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RIP Marvin Isley

#21
Jim Campbell said:
check out war's all day music and the world is a ghetto....stuff like slippin into darkness.....
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know what? i forgot about war! and i loved them and had a couple of their albums, too. but i totally missed out on p/funk until "tear the roof off the sucker" came out and didn't even hear any old funkadelic till much later. but for a suburban white kid from orlando, that's pretty good ;)
 
#23
JimmyM said:
know what? i forgot about war! and i loved them and had a couple of their albums, too. but i totally missed out on p/funk until "tear the roof off the sucker" came out and didn't even hear any old funkadelic till much later. but for a suburban white kid from orlando, that's pretty good ;)
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war's bass guy gets it with a few notes and a great sense of where to put them
 
#25
My condolences go out to the Isley family. The bass world will certainly miss an awesome bass player.

As a bass player with diabetes myself, I realize that it's so important to take care of yourself. (I am not doing the best I can do, for sure). Please people, take care of your body and hopefully, you will have a long life ahead of you!

R...
 
#28
Hoover said:
LOL! Cool word...I think that's what J. Neil Schulman would term a "sillygism"



I just remembered we used to also cover the Isley Bros "Livin' In The Life". Yeah, "angry funk" is right. Powerful stuff.
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Rudolph wrote that one in response to the people who were thinking that they had "made it" and were living the good life. He was telling them, "Hell, we had to, and still do, work hard for this s**t! Ain't nothin' easy!"
 
#32
JimmyM said:
that's a shame...a guy so young getting diabetes and losing both legs before he's 50, then dying before he even turns 60. great player. fight the power is a big reference point for me because it was one of the first angry funk songs. before that, the lyrics in funk tunes were pretty innocuous except for gil scott heron. but fight the power was ANGRY! and i dug the hell out of it.
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I gotta look at it this way, Jimmy. I must not be supposed to check out until I get good enough...

Mighty groove, indeed. RIP Marvin.
 
#35
Dr. Cheese said:
Thanks for sharing that link, Jauqo.:) I always liked Marvin Isley myself, but like sio many, I just did not give him as much credit as he deserved.
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No problem Dr.


When I first started playing bass Marvin was tops on my list. I think for the most part Marvin was just a little to gritty for bass players to handle.
 
#39
Dr. Cheese said:
Thanks for sharing that link, Jauqo.:) I always liked Marvin Isley myself, but like sio many, I just did not give him as much credit as he deserved.
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That always puzzled me back then, much like Ron LaPread with the Commodores back in the day. Don't people hear what these guys are doing?

That rhythm section (Marvin, Chris Jasper on Keys, Ernie on guitar and drums) took the Isleys to level only a handful of groups could imagine.
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