I think that it's hard to define what "funky" is for a bass player. There so many different styles that sound completely different but are still "funky". I'm a bass player myself, so I can appreciate many of the different takes on what "funky" is...

But man...you really don't think Pino's playing on Feels Like Making Love was funky? Wow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO6jaPu49cg&feature=related


I do understand what you mean though from a sense that D'Angelo's blueprint for funk seems to have been the James Brown/P Funk thing, and Pino doesn't sound ANYTHING like Bootsy. But I still think they are both funky.