CharlesDillon

It's a nice discussion here, about bands/artists that use a lot of slap bass. There are various artists who use slap bass in their songs. Some good bands are:
Les Claypool- solo artist
Bootsy Collins - solo artist; Bootsy's Rubber Band
Fieldy
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Mike Gordon.

grindy

While Squarepusher is mostly know as an electronic musician, he is also an accomplished bass player, uses the bass in a lot of his songs and then it's mostly slapped.

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Jathon Delsy

As a bassist, I used to play a lot of slap bass, until a singer I worked with and respected ask me not to. "Why?" I asked. "Because it doesn't sound good." he said.
Does he have a point? Does slap bass overly limit the harmonic and melodic possibilities of the instrument, and also it loses the warm bottom end punch, to replace it with percussive twangs that can be better expressed by other instruments?

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Rexx Shredd

I have a similar issue

I have a funk project called "Urban Shokker" (see signature). Now, slap bass is actually my forte BUT I think the technique itself has gotten to a point where it becomes stereotypical that it becomes contrived. Whats more, is many people immediately think that "Funk" is automatically supposed to " = slap bass" and even I get sick of walking into Guitar Center just to hear some grooveless "slappity tackity slappity tackity" bull**** going on over in the bass section

I made a decision to keep slap bass to a minimal with Urban Shokker, just using it here and there as needed: this was a difficult excercise in self-discipline but I managed

The trade-off was the cool part: I explored the use of effects (something I never do in most of my bass playing history) and was happy with the creative output I discovered by running my bass through various effects and fx chains

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Dylstew

A lot of funk actually doesn't have slap bass, or rarely has it. Most of the ones that do came a lot later.

I think you could always strike a nice balance. Don't always slap, but slap when it fits the song and when it sounds good. Don't slap just to slap. Not just for songs you guys make in general, but also within the song itself.

But for me, I pretty much always like it at the moment xD, but I can see why others wouldn't, and overusing things is never a good thing.

Dylstew

btw, I've noticed the Metal Slug character selection screen has what seems to be Slap Bass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TjwsYnMCXM