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08-18-2006, 07:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: SOuthern New Jersey | | | You wont find a better keyboard bass player than
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Bernie Worrell....I mean the man is just funk in human form |
08-18-2006, 08:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | I think Stevie Wonder might have something to say about that. 
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08-18-2006, 08:58 PM
| | | | Actually, Jim Beard is just positively incredible. Listen to "Tandoori Taxi" from the "Truly" album. Amazing, and played like a real bass player. |
08-18-2006, 09:05 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | bernie worell + stevie wonder are both great keyboard bass players. |
08-18-2006, 09:12 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | Greg "Mouse" Phillinganes and Stevie. Greg is an absolute beast on keyboard bass. Stevie is without peer. |
08-19-2006, 06:03 AM
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"We Can Work It Out"...ridiculous.
Other notables-
Michael Omartian ("Yah Mo B There"), 'Hawk' Wolinski (Rufus), David Frank (The Sytem), & the king of the catchy Pop-bass hook, Rod Temperton.
A local guy around here that went by the name of "Termite" was a synth bass monster...TOP, Jaco, Worrell-inspired Funk, etc.
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08-19-2006, 10:00 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | Dexter Wansell, anyone?
Also, the kid from Soulive is a beast as well.
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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08-19-2006, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Woodchuck Also, the kid from Soulive is a beast as well. | yeah neil or alan evans. im pretty sure he plays the bass with his feet on the foot pedals though. |
08-19-2006, 10:43 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by markjazzbassist yeah neil or alan evans. im pretty sure he plays the bass with his feet on the foot pedals though. | He does those runs with his feet?!
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08-20-2006, 05:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: madison, wi | | | Joey DeFrancesco on the Hammond B-3 blows me away with the complexity of his bass lines while totally rippin' up the B w/ his right hand! I believe B-3 bass is a combination of foot pedals and/or left hand. Plus it still qualifies as keyboard bass! Lots of B-3 players cover the bass--Jimmy Smith, Larry goldings, larry Young etc. Jack McDuff seemed liked he would incorprate a bassist pretty often though. Ray manzarek held the bottom down pretty well too! |
08-20-2006, 09:28 AM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | I've seen Soulive a few times and I'm pretty sure it was Neal Evans left hand, whatever...he has a great feel. Another of the newer cats with a nice "bass" feel is Peter Kuzma with Gerald Veasly's band, he plays some wicked grooves.
Do we have to pay a fine or anything to talk about this here? 
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08-22-2006, 09:13 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Evans has a great feel. That's the difference between the guys banging away on lower octaves and the guys who really understand the function of the bass instrument. For me that's the beauty of it... while the simplicity of the instrument is obvious, what to do with it isn't.
Re: Stevie: I can play "Boogie On Reggae Woman"... I just can't "play" it like Stevie. It's similar to trying to nail Rocco's feel with TOP.
Better yet, check him out on drums... seems easy until you try to do it  |
08-22-2006, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Woodchuck Dexter Wansell, anyone?
Also, the kid from Soulive is a beast as well. | Dex is a bad cat IYAM.... Neal Evans isn't too shabby either.
Still, Stevie, Bernie and Larry Goldings are a tad bit more badass than the above. IMHO. |
08-23-2006, 12:33 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: L.A. (the Valley) | | | Chester Thompson plays mean pedals. I've forgotten about Dexter Wansel, haven't heard him since 1980 or thereabouts. On the rock side Ray Manzarek does well. Best left hand bass has to be Fats Waller.
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08-23-2006, 03:54 AM
| | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by jumbosilverette Chester Thompson plays mean pedals. I've forgotten about Dexter Wansel, haven't heard him since 1980 or thereabouts. On the rock side Ray Manzarek does well. Best left hand bass has to be Fats Waller. | Wow, I forgot about Chester Thompson!....Squib Cakes anyone?
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08-23-2006, 04:16 AM
| | | | john paul jones!! i think he was a keyboard man first. |
08-24-2006, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rochester NY | | | neil evans is sick... |
08-24-2006, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by jerry Wow, I forgot about Chester Thompson!....Squib Cakes anyone? | dang I played that in a jam the other day... it's been a long time. |
08-24-2006, 11:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oklahoma City, OK | | | What about a lil love for George Duke???? |
08-24-2006, 11:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Burlington Vt | | | Bernie is house party funk, Stevie is soulful funk. Each soars high above anyone in their respective funk.
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