Message 7/14
Date: 04-Jan-03 @ 05:06 AM -
RE: Bassists?
'Funk used to be a bad word...' Funny the images
that word conjures. For a while it meant bare
chested frat rockers and then it morphed into this
hippie thing and yet the original article is SO
beautiful. I'm talking James Jamerson, Larry
Graham, George Porter Jr, Bootsy, and whoever it
was who played on Curtis Mayfield's Superfly
(check out the break in 'Freddie's Dead' where
there's this violin swell and this FIERCE bass
line). Anyhoo, yeah I'm into th