boggling when one considers, as the liner notes state, that all 14 songs are ‘performed in real time, without overdubs.’ The album is not a transparent listen.
		This is part of the technique Michael uses when playing and adds to the awe which one must have when listening to these and his previous works.
	www.bassinside.com /2005/june/manring.htm (2989 words)

	Cliff Engel's Video & Audio Media
		Many listeners who hear Manring's music for the very first time often mistake his texturally complex and intricate lines as belonging to that of a guitar player or keyboardist when in reality they are hearing a two-handed tapping riff.
		Manring's solo arrangement of "Purple Haze" was the first piece of solo bass music that I heard as a teenager in 1991 that really opened my ears to all the textural possibilities available on electric bass.
		"Manring's music is almost ten times harder than it sounds." There is definitely a certain visual aspect to his playing that is lost within the context of the audio format.
	www.cliffengel.com /media (1625 words)

	Magnacarta Net
		Michael Manring: four, six and ten string basses, loops.
		Whatever it is, Attention Deficit have entered the lab and blown it up, reaching right into the atom heart mother of improvisational mondo rock, combining their trinity of disparate elements, and letting new sonic monsters find life.
		Mad bassist Michael Manring comes from a whole different school of thought, having cut his teeth as the ultimate session man, a bass god for the similarly chops-endowed.
	www.magnacarta.net /bands_profile.asp?Band_ID=2 (556 words)

	MAGNA CARTA RECORDS > Artists > ATTENTION DEFICIT - Alex Skolnick, Michael Manring, Tim Alexander
		The group is an exotic amalgam of bass, guitar and drums, a necessary far-flung exploration that sprung naturally and spontaneously from the collective mindmeld of three diverse and divergent talents, guitarist Alex Skolnick, drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander, and bassist Michael Manring.
		Manring is without a doubt one of his instrument's elite.
		Alexander's recorded legacy is highly appreciated, his geometric rhythms being a regular topic of discussion amongst drum magazines, possibly his greatest acclaim being named as one of the "most influential drummers of all-time" by Drum magazine.
	www.magnacarta.net /artists/attentiondeficit.html (593 words)

	Michael Manring
		At the time of his second album, Manring was deeply involved with the new age supergroup Montreux which also featured pianist Barbara Higbie, fiddler Darol Anger and mandolin-man Mike Marshall.
		Manring, 34, departed from that world with 1991's Drastic Measures and his latest release, 1994's Thonk.
		The former was an understated, yet exploratory, work which found Manring with one foot in a new age/jazz puddle and the other caught in a rock tidal wave.
	www.dirtynelson.com /feature/58manrin.html (790 words)

	Micheal Hedges: A new rise of the self
		I like Michael [Manring] to do a solo, then I’ll do something on keyboard, then I’ll play a couple of guitar solos, then I’ll play the flute and then Michael and I will do a duet with bass and keyboards.
		Michael once told me that when you started your career, you were a Neil Young wannabe.
		Michael Manring for his contributions to this piece.
	www.innerviews.org /inner/hedges2.html (4462 words)

	Michael Manring
		It is a given that Michael is a world class bassist, but just how good he really is became quite obvious to this writer as I was putting notes together for the chat.
		When we last spoke to Michael, it was fairly shortly after the death of his good friend and fellow musician, the incomparable Michael Hedges.
		I asked Michael if from time to time on stage while playing if his mind would drift back to a time when he could spin around on stage and there his friend would be, playing like a 6 string whirlwind.
	www.globalbass.com /archives/july2001/michael_manring.htm (3976 words)

	Michael Manring : The Book of Flame - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manring is a master of innovation and way crazy funk fun on the bass.
		On Manring's The Book of Flame, all the stops are pulled out and a real beast is unleashed.
		Manring is funkified, burpin' bass joy with that telltale horn sound lead.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,373210,00.html (285 words)

	Michael Manring Interview 04/15/94
		As Manring said in his cover story interview in Bass Player last year, “We’ve always had a common musical vision.” You need only reflect on Manring’s contributions to every Hedges album except one—and the fact that he’s the only musician Hedges has ever toured with extensively—for proof.
		It has Hedges’ otherwise unreleased instrumental arrangement (with Manring) of George Harrison’s “If I Needed Someone”, but the real star of the collection (in addition to “Ritual Dance” of course) is the first of two bass solos by Manring titled “Selene”.
		When you think of what Michael’s done, he’s basically…well, I mean there certainly was a tradition of solo acoustic guitar music before he came along, but he’s really expanded the stakes.
	www.nomadland.com /MM041594.htm (1925 words)

	MICHAEL MANRING - MONSTER BASS MANIAC!! - ANOTHER EER REVIEW 4 U
		Michael Manring: The Book of Flame (CD, 45:59); Alchemy ALCD 1015, 1998 Alchemy Records 61 Surrey Dr. Cohasset, MA, 02025 USA Ph: 800-292-6932 or (781) 383-0086 Email: info@manthing.com Cyberhome: http://www.alchemyrecords.com or www.manthing.com Manring is a master of innovation and way crazy funk fun on the bass.
		This is one of the best solo efforts Manring has put on the table to date.
		Live studio piece "No Wontons for Elvis" has a Michael Hedges Live on the Double Planet feel to it and as if Hedges were playing through Manring.
	www.eer-music.com /reviews/manring.html (415 words)

	MICHAEL MANRING \| Tunings
		Sequential tunings, presented once each in order of appearance, are for basses equipped with extender keys, and, in the case of the Hyperbass, both extender keys and a detuneable bridge.
		For those unfamiliar with Michael’s technique, he makes extensive use of the retuning capabilities of these basses on the fly.
		Michael, being a maniac, doesn't always tune the pairs to the same note.
	www.manthing.com /tunings.htm (517 words)

	Bass Player - Solo Voyage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Manring has waited a long time to make a true solo bass album.
		Solo bass has been fundamental to Manring’s approach since his first big career splash in the early ’80s as a sideman for the late acoustic guitar innovator Michael Hedges.
		Michael has an amazing, bouncy feel that makes those old Miles recordings so funky; he’s been a hero of mine since I was a kid.
	www.bassplayer.com /story.asp?storycode=11483 (2046 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Builiding on the ideas of his teacher, the late bass legend Jaco Pastorius, bassist Michael Manring has developed an entirely new approach to playing bass that incorporates unorthodox tunings, techniques, and methodologies.
		Although Manring's playing is often astounding, he has consciously downplayed what he refers to as the 'circus' aspect...
		But in spite of Manring's ability to use everything at his disposal to push the envelope of bass technique, he does write and perform deep meaningful music...
	www.liraproductions.com /dmg/indivdualbios.htm (1371 words)

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