The world's laziest Bongo player

[Grand Wazoo]

This dude makes me laugh... goes to show how comfortable Bongo's are to play

Is this someone here?

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[DTG]

nice bongo all the same!
i like it without the pg

 

[five7]

Have you really bonded with your bass until you have fallen asleep with it?

 

[cyoungnashville]

the funk brothers were on call 24/7 at motown. they were not fans of the music they were being employed by motown to play, its just how they paid their rent. for the most part these were SERIOUS jazz players. so any night they werent in the snakepit (the basement / studio at motown), they were at the chit-chat or a handful of other clubs drinkin, and stretching out on their instruments doing what they really loved, jazz. it was no rare occasion that smokey or norman whitfield would come up with a "genius" tune in the middle of the night and have them all tracked down, rounded up, and forced into a recording session where they would take some little elementary sketch of an idea, and turn it into a work of genius. legend has it that on the night marvin recorded "whats goin on", by the time they actually found jamerson, he was so smashed out of his brain, that he couldnt actually stand, or sit without falling out of the chair, so they laid him down. more than one funk swears on a stack of bibles that jamo played THE MASTER BASS TRACK of all time "whats goin on" FLAT ON HIS BACK DRUNK!!! that is my only guess at what vanilla ice is up to in this video. hopefully he's got more grease standing up.

 

[cellkirk74]

Yep, Jamerson is reported to having recorded some tracks while liying on the floor. I remember reading something like that in an older Bob Babbit interview.

JAMES JAMERSON, electric bass virtuoso

 

[kamakazee]

Wow, I thought I was the only one that played the Bongo laying down! Go horizontal Bongo!

 

[MrMusashi]

remember to retune the bass if youre going to record it...

MrM

 

[Powman]

Weird. He uses his first (pointer) and fourth (ring) finger.

 

[drTStingray]

Fran - you should try this with your Bongo before it goes to Ireland - let us know how you get on

they were at the chit-chat or a handful of other clubs drinkin, and stretching out on their instruments doing what they really loved, jazz.

I got a track somewhere (I think it may be on the Standing in the Shadows of Motown book CD's) - that has Jamerson playing on a 12bar swing number in a jam session - and his playing is seriously hot - poor recording but sounds like it's on a P bass, not an upright.

THE MASTER BASS TRACK of all time "whats goin on" FLAT ON HIS BACK DRUNK!!!

that bass track is so laid back (no pun intended ) his playing must have been pure instinct.

Inner City Blues aint far behind IMO as a classic bass line and that's been reported as being Bob Babbitt - presumably Jamerson was too far out to do it?

 

[TheAntMan]

Weird. He uses his first (pointer) and fourth (ring) finger.

I've been messing around with that technique on and off over the last year. It is very comfortable as the index and the ring fingers are about the same length. The are much closer than the index and middle. If you hold your right hand perpendicular to the strings they fall on the strings together.

I've also been trying out the 3 finger (index-middle-ring) technique. I find that one a bit more challenging to flow but that's what practice is for

--Ant