Tasteful and well done slap lines.

[pepj]

Being honest, we don't hear much thumpin or even live bass on record these days, unless it's the shredding, Berklee kind of thing.
Otherwise, this post would a lot of Jamiroquai, MonoNeon, Dirty Loops and Vulfpeck.
I think the performance is more important the year of release because great music is timeless and what's old to one may be new to another.
Right on?

And its easy to see that the 70's and 80's had quite a band wagon rolling.
Becker and Gagen wanted no part of it...for good reason as it was done to death and probably instigated by producers as the 'thing'

It is also interesting to see which players have been able to stay current with that style and the days of the slap riff song are thankfully over.
Basically, Freddie on 'Forget me' said it all imv.

Now, its a single measure fill ..and out unless you have a lot to say..

Weird aside..how much practice is put in for a technique that gets less than 5% gig time..?

 

[chris_b]

Slapping is a skill I've never managed to learn.

I was subbing with a band and after the show the band leader thanked me for not slapping during the set. I didn't tell him the reason was I couldn't!

 

[DWBass]

There's plenty of 'thumpin' going on in Smooth Jazz and Urban Gospel music. And lots of us play old school R&B and Funk music. Most Top40 hits that employed 'Thumpin' were all tastefully done. Can't say I've ever encountered any professionally recorded song with out of control gibberish sounding slap bass. And I'm fully ensconced in the genre and have been playing since the early 70's.