Post something "funky"

[LordRyan]

 

[Funky Ghost]

George Porter on bass

 

[Killing Floor]

My son’s lacrosse gloves are the most funky thing I know. If they’re in a sealed gear bag in the trunk they will stink up the whole car within seconds.

 

[Funky Ghost]

These guys are doin' work!

 

[bass12]

Almost every video I've clicked on to hear in this thread has accents on the 2 and 4. Including the one I posted, and the one you posted.

Is that funk?

Not by any purist definition.

Is it funky? Well, maybe it's more of a funk-tinged fusion of rock and soul.

The problem here is that we're getting a lot of newer music that blends influences and, as I think a lot of people have pointed out, that involves theory nerds as opposed to stage-hardened warriors. So they're bringing in jazzier chops, odd time signatures, sophisticated keyboard licks and so on.

True funk might have all of that but the accents would always be 1 and 3. With the exception of the old-school funk, I haven't clicked on any newer music that sounds like that in this thread. But there's still a lot of good music in here.

I find the whole subject of genre/style (some musicologists differentiate between the two) fascinating. There is some black and white but, generally speaking, a whole lot more grey. On one hand I love the idea of preservation and on the other I love the inevitable fusions that occur when music “goes out into the world”. I have a hard time thinking of music that came after around 1982 (a bit of an arbitrary date I admit) as “funk” because the original sounds of the music - as well as a good number of the bands playing it - had changed so much from the ‘70s into the ‘80s. But then you have go-go (which started to appear in the late ‘70s but arguably peaked after 1982) and I would classify that as funk. So already I’m contradicting myself. Part of me wants to classify Lettuce as funk and part of me wants to say that they’re something else. But the truth is probably that they’re no less funk than any number of “funk” bands from the ‘70s who didn’t play funk exclusively (which is nearly, if not all, of them).

 

[ClusterFlux]

I'll see your bet, and raise you an Ariana Grande

 

[Dincrest]

You post what you think is funky and some guy tells you it isn't.
Hopefully we've all been exposed to songs we didn't know. That's the one saving grace of this type of threads, which are otherwise an exercise in futility.

I'm with you there, friend. Regardless of anything else, this thread has given us a ton of great music to dig on. There was a ton of new-to-me music in there. If any of tunes encouraged us to go grab our basses and try jamming along, that's the win. (Insert "TalkBass vs PlayBass" meme here).

 

[808P123]

In a mellow, melodic vein:

Shuggie is THE most underrated bass player.

 

[Danny O Danny]

 

[squarepeg]

 

[Danny O Danny]

 

[mrjim123]

Here's one from the 70's. Still sounds good today:

 

[Billyzoom]

I think I win.

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

Orlandez, Klein Epic ‘59 P-bass pickup test-run:

Klein Funk

 

[Freekmagnet]

No one posted Parliament / Funkadelic yet?

Dark Magus is probably my favorite album of all time.

 

[Freekmagnet]

I think I win.

Early innovator.

 

[Ihaveshingles]

Some funkiness driving my 6 String thumb. Fun to play: Atomik Underwear

That’s cool man, miss my thumb

 

[Freekmagnet]

 

[Steve59]

 

[Freekmagnet]