HI BRAEKS?
youngEINSTEIN
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just wondering with such a vast catalog is there any more drum breaks on the HI record label besides the al green "mahogany" drums. thanks and have a pleasant day, stein. . .
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except for that skullfuckingly hard ass braek on Gene Miller "sho is good" and you dont need a freakin magic studio to isolate them, open and raw....shit he even says "gimmie them drums" right before the braek.
No, at least not from what I've seen on the Both Sides Now discog. They did have another single on M.O.C., a Hi subsidiary. I have the Hi single you're talking about; it's really good. One side has a title like "Within These Precincts," right? With an esoteric title like that, you know this isn't typical Hi fodder.
IOTA!!!!!!!! You busters!!! I've been looking for that single for years! The dope track is the flip..."LOVE COME WICKED!" They have 2 on HI...are you sure about the M.O.C.?
Album indeed...it came out a few years ago though...it contains the 2 singles and the rest is all unreleased stuff.
We asked Willie Mitchell who was playing drums on that track and he said honestly "I can't remember."
There is one other Kim Melvin on HI...not as good.
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Bill Black-Cotton Carnival...the single is on MEGA but you hardly see the album.
They also do a killer version of "Tramp" which I am on the hunt for since the Hook-Up played it for me on a High C mix.
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He looks like he's pretending to shoot you in that photo.
Isn't this retitled?
WHOA WHOA WHOA!!![/b]
That ain't ME in that photo!
yikes, I might be caucasian, but I ain't no peach fuzz phony gang sign throwin' bustah, callin' myself "Bootz!"
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There used to be this site called Fuzz, Acid & Flowers, which was a reference site for almost every imaginable garage and psych band. That's where I found out that the other Iota 45 was on M.O.C.. Don't recall seeing anything about an album - is it a latter-day compilation, or something they pressed themselves back in the time?
I also remember reading that they were Memphis cats...
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They are not perfect, and have stopped updating the online site (although they sell updated CD Roms), but I still find myself using this site at least a few times every week. Just be aware, their opinions on music may not match yours (or mine)...they tend to not like things that are "funky."
Thanks for the info. I know that the site was down for a while...
My only beef is that some groups are summed up with uninformative one-liners. And as far as not liking funky stuff...to their credit, there is a smattering of African-American acts listed who toe the line between funk and rock (like Black Merda and Yellow Sunshine), although I wonder why they think Edwin Birdsong is a group rather than a person.
Nope...definitley from Texas.
You mean this one?:
I forgot that was on Hi. Yeah, that version of "Tramp" is heavy on the nitgrit drums and bass. Funny thing is, the track is called "Mrs. Nelly B" even though the groove is a obvious ripoff.
word, yeah Hi rhythm,----but the Bill Black one I'm talking about is called 'Turn on Your Love Light' and the title track has the break(which sounds kinda trampy too actually), it actually repeats the break 2 more times throughout the song and they are real nice hits.............I was gonna take a photo but my camera batteries are dead..........this is actually a dope record, the rest of the first side is a snoozer but side 2 is quite dope, 2 good cover versions of 'midnight hour' and 'the horse' which has a 4 bar uptempo drum and bass break in the middle of it, plus a REAL nice version of 'shoo be doo da day' and versions of 'philly dog' (don't like) and 'soul serenade' (do like)
Willy Mitchell Live from '77------this has a nice break on "late date" and can be found easily and cheaply---I've doubled this up for B-boys before. The break starts out open and has some 'party people voices' come in, then organ, then the song----it's quite good actually and the track has a real uptempo vibe to it...there's some other cheap funk on it, but that's the play out track for sure.
I'm practicing getting my 'Motown67' on...
HEY!
But yeah, I was going to mention Bill Black as well.
...is actually a reissue of an album from '67, which is why there's no disco on it! Seriously, when Hi was distributed by Cream in '77, they reissued a lot of older titles with different covers. The newer version with Willie's face on the cover is the one you always see.
Is this the 'Lou Pride' Suemi label? I suppose it's unlikely that there would be two Suemi labels, but stranger things have happened.