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09-29-2011, 02:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Louth UK | | | How cool is Larry Graham!!!!!
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Man I've always respected Larry Graham, one of the most infuential players of all time. But having seen him recently suporting prince, and having seen the recent Warwick adds, I just keep getting completly bowled over at just how cool he is, and still is after all these years!! 
here he is in a recent add, its amazing how he out flamboyant's Bootsy and TM Stevens, whilst still looking quite formal, and smart! 
I want his wardrobe! lol |
09-29-2011, 02:17 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Mmmmmmhmmmm! Larry's the man!
When did he start with Warwick?
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09-29-2011, 02:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Louth UK | | | I think from June 2011, I'm not sure if he's using Their Basses exclusively, but I know he's been using their Hellborg Amp System, since June.
It was hard to tell from where I was standing but it looked like he had a white Jazz bass, and a white streamer on stage, but I could be wrong! |
09-29-2011, 02:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Louth UK | | actually I just checked my photo's and its a moon bass he's playing not a jazz, I could have sworn he was playing a streamer at some point too... I had had a few beers by this point though!  |
09-29-2011, 03:27 AM
|  | I promised myself I would stop buying pedals | | Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Perth, Australia | | | I used to think he was a pioneering but superceeded player, but I checked out some vids a few years ago, and the guy is a MONSTER.
Look up his solo on youtube (playing with Graham Central Station). It's mindblowing!
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09-29-2011, 03:59 AM
|  | Supporting Reggae Music | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: MEXICANADAMERICA | | | yeah!!!
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09-29-2011, 04:14 AM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Larry Graham indeed is the man. Other players can try to be as cool but shall fail. |
09-29-2011, 04:53 AM
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09-29-2011, 05:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Louth UK | | this was the show I saw him at, I wish the video was longer, at one point he was up on the barrier playing in the crowd, and he was playing some drums also! Larry Graham live at Hop Farm Festival - YouTube
unfortunately I was right on the far side of the stage with my family, so I couldn't see that well, even with the big screens! |
09-29-2011, 05:05 AM
| | | | Agreed Larry is the man! I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of years ago and he's such a dude!
He's playing in London in November so I can't wait! |
09-29-2011, 05:10 AM
| | | He's so cool that I share his last name.
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09-29-2011, 08:54 AM
| | | | I saw Larry Graham Back in the 60's with Sly, and also later with Graham Central Station. It seems he hasn't aged a bit. He has always been the man, and his playing is still mind blowing.
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09-29-2011, 09:04 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Great player? Check
Great singer? Check
Great style? Check
Whenever I'm not having a great day, for whatever reason, I'll pull up the Graham Central Station video for "Pow" and it's like I've hit some sort of cosmic reset button. That song always makes me laugh, then smile, then leaves me feeling dumbfounded at the level of musicianship.
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09-29-2011, 10:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Jackson, MS | | | Cool enough to wear a captain's hat and mean it.
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09-29-2011, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Bass_Thumper  Cool enough to wear a captain's hat and mean it. | LOL! If I had a sig that would be it. |
09-29-2011, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Louth UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkymonkey82uk Agreed Larry is the man! I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of years ago and he's such a dude!
He's playing in London in November so I can't wait! | I really want to go to that gig, but work commitments wont allow it. |
09-29-2011, 01:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Alexandria, Virginia | | I love this vid. Bootsey and the other dudes are all dressed in outlandish outfits, and up walks Larry Graham in a suit and a fedora, straps on a bass, and blows away the crowd. Like the Godfather or something. Nice. Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins, and TM Stevens jamming at 2011 NAMM - YouTube
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09-29-2011, 01:58 PM
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09-29-2011, 01:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ankh-Morpork | | | To rip off Anselm of Canterbury's proof for the existence of god, Graham is "That than which nothing cooler can be imagined."
Think of the coolest thing possible.
LARRY GRAHAM IS EXACTLY AS COOL AS THAT.
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