Bernie Worrell R.I.P.

[Dr. Cheese]

I know he was a keyboardist, but if you funk, you learned his stuff!

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[Moving Pictures]

I really loved his playing.

 

[SirMjac28]

The man was a child Prodigy a concert pianist and had the funkiest fingers in the business he was a huge part of songs that absolutely defied you not to move even if you couldn't dance your body had to do something.

 

[punchdrunk]

To this day, a BW concert n Jacksonville Beach, Fl is the coolest show ive been to. He played to a nearly empty house, but to those in attendence, it was a spiritually charged and radically funky performance. Beautiful human being.

 

[bassbrad]

We all know Bernie has joined the great band in the sky, until we meet again thank you for all the grooves, screams, cries and hours of groovy music. We would not have a Flashlight with out you.

 

[Marial]

 

[FilterFunk]

"Everybody's got a little light...under the sun!"

Bernie's gone, but his light will always be with us. R.I.P.


P.S. This year has just been brutal...

 

[petrus61]

Well that sucks.

 

[pacojas]

Bernie wrote some of the funkiest key-basslines in the history of the funk, imho. RIP, B

 

[Steve59]

Thanks Putting the Nation and the World Under Your Groove for the Funk of it! RIP Sir.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

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New York Times obituary, you will surely learn something.

 

[MixBass]

Man, sorry to hear this.

 

[The BurgerMeister]

RIP, Bernie. Thank you for all of it.

 

[higain617]

RIP, Bernie. The world wouldn't be the same without P-Funk.

 

[Murdoc_420]

Love/d everything he played in.

 

[Ewo]

R.I.P. Sad to hear this.


Added: The obit said he was born in Long Branch, NJ. Wow--that's where I grew up.

 

[Basshappi]

I am very saddened to hear this.
I was watching a few concert DVDs recently in which he performed and was wondering how he was doing, his health has been in decline for quite some time.

Rest In Peace Mr. Worrell, and thank you for all the great music.

 

[jamro217]

Another great gone.

 

[kobass]

RIP.

 

[DrayMiles]

Hmm...

Wonder if Bernie was fighting this for awhile...

I remember hanging backstage with Pete Brown and Malcolm Bruce at a Cuicoland Express gig. Bernie and Vernon Reid were in Jack Bruce's band for that gig at Shepherds Bush. I didn't recognize Bernie at first. He looked completely different than what I remembered, and I remember thinking "Hmm... Something's up." I also remember NOT going over and bothering them, although they were roughly 6 ft away. They didn't look too happy...
He had a left hand that reminded me of Brother Jack McDuff and others... It was a scary revelation learning back in the day that the funkiest bass lines I was hearing weren't being performed/thought up by a bassist. It kind of led me to evaluating Anthony Jackson's interviews about his practice regimens with a grain of understanding. How could you not want that tone or that groove?

2016 has been a hell of a year for the music community... Although if there are any jam sessions in heaven, at least I know they are slamming', and they just gained another member of the Mothership Connection...

I think I'm going to put on Flashlight and reminisce...