Barking Spiders

Thing is Web world's awash with people doing 'jazzy' covers of rock tunes and some work better than others such as this, which retain the core elements of the original and some bear no resemblance to the original at all...

And that was the gist of one of my posts here. I've heard several fine players from the gospel/worship genre but I can't listen to gospel/worship as a. I dislike the music and b. I'm an atheist. I can't abide fusion/jazz rock but the scene has thrown up more than it's fair share of great players from Jaco, Stanley Clarke and Jeff Berlin to Richard Bona and Hadrien Feraud. I'll watch and listen to these guys and fully appreciate their skills but as for the music? 😞

Some fierce 80s post punk from Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Joy Division on steroids

And she demonstrates the decent quality of the SUB Ray 4 and that probably spending much more is a bit of a waste of dosh!😲

Argh, 'neo-classical' , a phrase that makes my blood freeze. The Shrapnel label seems to be dedicated solely to shredders of this ilk. Fortunately it's a micro-niche genre that doesn't intrude into polite society and most of its exponents aren't known outside the rock guitar community. On the other hand I'm a sucker for double bass drumming, with fave players like Chris Adler, Dave Lombardo, Joey Jordison, Mario Duplantier and Marco Minnemann.

While we're with the joke, I'll add in this, from their second epon album, released in 2003. It's a belter.

Not many have heard of them! Unless you were a John Peel / post punk aficionado in the 80s these would've gone unnoticed by everyone else on the planet.

Outside of funk the best examples of well played and appropriate slap are in 80s pop tunes e.g. Club Tropicana, Too Shy, Forget Me Nots, You Can Call Me Al. All bang on the money.

Actually until this thread I'd never heard of Sharay Reed. Then again until joining BC 2 years or so ago I'd never heard of 90% of players that get regular mentions and that includes Victor Wootten, Carole Kaye and Chuck Rainey.

Ha, got 25 and considering these are what I grew up on as a teen it makes me wonder what I was actually doing. Then again I don't think the artist had the likes of the members of The Chameleons, Comsat Angels or House of Love in mind when s/he did this pic.

There wasn't enough space on my OP for all great (IMO) beserker tunes. Here are a couple more to pump up to 11.

The one in the bottom right corner looks like she needs spoon feeding while the woman? in the white shirt to the left of the bloke in wonky shades looks like a 19th century school ma'am.

As I've said I'm a bit taken aback by the level of anti-slap here on BC. I find it dymanic and exciting. I'm firstly a drummer and love the double kick drum sound you hear in a lot of metal tunes yet my own playing owes more to the funk styles of Zigaboo Modeliste, Mike Clarke and Bernard Purdie.

Yep it's a shame there are a lot of great players plying their trade in pretty dreary genres (IMO) like worship/gospel, jazz, fusion and prog. I'd listen to SR more but am put off by the music he plays

Work stuff has been getting somewhat on me t1tz today, with certain colleagues even managing to irritate the feck out of me on Teams. So what do I do to unload?. Get in the car, find a straight empty road, put pedal to the metal and bung on some very fast, very loud rock n roll. You just can't beat a bit of dirty, aggressive and breakneck rock n roll for catharsis and these three tunes hit the mark for me every time.. So, what 3 breakneck loud rock n roll songs get your adrenalin pumping. There are a few obvious ones I've left for others to pick😁

But Duo Lipa kicks Little Mix's combined ar$3 😁

How about this from Eric B and Rakim, the epon track off their best album...Follow The Leader!

I really like what he's doing here. I never doubted his advanced skills. Not trad slap but brilliantly done anyway and he's not doing all that 'slapp' challenge stuff.

IMO there's three types of music; good, bad and indifferent. Indifferent music or mehsic accounts for the majority. It drifts through one ear and out the other. There's not much that haves me reaching for the off button but anything new that grabs me comes along as often as Halley's comet. When it does it could be anything. Recent ear grabbers are Levitate by Dua Lipa and All The Good Ones by Brothers Johnson, not from genres I usually listen to. Both acts are excellent IMO.

These give me plenty of room to swing my thing as I lurch from one side of the stage to the other

Surely no one could object to this, with Marcus M changing from fingerstyle to slap n pop around 2.27. Restrained and tasteful I'd say

People like Davie 504, Charles Berthoud and Canadian guitarist Steve Terreberry are great players but unfortunately their attempts at wacky humour grate

I knew his playing with Herbie H and the Headhunters and indeed it was fine stuff.

Nicely put. Back when it was a new thing few genres were as inventive as hip hop. I mean just check out the production on the first few Public Enemy and NWA/Ice Cube albums. Cant abide the current vogue for mumble rap but I digress. I'm surprised to find such antipathy among BCers towards slap. I'm all for trying different ways a bass can be played rather than just sticking to pick or standard fingerstyle. By writing off slap 'n pop as a method aren't people limiting themselves?

Over the last few days it's been back to back Stone Temple Pilots, my fave band to've emerged from the 'grunge' era.