Top Clavinet Tracks

Ian_DIan_D 120 Posts
edited March 2007 in Strut Central
List our top joints that used a clavinet...get down to that wah clav action you know the sort of thing like Joyful Procces by Funkadelic and chaka kahn's tell me something good....

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  • m_dejeanm_dejean Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut. 2,946 Posts
    DJ Rogers "Bail Out"

  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    is that the thing on "Superstition"?

    if so, than thats my first pick

  • jeff beck-constipated duck

  • anything french 60s'
    anything IML early 70s'

  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    "gangster boogie". peace, 'check . . .

  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    is that the thing on "Superstition"?

    if so, than thats my first pick

    Stevie's "Do Yourself a Favor"

  • Johnny Lewis Quartet - Cissy Strut
    Ultrafunk - Funky Al (45 version)
    Living Color - Plastic People
    DeWolfe - Crater (Hot Ice LP)
    Parade Strut - Willie Dynamite OST
    Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles

  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,121 Posts
    Azteca's "Can't Take The Funk Out Of Me" (S/T on Columbia, 1972)
    Dynamic Corvettes "Funky Music Is The Thing, Part 2" (45 on Abet, 1974)
    Mystic Moods' "Anyway You Want It" (I think that's the title) and a couple more off "Erogenous"


  • Ronnie Mac is the truth, clavinet included.

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    - "Improve" - Darrow Fletcher
    - "Outa Space" - Billy Preston
    - "I Thank You" - Sam & Dave
    - "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Dah-Day" - Stevie Wonder
    - any random NRBQ track (Terry Adams STILL plays a clavinet, to this day)
    - "Free Ride" - Edgar Winter Group

  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,121 Posts
    - any random NRBQ track (Terry Adams STILL plays a clavinet, to this day)


  • SupergoodSupergood 1,213 Posts

    Ronnie Mac is the truth, clavinet included.


  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    List our top joints that used a clavinet...get down to that wah clav action you know the sort of thing like Joyful Procces by Funkadelic and chaka kahn's tell me something good....

    "Funky Toes" by The Politicians

  • markus71markus71 937 Posts
    Mystic Moods "Cosmic Sea"

  • easily "Peasant Dance" by Airto on his VIRGIN LAND LP. I play it out all the time. KILLLLLERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • doughboydoughboy 190 Posts
    Mystic Moods "Cosmic Sea"


  • magpaulmagpaul 1,314 Posts
    I Just Wanna Love You (Give It 2 Me)

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    "Rock Me Gently" - Andy Kim

  • souldropsouldrop 40 Posts
    JUNIE "FREAKIN" MORRISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Remebered some more:

    Ramsey Lewis - Kufanya Mapenzi
    AB Skhy - Camelback
    Badder Than Evil - Hot Wheels (the chase)

  • PABLOPABLO 1,921 Posts
    Don't know of it's top-ness but Jimy Smith's "Give Up The Booty" has a pretty prominent clav played by Herbie Hancock if I remember correct.
    Also...
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  • Ian_DIan_D 120 Posts
    man some real good clav tracks there i forgot about that politicians funky toes track...i got it somewhere give it a listen tonight..i used to have a Hohner Pianet/Clavinet...i wished i never sold it i'm hard put to think of a fonkier instrument in the known universe.

  • zirconzircon 2 Posts
    billy preston - "Space Race"

  • dstill808dstill808 704 Posts
    easy one:



    "Harlem Clavinette"
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