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06-11-2009, 10:02 AM
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Just a little taste of funk before slapping on a P-bass became "uncool." 
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06-11-2009, 12:12 PM
| | | | ...can't see the video here.
Pockets (outta Baltimore, right?) were cool, though.
(Did Dennis Chambers play drums for them?).
I would also say for those in my generation...slapping on a P-Bass never went out of style.
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06-11-2009, 12:18 PM
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06-11-2009, 12:21 PM
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Cheese, I'd say the only reason slapping on a P-Bass is uncool is because I can't do it 
But wait a minute I can't slap on any bass so slapping is uncool 
God Bless, Ray
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06-11-2009, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | Guys don't take me too literally about the slapping on a P-bass crack. It's just that slapped P-bass, including Louis Johnson on his first album, was really common in the Seventies, but died out right after Freddie Washington did "Forget-Me-Nots," or around 1982.
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06-11-2009, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese Guys don't take me too literally about the slapping on a P-bass crack. It's just that slapped P-bass, including Louis Johnson on his first album, was really common in the Seventies, but died out right after Freddie Washington did "Forget-Me-Nots," or around 1982. | Cheese, I knew you were joking and so was I. Except for the part about not being able to slap.
All in good fun I hope.
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06-11-2009, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by LilRay Cheese, I knew you were joking and so was I. Except for the part about not being able to slap.
All in good fun I hope.
God Bless, Ray | You know it! 
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06-11-2009, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by JimK ...can't see the video here.
Pockets (outta Baltimore, right?) were cool, though.
(Did Dennis Chambers play drums for them?).
| It does look like a young Dennis Chambers in the picture (on the far left). |
06-11-2009, 06:30 PM
| | | Huh...THE Pockets?
I have the 45 for "Come Go With Me" & it's just Pockets! 
BTW, check out "Come Go With Me", too. It was a Top 20 or 40 hit back in the late '70s.
Just check out the instrumentation & the arrangement & how well everything sits in the mix. Nice job on a Pop/R&B hit. Brings back good memories.
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06-11-2009, 06:35 PM
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Pretty cool.
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06-11-2009, 06:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | Forgot about that tune. I had no idea that Gary and Dennis were in that group. Great find, Dr.!!!!!!!!!!
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06-11-2009, 06:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: I been everywhere, man... | | Back in her bass playing days, Aimee Mann brought back the slapped P for a brief return in 1985, via the 'Til Tuesday hit "Love in a Vacuum". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f47CjHlOGcY
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06-11-2009, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by 20db pad | I just barely remember that song. I saw it like once on MTV. Aimee Mann could bring it back in the day.
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06-11-2009, 08:33 PM
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06-11-2009, 09:56 PM
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06-11-2009, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Jamie_Funk | Only the first of those clips was with a Music Man. The restr feature a Ken Smith. That is no biggie though. The two basses can sound very similar, IMO.
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06-11-2009, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese Only the first of those clips was with a Music Man. The restr feature a Ken Smith. That is no biggie though. The two basses can sound very similar, IMO. | I liked the MM tone, but LOVED the Smith tone.
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06-12-2009, 05:51 AM
| | | | An aside-
Gary Grainger has done a couple clinics here (as a "sideman") with a drummer named Larry Bright.
Larry Bright, another Baltimore guy, is very similar to Dennis Chambers...scary good!
One thing I'll never forget about their clinics-
Bright & Grainger played a groove together.
Next, Grainger played the same part as Bright displaced his groove.
Next, Bright went back to his original groove while Grainger displaced his groove.
Finally, both played their displaced grooves together.
Nasty.
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06-12-2009, 03:16 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | Back in the pre-youtube days I remember buying the Chambers video just for the Grainger part, same with Gadd for Will Lee/Eddie Gomez, Simon Phillips for Anthony Jackson etc. Gotta love youtube, it used to cost fifty bucks for I suck conformation.
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06-12-2009, 07:39 PM
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