thisnameistaken Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 And Entwistle most of the time sounds like he's bored stiff and desperately trying to entertain himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doddy Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 [quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1351599922' post='1853058'] Hendrix is familiar by name to at least 95% of non-musicians who listen to rock music, and his work is familiar to 95% of musicians who play guitar. [/quote] I think that is because he sung and fronted his own band,rather than because of his guitar playing. If he'd have just played guitar,no matter how good you think he was,he wouldn't have been even half as familiar to most people. In a similar way,Larry Graham is more well know (at least in the US) for singing 'One in a Million You' than he is for playing bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingson Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 [quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1351588588' post='1852849'] was anyone else using effects on bass like LG before he did it? [/quote] Anthony Jackson's phased part on For The Love Of Money, though I'm guessing it will have happened alongside what Larry Graham was doing also as opposed to being before it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 [quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1351606978' post='1853182'] And Entwistle most of the time sounds like he's bored stiff and desperately trying to entertain himself. [/quote] Harsh. 'Live at Leeds' sounds more like he's an unstoppable force of nature trying to rein himself in...much like Jimi in fact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceH Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 [quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1351588588' post='1852849'] was anyone else using effects on bass like LG before he did it? [/quote] What about the heavy bass fuzz on the Beatles' 'Think For Yourself' in 1965? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 [quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1351611792' post='1853250'] What about the heavy bass fuzz on the Beatles' 'Think For Yourself' in 1965? [/quote] just checked out his diary, I didn't realise most of his stuff was from the 70s onwards. I should have known I didn't have the knowledge for a topic like this! I just thought it was the one area where the comparison works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Sounds like the beginning of a joke, "so Prince, Stevie Wonder and Larry Graham walk in to a bar..." when did it happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertbass Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 and the barman said, is this a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoham Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Embarrassed to admit this, but I hadn't heard of Larry until tonight when he was in Jool Holland. Thoroughly enjoyed his song, though I'm not a big slap fan. What was he playing? Bit like a Jazz, but neck pickup was strangely angled. On the whole 'bass Jimi' question.... Forget it! I don't think bass and guitar are really comparable. Jaco is nothing like Jimi really - Jaco was technically perfect, and could have easily held his own with classical musicians. Wooten is like a refined modern equivalent, though obviously has his own distinctive style. Jamerson did lay the foundations, but not exactly difficult to replicate. Entwistle..... Love what he did, maybe the closest the bass world has to a ' Jimi'. My knowledge of Larry is limited, but I think it's fair to say he didn't do as much for bass as Jimi did for guitar, nor for music as a whole. Did he invent slap? Probably not a fair thing to say, double bass players were using this for many years before him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Don't think Larry Graham tore the place up at the time like Hendrix did... maybe he was referred back to in the same terms, but not at the time. As for their long term influence, maybe he is getting right up there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doddy Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 I didn't see it tonight,but I saw the short show on Tuesday,and he was using a Moon bass like he's been doing for years (I bet Warwick weren't too chuffed). Did he invent slap bass? As far as the Electric Bass goes,he is usually credited with doing just that,although there are claims that Louis Johnson also developed the technique independently around the same period. Yes,Upright players have slapped for years,but Electric slap is a very different technique Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan_da_man Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Jeez, Flea is clearly the bass equivalent of Hendrix... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete.young Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 [quote name='paulconnolly' timestamp='1351457236' post='1851450'] Today's Sunday Times culture section has an article on Larry Graham claiming that "he did for electric bass what Jimi Hendrix did for electric guitar". Well did he? [/quote] Whoever wrote that article had clearly never heard of Colin Hodgkinson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1351512876' post='1851911'] It's a throwaway statement. No more point to it than saying Larry Graham did for bass what Nancy Sinatra did for boots, or Bernard Matthews did for British turkey farming. [/quote] I don't think it's fair to compare Jimi Hendrix to the might of Bernard Matthews. Jimi couldn't hold a candle to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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