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Who's slap technique do you like the most?

#24
BigOldHarry said:
So I'm not the only one who isn't so wild about his later work...!
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Its mind numbingly boring and it feels like he's rehashing his old ideas.

I bought a Marcus CD a year or two ago (forgot the name as I lent it to my friend and never got it back) that included selections from his bass playing with other artists and his own stuff. He's a better sideman than a soloist in my opinion.
 
#26
I love Alain Caron... both his technique and phrasing are simply awesome!!!!

I like Marcus rythm "live" language too... I prefer his live performances better, sometime his studio work doens't have that signature groove and rythm!!! I like Mark King playin, too...
 
#28
Muaguana said:
Although I'm sure it's blasphemy around here to admit, I liked Stevie Wonder's original version of Higher Ground better than the RHCP cover.
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+1, never really thought they did anything different with that cover (a little rock guitar didn't even change the feel of the song that much).

The version of it I did like was the '12" Vocal Mix' that was included in their 'Out in LA' album. It's a hip-hop/dance remix of the track, and I think it takes the cover in the direction I would have liked RHCP to take it in the first place.
 
#29
Oteil Burbridge. His early work with ARU, with the Col and after, contains some of the finest examples of the artform. From firework flash, to oozing restraint, he is just the freakin' man.

Check out "Working On a Building" off the live album. His solo is devastating.
 
#30
Muaguana said:
Les Claypool and Mark King are like "popcorn bassists" IMO; good for the spectacle, but not too impressive as far as the music goes (again, big IMO.)

Although I'm sure it's blasphemy around here to admit, I liked Stevie Wonder's original version of Higher Ground better than the RHCP cover.
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Mark King? Popcorn? I think not:

I guess we'll have to dissagree...

I would agree with you on Wonder/RHCP, however. But the RHCP does a nice balance of fresh interpretation of the original, while not being so far afield as to have been a deconstruction of the song.
 
#31
GeneralElectric said:
Its mind numbingly boring and it feels like he's rehashing his old ideas.

I bought a Marcus CD a year or two ago (forgot the name as I lent it to my friend and never got it back) that included selections from his bass playing with other artists and his own stuff. He's a better sideman than a soloist in my opinion.
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+100. I think that maybe Marcus is just a bit full of himself. Pity - his playing on Amandla and Tutu was nothing short of EPIC.

Still is. I still learn from those CDs. Any of you slap-kids out there who want to hear the SHIZ need to check these albums out.
 
#33
kerrycares said:
slightly different approach, my favorite slap songs that i sat down and made myself learn:

francesco centeno "jamaica funk", ready freddie washington "forget me nots", nate watts "glide", larry graham "hair", "release yourself", "the jam","can you handle that" marcus miller "scoop","teen town", louis johnson "stomp", victor wooten "what did he say", fred hammond "lord of the harvest"
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+1 on Glide and Larry!!! BTW that was Nathaniel Phillips on bass, Nate Watts is Stevie's right hand man.
 
#36
BigOldHarry said:
+100. I think that maybe Marcus is just a bit full of himself. Pity - his playing on Amandla and Tutu was nothing short of EPIC.

Still is. I still learn from those CDs. Any of you slap-kids out there who want to hear the SHIZ need to check these albums out.
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i have had a few communications with marcus through his website, and i've found him to be one of the least full of himself dudes out there. he plays music the way he does because he believes in himself and believes he's making the best music he can possibly make. all musicians have egos, but i think he's one of the least affected solo bassists out there.

as for the original question, slap for me begins and ends with larry. however, i'm not nearly as crazy about his current sound as i am about his early sound with sly. it appears he's gone the "way too trebly" route.
 
#38
There are plenty of big names, but honestly, I'd have to give this one to Thomas Rissell aka MarloweDK. Always groovy, even when doing busy stuff and fat vintage type of tones and plenty of double thumb done well which helps to take the emphasis out of the pops. The popping side is something that I think a lot of people over do.
 

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