I posted this track by Vulfpeck a month or two ago:
I was utterly staggered by the bass playing, and remain so. Now I've branched out into the rest of their material and boy oh boy, do they have some good shit. More mental bass playing here - the solo at 3:05 is unbelievable. Love his tone as well. Warm and fat, and sits in the mix perfectly - blends amazingly well with the Rhodes.
But even when he's not going quite as mental, he still sounds great. And the rest of the band - again, wow. Just so, so, so tight and groovy. They all have great individual sounds, which blend into something amazing. Some nice vintage soul vibes here:
In this one, notice that the usual drummer is playing guitar, and the keyboardist (and primary songwriter) is playing drums, and they are just as amazingly tight as ever. Wtf?
And in this one, the drummer is back to playing drums, but is also singing. This track is SO Jackson 5:
They have guest vocalists occasionally - I love this one:
They're so fucking good. I love them.
- "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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I'm not surprised that they're able to swap instruments: this kind of playing is pretty technically simple (occasionally rapid bass aside) but requires a very developed attention to groove which translates between instruments. I've never played drums beyond Guitar Hero but when I have borrowed a drummers sticks between songs I sound like the drummers here.
The other aspect of their sound is the dampening: everything apart from the keys is either set up to be damped/compressed or is muted by the player. This is pretty much the most important step to being funky as a collective and why most rock bands can't pull it off like this - they've not done the setup.
Edit: watched a few more and it gets much more complicated! Are these mimed to a DAW track, cos they don't seem to be mic'ed for recording? Wonderfully conceived balance between groovy licks, songlike tunage and jam-esque textures in these arrangements.
Pretty pictures of stuff and things here...
My Feedback thread here...
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Loved the unison riffs guitar & bass played.
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If you like your Jackson 5 (who doesn't) :
And if you like your Chic-esque disco, with some mental bass playing:
Cracking band!
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Cory Wong is one of Vulfpeck's regular guests, and Mark Lettieri is in Snarky Puppy. Hell of a line-up they have there...
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