Wow -- so the other week I was musing about the difference in music I dig, and music I intellectually think I should I like, but don't (like
The Meters' Cissy Strut) I thought maybe the difference was the downbeat, that music that just has a groove, even a funk-ish one, still leaves me cold unless it has the big bass-y downbeat. (Not to mention my disinterest in jam bands.) Today, by semi-coincidence, my coworker Jeff shows me this video, a one minute lecture on Bootsy's Basic Funk Formula. And -- IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ONE. For Bootsy style funk, everything is rooted in that downbeat, and then you build off of that.
I don't know what's the cart and what's the horse, in terms of the tuba playing and the musical appreciation, but it all ties together.
