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Bill Laswell, prolific bassist and promoter of musicians from Bootsy (he got him to quit crack) to discovery of Whitney Houston and Buckethead as well as a founding member of Material, Praxis and Massacre among volumes of other projects has been sick and needs donations to keep his studio going.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/stop-the-...ource=customer
Some examples:
this one takes a little time to get going, turn up the bass, it's deft
similarly here:
Chip in a couple of bucks if you can.
That's a bummer, what a brilliant dude
Prolific is an understatement:
http://www.silent-watcher.net/billla...icalindex.html
Funk throwdown from the 80s:
I kicked him down a few bucks, good luck to him.
this is where i first heard laswell.
the album turned me on to drummer ronald shannon jackson, guitarist sonny sharrock, many others.
saw him play with both - and the recently passed sax titan peter brotzmann - as LAST EXIT, possibly the heaviest band to emerge from the jazz universe.
yes i will chip in too