I would twist my spine COMPLETELY OUT-OF-JOINT Breakin to Chaka's version back in the day 85'. I did NOT know It originated form Prince. Not surprised. Thank You. I LOVE your analyses man.
Excellent music history lesson. Much appreciated. I now feel compelled to listen to every single version that was mentioned. Just finished listening to the Rebbie Jackson version and it was pretty good. Not bad at all. I believe that the only reason why the Chaka Khan version became so famous was the inclusion of Stevie Wonder. You can't lose with Stevie Wonder.
fellow bassist here :) i really enjoyed your commentary! if you haven’t already, i’d suggest giving the anime bocchi the rock a watch! it’s about four girls on the journey to become a large band and they have music on Spotify. the two bassists in the show, ryo and hiroi are awesome
My favorite zuttomay bassline after "Study Me" would be "Hunch Grey" or "Kangurei (its a wordplay, both the same song). The arrangement and the Visual of that music is *Chef kiss* <3
Great song. The baseline in Chaka Khan’s version with Stevie Wonder on Harmonica, takes the best of all previous versions. It’s is so good 🤩 BTW Prince was one of Jehovahs Witnesses and wouldn’t have celebrated his birthday.
Two things, if you haven't already analyzed Forget-me-nots, I hope you do, the bass is spectacular! Also Paul, I so appreciate your enthusiasm as well as your deep dives musically and stylistically. As soon as you said, "The Crusaders" I had to pull up Those Southern Nights and I still favor the first and last tracks, such a good band. That album came out when I was 13 when I was playing bass in jazz band, oh the memories, thanks Paul!
As a kid I remember thinking that the people that said that they didn’t have that Elvis was dead were crazy losers: it ; having said that It just doesn’t make sense that Prince, or Michael Jackson are dead.🤔
I’ve said this for years, but of all the instruments Prince played, he was in my opinion the best on bass guitar. He was great on everything but there would be (admittedly very high caliber) musicians who were better guitar players or pianists, because that was their chosen discipline. But Prince could hold his own with anyone on bass.
