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What's so special about Larry Graham?
- Thread starter diegom
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The DVD??? Not the book with the enclosed CD????!!??
Oops! The jig is up! I'm spposed to be ignorant about this stuff...
Maybe under the humor section this would work. Diego you can do better.
Your officially banned from any listening party at my place thats for sure.
Geez, this again. Until Larry came along, if you picked up a bass in a music store and did what he did, you'd be forcibly removed from the store for abusing instruments. Now, you go into GC, and you can't not hear people slappin' away. It also seems every damn pedal demo devolves into slap at one point or another - but I digress.
Our instrument is about 60 years old, which is very young in contrast to things like violins. We have the opportunity to have the pioneers on our instrument alive in our lifetime - we should be very happy to live in this era.
He expanded out palette greatly. Although I don't slap very well or often, my technique does have a lot of fret grind at times - probably more of an Entwistle thing in my case. Still, every guy that decided that you didn't have to play the same way that everyone else did (and showed us how) has paved the way for all of us.
Our instrument is about 60 years old, which is very young in contrast to things like violins. We have the opportunity to have the pioneers on our instrument alive in our lifetime - we should be very happy to live in this era.
He expanded out palette greatly. Although I don't slap very well or often, my technique does have a lot of fret grind at times - probably more of an Entwistle thing in my case. Still, every guy that decided that you didn't have to play the same way that everyone else did (and showed us how) has paved the way for all of us.
Did Rick James actually play bass? I've only ever seen him holding one. He's always had a bassist in his band.
Couldn't have said it better myself. And, yes, he looks like a million bucks every single performance. Not on my coolest day ever could I even get in the ballpark of Larry Graham cool. He just oozes cool.
Totally. That plane barely got off the ground. Give me Curtiss any day of the week.
Larry knew what to do, and when. Let the man himself explain.
He was and is an absolute monster player.
Here he is double thumbing like crazy long before most:
Rick James could play ok, but he had Oscar Allston play on his albums.
Here he is double thumbing like crazy long before most:
Rick James could play ok, but he had Oscar Allston play on his albums.
Only the first bassist I know that mounted a vocal Mic on his bass... don't see that too often.
Pretty cool, if you ask me......
Pretty cool, if you ask me......
But he said he wasn't a troll!!!
I can't believe I even clicked on this thread.
Larry Graham is a national treasure. Period.
He such have a Federal Holiday
Glad to see people are as passionate about Larry as they are over in the Entwistle thread.
There's my nugget of non-brilliance. I got nothing.
There's my nugget of non-brilliance. I got nothing.
Thank you for believing in me!!!
I just wanted to see if Larry got as much love as The Ox.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Hair" yet...
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