For me, Monsieur Renaud Garcia-Fons is without any doubt one of the best and most versed and genious doublebass-players on the planet ...!!! His techniques are mind-blowing and his playing, his compositions are absolutely soulful ....!!! He is a lovely source of inspiration to me. - God bless you all. Love & peace on earth! Best regards from Leipzig/Germany.

Fantastic musician!We had a concert opposite of him in Europe many years ago, and I was totally impressed with his effortless virtuosity

Incredible intonation and technique

RG-F is a quite tremendous player, even mind-blowing technically sometimes. Geoff, you look a bit intimidated ha ha! (Love the DDB channel by the way, it's my go to on YT when I need to be reminded how limited a bassist I am & looking for inspiration.) BUT also I think he has a marvellous melodic ear and some of his tunes are really beautiful. Also he is in a deep exploration of southern European, middle Eastern and north African traditions--the entire mediterranean sometimes is his sonic landscape. I feel he is under-appreciated in the jazz world even though he is an astounding improviser. (I did ask a leading EU jazz club director why this was the case a few years ago and he told me that people--jazz bassists?--said to him that RG-F was ... too perfect. Come on, guys, credit where it's due.)

I wish players would stop saying “use arm weight.” If you use arm weigh, you’re arm will fall to the side. The shoulder and pectoral muscles hold up and control the arm while bowing, therefore it is impossible to separate the force from these muscles from the force of the weight of the arm, and to measure the weight of the arm since the force from the muscle can increase or decrease the weight of the arm

where are the points of contact with that curved endping? Is it possible to have the bass that infront of you instead of the hip with a regular endpin?

His whole "low weight" approach would seem to lend itself towards irritation and injury free playing.