more in to an artist after meeting them?
anasarcasm
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I thought that the "ever give up on an artist after meeting them" post was quite amusing. On a related note, who have you met in person, who actually made you more interested/connected to their work?
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- spidey
Josh Davis
DJ Q-Bert
DJ Shortkut
Muro
all extremely laid back people and very humble in regards to their skills / music / knowledge...
peace.
Bun B[/b]. Bun is a living legend to me, and tho I can't say I really MET him, met him, he dapped me up one day at Damage Control for playing Whodini in an old school mix. He just seemed real down to earth, and that's quite a feat for a dude who is like a God in Houston. That was as close to one of those "I'm never washing my hand again" moments as I've ever been. I think that highly of dude.
Big Mello[/b] (R.I.P.). He came to my radio show to do an interview a few years before he passed. I remember Cashless did the interviewing, and Mello was real warm and friendly during the whole thing. They chopped it up about old school Houston shit, and he was just real down to earth and real generous with his responses. He invited me to hang with him the rest of the day as he went around Austin to promote his latest record. We went to a really bootleg car show on campus (I'd barely even call it a car show), and non-campus folks hanging around at the show were real geeked to meet dude, 'cause he was a big name in the hood back in the day. Man, the way he treated those folks was real cool. You could tell he really appreciated that. I felt bad for Mello that day, because his promo stint in Austin wasn't very fruitful. It was poorly organized and didn't seem very productive. But he was energetic and approachable the whole way through. Made me respect the southern rap hustle that much more, 'cause that shit was crazy professional on some "people's champ" type shit.
Visionaries[/b]. Sadly, I don't always check for their music, even though I'm not mad at it at all. But every time I've met or hung out with them, they're like the nicest, friendliest folks on the planet. 2Mex, Lord Zen, and Rhetmattic especially. And they love the shit out of their fans, who love them in kind. I don't think I've ever met a group more appreciative of the folks who come to their shows. And their passion for their music is impressive and inspiring.
MC Ren[/b]. Another legend to me. I still can't believe I met this dude, and granted it was well after his peak, but he came to my show, spit some live versus on some Low Pro beats, and was incredibly professional and cordial and honest the whole way through. He did a great interview with my homeboy Brotha K the next day. Dude was crazy polite. I mean, dude was in N.W.A., man. To think, the feds were clocking these dudes on some threat-to-society, Public Enemy #1 shit, and dude was one of the nicest MCs I ever met. Realness.
Whoridas[/b]. JD can back me on this. Those dudes are hilarious, and really charismatic. The interview with them and M'Phatigo after my radio show is one of my favorite Hip-Hop memories of all time. That experience made me check for them even after their music started to fade.
Jungle Brothers[/b]. Maybe the most influential group in my Hip-Hop upbringing. Real cool cats. I remember giving Sammy B a copy of Q-Bert's pre-school breaks mixtape, and he was really digging it. Those dudes lived up to all my expectations and then some. Still feel honored to have met them.
Fifth Platoon DJs[/b]. Cool-ass people's, man. Niel Armstrong is ??ber-dude. Makes listening to his mixtapes that much more enjoyable.
Actually, I could mention a number of DJs the same way. Seems like a lot of DJs I've met are really chill, humble folks. I know it ain't like that with everyone, but I think it's more acceptable for that in DJ culture than it is, say, with MCs.
Anyone know if J-Zone is a poker player? I could have SWORN I saw him last Saturday morning at a poker table in the Tropicana's poker room in Atlantic City.
SPITBOY
All girl hardcore band from Oakland, California. Dominique, the bass player, was roommates with my girlfriend. Saw them play 20 or 30 times. All very personal, interesting, smart women. They had this great style of singing where they'd all sing at the same time. It was distracting and a little weird the first time I heard it, but now I really love it, and look forward to those parts in the songs. (Suffer the consequenceeeeeees!)
They'd play all these horrible punk clubs, and assholes would always yell shit at them. They'd usually engage the asshole between songs. It was always terribly funny and painful to wach some chode say, "You are just riot girl bitches who can't fucking play!" They'd ask him questions, he's yell something back. By the end, the dude would be completely emasculated, usually apologetic, and leave the show in shame. It was a beautifully disarming technique, and quite daring, I think. It takes stones to put it all out there -- I admire that. And they were a great band.
Spitboy broke up, and 3 of the women formed Instant Girl, then Dominique and the drummer started playing acoustic music in a band called Hate Plate. (Dominique is a classically trained cellist.) Dominique is in a group called Threnody Ensemble now...
The dinner song from this evening.
My band opened for dude in the mid-90's,
and he was just the coolest, most encouraging dude ever.
By far the best experience I've had meeting a dude
of that stature.
I already had a lot of respect, but honestly,
until then, I hadn't paid much attention to
his post-Minutemen music.
i was missing quite a few nice records.
Vesta Williams. She was suuuuuch a sweetheart, gave me a big ole' hug and everything. Pos K was real cool (backstage at a BDK concert). Dude gave me a contact for his manager to shop beats. He is like reeeeeeeal short. Mista Cee was my dog, played our tour guide through the Sty back '89 (gave the backstage hook-up above). He even came to North Kakalak to check us out. Dude is dude. PMD was cool too who I met up in Ohio about 9-10 years ago. We sat at the bar, drinking and talking about hip-hop.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
In general though, I have found time and again that meeting and becoming friendly with musicians/rappers/artists will tend to make me appreciate what they do a lot more.
Werd, we interviewed him for a college radio show I used to do and dude was mad cool. Big Pooh of Little Hermano was real chill too.
On to a short story: A ways back I went to a Das Efx and Onyx show out here in LA and Pac rolled thru sweatin the crowd real hard - at least it seemed that way. Well mid way thru Onyx's set they started their kut "Last Dayz" and Pac just stared at the stage for what seemed liked minutes but then smirked like - ya, dats the my shit - and started knoddin his head to the beat. We said a quick wuttup to him afterwards and dude was saying what up to everybody and just chillin...
And I must also give respect to Double K, who tried to bring my friend back into the club with him after he got kicked out for smoking weed. He still got stopped though.
You never listened to the minutemen, TheMack?
You should check them out.
you don't know shit about eother of them
I actually got to say that Pharrell was so fucking cool, that after hearing me spin 1 night, I got a call the next morning and he asked me to spin for his NERD/Jay-Z concert. That's fucking real as fuck.
Q. B & M M Mike
charlie chase
cash money
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breis
Clyde Stubblefield
dj Format
Axelrod
edan
dangermouse
Usually I go off them after meeting them though..
Probably the coolest person Ive ever met. I had just found his Power of Soul album in the day and was going to his show at the bluenote that night. I'm walking up to the club with record in hand just as he pulls up in a cab. He sees me and the rec, does about 4 double takes and is like "where did youget that, thats my favorite record!" I talk to him for a few and tells me to have a drink with him between sets. After killing the first set I chat with him for about 40 minutes, just talking about all his records and the people he played with. he told me about this inmate who who got through prison by listening to that record. Finally he's like "are you a player?" and I have to tell him that im just a dj. He says "oh so you're gonna sample that record?" Pretty embarassing, but he said it would be cool.
During he second set, he goes into this ten minute long solo, where he's playing the like the sides of the drums, really slow, then he looks over at me, kind of tips his head and goes into the baddest breakbeat Ive ever heard. Nothing but praise for the man.
Wow!!!
Can't say I'm really into his music (never bought his album) but dude was super nice when I met him.
On the music side a lot of cats are dicks.... Like 2nd rate underground rappers that think they are on and act like they are god...
I'm usually real disapointed when i meet these rap dudes in the real world. I'm glad it dont go to everybody's head.
HOLY SHIT! THAT WOULD BE GREAT!
Holy. Crap.