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James Jamerson: One Finger, Dead Strings and a Bass Line Played Lying Down

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James Jamerson was born on January 29, 1936 on Edisto Island, South Carolina, though he long believed it was 1938. Raised by a piano-playing grandmother and a choir-singing aunt, he started on piano and trombone, which the episode credits for his fretless, by-ear approach. He moved to Detroit in 1954, took up upright bass in high school, turned down a music scholarship to Wayne State, and played clubs with Washboard Willie and Jackie Wilson. By 1959 he was recruited to Hitsville U.S.A., where he anchored the Funk Brothers in the basement studio called the Snake Pit and switched to a Fender Precision bass.

He played on 23 pop No. 1 hits, a total the episode says only Paul McCartney has surpassed, and by 1968 earned a $1,000 a week retainer, yet Motown did not credit session players until 1971. In 1971 Marvin Gaye hunted Detroit bars for him and found him too drunk to stand, so he cut What's Going On lying on the studio floor in one take. When Motown moved to Los Angeles in 1972 he followed, but his Detroit sound fell out of favor as disco and slap bass took over. He died in August 1983 at 47, days after his bass was stolen.

He plucked with only his right index finger, earning the nickname the Hook.
His 1962 Precision, marked "Funk" in blue ink, became the Funk Machine; he kept its heavy flatwound strings for years, saying the dirt keeps the funk.
The strings' tension warped the neck so far that other bassists called the instrument unplayable.
Engineers often ran his bass straight into the console and pushed the input slightly into the red.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (1989) and its 2002 film brought him recognition, and he entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

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