I saw Sly and the Family Stone in 1968 in Detroit. Larry Graham thumped and plucked up a storm! Amazing.

Larry Graham is the inventor of the thump base style. and no one else can say it. he’s been doing that since the 60s. The rest of those people started in the 70s and Larry hasn’t gotten his just do about it. they should appreciate this man while he’s here. That funk music has influence practically all the music that we listen to today from hip-hop. as far The music of hip-hop that strong deep thump comes from funk. All the dance music from disco and especially club music. Club music comes from the dance music that Black people used to listen to and that was funk music that we used to dance to. James Brown came up with the funky beat and Larry put it into bass music. the base in reggae, Larry Graham’s base, it was around before the deep base of reggae and anything else with a deep bass in it

Larry Graham, you are a gift to a lot of bass players who came after you! Thank you for letting us be a piece of you on the bass!

the likes of les claypool, flea, bootsy collins, louis johnson, etc would not exist at all in the way they do today without this guy, much respect

@valritz3100

5 ай бұрын

Yes absolutely !!!!

I was Larry Graham In 1978 @Wjpc picnic him,his Bass and drummer you gotta hear it live!

Wow! Thanks Brother Graham for all the love, faith and music!

I totally dig Larry Grahm, Sly & The Family Stone, "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)", "Pow" etc. Larry is the reason why funk bass sounds so cool and this video perfectly sums up his story on his invention of thumpin and pluckin the electric bass which everyone else calls "slap bass"! LOVE this video, I wish I can hit the thumbs up twice or more for this video, I would thump and pluck that thumbs up button hundreds of times for this awesome video!!!

Man! I was listening to Larry when I was a elementary school aged kid! Loved his look and his "thumping" It all started with his work with his Mom, then Sly & the Family Stone and then our minds were totaled blown when Graham Central Station came out! If you haven't already... all bass players should collect all the Graham Central Station music, it will show you just how funky thumb-plucking bass is supposed to sound from the man who invented the style. Thank you, Thank you for uploading this video!

Thank GOD for this video! As a bassist, I get so annoyed hearing people referrer to this as slap bass! Larry Graham is the father of Thumping and PLUCKING......period!

@playsbass1969

6 жыл бұрын

YOU'RE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RIGHT

@cristianalexandru779

2 жыл бұрын

Amin!

@debomb721

Жыл бұрын

Does it really matter that much?

@benevolentessence8809

8 ай бұрын

@@cristianalexandru779true..that first song is in A minor lol

he and sly are two of my favorite musicians of all time. they are both geniuses!

This is gold! Thank you. IT IS NOT CALLED SLAP!

Larry Graham is a bass and rock/funk god. He is the damn best bassist that I've ever heard and seen. And he is so cool when on the stage in his element.

He is also one HELLAVA singer ! Check the range !

The king of funk bass!!!

The MASTER!!!! Thanks you for sharing this!

Wow! Great voice and guitar playing!

Why doesn’t this video have more likes and views!

That bass is on display at the Hard Rock Cafe! Saw it last night in person

THIS CROWD HAD KNOW IDEA THE BRILLIANCE THAT WAS STANDING BEFORE THEM

I can't believe the audience was so lame! Larry Graham.... Best bassist ever to have lived. Period. 😎👍🏻

@GP2141BC

Жыл бұрын

What audience?

........So Happy to see this, this is truly the origin of THUMPING & PLUCKING , and the start of it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! slap bass? NO!!!!!! THUMP BASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We love larry Graham !!!!!❤❤

Amazing!!!It never gets old!

Thank you master Graham. Master Mingus, master Pastorius…

Bless you for posting this!

The greatest bassist ever

Spiritual brother of mine ! He and Tommy Cogbill, are two great bassists !

Dang. . . aside from killing it on the guitar, the man's a damn good storyteller

Classic !!!!! He stated FUNK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love this!

@playsbass1969

6 жыл бұрын

Larry GRAHAM STARTED ALL NO JOKING

@playsbass1969

6 жыл бұрын

LARRY GRAHAM THE MASTER PLUCKER

Larry rocks!🎸

Yeah yeah yeah..go Larry!

Brilliant 🙏✌️♥️🌍

so great!

Amazing!😊

Louis ( Thunderthumbs) Johnson, whom Larry taught to Thump, extended the technique and added 'Massive" Slapping, thumping, and Plucking .. Then, Marcus, then Prince extended the Funk Thunk, Slide, Slap, Pluck technique..

@jamescaleb9676

3 жыл бұрын

sly did way more than he gets credit for. he wrote the bass line for and played it on if you want me to stay, and i imagine he did the same for many other tracks for which people give larry credit. not to say larry wasn't great, but he was'nt on sly's level and niether were any of those other people.

@GP2141BC

Жыл бұрын

You include prince in that lineup?

Let em know Playa!! @2:10!!! Killing it!! @2:50

MY BROTHA, IS MAGNIFICENT,

Badass thumpin plunkin ~¡♤♤@

Primes vibes on the last song!

LARRY!!!!!

❤❤❤

He’s too cool!

I’m looking at a couple of the comments and some people can’t stand to hear the term slap bass. As a fellow bass player, I get so irritated with people debating unnecessarily on whether Larry Graham is the Godfather of Thumping & Plucking or Slap Bass. Thumping & Plucking, Slap Bass, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT IT’S CALLED! IT’S THE SAME THING! The point is that he invented the style and has influenced many other bass players lives with it.

@JJDPROMEDIAPRODUCTION

4 жыл бұрын

Preach!! Louis ( Thunderthumbs) and whom Larry taught to Thump, extended the technique and added 'Massive" Slapping, thumping, and Plucking .. Then, Marcus, then Prince extended the Funk Thunk, Slide, Slap, Pluck technique..

@33markiss

3 жыл бұрын

Not true ! When "certain" people rebrand , rename an art form it's very wrong. Try renaming Baroque Classical music. Slapping something is completely different than Thumping it. Try thumpiing your girls forehead , and then turn around and Slap her. LOL

He is phenomenal on the bass , Tommy Cogbill would put Vaseline on his plucking fingers so the bass would sound like it was bouncing ! You hear that on Aretha Franklin records like, Respect, Chain If Fool, Think, Since you’ve been gone !

*Jerry Seinfeld enters the room*

How is this even possible?

I wonder where the drummer is at now….

God! They just don't make great musicians like this anymore. Or maybe I'm just getting old.