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Doug Johns

#41
BuffaloBass said:
I'm still wearing the heck out of it! Hey, I tried to bounce an email to Doug when he annouced that Bp mag online lesson, which was hip! Anyway, hear tell Vic and Ant W. are coming up this way in April and was wondering if Doug's coming down for it. Didnt see Cleveland on the list, just Buffalo this time. April 5th date. Dude has a place to crash if his swings down to Buffalo tell em.
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I'll pass that along.
 
#42
I got both Doug Johns and Peter Muller from CDbaby today. Doug Johns, IMO, is like Rocco Prestia with Victor Wooten chops. This is one of the hardest grooving chops heavy bass records I have ever heard!:eek: This guy avoids the great irony of so much solo bass in that he shows what he can do while keeping his bass firmly rooted in the rythmn section.

Peter Muller is wild. He is dang near more Marcus Miller than Marcus Miller.:D
 
#44
Peter Muller, dang sounds like we share ancestors, and he's got The Funk!? Dayng. I'm on it.

Hey Funkfather, thanks again for shaing all those funk tunes, my Ipod is full. And to be a good music consumer I even bought some to give the artists their vig.

Dr. Cheese, Taking NOTHING away from Doug, who is a most accomplished player, his sound is very modern, and not the old skool P/J slap tone that I dig and try to emulate. Still think Mark Adams nailed it best. no matter, just my "aural" opinion.... and I admit I'm a flippin' 1st grade student of the instrument and The Funk, so.... but Doug, to my ears, sounds more of that modern bass vibe, ala Wooten et al.

But agree with ya Dr., that Doug lays down some NICE music, in addition to nice melodic funk bass.

My crib is always open to you guys JIII, as long as you dont mind my 6 and 10 yr old boys going to the music room and showing off their "chops". A 6 yr old beating the skins, well, only a dad can appreciate it I think! ;)

Peace and blessings y'all!
 
#45
BuffaloBass said:
Peter Muller, dang sounds like we share ancestors, and he's got The Funk!? Dayng. I'm on it.

Hey Funkfather, thanks again for shaing all those funk tunes, my Ipod is full. And to be a good music consumer I even bought some to give the artists their vig.

Dr. Cheese, Taking NOTHING away from Doug, who is a most accomplished player, his sound is very modern, and not the old skool P/J slap tone that I dig and try to emulate. Still think Mark Adams nailed it best. no matter, just my "aural" opinion.... and I admit I'm a flippin' 1st grade student of the instrument and The Funk, so.... but Doug, to my ears, sounds more of that modern bass vibe, ala Wooten et al.

But agree with ya Dr., that Doug lays down some NICE music, in addition to nice melodic funk bass.

My crib is always open to you guys JIII, as long as you dont mind my 6 and 10 yr old boys going to the music room and showing off their "chops". A 6 yr old beating the skins, well, only a dad can appreciate it I think! ;)

Peace and blessings y'all!
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I think we are in agreement about Doug Johns. As I said, his music has a sort of TOP vibe, but his sound is very Wooten.
I know you are a huge Mark Adams fan, I need to go back and listen to him more. When I was twenty or so, I listened so much that he will always be in my head though.:D
 
#47
I hate to go against the grain here. . . The CD sounds great, nice production, great drummers, tight grooves, great horn arrangements, amazing bass playing. . .

But, besides a few imaginative sections, he sounds too much like Victor Wooten.

And, the world needs another Victor Wooten just like it needs another Marcus Miller (Peter Muller).
 
#48
lefty007 said:
I hate to go against the grain here. . . The CD sounds great, nice production, great drummers, tight grooves, great horn arrangements, amazing bass playing. . .

But, besides a few imaginative sections, he sounds too much like Victor Wooten.

And, the world needs another Victor Wooten just like it needs another Marcus Miller (Peter Muller).
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I see your point, but the fact that he puts the thing in a Tower of Power type of setting gives it an original spin, IMO.
 
#50
Off topic: I am loving that Peter Muller. He is a dead on Marcus clone, but dang, he is good, however, on one song, Eastbound, he really gives the Marcus sound a new spin. That cut combines Marcus style slap with a Middle Eastern melody (I guess it's that Turkish influence in Germany) and a slammin' drum program. The result is some groovy perfection!:D
 
#51
lefty007 said:
I hate to go against the grain here. . . The CD sounds great, nice production, great drummers, tight grooves, great horn arrangements, amazing bass playing. . .

But, besides a few imaginative sections, he sounds too much like Victor Wooten.

And, the world needs another Victor Wooten just like it needs another Marcus Miller (Peter Muller).
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As far as I'm concerned the more we have the happier I'll be :)
 
#52
morf said:
As far as I'm concerned the more we have the happier I'll be :)
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We are in agreement here regarding more Marcus. As for Wooten, I think I'm done with all the double thumping. Victa and Alain Caron (and the million+ clones) are enough to fill my plate. Since many talk about change and developing 'new' things and not rehashing the past, how about doing something new and fresh and get away from all that double thumping! Enough already!
 
#53
Maybe "like Wooten" as in between Wooten and Veasley ? I donnow. Doug has his own thing going on, and when you see his instructional video at the on line bass magazine, he does, imho, handle the instrument differently than Vic. Physically.

I didnt notice "its like Vic" other than the simple fact that he's playing original funk in the 21st century. As far as chops go, most players at the top of the slap genre sound a bit like the King.

And I dont care if we had 100 more 21st century funkateers man..... Maybe the public would stop caring what a piece of trash like Brittaney says/does and start really getting it on! Musically I mean. Naw, OK, that's in my utopian world, that'll never be here.
 
#54
DWBass said:
We are in agreement here regarding more Marcus. As for Wooten, I think I'm done with all the double thumping. Victa and Alain Caron (and the million+ clones) are enough to fill my plate. Since many talk about change and developing 'new' things and not rehashing the past, how about doing something new and fresh and get away from all that double thumping! Enough already!
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Well, I see your point ;) I too get quickly annoyed by the constant double thumping where Victor, IMHO, just does too much, when he could, again IMHO, be a MONSTER groove player (which he's shown repeatedly he can be) without all the 16th fills all over the place. That said, if he digs it, he should play it. It's entirely up to him what he does with his bass guitar and while it does comfort and appease me to see pro players like you so concerned about the future of the bass community, I still think the freedom to play what you want the way you want is essential to any musician's growth. Ok ok, maybe he should do it less in public, but I bet you the chicks dig it ;)
 
#55
BuffaloBass said:
Maybe "like Wooten" as in between Wooten and Veasley ? I donnow. Doug has his own thing going on, and when you see his instructional video at the on line bass magazine, he does, imho, handle the instrument differently than Vic. Physically.

I didnt notice "its like Vic" other than the simple fact that he's playing original funk in the 21st century. As far as chops go, most players at the top of the slap genre sound a bit like the King.

And I dont care if we had 100 more 21st century funkateers man..... Maybe the public would stop caring what a piece of trash like Brittaney says/does and start really getting it on! Musically I mean. Naw, OK, that's in my utopian world, that'll never be here.
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I think it'll come. Give society time to learn whats crap and whats not. We aren't quite done yet with our commercial, trash music culture, but when we will be, it'll hopefully be a good lesson learned.
 
#56
morf said:
Well, I see your point ;) I too get quickly annoyed by the constant double thumping where Victor, IMHO, just does too much, when he could, again IMHO, be a MONSTER groove player (which he's shown repeatedly he can be) without all the 16th fills all over the place. That said, if he digs it, he should play it. It's entirely up to him what he does with his bass guitar and while it does comfort and appease me to see pro players like you so concerned about the future of the bass community, I still think the freedom to play what you want the way you want is essential to any musician's growth. Ok ok, maybe he should do it less in public, but I bet you the chicks dig it ;)
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Well, I'm okay with Victa doing what he does! But the million + followers need to tone it down a bit, IMO! ;) I haven't heard many doing the Marcus thing other than Peter Muller. Oskar Cartaya does a latin version of Marcus (I'm kidding, Oskar does have his own thing going but the Fender bass sound is ever present in his voice).
 
#57
DWBass said:
Well, I'm okay with Victa doing what he does! But the million + followers need to tone it down a bit, IMO! ;) I haven't heard many doing the Marcus other than Peter Muller. Oskar Cartaya does a latin version of Marcus (I'm kidding, Oskar does have his own thing going but the Fender bass sound is ever present in his voice).
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I'll have to check Oskar Cartaya out, I've never heard of him.
 

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