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WTB: Funk Fingers

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GassageGassage Frets: 30923
in Basses £
WHY?

It's for a pal of mine as a b'day pressie who's a huge Levin fan.

*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • HarrySevenHarrySeven Frets: 8030
    Gassage said:
    WHY?

    It's for a pal of mine as a b'day pressie who's a huge Levin fan.
    I’m not sure @Funkfingers is for sale…


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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30923
    HarrySeven said:
    Gassage said:
    WHY?

    It's for a pal of mine as a b'day pressie who's a huge Levin fan.
    I’m not sure @Funkfingers is for sale…

    I wish to clarify I am looking for the strap on appendage version.



    (As is the story of my life.....)

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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14430
    HarrySeven said:
    I’m not sure @Funkfingers is for sale.
    It is said that every man has his price.  :)

    Gassage said:
    I wish to clarify I am looking for the strap on appendage version.
    Okay. I admit it. I was Noseybonk from the Seventies children's television programme, Jigsaw.

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    I have never managed to find a pair of Funk Fingers in the UK. Mail ordering from Levin's Papa Bear web shop is hit and miss. The fingers are manufactured in modest batches that sell out almost as soon as they are announced. By the time that I am aware of them, they are unavailable again.



    There used to be a Japanese website that explained how to make your own Funk Fingers from old drumsticks. Shaping the wood is easy enough. The velcro finger straps need to be long enough to be firmly tightened up. The stumbling block has always been the coating material.
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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  • RevMattRevMatt Frets: 835
    New one to me - what are funk fingers?
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30923
    RevMatt said:
    New one to me - what are funk fingers?
    They're the drumstick extensions Tony Levin uses to play percussive bass.

    You can see them here. As I said, my pal is a massive Levin fan....


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  • RevMattRevMatt Frets: 835
    Ah, I get it now - every day's a school day!
    Great video that!
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30923
    RevMatt said:
    Ah, I get it now - every day's a school day!
    Great video that!

    That backing band...OMG!! 

    The guitarist is David Rhodes- who wrote the legendary Life's What You Make it lick for Talk Talk.

    Manu Katsche on drums too.

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  • RevMattRevMatt Frets: 835
    Gassage said:

    The guitarist is David Rhodes- who wrote the legendary Life's What You Make it lick for Talk Talk.
    Great tune!
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14430
    RevMatt said:
    Gassage said:
    The guitarist is David Rhodes- who wrote the legendary Life's What You Make it lick for Talk Talk.
    Great tune!
    Ironically, Rhodes has also recorded with Kate Bush.

    Listen to Running Up That Hill and Life's What You Make It back to back. ;)
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  • digitalkettledigitalkettle Frets: 3248
    Funkfingers said:
    RevMatt said:
    Gassage said:
    The guitarist is David Rhodes- who wrote the legendary Life's What You Make it lick for Talk Talk.
    Great tune!
    Ironically, Rhodes has also recorded with Kate Bush.

    Listen to Running Up That Hill and Life's What You Make It back to back. ;)
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30923
    Funkfingers said:
    RevMatt said:
    Gassage said:
    The guitarist is David Rhodes- who wrote the legendary Life's What You Make it lick for Talk Talk.
    Great tune!
    Ironically, Rhodes has also recorded with Kate Bush.

    Listen to Running Up That Hill and Life's What You Make It back to back. ;)

    David only worked as a tour guitarist with KB, not in studio.


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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14430
    I was referring to the indebtedness of one of the songs to the other NOT the guitarists.

    With their album The Colour Of Spring almost complete, Talk Talk's record company insisted that it needed a hit single. "Something similar to Running Up That Hill." Hollis went home for the weekend and wrote exactly that to get the A&R people off his back.

    Sample the drum machine patterns at the beginning of the two songs. Tempo match them. Spot the similarities.
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  • impmannimpmann Frets: 12666
    Funkfingers said:
    I was referring to the indebtedness of one of the songs to the other NOT the guitarists.

    With their album The Colour Of Spring almost complete, Talk Talk's record company insisted that it needed a hit single. "Something similar to Running Up That Hill." Hollis went home for the weekend and wrote exactly that to get the A&R people off his back.

    Sample the drum machine patterns at the beginning of the two songs. Tempo match them. Spot the similarities.
    I think Lee Harris would be a little pissed with you for saying it was a drum machine... there is sequenced percussion, but the drums are live and played by him (I used to work with the recording engineer on the CoS sessions, who confirmed that).


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