Recent content by paulvienneau

Of course I was only talking about the clip. As a piece of music the clip is not funky, it's just a physical feat. I tell my students that if you can't get your intention to your audience with simplicity and sincerity, all the slappity in the world ain't gonna save ya. But I agree with you it...

Dear. Sweet. Jebus. :rollno:

I'm not trolling here, so please save the screams of "sacrilage!", but I find that clip pretty cold and devoid of soul and/or funk. It seems like a mechanical rendering of the superficial stylistic pre-conceptions of "funk", and is part of the reason I quit slapping when I did. And yes, I could...

It's cool. I can still play, and if you've seen my Youtube video, I humbly submit I can play. I play wheelchair basketball, sailing, getting into sledge hockey etc. They're not "activities", they're sports, so I don't feel bummed about doing them. It's all just an alternate way of getting...

I started playing bass in early 1980, and through Stanley Clarke, Alain Caron (Fast Emotion lp) and a few others I put many hours into learning to slap. After I hasd an accident and ended up in a wheelchair in 1991 (took 2 full years off of playing) I gave it up because I can't get my arm to...

Who be dkb? Woozit?

Over the years I've had soundmen on gigs and in the studio, and random musicians from the audience ask me what it was. I hand it to them and let them feel how great this red bass feels. I don't know if you meant it to be like a P-bass on steroids, but it really feels and sounds like it to me...

If I've done this correctly, you should be seeing me recording with my late-80s 6-string, passive FBass. I've call him the "Red Headed Stranger" and "Mr Furly", at different times.

Thanks Al! I think part of this is in my head, but I find my bass sounds like and feels like a big fat-necked P-bass, which of course is a brand which shall go nameless! It could be because the pickups are P-style, but when I switch between my 1969 P-bass and my F, it's a seamless transition. I...

In case George checks here, "Hi George!" <waving> When I bought my fretless George was very cool, let me play everything in the store. Everytime I would bring the basses by for a check up he's grab my gig bags and have them up on the table before I had my jacket off. Now *that's* customer...

Ladies, gents, New to the group. I bought a red F in 1993 from my hospital bed in Toronto, for $1800CAN, second hand. It's been across the country with me many many times and is my dream tone bass. It's a 2 pickup model (with the p-style pickups). It's in this here video: I also bought a new...