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Date Posted: 23:28:22 09/03/03 Wed
Author: Derek
Subject: An interesting piece of musical trivia I learned today

Modern slap-bass was invented by a famous Motown bassist by the name of James Jamerson, he also is the reason there are attack and delay knobs on compression devices. He would be playing this fat Motown groove and then hit this slap lick that sounded horrible with the compressors they had at the time. The strangest part about the whole thing was he had turrets syndrome and had spastic body movements and tics which created the signature slap bass sound and technique. I guess it's just like Tony Iommi getting his fingers chopped off and having to de-tune his guitar and subsequently getting that heavy Black Sabbath sound. It's weird how that works. It sounds great though.

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Re: An interesting piece of musical trivia I learned today -- Charlie, 20:10:42 09/05/03 Fri