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Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The light is so blinding.

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0:00.0	Slap bass is the practice of smacking and popping the strings on an electric
0:05.2	base to produce percussive, blindingly fast parts. It's an amazing,
0:10.0	surprisingly flexible technique that shows that at least when it comes to musical instruments,
0:13.8	sometimes violence is the answer. Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcast About Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad you
0:28.5	join me to talk about slap bass, fingered bass, picked bass, arco bass, Pittsacato bass, and every other kind of bass there is.
0:36.0	If you've been enjoying Strong Song Season 6, I hope you know that it is entirely made possible by the amazing people who support Strong Songs on Patreon.
0:45.0	And if you'd like to keep the show going and get accessed episodes two weeks early, go to
0:48.7	Patreon.com slash Strong Songs to find out more.
0:53.6	On this episode, oh man, it is time for one of the greats,
0:57.1	a musician and songwriter who's long been one of my favorites,
0:59.9	but who I bet some of you out there haven't listened to nearly enough.
1:03.4	I am really excited for this one, so let's warm up our thumb and slap that base till the
1:08.1	funk comes out. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, The first time I heard Michelle and Deggieachello play bass, I didn't know who I was listening to. It was
1:33.8	1994 in my hometown of Bloomington, Indiana and local music hero John Mellencamp
1:39.0	had just released a new single called Wild Knight. I didn't know that it was actually a Van Morrison song,
1:45.4	nor did I know that it featured a special musical guest. I just knew that I liked it.
1:54.0	As she brushed shoes, you stand for your mirror.
1:59.0	It was funky, it moved.
2:02.0	And along with old Johnny Cougar's vocal lead, there was this soulful lady singing
2:06.2	right along with him.
2:07.2	And you walk the streets trying to remember that. I really did love it. I remember very vividly hearing it even though I was only in middle school.
2:27.0	Melenkamp lived right down the highway from where I grew up. He was kind of everywhere when I was a kid and I'd never thought of myself as a fan but I went ahead and bought this album
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