I found the "There Was A Time" I'm raving about. The rest of the concert sounds like Mr. Brown told them all they had to play their hour long set in 40 minutes cause he had the shits or something. The tightest band ever playing in hyperactive mode. The song transitions are serious too - ZERO gap between this track's abrupt final note and "Try Me" that follows.
The late Mr. Stubblefield, ghost-noting a runaway train with his left hand:
With no disrespect towards the reason Electrothug's other wrist is fucked, for me I'll remember Stubblefield for Give It Up Or Turn It Loose. Such a great break.
With Clyde, among the obvious Funky Drummer sample-inspiring-a-whole-genre stuff, and the killer recordings of Cold Sweat, Mother Popcorn etc., the thing that sticks out for me (as a shitty drummer who obsessed since age 12 over him, Bernard Purdie, etc.) was the 90s released live CD of James Brown live in Dallas 1968, "Say It Live And Loud".
They play what seems like 130-160bpm for the whole goddamn concert. There's an unbelievable version of "There Was A Time" on this that will make you drop a enchirito out of your crackass, in the words of ap. The ghost notes on that still give me wrist pain and I don't even come close. Every non-ballad is played so furiously and with so much snare grace-note depth it damn near presages 90s jungle/dnb records. Put that concert on and listen to "I Got The Feeling". I am not a James Brown completist but I haven't heard anything like that before or since. That is an overheating band and some unbelievable drumming driving it all.
In particular "There Was A Time" on that concert has driven my own feeble attempts at drumming way more than Funky Drummer or any of the famous Stubblefield recordings. The man is a personal hero for me and an enemy of my left wrist.
I will deffo check this. I know the precise feeling of hearing masters playing at a clip that mortals struggle to behold - This sounds like, to the JB canon, what "Four and More" is to the Miles canon The band argued right before they took the stage and they go at the numbers like rabid dogs. It's like the 4 x 100m relay. I still listen to it regularly after more than 20 years - my personal favourite album of all-time.
Man, I was just listening to Paxton on the Marc Maron podcast. Seemed like such a great and interesting guy. Really enjoyed the episode and a big fan of him movies.
The Boston debut has and will always been my shit. I own it on tape, vinyl, vinyl 180 gram, CD, 8 track, FLAC.... It was an album I knew note for note on guitar including the Hitch a Ride solos... introducing me to the art of cocked wah sounds.
I remember being a young buck and seeing Jim Norrison rocking this t-shirt with spaceships and fire and thinking how cool the art work was.
The music backed up the art work too with Tom Scholz making crazy outerspace music with his guitar and those Brad Delp vocals were like woah!
It was news to me, and only eleven months after the fact, but singer and percussionist Papete from the Brazilian state of Maranhao passed away in May of 2016.
It was news to me, and only eleven months after the fact, but singer and percussionist Papete from the Brazilian state of Maranhao passed away in May of 2016.
I'm not sure if I missed this or forgot about it.
This is one by him is one of my favorite records, it's always on rotation at my house:
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The late Mr. Stubblefield, ghost-noting a runaway train with his left hand:
With no disrespect towards the reason Electrothug's other wrist is fucked, for me I'll remember Stubblefield for Give It Up Or Turn It Loose. Such a great break.
http://www.jazz24.org/2014/02/argument-fueled-miles-davis-celebrated-1964-live-album/
RIP!
It's been said before, but this one hurts. RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OY93q8h83E
J - I met him too but more like 12 years ago. Super chill and friendly. Short as hell.
You Spit in This?
RIP
Also the original People's Court- Judge Joseph Wapner RIP :(
RIP Chuck.
Croaked on a cruise ship and not from the bad food.
I remember being a young buck and seeing Jim Norrison rocking this t-shirt with spaceships and fire and thinking how cool the art work was.
The music backed up the art work too with Tom Scholz making crazy outerspace music with his guitar and those Brad Delp vocals were like woah!
RIP!
https://www.yahoo.com/music/j-geils-longtime-leader-j-geils-band-dies-233515534.html
I'm not sure if I missed this or forgot about it.
This is one by him is one of my favorite records, it's always on rotation at my house:
RIP
http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/toby-smith-jamiroquai-dead/
Prog Rock giant, Allan Holdsworth dead at 70.
- damo
RIP.