He reformed Graham Central Station in the early 1990s and performed with the band for several years during which they released two live albums. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980. His biggest hit was " One in a Million You", a crossover hit, which reached No. In the early 1980s, Graham recorded five solo albums and had several solo hits on the R&B chart. Eventually, he was credited with introducing Prince to the faith. In 1975, Graham became a Jehovah's Witness. Betty Davis' band included members of the Tower of Power horns and the Pointer Sisters, and she recorded three albums to critical acclaim but limited commercial success. In the mid-1970s, Larry Graham worked with Betty Davis, the second ex-wife of jazz musician Miles Davis. Graham Central Station had several hits in the 1970s, including "Hair". The name is a pun on Grand Central Station, the train station located in Manhattan, New York City. This "slap" bass style was later used by such artists as Bootsy Collins ( P-Funk), Les Claypool ( Primus), Bernard Edwards ( Chic), Louis Johnson, Mark King, Keni Burke, Victor Wooten, Kim Clarke of Defunkt, Marcus Miller, and Stanley Clarke.Īfter Sly and the Family Stone, Graham formed his own band, Graham Central Station. The slap and pop technique incorporates a large ratio of muted or "dead" notes to normal notes, which adds to the rhythmic effect. Slap-pop playing couples a percussive thumb-slapping technique of the lower strings with an aggressive finger-snap of the higher strings, often in rhythmic alternation. This style has become archetypal of modern funk. It is said that he pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass, in part to provide percussive and rhythmic elements in addition to the notes of the bass line when his mother decided to no longer have a drummer in her band, while Graham also admits in a BBC documentary on funk music that he is unsure if it was done on economical grounds the slap of the thumb being used to emulate a bass drum and the pop of the index or middle finger as a snare drum.
Born in Beaumont, Texas to successful musicians, Graham played bass in the funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1967 to 1972.
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