So true! I dont care about gender at all! The best are the best! So here we go: 1. Jaco (of course… could be a tie with Larry Graham though)… 2. Kim Clarke (on all accounts!) 3. Mohini Dey So…. The best bassplayers are men? Think so? Nope!…
I first discovered Defunkt as a young kid in Brooklyn growing up in the 80s because I randomly chanced upon the radio station WFMU and heard the track Batman by Defunkt and was like “This is so cool!” I think this was either 1988 or 1989, and I saw Defunkt was playing a show by reading The Village Voice, and I got my older brother to take me to the old Knitting Factory in Houston Street to see them. Now realize just how crazy and unusual that would be now - an 18 year old taking his 13 year old brother to see a Hard Funk band at a Lower East Side music club, and be let in to see the music! Maybe I even had a beer. Man. Different times. Wild. Unsure if Kim Clarke was playing but I remember Joseph Bowie well and man I thought you guys were and are one of the coolest things about NYC music and The Knitting Factory scene. Thank you!
🎼Hi Kim!!!...What a trip...😃 & it's great to see Defunkt from those days...fond memories indeed...many... All the best in 2016, positive , forward... & THANKS for so much great music... Much love always, Fox...
This takes me back. I said hi to Kim in Toronto at a gig. You were one of the main people who inspired me to work at playing the bass. Ultimately, I never developed the chops, but it was a fun ride. If anything, it made me appreciate talent and skill of special people like you all the more, and that's my take-away. And I still love this music. Keep doing your thing.
@@2dkoda , I thought you were also, originally from Saint Louis Mo as well, in fact, I think you know Gary Sykes, Ptah Williams, and Darrel Mixon. Amazing what has come out of STL, and the surrounding area, some of the best music period.
Yes!!!! When I first heard this song round at a friend's basement flat in the bombed out early eighties in inner city Bristol, I was transfixed. Defunkt you have always been a great inspiration to me. As young budding musicians and free jazzers then, we looked to you guys among others, that whole American thing - Shepp. Shannon Jackson, Defunkt etc etc. Great to see you commenting too - oh the internet!! PS saw you play around 91 on the Thekla in Bristol and Dingwalls in London - heavy..
KIM Stone? I Kimmo Lingonheimo was once so close to shout at you; like that i love you! that was when you played bass guitar in a big band in Finland Pori Jazz, i saw you in your grea sweaters, an i could not get ( f cours not:: a sound from my vocal cord,I , as me the producer of this commen´´´´´´t am a still driv.. in the facilities of an artists home me, if nothing, I Love You ,Kim mo, my was a clark
@@2dkodaHi Kim, Kimmo Lingonheimo here in Finland, my birth n home town Turku, Russia is at and in war... thank you Kim, this is almost unreal to correspond with you, Clarke dear👱♂👱♂👱♂👱♂🎸🎸 ru-vid.comgaming/emoji/7ff574f2/emoji_u1f471_200d_2642.png👱♂ru-vid.comgaming/emoji/7ff574f2/emoji_u1f3b8.png
