The Funky Bass Book

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Author Message bigredbass Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1597 Registered: 9-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 11:37 am:    I recently picked up a copy of 'The Funky Bass Book' (edited by BP's Bill Leigh, Backbeat Books, ISBN 978-087930-994-7, $14.99). After the British Invasion, what really made me want to play bass was Soul Music. This is an encyclopedia, no doubt culled from the Bass Player archives, of who all those guys were. Past Jamerson and Bootsy and Larry Graham, there's lots of recognition of lots of guys where I knew the tune frontwards and backwards, but were old singles where there were never any credits. This has lots of articles about those guys, and I really can recommend this IF you're into this sort of thing. So THAT's who played that little scale riff to open Harold Melvin's 'Bad Love' . . . . want to know how Jerry Jemmott wound up on Jaco's tutorial video? My favorite anecdote: David Hood, the great Muscle Shoals session bassist, tells of Paul Simon calling Stax in Memphis wanting to hire the Jamaican musicians who cut 'I'll Take You There' (cut by Hood and the Muscle Shoals musicians) for his next project. The guy at Stax say,' Jamaican?!? They're white boys from Alabama!' J o e y serialnumber12 Senior Member Username: serialnumber12 Post Number: 862 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 12:28 pm:    Did you say funk????http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmK8-PPeBg0 terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1479 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 4:29 pm:    Without sounding like a boring old fart, no one does this music today..this is is what it is all about. Locked drums with bass with lush Hammond and choppy guitar riffs...jeeze I wish I could get in a band that did this stuff!! terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1480 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 4:42 pm:    Here have some more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B10-z3dXDCg&NR=1&feature=fvwp funkyjazzjunky Senior Member Username: funkyjazzjunky Post Number: 669 Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 9:52 am:    Thanks for the Title. As a Funkologist, I collect as much as I can on the subject jazzyvee Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 2330 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - 10:21 pm:    Here is a great funky bass line played on an Alembic EVH bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u50M_cBq7g&feature=youtube_gdata_player Jazzyvee