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04-09-2010, 12:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Washington State | |  Funkiest non-Black bassists :)
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Who would you say is the funkiest White bass player you have met? I am hoping the subject doesn't touch anyone's tender spots considering how I worded it (which btw was totally "innocent" as it were!) Someone who you would guess was a Black bassist w/o seeing them, but who turned out to be White, Latin, Indian, East Indian, Middle Eastern, etc. |
04-09-2010, 12:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: santa fe new mexico | | | rocco prestia |
04-09-2010, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by rollcall  rocco prestia | I gotta agree with that bro! There's many others but he sho nuff is one! LOL  |
04-09-2010, 12:26 PM
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let's not forget Stu Zender !
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04-09-2010, 12:27 PM
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04-09-2010, 12:30 PM
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04-09-2010, 12:32 PM
| | | | Rocco Prestia & Bobby Vega are incredifunky |
04-09-2010, 12:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mid-Atlantic USA. | | | Not sure who did most of the work on the hits for AWB, but either Hamish Stewart or Alan Gorrie. |
04-09-2010, 12:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Washington State | | Quote:
Originally Posted by AltGrendel Not sure who did most of the work on the hits for AWB, but either Hamish Stewart or Alan Gorrie. | I believe the bassist for AWB was Alan. Yeah he's pretty funky. One of the many funky British (Scottish in his case) instrumentalists. |
04-09-2010, 12:37 PM
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I've never met Rocco, but my vote goes to him.
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04-09-2010, 12:38 PM
|  | a/k/a Steve Cooper | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Huntington WV | | | Jim Fielder, on the early Blood, Sweat, and Tears stuff.
Gary Willis on Tribal Tech stuff.
Duck Dunn, on the Stax/Volt sides.
(OP said "you've met," but I take it that's not a requirement..? These are funky players I've copped stuff from.)
Oh, yeah--on some cuts, Jaco had cool fingerstyle funk.
Um...Doug Johns on Pocket Fulla Nasty.
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04-09-2010, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Ewo Jim Fielder, on the early Blood, Sweat, and Tears stuff.
Gary Willis on Tribal Tech stuff.
Duck Dunn, on the Stax/Volt sides. | Never heard of Jim or Duck, but hell yeah Gary is da funkiness! LOL |
04-09-2010, 12:45 PM
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04-09-2010, 12:46 PM
| | | | Zender gets my vote. Return of the space cowboy makes me smile
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04-09-2010, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by bassguy74 Never heard of Jim or Duck, but hell yeah Gary is da funkiness! LOL | Wow, really?!
Jim is a killer bassist and super cool guy, met him in Indy in 2005 during a lame attempt at NAMM trying to move the summer show there... 
DDD's work with Blues Bros and Booker T is killer.
Also David Hood from Muscle Shoals and Carl Radle.... |
04-09-2010, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Northern California | | | Jonas Hellborg...
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04-09-2010, 12:48 PM
| | a/k/a Steve Cooper | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Huntington WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by i hate username Zender gets my vote. Return of the space cowboy makes me smile | Virtual Insanity is da Zender bomb, IMHO. |
04-09-2010, 12:54 PM
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I don't know if I'd consider Duck Dunn "funky" per se - but definitely had "Groove," like Jamerson.
My Vote goes to Neil Jason from the Brecker Brothers doing Some Skunk Funk live at the North Sea Festival ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IAm0FyDnnM). Go to 5:30 in the clip. Wooten before Wooten could walk.
Watch and funk.
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04-09-2010, 12:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | Duck Dunn gets my vote..Those stax grooves are the best
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04-09-2010, 12:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | As far as Funky goes, I gotta go with Rocco. And as a side note if you don't know who Duck Dunn is, there is quite a treat waiting for you!
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