THE ULTIMATE DISCO BASS LINE ! - Genuine Funkosity.
Vaughan Mason And Crew (some say Vaughn Mason And Crew) created the most-imitated, iconic disco bass line that has even stolen my breath away. This song was an inspiration for so many other disco-era songs I deserves a place in the disco hall of fame. And "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" wasn't cutesy or lightweight. It was truly a fusion of deep, dark, hypnotic funk with hustle-era disco. It wasn't flashy, or Top 40. It was hard-core ghetto biting its way into the mainstream of middle-class and upper-middle-class rock.
It took us over like a weaponized soul virus.
A batch of us out in suburbia were even beginning to doubt our genuine ethnicity, and started to confront our mothers and fathers about the casual bigotry that we had grown up with. That bass (picked, plucked, slapped, flanged, slid, two-note chorded, or patterned, like Paul McCartney's rhythmic and repetitive lines) made a permanent imprint on our souls.
When you hear "Good Times," or "Must Be The Music," or "Grooveline" give thanks to the crew in the subject line of this article. Show your appreciation - click on either the link or on the video player, and kick on the bass boost. Pump up the volume and celebrate this work of funkart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2WnpIYr5g&feature=related
