From: Sly and Larry's original riff...
http://www.wat.tv/video/sly-and-the-family-stone-thank-gtal_2f1mr_.html To: Janet Jackson's (Terry Lewis Jimmy Jam's recreations of Sly and Larry's creation...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvMpBlyKlfo The song Janet Jackson performed really sum up just how timeless Sly and Larry's music is...
#12, your question about Fender not having a Larry Graham Signature bass, and yet Marcus Miller and others were given such honors, is a serious mystery, and frankly disgraceful (in my opinion).
Larry Graham is the man, who invented Slapping/Thumpping/Popping using a Fender electric bass, and yet they make a Marcus Miller bass before the Master...? This de-values the signature as a whole.
I am surprised Marcus Miller could even honor his own signature Fender without the company of a Larry Graham signature Fender within the organization.
I am sure Marcus Miller, feels a little aloof without Larry's Fender signature in the mix. I am sure he must think of this in the middle of the night... (He might not bring it up, but I am sure he must wonder or ponder this very question too... for that, would be human).
Fender signatures are confusing:
They honor the branches, but not the deep roots of the tree...
Peace and Love,
Hal-
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 09, 2010)
