Gibson and Slap Bass

[bassballs]

Hi!

Thank you for all your input about Gibson and slap bass, not that I plan to start a new career  as a slap bass player again, but after I have fallen in love with Gibson basses I was just very curious about it's ability to play this genre, because I have never seen any serious funk player use a gibson (apart from the guy on the EB-2 from Finland )
Best "modern" Gibson sound I have heard is Ralph Armstrong playing on Enigmatic Ocean and Live with Jean-Luc Ponty. If you have not heard them give them a listen, I think he uses a G3.

[Blackbird]

My Gibson Money bass was a nice slapper when I had it,  I really dug the sound and feel.  She's gone though.

[TBird1958]

What about a Bass IV?
TB plus pups and a conventional shape (for those of you that "need" that) 

[slinkp]

I'm gonna be a stuck record about Meshell Ndegeocello.  That is some serious funk.

Here's another one... fast-forward to 3:00 where she gets off the keyboards and on the (Gibson) bass.

[Dave W]

Shame that she had such a bad experience with Gibson that she wasn't an endorser for long.

[gibran]

I'm gonna be a stuck record about Meshell Ndegeocello.  That is some serious funk.

Here's another one... fast-forward to 3:00 where she gets off the keyboards and on the (Gibson) bass.

Good riff but no presence on slap. To 5:40 you can see the real slapper, a Fender Jazz Bass.

[uwe]

Shame that she had such a bad experience with Gibson that she wasn't an endorser for long.

Did she have a bad experience? I wasn't aware of that. I thought she just moved on in her quest for another sound, more recently she played JBs. All her albums and sounds are vastly different, the newest one for instance is decidedly unfunky and very introvert. I like whatever she does.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_1kVuvIfc0&feature=related





I have her LP De Luxe Bass that she had customized by Gibson for a more JBish sound, i.e. turned passive and with single coils.



 

[Dave W]

Did she have a bad experience? I wasn't aware of that. I thought she just moved on in her quest for another sound, more recently she played JBs. All her albums and sounds are vastly different, the newest one for instance is decidedly unfunky and very introvert. I like whatever she does.

She made some comments in an article I saw somewhere two or three years ago. She wasn't real specific, I just gathered that she wasn't happy with the bass and that Gibson didn't really do anything to promote her.

[uwe]

I guess the changes she asked for evidenced that Barts with a TCT active circuit were not her dream combination! Herr bass actually sounds nice but nothing like an LBP-2.

She's a good little doughnut bumper, I like her earnestness.

[4stringer77]

I know I'm jumping in late on this, but if you're talking slap bass you have to mention Louis Johnson. He thumped on a Ripper at one point in his career. If you haven't heard of this dude you owe it to yourself to check out the brothers Johnson. He also recorded on an obscure album called thriller by some guy Mike Jackson.

[slinkp]

Come to think of it, I knew a guy in college who slapped on a fretless Ripper.
google google google... aha.  Everything is on the interwebs somewhere:
http://www.bard.edu/bardmakesnoise/suedewicked.php
... hmm sounded a lot better to me at the time.