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Gear Discussion Forums => Rickenbacker Basses => Topic started by: Barklessdog on March 02, 2009, 12:51:48 PM

Title: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Barklessdog on March 02, 2009, 12:51:48 PM
Claypool playing a Ric

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjOM5YjMZ8w
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Blazer on March 02, 2009, 05:14:09 PM
And that's not all, he got that Rick from Geddy Lee.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: nofi on March 02, 2009, 08:21:06 PM
he should give it back. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Dave W on March 02, 2009, 09:45:43 PM
Talk about pointless wanking.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Barklessdog on March 03, 2009, 07:44:54 AM
Now Claypool I can stand up for, Bulb I was open to your rectal diagnosis.

I found interesting for one , funk/slap like or not being played on Ric and second Claypool, like many bassists sounds pretty much the same regardless of what he is playing.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Dave W on March 03, 2009, 08:10:59 AM
Stand up for him? Claypool doesn't need defending, you either like him or not. And with him, there doesn't seem to be a middle ground.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: godofthunder on March 03, 2009, 01:45:45 PM
Quote from: nofi on March 02, 2009, 08:21:06 PM
he should give it back. :mrgreen:
LMFAO
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: uwe on March 05, 2009, 08:27:25 AM
It reduces the role of a bass to that of a percussion instrument. Horses for courses. I see my role as a bass player more as someone who enhances harmonic aspects by emphasizing or de-emphasizing them.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Barklessdog on March 05, 2009, 09:33:31 AM
Quote from: uwe on March 05, 2009, 08:27:25 AM
It reduces the role of a bass to that of a percussion instrument. Horses for courses. I see my role as a bass player more as someone who enhances harmonic aspects by emphasizing or de-emphasizing them.

And we would not have it any other way.

To me Les's magic is when he plays with Larry & Primus. When I saw him on the Mike Douglas Show back in the 80's with his 6 string Rainbow bass, playing sloppy primitive & percussive, to me, it was unlike any other bass player I have seen / heard.

 The other unique thing about Primus is the band is built around supporting the bass, it's a bass driven band that was actually commercial for wider audience back then. Les has built a Zappa like following, with fans that seem like Zappa fans to me (really weird, stoned, men, women and younger people ).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzhL-0_pC3E&feature=channel

Yeah people people don't seem to be in the middle on Primus & Claypool it seems as Dave pointed out- you love him or hate him.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: gweimer on March 05, 2009, 04:50:43 PM
You want funk on a Ric?  I'll give you funk on a Ric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75qXUfp4wtw
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: ilan on March 06, 2009, 04:25:57 AM
I'm not totally sure it's a Ric in that recording.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Dave W on March 06, 2009, 10:01:36 AM
Embedding is disbaled on that video.

That Rick may have just been a prop for the video.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Chris P. on March 06, 2009, 10:02:08 AM
I saw a vid once of a famous funk player with a 4005. Anyone?
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: ilan on March 06, 2009, 02:18:59 PM
Can't recall who had a 4005 but Stanley Clarke had a 4000:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFP-alYNq5I
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: hieronymous on March 06, 2009, 03:56:17 PM
Quote from: Chris P on March 06, 2009, 10:02:08 AM
I saw a vid once of a famous funk player with a 4005. Anyone?

Larry Graham!
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: ilan on March 07, 2009, 01:14:51 PM
(http://archives.rickresource.com/oldattachments/63094.jpg)
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: bobyoung on March 10, 2009, 04:13:41 PM
Quote from: Dave W on March 06, 2009, 10:01:36 AM
Embedding is disbaled on that video.

That Rick may have just been a prop for the video.

Could be a jazz bass but then again Rick basses were figured prominently on some of his album covers and I've never seen a picture of him with another kind of bass. Sounds like a Rick to me, very smooth.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Barklessdog on March 25, 2009, 01:31:33 PM
Quote
It reduces the role of a bass to that of a percussion instrument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kONOr_4Zb8.
Title: Re: Funk on a Ric
Post by: Pekka on June 20, 2010, 07:01:29 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GWikmANtgM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GWikmANtgM)

Larry Johnson (yes, not Graham, or Louis Johnson) plays a 4001 (sounds like it has the cap).