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02-15-2010, 10:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Give me funk songs for a 3 piece band
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Old buddy of mine in LA has found a drummer, so in the car I go... As it stands, our whole book is old '70s tunes that work okay for 3 piece - but we both wanna FUNK more...
I have fingered a few greyboy allstars pieces - - any other suggestions?
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02-15-2010, 11:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | Chic stuff will work as will a lot of Slave or AWB material.
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02-15-2010, 12:31 PM
| | | | Wow...because I can live without keys...but not so much without the horns.
Whenever our horn player called off-
I have played The Meters in a 3-piece.
I have also done "Work To Do" by the Isley Brothers (& covered by AWB) & "Sing Aimple Song"...although it sounded more like The Meters' cover or The Budos Band.
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02-15-2010, 12:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Purple Mountain Majesties | | | We just worked up "I Feel Good" for drums, bass, and guitar, it sounds great. If your guitar player can get clean and funky with it, it's a really tight funk dance number even without the horns.
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02-15-2010, 12:35 PM
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02-15-2010, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Tempe, Arizona, USA | | | My trio makes these work:
Brick House
Kiss - Prince
Play That Funky Music (slap the intro!)
Billie Jean
...and is working on more.
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02-15-2010, 07:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: JaxBch, Fl | | | Cissy Strut... duh.. : )
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02-15-2010, 07:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NYC | | | not from the 70's but anything from Medeski, Martin & Wood is good and very funky for trio playing ^^ |
02-17-2010, 08:11 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Dark Horse strings | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Verde Valley, AZ | | | Check out the Joss Stone version of Some Kind of Wonderful, that is some stanky funky - trio I am in is doing that now.
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02-17-2010, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | What are the instruments in your trio? Drums, bass, guitar? Drums, bass, sax/trumpet? Drums, bass, piano?
You know there are a lot of songs you can play with just 3 instruments right? Even if they're not originally played by 3.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKVJjMBG7iY |
02-17-2010, 08:21 AM
|  | (aka Greg Harman) | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | Much of the old Volt/Stax material where BT & the MG's did the studio backup work can be done as three piece. For example, Wilson Pickett (Midnight Hour, Funky Broadway, 634-5789, Mustang Sally), Rufus Thomas (Funky Chicken, etc), Johnnie Taylor (Who's Making Love to Your Old Lady), Eddie Floyd (Knock on Wood) and more....
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