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08-15-2010, 10:30 PM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | |  RIP Robert Wilson, Gap Band.
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08-15-2010, 10:32 PM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | RIP. Another sad day for the funk.
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08-15-2010, 10:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | OMG!!!  This is terrible news! Robert Wilson was quietly just as much of a trailblazer as Stanley Clarke or Anthony Jackson. His solos and detuning really raised the bar on what the bass could do in mainstream funk. I know Andrew Gouche counts him as major influence, that alone tells us how important Robert Wilson's recorded legacy is.
RIP. 
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08-15-2010, 10:48 PM
|  | stay inspired! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Los Angeles area | | | Another Bad Dude gone! RIP
We must represent...
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08-15-2010, 11:06 PM
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08-15-2010, 11:09 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | robert wilson was one of my favorites for da funk. holy cow, what a talented dude. plus he had discipline, which is sorely lacking in a lot of young players. he would lay on the same riff sometimes for an entire song, never changing it. when the system wrote the song "don't disturb this groove," i think they were talking about him. he never once disturbed the groove to make himself look like the hero, and for that, he was a hero.
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Reason: Whoops...wilson, not berry!
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08-15-2010, 11:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | RIP Funkman
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08-15-2010, 11:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | WOW...........an amazing player with an amazing sound..............R.I.P.......
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08-15-2010, 11:47 PM
|  | Now 10% Less Offensive! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM robert berry was one of my favorites for da funk. holy cow, what a talented dude. plus he had discipline, which is sorely lacking in a lot of young players. he would lay on the same riff sometimes for an entire song, never changing it. when the system wrote the song "don't disturb this groove," i think they were talking about him. he never once disturbed the groove to make himself look like the hero, and for that, he was a hero. | ^^ THIS!
Sad day for funk. RIP, Robby.
You really couldn't listen to the Gap Band without dancing (at least a little bit in your chair).
'nother bass hero gone.
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08-15-2010, 11:58 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | sorry, accidentally put "berry" as his last name...was reading al berry's post, and next thing you know...
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08-16-2010, 12:38 AM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | What a inspiration!
Fly on Robert...........
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08-16-2010, 01:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: valparaiso, in. | | | A great "in the groove" player! |
08-16-2010, 01:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Seattle, WA | | | 53 is too young! RIP! |
08-16-2010, 02:21 AM
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Seymour Duncan/Basslines SMB-5A Endorsing Artist | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Cuernavaca 1 hr S Mexico City | | | RIP, funkster . . . |
08-16-2010, 05:43 AM
| | | | The Gap Band was one of my guilty pleasures. Sad news he inspired me. |
08-16-2010, 05:52 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | |  Damn! Another reason why we funk players need to keep the legacy of our funk pioneers alive! Never let the funk die!!
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08-16-2010, 06:09 AM
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Builder: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | | That sucks, Literally just dropped a bomb on me...... RIP. |
08-16-2010, 07:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NJ via NYC | | | This is a real bummer! Robert Wilson was a funk great. Best wishes to the Wilson family.
R.I.P
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08-16-2010, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tijuana Mex. | | | Too sad, he was a true original.
RIP
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