You know how their faces contort when hitting certain notes or rhythms? Why is that triggered in the face? Is it an emotional response? Communication by facial expression? Vestigial from some other process?
You know how their faces contort when hitting certain notes or rhythms? Why is that triggered in the face? Is it an emotional response? Communication by facial expression? Vestigial from some other process?
The funk
You see, the Funk is a living creature. It’s 'bout the size of a medicine ball, but covered in teats. It came from another planet, and landed on Bootsy Collins’s house.
Back then Bootsy was just a simple farmer. But he took one look at all of those mauve titties and he lost his mind. He began to milk the Funk. Made himself a Funk shake. Began to feel fizzy inside. He found he could see 'round corners. Suddenly, he passed out. But when he came to, baby, he was slapping a bass guitar fast and loose like some kind of delirious, funky priest.
Bootsie explains how to play funk bass in a 3 minute video where he only says “play the root on every downbeat” but then he plays funky ass shit on the other notes and doesn’t explain that part