Dust & Grooves: Questlove Interview
DJPrestige
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Hey Strutters:
I just wanted to share a sample of an interview I did with Questlove of the Roots for the second edition of Dust & Grooves: Adventures In Record Collecting. Eilon and I spent some time in his record room talking vinyl, music, and his lifelong obsession with records. Check it out as well as a video from that session here. Words by Jamison Harvey, photos by Eilon Paz.
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This video pretty much sums up how much of a little dude he is in the record game:
A prized copy of a Headless Heroes re-issue?
:walk_away_son:
Nailed it.
Dust & Grooves is celeb chasing here.
Wait.. the prized copy is a damaged OG right? Which he paid $300 for back in the mid 90's (which even then seems extremely high) .. then he says that's why he'll spin the re-ish out etc etc.. This vid also seems to be before that Tonight Show $$$.. Anyways I don't know the dude per se but he seems to know what he's talking about (music-wise that is) and he explains his sometimes penchant for the occasional reissue. Can't blame him there especially as much as that dude DJ's out. Saw him spin once in Boston at a tiny joint (again before the Tonight Show) and I thought he played a very nice set.
Peace, stein...
Good point. After I wrote what I wrote, I found this interview on him. Dude has mad knowledge / stories..... But the vinyl interviews I've seen of him are cringe-worthy.
Rep this tune to the fullest!
He's a really great drummer and i respect him for that but he should consinder never doing another interview on any subject ever again...
He may not be following the trends some here are. Spending whatever it takes to get Boscoe the day it blows up. But he knows his original breaks, and he knows music, dating back to playing drums with his folks at oldies shows in Madison Square Garden when he was knee high, to going to high school with people like Joey Defrancisco. Forget his records, listen to all the music he quotes in his playing.
An other way to look at it, he isn't looking for unknown funk 45s, he collects the music that is important to him.
anyway ? is the warmest most down to earth guy you will ever meet
he is an encyclopedia of UBB that he can manifest instantly on his drum kit
gentleman and scholar
Does HE hold himself out as a preeminent collector? Or do the folks interviewing him do?