For all of you soul/funk/beats heads out there, if you don't know about James Black—check it. It links to a geeky drummer website, but I'm including it since it has complete audio samples. Hook and Sling is a must listen. For a less geeky site with info., check this out. If you ever got into Ubiquity/Luv & Haight compilations you've probably heard this master behind the drumkit.
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awesome find! Check out Billy Cobham's drum kits. I had that album with Tommy Bolin and Jan Hammer back in the day...
Hmm, pretty bad indeed. But "the baddest"?! Tony Allen and Clyde Stubblefield are superfly TNT!
Side note: Stubblefield's beats on JB's "Funky Drummer" are widely considered the most sampled riff in the world!
Daniel...Tony Allen! You're throwing out some good stuff right there. Clyde goes without saying. Jabo too. Bernard Purdie. Al Jackson. Earl Palmer. James Gadson. And we aren't even getting into the obscure stuff or the jazz guys. Oh, Idris Muhammad. We could go on forever.
Clyde's breakdown on Funky Drummer has indeed been everywhere. If it's the most sampled beat in the world, the Amen break is a very close second. You may have already seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac&mode=related&search=
This is cool too. Shorter and more the original track included:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PreOirkklYs
I changed the title of the post. Does this work better? Glad you called me out on that.
Amen brother is right! Lawd have mercy, those cats can play. Sooo many greats. Now bring that beat back.....
Put a JB song on the MyPod on my blog for you fellas (since you were talking about Stubblefield).
OOOOOH!
Earl Palmer's work with David Axelrod
is it's very own brand of funkiness.
There's such a beautiful lag on his stuff that really fits the freaky shit David was doing back then.
Check "Holy are You" and "The Human Abstract"!
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lobby/8238/
Oh and by the way I got the separate
tracks to Marvin and Tammi's"Ain't No Mountain High"
as a buddy was working on some remix deal.
Uriel Jone's 1st solid track then he doubles his part(perfectly) and then an overdub with another drummer that could've still been Benny Benjamin before he was axed by Smokey.
Some Spector doubling techniques.
You can hear the bleed through the phones as well.
Maybe I'll post it on the podcast if anyones interested.
Got all instruments!
Great stuff.
WJ, if you read these comments again, please do post the Marvin and Tammi track! And yes, the David Axelrod stuff is incredible. I didn't know it was Earl Palmer; thanks!
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