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'Spank the Plank' - Slap Bass doc on BBC Radio 4

steamabacussteamabacus Frets: 1239
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I'm just listening to 'Spank the Plank' on BBC radio 4. Exploring the methods and history of slap bass.

Available here (should be available for a while) ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n62k3
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    Have a wow thingy. Radio 4 do have some interesting rock related things sometimes hidden in the bowels of their schedule
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • lustycourtierlustycourtier Frets: 3115
    That was very good, cheers!
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  • jd0272jd0272 Frets: 3867
    Twas a good listen, caught it at my desk yester-loiter ;)
    "You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    I was on the road yesterday for 8 hours and 40 minutes, so this pretty much saved my sanity.


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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17108
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    Thanks for the link. 

    My Bassist will love it.
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    That was really good. :) Although they mentioned Basschat and not us.... :(
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • vasselmeyervasselmeyer Frets: 3631
    EricTheWeary said:
    That was really good. :) Although they mentioned Basschat and not us.... :(
    Hardly surprising. 4500+ threads in "Guitar" and 154 in "Bass".
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    vasselmeyer said:
    EricTheWeary said:
    That was really good. :) Although they mentioned Basschat and not us.... :(
    Hardly surprising. 4500+ threads in "Guitar" and 154 in "Bass".

    well, err, hmmm.... X_X
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • BellycasterBellycaster Frets: 5750
    Just listened, very entertaining....and that Yolanda Charles!

    Apart from the most obvious, I think this is one of the finest examples of Slap Bass playing, I just thought it should get a mention.




    And they said that in our time, all that's good will fall from grace, even Saints would turn their face, in our time.
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    Can't say I like "slap" bass. Just wish they'd play the damn thing. Mark King was the worst.
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • ThePrettyDamnedThePrettyDamned Frets: 7416
    Phil_aka_Pip;406949" said:
    Can't say I like "slap" bass. Just wish they'd play the damn thing. Mark King was the worst.
    There is definitely a time and place.

    My favourite slappist is flea - but although very technical (and occasionally very jazzy) he uses it as a tool rather than to show off. Black eyed blonde and skinny sweaty man are great :)
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  • vasselmeyervasselmeyer Frets: 3631
    Phil_aka_Pip said:
    Can't say I like "slap" bass. Just wish they'd play the damn thing. Mark King was the worst.
    The section of Mark King playing the arpeggios underneath the chorus of Lessons in Love and then siging over the top of it was pretty amazing. How anyone can do all that at once and still remember to breathe is beyond me.
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  • ecc83ecc83 Frets: 1488

    I have it stashed in .wav so if anyone  out of UK wants a harken, PM me.


    Dave.

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