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We old schoolers should be ashamed.

#82
Dr. Cheese said:
I'm not dogging the Brothers Johnson, however, they did nothing without Quincy Jones as their producer. The Chic guys went on to become a killer outside production team and both Nile and Bernard turned out tons of work as solo producers.
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I'd have to agree with you. As much as I dug the Brothers Johnson early on, their stuff quickly got dated. George was an okay guitarist... I remember reading the liner notes and seeing the studio guitarists who worked on their projects, Louis had his own take on slap and also did both slap and fingerstyle work on other people's projects. OTOH what Bernard did stylisticly has proven to be much harder for people to grasp or mimic. And Nile doesn't sound like every other guitarist who comes down the block.

I found this thread after seeing a link to a Leon Sylvers III -produced Shalamar song... with Leon on bass. This guy was amazing and came up with so many (at least to me) signature lines it's sick. He was a master of the staccato and space filled bassline. An excellent example is "And the beat goes on" by the Whispers.
 
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#84
I gotta ask 'cause somebody here must know the answer. I copped a compilation of old school funk stuff (Phat Trax Vol. 6) and there is a track (Break My Heart - Jimmy G. & The Tackheads) I never heard before! anyone know who the bassist was in this band! The tune has a mixture of live and synth bass but the live player is throwin' down some nasty ish along with double stops!
 
#86
JAUQO III-X said:
Jimmy G. & The Tackheads were a side project produced by George Clinton with most of the P-Funk musicians playing on the tracks but on Bass,it was either Jimmy G or Steve Washington.
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I knew someone would know! Thanks Jauqo!! You know, when I heard the double stops, I immediately thought of Mark Adams but the bass had no effects on it!
 
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Dr. Cheese said:
I'm not dogging the Brothers Johnson, however, they did nothing without Quincy Jones as their producer. The Chic guys went on to become a killer outside production team and both Nile and Bernard turned out tons of work as solo producers.
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Not true. Quincy didn't even produce all their albums. Louis has produced for Earl klugh, Passage, Stanley Clarke and Tom Scott among many. George has done session work and/or produced with Bill Withers, Steve Arrington and Stevie Wonder to name a few. Louis has toured with George Duke as well as Jeff Lorber Fusion. Q was not involved in over half of the Brothers complete career collection. The also both worked with Leon Sylvers who produced a couple of their albums, remember "You keep me comin' Back"
 
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#90
DWBass said:
Leon Sylvers and his lil' brother, Foster, were both a couple of bad@$$es!! And they both played with a.......'gasp'.......pick!
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Only on some songs, Foster was a SLAPPER man, he's got two albums out with a group called Hi-Tek were he is the band leader, his teacher was said to be none other than Stanley Clarke, who for a time was his next door nieghbor. Talk about luck!
 
#91
Lo end PUNCH said:
Not true. Quincy didn't even produce all their albums. Louis has produced for Earl klugh, Passage, Stanley Clarke and Tom Scott among many. George has done session work and/or produced with Bill Withers, Steve Arrington and Stevie Wonder to name a few. Louis has toured with George Duke as well as Jeff Lorber Fusion. Q was not involved in over half of the Brothers complete career collection. The also both worked with Leon Sylvers who produced a couple of their albums, remember "You keep me comin' Back"
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Maybe he should've said nothing memorable.
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#94
Ok, how about this, the song "Q" which was their only grammy winner was produced,arranged and written by George and Louis.

Maybe its just "who" remembers instead "if".:)

The comment I believe was, "they did NOTHING without quincy as their producer" whether it was memorable or not depends on who the individual is, many of whom damn sure remember.
 
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As someone who was high school and college age during this period, I can testify that much of the disco hatred was thinly veiled attacks on "out groups" of society. Disco was largely produced by Blacks, Hispanics, Gays, and Women. Disco hating was mainly pushed by white male rockers.
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+1. It's a shame but that theme occurs throughout American music history.

It must have been really fun to be a bass player back then. I can listen to disco basslines all day. I just recently got a hold of two really good tracks from back then. "Bet your Love" by Herbie Hancock and "I'm in you" by Samba Soul. Those basslines are fantastic. Who knew you could do so much with octave patterns? :-)
 

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