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  1. lowdown
    I have tried a search for this, but I don't think it has been posted before (worth another watch if it has).
  2. lowdown
    Do you remember their track 'Walking Into Sunshine'?. I thought it sounded like it was heavily influenced by Gene Chandler and his track 'Get Down'.... Central Line - Walking Into Sunshine.
  3. lowdown
    I saw Jeff Lorber a couple of times back then. I really liked all the syncopation in his tunes. When this album came out (Wizard Island), he had a Bassist called Danny Wilson playing with him (who was rather a cool, funky, groovy player).
  4. lowdown
    Maybe, but as far as I know, Fish Slapping started in London.
  5. lowdown
    Glad you mentioned this lot. When they released 'Garden Party', I found it more melodic compared to most of the UK 'Brit Funk' offerings at that time. Maybe a bit 'smooth' for some, but terrific musicians with a great feel. My opinion of course. This concert was just over ten years ago, but still a good listen.
  6. lowdown
    My first club experiences were all about 'The Sound Of Philly'. Just loved that period (still my guilty pleasure).
  7. lowdown
    Seems like we all arrived at the same place from different experiences. This thread has been a good read for all this stuff.
  8. lowdown
    Made me realize that I wasn't as good a player as I thought I was and needed to put in a lot more practise to get that stuff under my belt.
  9. lowdown
    I can relate to this. A long time back, I was playing Bass in a Soul Act working at American Air Bases in Germany. All went ok at the Black music clubs. But one night it all went wrong when we were sent to a club that was all Whites who would only entertain Rock music. They absolutely hated us and threw everything they could get their hands on at us all. They were all sent out after about half an hour of carnage while we packed down the equipment and cleared off. Funny now, but horrendous then.
  10. lowdown
    Yeah, probably true. I was playing on Cruise ships out of Miami in '76 and 77. Every weekend when in port, we would hook up with American musicians from other ships. They would suggest music for us to check out and listen to. In fact, it was in a local bar in Miami when I first saw/heard slapping in public.
  11. lowdown
    Lol....... People still call the Police if you are caught slapping these days in public (Historical crimes - Operation 'String Tree').
  12. lowdown
    But wasn't that the same with Bootsy in this country? All these American Bass players were a word and mouth thing for us musicians. Stanley, Bootsy, Jaco etc, not something that we heard very often in clubs or on the mainstream radio? You had to go and search it out. The 'BritFunk' thing the OP was talking about was different of course, quite often a lot of radio play.
  13. lowdown
    "So the funk crept in". This is more than likely what happened here in the UK. Just a gradual process up and down the country.
  14. lowdown
    Pretty much my take as well.
  15. lowdown
    When you say ‘source players’, why no, or little interest in Larry Graham at the time, Bean9Seventy ? Just Curious really. Because ‘Ain’t No ‘Bout-A- Doubt It’, by Graham Central Station (1975), was as funky as funky gets. Certainly what a few of us whipper snappers were listening to at the time, and thinking how is he doing that? His thumb must be made out of rubber. And surely you must have been huddled around a record player or rewinding cassette tapes trying to learn ‘Pow’ in 1978?
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    Yeah, with Walter Becker adding some kind of voice box over the same notes? or was that another SD tune? Chuck tells a great story about a session for ‘Mash’, when he met Tommy Tedesco. It’s on YouTube somewhere. He really is one of my all time, favourite groovers, a real gem of a player. Edit: The interview (mentioned above).
  17. lowdown
    All those Chocolate Easter Eggs making you feel sick ?
  18. lowdown
    I’m chilled, ol’ Bean, really. Like I said, you just started to lose me.
  19. lowdown
    You lost me dude....
  20. lowdown
    Thinking back, it must have been 1972, because it was a Birthday night out with my friends. My fifteenth, and my first alcoholic drink... Thanks to the OP, this thread has certainly had me going back over the 1970’s.
  21. lowdown
    Maybe before that. I actually saw them on one of their first gigs. That was at the ‘The Black Prince’ in Old Bexley in 1973. Not long after that they popped off to the States.
  22. lowdown
    Yes, well done Rob.
  23. lowdown
    Although not labelled as ‘Brit Funk’, ‘Olympic Runners’ & ‘ Gonzalez’ were two British Funk/Disco bands that were very active from about 1974 onwards. Bassist DeLisle Harper and Drummer Glen LeFleur were in both bands. A couple of funky players who played on quite a few sessions in the 70’s. 1976 1976
  24. lowdown
    ^^^^ Yes !! I have that album (I forgot about it to be honest). Great album, lovely arrangements by Dave Grusin as well. That’s Paul Stallworth on Bass, quite a session player at the time. I am pretty sure there is a track from a ‘5th Dimension’ album in ‘75 with him that has some thumb and popped Bass. I think he also played on that awful Keith Moon solo album from the same period. There is an interesting article with Marcus Miller (somewhere on the net). He thinks slapping goes way back, before Larry Graham. Musicians from Gnawa were slapping their Gimbris for centuries (sounds painful, I know). Sorry ‘Bean9seventy’, I have gone off track a bit.
  25. lowdown
    Although ‘Car Wash’ has been mentioned, also the album ‘Look Out For #1’ early in 1976, had us all breaking out our thumbs back then.
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