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02-29-2012, 02:00 PM
| | | | Who's funkier: Larrhy Graham or Bootsy Collins?
The ultimate battle of the funk bassists, baby!! 
Larry might be better technically and is a way better singer, but Bootsy has that funk feel you just can't teach. What say you?
And yes, I know there's a typo in the title... Damn
Last edited by Doublezebra : 02-29-2012 at 02:00 PM.
Reason: Typo
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02-29-2012, 02:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: USA, Washington | | | They are both Gods, I am not worthy to compare them. |
02-29-2012, 02:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | I don't know. Who's got a hotter @$$, Nicky Manaj or Beyonce? 
In both cases, the funk is in the eye of the beholder.
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02-29-2012, 02:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Cardinal, Ontario, Canada | | | Love 'em both. Isn't it great that two of the biggest icons for our instrument in our defining genre are still alive and kicking? We could still see both these legends on the same stage for a real-life battle royal. The world would stop orbiting the sun in a straight circle and start bopping to a groove.
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02-29-2012, 02:12 PM
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2) Beyonce
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02-29-2012, 02:14 PM
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02-29-2012, 02:22 PM
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02-29-2012, 02:24 PM
| | | | I would kill to see them battle it live -- although I do think Bootsy is better suited to playing in an 11- or 12-piece band, more of a pocket player, while Graham can kill it with just him and a drummer.
Proof:
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02-29-2012, 02:27 PM
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I favor Mr. Graham, the innovator, myself. I met him once. The nicest dude out of all the dudes who were ever dudes. |
02-29-2012, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by SolarMan  1) Bootsy
2) Beyonce | Me too! Beyonce over Nicki Minaj any day... Minaj always came off to me as a bit fake 
I don't know if you guys can tell--not like I have an avatar and a quote involving him--but I'm a huge fan of Bootsy. To me his grooves, while simple, just fit so well in the larger band contexts he's played in. I definitely agree with him being most at home IMO in a larger band whereas Graham slays in more bare bones situations.
That being said, I love Graham's stuff and he definitely revolutionized the bass guitar as we know it. If it weren't for him, would guys like Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten be as they are today? But Bootsy's it for me! It's all about the one, y'know? |
02-29-2012, 02:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: DENCO | | | We mere mortals are not even allowed (or have the capacity) to think in those terms of who's funkier between the two. Shame on you.
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02-29-2012, 02:30 PM
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02-29-2012, 02:32 PM
| | | | Uh, Louis Johnson would like, walk in between them and stuff, then smash their heads together, and they would like, fall to the ground, and he would stand on top of the two lifeless bodies and say, "By the power of "Strawberry Letter 23", I am the understated true god of the funk!!!" Then he would say, c'mon Flea (his sidekick) , let's go and save the world from pocketless, groove starved songs. and Flea would say,like, "to the Aeroplane!!" or something.
Just kidding.
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02-29-2012, 02:36 PM
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02-29-2012, 02:37 PM
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02-29-2012, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Peace Cee Uh, Louis Johnson would like, walk in between them and stuff, then smash their heads together, and they would like, fall to the ground, and he would stand on top of the two lifeless bodies and say, "By the power of "Strawberry Letter 23", I am the understated true god of the funk!!!" Then he would say, c'mon Flea (his sidekick) , let's go and save the world from pocketless, groove starved songs. and Flea would say,like, "to the Aeroplane!!" or something.
Just kidding.
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02-29-2012, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by LowEndMan2112 I don't know if you guys can tell--not like I have an avatar and a quote involving him--but I'm a huge fan of Bootsy. To me his grooves, while simple, just fit so well in the larger band contexts he's played in. I definitely agree with him being most at home IMO in a larger band whereas Graham slays in more bare bones situations. | "Sly & the Family Stone" and "Graham Central Station" weren't bare bones bands. No slight to you or Bootsy. Different flavors of funkaliciousness. Oh yeah, almost forgot... Beyonce!
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02-29-2012, 03:38 PM
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02-29-2012, 05:50 PM
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02-29-2012, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Peace Cee . . . Flea (his sidekick) . . . | You mention Flea in the same thought as Larry and Bootsy?!?!?
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