I've been thinking to get a clarinet (I played in 4-9th grade) as my flute is too difficult for me to get the high notes.

Jeff Beck live at Ronnie Scotts is a DVD you might want to check out. The bass player is a young lady named Tal Wilkenfeld who has not played that long and seems quite good. Here is a song where she has a very nice solo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC02wGj5gPw

BTW... Jeff Beck is the master with the strat and there are songs in that video where the drummer is amazing.

I believe that John Myung, the bass player of Dream Theater, has quite a bit of instructional material you could order...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJ2zbGmMAI