I started playing music because I bicycled up to my school one spring Saturday and the band for the day's fair was warming up right outside on the driveway. I was 13. THAT was music. "What's the name of that song?" I asked the keyboard player when they were through grooving. "Warmup," he said, winking. Later I heard the song on Imus in the Morning. Still one of the great grooves and sounds.
The way that sax hits that bluesy edge? THAT is the stuff that harp players need to get. My whole approach to harp, at bottom, is this sort of blues/r&b sax.
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Hey, just heard "Will it go Round..." three different times over the past 24 hours. Local station does a Sunday Morning Blues show and they played Billy Preston's cut, then I heard it later on that day on an 'Oldies' station. This morning, put my Sansa Fuze on 'shuffle' and I heard the "Rhythm & Blues Cruise All-stars" jam it out.
I love funk-- I've actually seen that Stevie Wonder vid before and I've heard "put it where you want it"- awesome vids there. ---------- "Without music, life would be a mistake" -Nietzsche
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And seriously - these are some great clips. The Albert Collins/Duke Robillard/Frosty - talk about groove!!! It is so hard to articulate just what "groove" is - but you know it when you hear it. All these tunes rock - but this one has groove from the first beat.
And my band plays "Put it where you want it" - I play the first half of the repeated theme on the harp and my guitar player answers...
By the way - Sam and Dave are singing through Shure 545's. Just a little mic trivia for you. No idea what the other mic taped to it is - probably one for live sound and one for recording.
---------- /Greg
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Michael Jackson got it all from James Brown. But JB got a lot of it from Jackie Wilson. This gives you a little taste:
It's also worth pointing out that this song is a 14-bar blues: a 12-bar extended through a repetition of the V/IV change. (It's moving in the direction of "Watermelon Man.") This stuff sounds "old" to us now, but it was incredibly modern at the time. This was "new blues." It made that old John Lee Williamson stuff sound tired. Blues does its work by continually finding new ways to shuffle the same old materials.
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Dang that video of James Brown is crazy. I didn't realize Caledonia was originally a Louis Jordan song- that vid is pretty awesome too ---------- "Without music, life would be a mistake" -Nietzsche
Nice bump, Kudzu! This thread is from before my time so I have quite a few funky moments ahead, listening to these vids... ---------- Pistolkatt - Pistolkatts youtube
The thing that makes this song so interesting is that there is an element of funk involved in the guitar line and the drum beat, but then Sly throws these Burt Bacharach horns in there, and combined with some light voices, it's smooth. Then at the end of the song, the horns get really funky, especially the trumpet solo. The man was a master.
