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View Poll Results: Mount Funkmore | |
James Jamerson
|    | 32 | 22.07% | |
Larry Graham
|    | 36 | 24.83% | |
Chuck Rainey
|    | 3 | 2.07% | |
Anthony Jackson
|    | 2 | 1.38% | |
Bootsy Collins
|    | 26 | 17.93% | |
Louis Johnson
|    | 3 | 2.07% | |
Marcus Miller
| | 9 | 6.21% | |
Nate Watts
| | 0 | 0% | |
Bernard Edwards
| | 3 | 2.07% | |
George Porter Jr.
| | 26 | 17.93% | |
Donald "Duck" Dunn
| | 4 | 2.76% | |
Stanley Clarke
| | 1 | 0.69% |
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12-29-2006, 11:11 AM
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If you could re-create Mount Rushmore using the four most important bass players in the funk world who would they be? Although you can choose only one in the poll, give me your suggestion for your top four. Hey! I just realized that I was in such a rush that I forgot Verdene White in the poll!
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12-29-2006, 12:51 PM
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12-29-2006, 01:39 PM
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12-29-2006, 02:48 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Larry, Jamerson, Victor and Marcus would have been my choices. |
12-29-2006, 04:11 PM
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12-29-2006, 06:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | People are entitled to their opinions, but my opinion is that any list without Larry Graham is a joke. 
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12-29-2006, 06:26 PM
| | | | um if i could recreate mount rushmore (*** is mount rushmore?) i'd have the faces of kermit the frog, bob marley, brad norwell, and this girl i know who doesn't like it when i smoke weed. |
12-29-2006, 08:06 PM
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12-29-2006, 08:39 PM
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Cool idea for a thread. |
12-29-2006, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese  People are entitled to their opinions, but my opinion is that any list without Larry Graham is a joke. | +1
James Jamerson
Bootsy Collins
Larry Graham
Louis Johnson
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Originally Posted by stevetx19 ....rocco prestia...? | I agree. No Rocco? |
12-30-2006, 12:02 AM
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James Jamerson
Larry Graham
Chuck Rainey
Bootsy Collins
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12-30-2006, 12:31 AM
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12-30-2006, 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese People are entitled to their opinions, but my opinion is that any list without Larry Graham is a joke. | +infinity. AND BEYOND!
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12-30-2006, 01:11 AM
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12-30-2006, 11:56 AM
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No JACO ?
Jamerson
Jaco
Marcus
Rocco |
12-30-2006, 12:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Swansea, UK | | | James Jamerson, Larry Graham, Bootsy and Marcus Miller. In that order.
I voted for Marcus tho, cos the other three are way ahead and he needed some help! |
12-30-2006, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by flawop um if i could recreate mount rushmore (*** is mount rushmore?) i'd have the faces of kermit the frog, bob marley, brad norwell, and this girl i know who doesn't like it when i smoke weed. | I would also gather that she probably doesn't like the fact that you don't know what or where Mount Rushmore is. Unless you're not an American, in which case I would understand.
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12-30-2006, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Mojo-Man
No JACO ? | Nah. He's a jazz musician. 
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12-30-2006, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese People are entitled to their opinions, but my opinion is that any list without Larry Graham is a joke. | +1
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