Show your Funk Fingers

bass555 · #1 05-24-2005, 11:23 AM

thank you mr levin

gbf · #2 05-25-2005, 12:07 PM

dude... sorry for ignorance but how do you do to play with those sticks in your fingers?
could you give me some sound samples of how that sounds like?

thank's a million
Gabriel

tplyons · #3 05-25-2005, 04:44 PM

I'm trying to design them from drumsticks I have laying around from my drumming days. Could you take better detail pictures? I can't figure out how to effectively attach them to my fingers.

canopener · #4 05-25-2005, 07:02 PM

I remember reading a thread in misc. about some homemade funk fingers made with broken drumsticks and some elastic material glued on a small arc of the stick.

PilbaraBass · #5 05-25-2005, 10:19 PM

leather pants are required when operating funk fingers. It's a safety thing. But, where are your safety glasses?

sixandeightstringer · #6 06-29-2005, 10:45 AM

Here's a few of me playing gigs with the Funk Fingers... I used them on two songs in my last band, and they always generated lots of interest from people watching...

Here's a couple clips:
with a little overdrive and eq: Dancing on the Hill

Fairly clean: Abducted

Super_Red · #7 06-29-2005, 11:25 AM

I made a pair a while back - cut down the sticks, screwed in some velcro loops - thwaka, thwaka.

I wasn't digging the wood on the strings sound, so I used a little rubber tool-handle dip on the tips. It "cooled off" the attack a bit, but looked pretty ridiculous - like I had giant red fingernails.

None of my stuff sounded as cool (and developed) as Mark's stuff, though.

sixandeightstringer · #8 06-29-2005, 11:31 AM

Well, the tool grip stuff is exactly what's on the "real" Funk Fingers - you just have to find a little less obnoxious color... or paint the whole "finger" red as to lessen the fingernail polish look...

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None of my stuff sounded as cool (and developed) as Mark's stuff, though.

Thanks for the compliment - that band has since broken up (after 8+ years of recording and gigging) but I've got a new tune in the works with my new project that uses the fingers. Curiously enough, the section that the FF's are in sounds very "Floyd-ish".

GSRLessard14 · #9 06-29-2005, 03:16 PM

Those are really awesome. Tony uses them in the Rising Low video.