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Where'd you get your Funk from?
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I've always praised the mighty "Flash Light"
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I was transfixed by the album as a kid and I can still remember the first time the needle dropped on "Nappy Dugout"
Speaking as a middle-aged white Irish guy, I don't got Funk.
But I'd dearly like some so I'm subbing to this thread.
But I'd dearly like some so I'm subbing to this thread.
Glad you like it!
Check out the rest of their stuff, they go all over the place musically, and are one of the most creative and original groups I've ever encountered.
Here's another great tune:
I got it from Standing in the Shadows of Motown -- the book on James Jamerson and the Funk Brothers at Motown. I learned "it's a shame" by the Spinners using Jamerson's transcription and it changed my playing totally. People thought I was funky and groovin and in the pocket. All because of a few hammer-ons and pull-offs. That, taken with the theory behind chord/note relationships in Building Walking Basslines by Ed Friedland totally propelled me into a new strata of funk, groove, and musical quality.
I got mine from the Godfather of Funk, James Brown. Next would be Sly & Family Stone.
I think mine was the exact same road...followed by the Meters and Tower of Power.
I was 7 years old.......my older sister brought home the album in my avatar pic.......side A song 1...Knock Yourself Out.......I was changed forever!!
I grew up on Top-40 through a low-fi AM car radio so really heard no bass til 16. I got mine from Funky before hearing pure Funk.
Pre-bass playing:
Steely Dan's Kid Charlamagne on a Best Of album that l bought. Never heard anything like that before. Chuck Rainey.
A girlfriend's Anita Baker "Rapture" album was the final straw to make me pick up bass:
Same Ole Love: Ready Freddie Washington on bass
Been So Long with Jimmy Haslip on bass
Mystery with David Washington on bass
After starting playing: Jamerson/Motown/EWF. Then stereo surfing one night a year in I heard the slap section of Brothers Johnson's "Stomp." (I still haven't gotten around to learning it 25 years later). Then all of the standard funk stuff already listed.
Can't forget Fat Albert bass lines.
Pre-bass playing:
Steely Dan's Kid Charlamagne on a Best Of album that l bought. Never heard anything like that before. Chuck Rainey.
A girlfriend's Anita Baker "Rapture" album was the final straw to make me pick up bass:
Same Ole Love: Ready Freddie Washington on bass
Been So Long with Jimmy Haslip on bass
Mystery with David Washington on bass
After starting playing: Jamerson/Motown/EWF. Then stereo surfing one night a year in I heard the slap section of Brothers Johnson's "Stomp." (I still haven't gotten around to learning it 25 years later). Then all of the standard funk stuff already listed.
Can't forget Fat Albert bass lines.
This. First time I really recognized the funk! 
Got my Funk from TOP and Rocco Prestia
Got that from a water fountain at the gym...worst 2 weeks of my life. I wouldn't get the vaccine though, my cousin did and now he wears star-shaped sunglasses everywhere he goes, even on dates to fancy restaurants.
This was in the first batch of CDs my father bought back in the early 90s
He used to put it on all the time and pretty much freak out like a little kid, everytime...
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