Bootsy Collins is not a funky bass player. Bootsy Collins is the funky bass player. From setting the soul foundations of funk while playing with James Brown in the late 60’s, to building the definitive funky-bass sound with George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic in the 70’s, to inspiring a another decade of sound in 90’s G-funk, Bootsy and his signature Space Bass have been on a journey of musical pioneering for over five decades now and have clearly never looked…
Good Stuff Up Front Here’s a short playlist of some of my favorite songs that Babbitt is credited for: At the bottom I’ve also included a more comprehensive playlist that includes a wider range of Babbitt’s discography. Bob Babbitt Biography Bob Babbitt was born Robert Kreinar, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, on November 26, 1937. Growing up he studied music, playing the double bass at clubs as a teenager. In the late 50’s, Babbitt moved to Detroit for work, where he later…
A YouTube video called This Dead Genre is Taking Over K-Pop came up in my feed the other day. It’s a nice and concise little plug for a throwback sound kit, that claims that the New Jack Swing genre is making a resurgence in Korea, and gives a short explanation as to why. In short, the video claims that while New Jack Swing can be traced back to groups like S.E.S. in the 90’s, it’s current resurgence is largely due…
Every once in a while I do a perfunctory survey of pop culture across the globe. Here’s a playlist from some of the more popular songs from different countries, along with a few personal favorites thrown in. Hope you like it, – WellTree
I recently had a video come up in my YouTube feed where a fairly respected university professor spent about 15 minutes talking about the “reptile brain” and I got a little irritated. The term “reptile brain” or “lizard brain” has been a part of pop-sci consciousness for decades, and is part of a theory that is largely wrong. Here’s a short explanation of where the term comes from, and why we shouldn’t use it. Where Does the “Lizard Brain” Concept…
Happy New Year!
Decided to make a not-so-easy listening playlist of songs featuring the 11/8 time signature. Fun stuff is up first, unnerving stuff in the back. Hope you like it 🙂
Bassists get a bad rap. Or more often, they don’t get any rap at all. Most people, if asked, would likely be able to list off a favorite singer/songwriter or two. Guitarists are similar, and some people might even have a few favorite producers they like. Drummers have the occasional Neil Peart or Dave Grohl, and even have their own unique brand of jokes about how goofy drummers are. But what recognition do bass players get? Often, not much. Despite…
“But as to how memory of home can direct innately the journeys of animals, we have no answer. It is a question with which science has struggled manfully. It is a question as profound as any which biology faces today, for within its unknown answer must lie qualities and properties and potentialities of which we have no least knowledge.” – Robert Ardrey – The Territorial Imperative (1966) Why Birds? After half a year of being too busy/uninspired to post anything…