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07-30-2011, 10:04 PM
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07-30-2011, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulMacCnj  | that bassline is my all time favorite by a mile. i love it so much, i will never play it out of homage to his genius. i don't even want to hear anyone else play it. i don't care how many of you boy-geniuses can so-called "nail it"! leave it alone,.. let it be,... just go away!!!
while i'm at it,.. Marvin just kills it, too. and i still haven't heard an adequate cover.
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07-30-2011, 10:17 PM
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07-30-2011, 10:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Johnson City, TN | | | I was expecting this to be a troll thread via the title lol. Man he sure was a beast! One of my all time favorite basslines right there.
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07-30-2011, 10:29 PM
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07-30-2011, 10:29 PM
| | | | pacojas: Agreed. Marvin is really belting it out. The whole band is, too. Love the performance. |
07-31-2011, 08:59 AM
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07-31-2011, 09:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Jersey | | | How does he get it so right using only one finger!? Amazing.
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07-31-2011, 09:10 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Years of playing upright with one finger helped. And that's why the Jamerson clones out there suck and Jamerson didn't...trying to imitate the technique without the background. Jamerson's musicality should be appreciated and put into action...his technique, not so much.
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07-31-2011, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by greggster59 How does he get it so right using only one finger!? Amazing. | +1
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07-31-2011, 02:02 PM
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07-31-2011, 02:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | The music is simply awesome. JJ starts getting pretty funky around 2:40, really let's it out. Such a cat.
Good to see Eddie Brown playing so well and Earl so solid as usual. Who was on drums? Maybe Pistol?
The video itself is just a fail to me. Not even close to enough footage of what is one of the great performances way inappropriately overshadowed by a bunch of urban scenes of CHICAGO?!?!  |
07-31-2011, 02:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Arizona | | | I hate threads like this. I feel like if i say anything against, or even not in favor of, Jamerson then people will consider it trolling. |
07-31-2011, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by pica | love it,... thanks!
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07-31-2011, 02:54 PM
| | | | Seriously I don,t get what the fuss is all about Jamerson playing. To me it sound like something anyone could and can do.
I think I just don't get Motown |
07-31-2011, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | Get the transcriptions and try playing them. You will learn what your ears are missing. |
07-31-2011, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Mayers Seriously I don,t get what the fuss is all about Jamerson playing. To me it sound like something anyone could and can do.
I think I just don't get Motown | You must be GREAT...I'll put you on DDD's 100 greatest list...right between Jamerson and Entwisle LOL |
07-31-2011, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Mayers Seriously I don,t get what the fuss is all about Jamerson playing. To me it sound like something anyone could and can do.
I think I just don't get Motown | there is no great mystery to western music. it's not quite what he played, but that he came up with it, and did it in the context he did that makes him genius. take any great pop bass line (or at least the overwhelming majority) and they are playable by the masses. but can they think up the lines? and Jammerson did it in a time where not many players, if any, were doing what he did - on top of incredible musicianship it took guts, arrogance even, or at least a huge risk. (and if I read correctly he did this particular tune drunk, lying on the floor  )
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07-31-2011, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by funk generator I was expecting this to be a troll thread via the title lol. Man he sure was a beast! One of my all time favorite basslines right there. | I expected the same. Thank you for posting this, I had never seen footage of him playing before!
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