Feature artist suggestion - Art of Slap Bass

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July 2, 2009 at 10:25 pm #184

Adam Booker
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Kevin Smith. Period.

July 3, 2009 at 12:08 pm #193

Dan Enriquez
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+1
Lot of great players out there. I wouldn’t know who to start with. No particular order. Here’s a few
Russell Scott
Ric Ramirez
Wally Hersom
Jeff West
Jimmy Sutton
Ray Campi
Geoff Firebaugh
Kevin Stewart

July 3, 2009 at 4:03 pm #198

markus
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what about some psychobilly dudes
fantomas
valle,,,

July 3, 2009 at 6:56 pm #199

Kevin Hurst
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Geoff Firebaugh
Kevin Smith

July 4, 2009 at 6:07 am #207

Djordje Stijepovic
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All great suggestions!
Actually already working on some of those!

I like to study every player before I feature them, so it takes some time. I really want to present every featured bassist as good as possible. I also want to promote some other, not so well known, players that deserve much more media attention by my opinion. My plan is to bring some players outside of the “billy” scene here.

Feel free to suggest players that you’d like to see here!

Hope you guys like Nicolas’ interview and his video!

July 4, 2009 at 6:40 am #210

David Harber
Participant

I’m looking forward to this! i love picking up random techniques and ideas from players who aren’t in the “scene”. I haven’t been playing very long, so I like to see everyone’s best practices and pickup everything that I can!

July 4, 2009 at 7:33 pm #243

Kevin Stewart
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James Kirkland!!! (because he’s still alive and ripping)
Kevin Smith (the old RABB.com interview isn’t enough)
Fantomas (aka Thomas Frenchy)
Ryan Gould (haven’t heard enough about him and his stylings)
Nuno (from Tennesse Boys/Portugal)
The guy from Taraf de Haidouks

and… if Wally Hersom would be into it… it would be cool to see him get some justice. He was one of my earliest influences…

July 5, 2009 at 9:45 pm #265

Patrik Backlund
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Miles Mosley!

July 6, 2009 at 4:36 pm #274

Robin
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Mark Winchester.

July 9, 2009 at 8:39 am #295

thomas
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adam ben ezra..maybe it would convince him to slap more.

July 9, 2009 at 9:01 am #297

Mike “Boom Boom” Brown
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Huck Johnson.

Beau Sample.

August 2, 2009 at 9:20 pm #497

Victor Nystad
Participant

[b]markus wrote:[/b]
[quote]what about some psychobilly dudes
fantomas
valle,,,[/quote]

Second that! I thought of Valle of Mad Sin + The Berlin Three too, he’s a great player. Kim Nekroman would be great too. I’m interested in details about their playing, like if they slap with their thumb or palm when doing quick double slaps, what fingers they pull with etc. I sent Valle a couple of questions about his technique on myspace recently, hoping I get an answer :cheer:

August 4, 2009 at 9:27 pm #506

markus
Participant

valle is really cool guy, he replyed to some of my questions on myspace and i had a nice bass talk with him when they play here.It would be great to have him for a featured artist,although there is some new trend among slap bassists and alot of them are into these jazzy guys 🙂

August 5, 2009 at 6:09 pm #516

Geoff Firebaugh
Participant

+1 For Wally, Fantomas, Kevin Smith, etc.

also-
Dave Roe-
Thomas Yearsley
Strangy

August 5, 2009 at 7:26 pm #517

mike sirman
Participant

Yeah im all for these as well, mainly strangy, fantomas, or valle from mad sin.
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