Funkadelic/One Nation Fretless?

[mksolid]

When I listen to songs like Grooveallegiance and Cholly I am inclined to think that Professor Bootsy was using fretless bass? How can he pop off such warm bumblebee notes combined with those low gooey slides?

[Dr. Cheese]

I never heard of Bootsy using a fretless. I suspect it's just all those effects pedals that he's running through his bass that gives him fretless sorts of sounds.

[JAUQO III-X]

Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

I never heard of Bootsy using a fretless. I suspect it's just all those effects pedals that he's running through his bass that gives him fretless sorts of sounds.

You nailed it.Bootsy is not a fretless player and has never been known to use one let alone record with one.

[mksolid]

That's exactly what I thought (that he wasn't a fretless player). It's just that his tone of that cd seems to remind me of Jaco's midrangey but smooth tone.

[narud]

im pretty sure grooveallegiance is rodney skeet curtis on bass as it doesnt even sound like bootsy. cholly sounds very bootsy though.

[Woodchuck]

Originally Posted by narud

im pretty sure grooveallegiance is rodney skeet curtis on bass as it doesnt even sound like bootsy. cholly sounds very bootsy though.

Same here.

[these_go211]

some of the "bass riffs" in the parliment songs are done by using a moog. ie the flashlight riff.

[heath_the_great]

its prolly just the env filter...just the way he controls it...bootsy is the funk man...me love bootsy

[MacGroove]

This is aside from what's being talked about but has to do with effects. Richard Bona uses a special effect to get a nice frettless sound from his Fodera. It's wired for midi into a Roland V Bass, although I don't think that's where the frettless sound is coming from. His effects are talked about in his forums page at www.bonatology.com
Just thought that MKSOLID would be interested.