This will be of interest to some BCers, mebbe a minority, and not remotely so for many others!

[Barking Spiders]

 

[Doctor J]

It's not the complete history unless there's two hours of footage of walking into guitar shops throughout the last 40 years and hearing relentless and merciless clicketty-clacketty coming from the bass section.

[Supernaut]

Calling @Bart Funk Bass 

 

😄

[SonnyBassPlayer]

-accident reply, please delete- 

Edited December 1, 2021 by SonnyBassPlayer
wrong page!

[StickyDBRmf]

I can't believe I watched as much of that as I just did. 

[wateroftyne]

The guy on the left accidentally dropped his bass down the stairs, liked the sound of it, and the other fellas tried to copy him.

[skankdelvar]

My favourite description seen here on BC was 'The sound of a crowd of angry squirrels hurling nuts at a tin roof'.

 

Whoever came up with that deserves a medal or something.

[Jason Karloff]

I will see your squirrels and raise you a "sounds like a hostage who has been tied to a chair, being kicked down a flight of stairs" 

[StickyDBRmf]

A chair makes more music than most of the "bassists".

[Hellzero]

So, it all went wrong in the 90's when throwing basses in the stairs was supposed to be slap... 🤦🏻‍♂️

 

And where is Alain Caron, one of the slap masters ?

 

That said Level 42 was not a pop group at all at the start. 😉

[Nail Soup]

I didn't watch the video, but if it's reporting that Slap Bass is history then I'm very interested!

Edited December 1, 2021 by Nail Soup
reworded

[RhysP]

I like a nice bit of slap bass, but I had to stop watching after "What's up guys?"

 

 

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

[bassbloke]

11 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

My favourite description seen here on BC was 'The sound of a crowd of angry squirrels hurling nuts at a tin roof'.

 

Whoever came up with that deserves a medal or something.

Or a skeleton w*nking in a biscuit tin. 

[Supernaut]

13 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

🅱️

[TheGreek]

Very educational - there were a number of players that I didn't know about as well as highlighting some who get lots of hate. 

 

Some homework to do....

[RhysP]

One of the pictures of Larry Graham used in this video is actually Stanley Clarke.

[Owen]

I can enjoy it being done well. But a long time ago I had student who slapped over everything. We were doing a PA lesson and he came on to soundcheck. He gave it the max thumb and the student engineer just deadpanned him, grabbed the talkback mic and said "play me something I can hear". We just fell about laughing. 

[steve-bbb]

‘Not remotely’ for the kingbass fanboys who will no doubt be quietly scheming on their private whatsapp group how to arrang a small accident at your next bassbash attendance 🤪 be wary of anyone with bits of black insulating tape wrapped around their thumb 😎👍🏼
hope this helps

[steve-bbb]

On 01/12/2021 at 17:29, skankdelvar said:

My favourite description seen here on BC was 'The sound of a crowd of angry squirrels hurling nuts at a tin roof'.

 

Whoever came up with that deserves a medal or something.

The squirrels in my garden seem quite intelligent so it seems perfectly reasonably they would choose this option over actually slapping a real bass

[SteveXFR]

Does this mean slap is history?

The only person ever to get slap right was Billy Gould. 

Every YouTube slapper sounds like a filing cabinet kicked down a mountain. No timing, no rhythm and no tune.

[Barking Spiders]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

Does this mean slap is history?

The only person ever to get slap right was Billy Gould. 

Every YouTube slapper sounds like a filing cabinet kicked down a mountain. No timing, no rhythm and no tune.

I'm taking it you don't listen to 70s funk, jazz-funk or 80s pop? Outside those genres it doesn't really work I admit. I've heard it used quite a lot in rock/metal, particularly nu-metal and it's always been inappropriate. But then again nu-metal was/is utter gash so slap or no slap the music was always gonna be utter bilgewater.

[Hellzero]

As I wrote, it all went wrong in the 90's and don't talk about social medias, shows and store since the 90's.

 

I was so fed up by this really bad slap everywhere that I stopped going to the shows in the late 90's and just couldn't keep my mouth shut in the stores.

 

I hate slap because of all these abuses, but when it serves the song, it can become really interesting, but it's so rare.

 

Only a few players have the ability to turn slap into music and we all know their names.

[Stub Mandrel]

 

Stanley Graham

 

 

Larry Clarke

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

I'm taking it you don't listen to 70s funk, jazz-funk or 80s pop? Outside those genres it doesn't really work I admit. I've heard it used quite a lot in rock/metal, particularly nu-metal and it's always been inappropriate. But then again nu-metal was/is utter gash so slap or no slap the music was always gonna be utter bilgewater.

 

To be honest, I don't like slap in funk or pop either, especially when it's slaps and pops. I can appreciate funk a lot more wen its just a really nice groove played finger style.