Bootsy's Basic Funk Formula.

[iconic]

although I've not seen it, I guess this has most likely been posted as many times as our Korean 'cos-play' friend's drinking his milk, but does anyone know where this vid' came from originally?...did Bootsy do a 'how to' VHS video back in the day or something.?

I never tire of watching how this guy can put soooo much funk in a D and a D octave

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHE6hZU72A4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHE6hZU72A4[/url]

[steve-bbb]

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[RoRi]

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but does anyone know where this vid' came from originally?...did Bootsy do a 'how to' VHS video back in the day or something.?

I never tire of watching how this guy can put soooo much funk in a D and a D octave
[/quote] It was a part of the rockschool documentary [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockschool"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockschool[/url]

[visog]

Well spotted RoRi... I was just thinking about 'Rockschool' today. Very BBC. Deirdre Cartwright, Thomas 'King Thumb' somebody and a drummer. Highlight for me was Allan Holdsworth in series II. And Gary Moore's guitars were uber-noisy.

[E sharp]

Bass player was Henry Thomas I think , and the drummer was I think Geoff Nichols . Who I remember used to write a column in the much missed Making Music magazine .

[iconic]

Nice one cheers

[tedmanzie]

excellent stuff in this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HvPxNW7iyY

[molan]

I never tire of watching this Vid

[merlin]

thanks for the post,great stuff...

[wombatboter]

That's what it has always sounded like to me : a formula.
I used to play with funk bands who wanted to jam for hours so I had to play a D on the 1 for hours and hours..I found it immensly boring but you could never question that sort of playing because otherwise "you were not funky".
Weird that for a music which seemed to be without rules I felt so much pressure to keep it as cliché as it had to be.. There are exceptions naturally but I found a lot of funk stuff sometimes an excuse for being lazy.. don't change the chords, keep it simple, "feel the funk" (?).
That way a lot of these cats just disguise that they won't go through the trouble of finding a nice chord change, a great arrangement.
But again : don't dare to question them because then you get the curse : "you're just not funky, dude !"
It's a matter of taste : I always found this far more funky than anything I heard Bootsy do...
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZHMJGVgW8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZHMJGVgW8[/url]

[ubassman]

...gotta love Bootsy's sense of flawless timing!