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Just been noodling along to a bit of Lynx, some good basslines in there....ahh...weekends at Caister, Goldmine, Kempton Manor, The Bridge Club, Froggy, Robbie Vincent...there were some great Brit Funk bands back then with some great bass players.

...I'll start off with Sketch Martin from Lynx and Tubbs Williams RIP from light of the world....apologies for the vids quality, seems there ain't much about!

http://youtu.be/xxHhhdEK8FI

http://youtu.be/GBzCiBzdrEI

lowdown Grand Master

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Delisle Harper back in the 70's was a great player.
Olympic Runners, Gonzalez and Freddie King plus a lot of session work.
Still knocking around I believe.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/delisle-harper-mn0000052841/credits

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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1410193223' post='2546990']
Delisle Harper back in the 70's was a great player.
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Yes, one of the best and really active on the London scene back then.

Early 70s Gonzalez (before they went 'disco') where a great live band which i was fortunate to see many times. :)

lowdown Grand Master

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[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1410201554' post='2547105']

Yes, one of the best and really active on the London scene back then.

Early 70s Gonzalez (before they went 'disco') where a great live band which i was fortunate to see many times. :)
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Yep, and also a bit of a team with drummer Glen Le Flur for a while.
Remember seeing the early Gonzalez a couple of times as well.

iconic Experienced

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[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1410170989' post='2546689']
Cymande were a few before that but they were great. Steve Scipio was the bass player and one of the founder members.

[media]http://youtu.be/tZP2Uk9vlxY[/media]
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wow, never heard of this group before....funktastic stuff, thanks!

chris_b Grand Master

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Andy Pask with Landscape.

How could you describe them? Electro, Jazz Rock, Brit Funk? Anyway, pretty amazing band live.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoC4s95nEW8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoC4s95nEW8[/url]

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Camille Hinds.
More for the era and the style of his playing I'll add John Wilson for 'Penthouse and Pavement'. Listening back to the playing from that time there is a real aggression to the playing compared to how behind the beat funk is played now. Neither is better, just different decades.

Martin

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chris_b Grand Master

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The line up of Gonzalez which had Phil Chen playing bass with Glen and was one of the best rhythm sections I've seen. I can't find any reference to Phil Chen and Gonzalez on the web, but I know I'm not dreaming this!

Probably Harper on bass here.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23S_J8WkbCU[/media]



Anyone see Steve Whaller's Overload in the 80's? Glen on drums, Pete Stroud on fretless bass and sometimes Jerome Marcus on percussion. What a band that was.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_-jd-2zXDc[/media]

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wow, never heard of this group before....funktastic stuff, thanks!
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you've probably heard them sampled a lot in Hip Hop, etc tho.
Tracks like The Message and Fug are sample classics by Cymande

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Tubbs Williams RIP from light of the world[/quote]

Great bassist!

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOi5t1EK55w[/media]

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Leaning more towards Jazz,
but 'Morrissey-Mullen Band' were big on the pub scene,
along with 'Paz' who were more Latin based.

Heard them both play many times, always with a
great selection of players.
http://youtu.be/ahZXC8loOfA


http://youtu.be/rLR-TrSGUF4

chaypup Experienced

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[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1410251952' post='2547436']
wow, never heard of this group before....funktastic stuff, thanks!
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They're playing in London in October I think. Any Basschatters going?

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[quote name='nick' timestamp='1410283566' post='2547841']
The late great Alan Spenner with Kokomo

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgaZhJzWI0g"]https://www.youtube....h?v=LgaZhJzWI0g[/url]
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I'd never heard of these until last week when one of our singers dropped a load of gigs to tour with them on BV's. :angry: But :) for her!

BetaFunk Experienced

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To me Brit Funk bands were more like Light Of The World, Beggar & Co, Freez, Icognito, Atmosfear, Central Line, Imagination, Junior Giscombe, Shakatak etc. Some BF fans drifted towards Spandau Ballet, Haircut 100, ABC etc while others went the more jazz route of Paz, Morrissey-Mullen etc.

Kokomo and Gonzalez were a bit before most of the above BF bands and appealed to the more of a pub-rock audience and not Brit Funkers. Paz seemed to have a following of all types young and old and many of the younger ones would beat a trail to the Belvedere in Richmond on Sundays where Gilles Peterson was often on turntable duty.

Oh and to most people in their 20s in the late 70s / early 80s 'Jazz' was Herbie Hancock, David Sanborn, Ralph McDonald, Bob James and lots of Fender Rhodes!

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I think you are talking about punters,
certainly most musicians I was working with
wouldn't have classed the above as Jazz.
Maybe, Groove, Funk Jazz, Jazz Funk, Fusion etc,
and even the dreaded 'Smooth Jazz' term was starting to creep in.
Dave Grusin, Lee Ritenour, Grover Washington etc top of the list with that.

All (most) of the above (and many others of course) had some
kind of Jazz back ground.
I was certainly scrambling up to Ronnies when those artists were turning up.
It was interesting times with top players performing.

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[quote name='nick' timestamp='1410283566' post='2547841']
The late great Alan Spenner with Kokomo

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgaZhJzWI0g"]https://www.youtube....h?v=LgaZhJzWI0g[/url]
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................................[size=5][b][i]+1.......also previously with joe cocker(my first fretless precision was bought from him in 1973)......... also worth a mention was felix krish with SFX...........john reed with SOX...........[/i][/b][/size]

RoRi Explorer

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Joe Hubbard 'Sonic Bop' from the album "Vanishing Point"
(he also made some albums with HubbardCubbard).

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P20o0KlGVHQ[/media]

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