billingtons ghost
Registered User
- Joined
- Nov 29, 2010
- Messages
- 10,840
- Likes
- 7,360
And as a counter to the heavy philosophy above...
I'm in a semipro band playing bars and wedding circuit stuff and at years end we talk about picking a new batch of songs. So we have a list of 100 to talk about/ play this Sunday and I'm doing some advanced scouting scribbling down chords/riffs/bridges etc and I zipped through the first 39 of the party/Motown songs... Lots of I IV V or simple 4chorders and some PFunk where there's literally one chord and a bass riff and the rest is just fun... And for sure I had to refresh a Hendrix riff or look up what sus chord Stevie Wonder is using but it was clear sailing until I hit this bubblegum song and glorious bassline by Wilton Felder. And if playing this doesn't make you smile, you aren't human. And what's more, if you can get past the child exploitation and subsequent horror story for the protagonist, the wonderful Internet can tell me that it was played on a single coil fender bass without a pick. (Always with the fingers, said Wilton.)
I'm in a semipro band playing bars and wedding circuit stuff and at years end we talk about picking a new batch of songs. So we have a list of 100 to talk about/ play this Sunday and I'm doing some advanced scouting scribbling down chords/riffs/bridges etc and I zipped through the first 39 of the party/Motown songs... Lots of I IV V or simple 4chorders and some PFunk where there's literally one chord and a bass riff and the rest is just fun... And for sure I had to refresh a Hendrix riff or look up what sus chord Stevie Wonder is using but it was clear sailing until I hit this bubblegum song and glorious bassline by Wilton Felder. And if playing this doesn't make you smile, you aren't human. And what's more, if you can get past the child exploitation and subsequent horror story for the protagonist, the wonderful Internet can tell me that it was played on a single coil fender bass without a pick. (Always with the fingers, said Wilton.)
