The Funk Brothers-The Flick

Motown's back bone, playing on 90 to 95% of the motown records, led by Earl Van Dyke, and fortified by, James Jamerson, Benny Benjamin, Robert White, Hank Cosby, Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Uriel Jones, Jack Ashford and Pistol Allen

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• Motown
• Soul

[Steacy783]

Where's the BASE?? Where's the drum's?? Too much treble !!! All I heard was a key board,, and yes played at the wrong speed !!

[MotownMaster]

anyone who bitches about the speed of the turntable will be blocked from leaving future comments

[MotownMaster]

The Scooby-Doo comment was a compliment cuz that cartoon had groovy music

[roebliss]

I dismiss that "it belongs in a Scooby Doo cartoon" comment- sir

[CairoKid]

The Funk Brothers ruled...

[Fanfreak123]

i came here from the Bullyparade :D

[silverfacetwin06]

@Steacy783

Bass, dumbass..

[Sco22]

@Steacy783 The instrument is a bass. When you make a word like "drums" plural, it doesn't require an apostrophe. But it is true that the speed isn't right. The song is flatter and slower than it is at proper playback. As @JMB30 mentioned, you can hear the correct speed in "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", starting around 02:30 in the movie.

[steviemusic1]

@Steacy783 ?? Everything is there... even the, er, 'BASE' (why can't people spell anymore...?). And, if you look carefully at the clip you'll see that the music is coming from something called a 'record player' and the sound is coming out of a thing called a 'speaker' which is where the video camera's microphone is picking it up from. Were you expecting pristine, digital 21st century sound or something...?

[quatlucius]

Love that funky bassline. Keyboards ain't too shabby either. Great stuff.

[msaintpc]

@MotownMaster Thank you! This artist and this tune was and is, too important to be denigrated by such trivial complaints, especially when one considers the time period and the meager technology they had available.

[dowsemeister]

@Egondv maybe exploited is not quite the right word. Sorry ....I know that Chuck Rainey and Bernard Purdie did alot of that stuff like the Archies etc., and probably made great money doing it.

[Egondv]

@dowsemeister exploited?

[SteveFromEarth]

that`s so funny people get offended by WORDS period. I don`t know if I could live without the word funk today. Those people must have got all messed up when "Get The Funk Out Of My Face" came out. Nice motown history lesson, thanks from us...