“I came up with slap bass out of necessity. I was basically trying to play drums on the bass”: Larry Graham recounts the birth of “thumpin’ and pluckin’”
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“I came up with slap bass out of necessity. I was basically trying to play drums on the bass”: Larry Graham recounts the birth of “thumpin’ and pluckin’”
Few bassists can stake a claim to inventing slap bass more than Sly and the Family Stone’s Larry Graham
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An amazing clip of the godfather of slap, Larry Graham, explaining how he first started thumpin’ and pluckin’ | Bass Magazine
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