The Seinfeld line was actually played on keyboard, thats why it sounds so cheeze.
It was probably Larry Graham or Doug Rauch, as far as the first recording of this technique.
As a bassist, I gotta say, slap is fun as shit to play. but it's easy to go overboard with it. It can melt faces when done tastefully. but you get all these jam band cornballs with like 7 string basses who only play wanky slap lines and it gets annoying quick.
It is kinda who cares + plus some dude in his basement that never recorded was first but..............
It's pretty well believed that it was Larry G. he was doing that in the late 60's. It basically mimics GW Theadore's story about the scratch. Larry just kinda did it once and thought "Hey that's cool I'm gonna work on it." I think it was the PBS Funk documentary where he talked about it.
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Louis Johnson didn't originate bass slappin', but he definitely took it to a whole other level. Respect!!!
I immediatly thought of all that rockabilly echo slap. That is all acoustic bass. It took another 10 years for Larry Graham to do it on the electrict on a hit record. I'm not saying he was the first, but he was the first that was funky and heard around the world.
I immediatly thought of all that rockabilly echo slap. That is all acoustic bass. It took another 10 years for Larry Graham to do it on the electrict on a hit record. I'm not saying he was the first, but he was the first that was funky and heard around the world.
Dan
Yea, it's a fine line. I was thinking rockabily but it seems though they were "slapping" they would often still pull on the strings. If you just slap open palm you deaden the sting and don't get much sound. When i first read the post I was only thing about the funk thump slap style.
I guess the rockablliy is more of a slap-pull and the funk is a thumb slap. If you litterally slap (like you would slap a face or buttock) you really don't get much of a sound.
When i was a youngster and picked up my first bass I was just slapping the shit out of the thing and couldn't figure out why I didn't sound like Larry or Bootsy. Then a friend showed me how to do it with the thumb and not open palm style.
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dead the slap.
It was probably Larry Graham or Doug Rauch, as far as the first recording of this technique.
As a bassist, I gotta say, slap is fun as shit to play. but it's easy to go overboard with it. It can melt faces when done tastefully. but you get all these jam band cornballs with like 7 string basses who only play wanky slap lines and it gets annoying quick.
It's pretty well believed that it was Larry G. he was doing that in the late 60's. It basically mimics GW Theadore's story about the scratch. Larry just kinda did it once and thought "Hey that's cool I'm gonna work on it." I think it was the PBS Funk documentary where he talked about it.
Louis Johnson didn't originate bass slappin', but he definitely took it to a whole other level. Respect!!!
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Big Stacks from Kakalak
I immediatly thought of all that rockabilly echo slap. That is all acoustic bass. It took another 10 years for Larry Graham to do it on the electrict on a hit record. I'm not saying he was the first, but he was the first that was funky and heard around the world.
Dan
Yea, it's a fine line. I was thinking rockabily but it seems though they were "slapping" they would often still pull on the strings. If you just slap open palm you deaden the sting and don't get much sound. When i first read the post I was only thing about the funk thump slap style.
I guess the rockablliy is more of a slap-pull and the funk is a thumb slap. If you litterally slap (like you would slap a face or buttock) you really don't get much of a sound.
When i was a youngster and picked up my first bass I was just slapping the shit out of the thing and couldn't figure out why I didn't sound like Larry or Bootsy. Then a friend showed me how to do it with the thumb and not open palm style.