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Personal favourite......Chuck Brown's 1978 funk monster 'Bustin' Loose'

Killer bass sounds....high in the mix.

Title track.....

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYLiDn69DeI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYLiDn69DeI[/url]


'Gotcha now'.....check out the great slap octave lick

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI7PlSYhBuo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI7PlSYhBuo[/url]


'If it aint funky'.....tastefull slap solo. No double thumbing nonsense here

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTFAjgd6pu0&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTFAjgd6pu0...feature=related[/url]



Saw him live about 20 yrs ago. Amazingly tight band.

The drummer, Ricky Wellman later played with Miles & Marcus (check Amandla)


Chuck Brown also responsible for one of the most sampled drum loops (Soul II Soul, Egnima, etc, etc)....


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfymVPOdMwk#movie_player"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfymVPOdMwk#movie_player[/url]

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[quote name='thebeat' post='592233' date='Sep 7 2009, 04:59 PM']Mothership Connection by Parliament does it for me...funktastic![/quote]
+1...anything by Parliament, Bootsy , Funkadelic and the various P-funk offshoots...Brides of Funkenstein, Fred Wesley & the Horny horns etc etc.
Also Sly Stone, Graham Central station, Louis Johnson/Brothers Johnson, The J.B.'s

Spasm enhancing Bootsy vid in tha pocket on the one:-

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmNegOg6dOM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmNegOg6dOM[/url]

Good raw tone on this:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmEwTrpZs0I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmEwTrpZs0I[/url]


Anything good & funky that tickles my funk gland that makes me go into a spasm is good for me-i don't get off that much on these super bassers doing funk like Miller & Wooten really...they're amazing guys but Groove is most definitely in the heart baba.....raw & filthy funk the type of groove you can chew on. :rolleyes:

One nation under a groove....fun......key :)

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[quote name='Rasta' post='592668' date='Sep 8 2009, 08:02 AM']Anything good & funky that tickles my funk gland that makes me go into a spasm is good for me-i don't get off that much on these super bassers doing funk like Miller & Wooten really...[/quote]

Hmmm.....I hear what you say about Miller and Wooten, it's an interesting point.

[quote name='Rasta' post='592668' date='Sep 8 2009, 08:02 AM']they're amazing guys but Groove is most definitely in the heart baba.....raw & filthy funk the type of groove you can chew on. :)[/quote]

Totally agree. Groove for me is the very essence of bass. It's what it's all about! Rhythm and groove. The more I learn, the more I'm starting to think you either have a natural and innate sense of groove or you don't. It's definitely in the heart! I don't know how much that particular element can be "cultivated".

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I'm listening to alot of Flow Dynamics recently...the self titled album 'Flow Dynamics'

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj3mbRi_ogU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj3mbRi_ogU[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZMuJ-8xycY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZMuJ-8xycY[/url] (just to demonstrate the music...not my film or anything!)

If oyu can find this CD anywhere, get it as it's incredible.

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[quote name='Rasta' post='592668' date='Sep 8 2009, 08:02 AM']+1...anything by Parliament, Bootsy , Funkadelic and the various P-funk offshoots...Brides of Funkenstein, Fred Wesley & the Horny horns etc etc.
Also Sly Stone, Graham Central station, Louis Johnson/Brothers Johnson, The J.B.'s

Spasm enhancing Bootsy vid in tha pocket on the one:-

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmNegOg6dOM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmNegOg6dOM[/url]

Good raw tone on this:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmEwTrpZs0I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmEwTrpZs0I[/url]


Anything good & funky that tickles my funk gland that makes me go into a spasm is good for me-i don't get off that much on these super bassers doing funk like Miller & Wooten really...they're amazing guys but Groove is most definitely in the heart baba.....raw & filthy funk the type of groove you can chew on. :rolleyes:

One nation under a groove....fun......key :)[/quote]

This comes up all the time. Miller and Wooten groove as well if not better than anyone.

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If you want to hear a truly great funk album, try to get a copy of 'Nard' by Bernard Wright. I think he was discovered by Marcus when Wright was a 15-year-old piano-playing prodigy.

Marcus plays on a fair few tracks, and the rest of them have equally amazing playing.

Might be a bit hard to find these days but trust me, you won't be disappointed.

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[quote name='Pete Academy' post='649399' date='Nov 9 2009, 09:14 AM']If you want to hear a truly great funk album, try to get a copy of 'Nard' by Bernard Wright. I think he was discovered by Marcus when Wright was a 15-year-old piano-playing prodigy.

Marcus plays on a fair few tracks, and the rest of them have equally amazing playing.

Might be a bit hard to find these days but trust me, you won't be disappointed.[/quote]

Nard is on Grooveshark :)

Love grooveshark soooo much!

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Damn that sh*t is too funky - thanks for the education!!

Mark

[quote name='obi 2 kenobi' post='592046' date='Sep 7 2009, 12:06 PM']Personal favourite......Chuck Brown's 1978 funk monster 'Bustin' Loose'

Killer bass sounds....high in the mix.

Title track.....

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYLiDn69DeI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYLiDn69DeI[/url]


'Gotcha now'.....check out the great slap octave lick

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI7PlSYhBuo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI7PlSYhBuo[/url]


'If it aint funky'.....tastefull slap solo. No double thumbing nonsense here

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTFAjgd6pu0&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTFAjgd6pu0...feature=related[/url]



Saw him live about 20 yrs ago. Amazingly tight band.

The drummer, Ricky Wellman later played with Miles & Marcus (check Amandla)


Chuck Brown also responsible for one of the most sampled drum loops (Soul II Soul, Egnima, etc, etc)....


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfymVPOdMwk#movie_player"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfymVPOdMwk#movie_player[/url][/quote]

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