― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)
Bill Oddie: You won't believe the musical pretensions that went on in my head. I listened to a lot of jazz and a lot of funk, and that period of the '70s for me was fantastic - it was really the era when fusion started. The people I liked were Sly Stone and early Parliament, and I listened to what was happening in jazz at the time, when Miles Davis was coming up with some very interesting hybrid music. With 'Funky Gibbon', I started off - it's almost unbelievable considering how stupid the song is - trying to get the feel of a Miles Davis track, I can't remember which, probably just after Bitches Brew and that sort of era: some really choppy Miles Davis-type rhythm, again with a Sly Stone influence. We had marvellous musicians on those sessions, but they couldn't get it. They knew what I was sort of trying to do, but I probably listened to that sort of thing more than they did, and it was driving us nuts, so we sent the drummer and the bass-player and the guitarist home. And I had a keyboard player called Dave Macrae, who'd played with Matching Mole and Robert Wyatt and people like that - governor player - and he started playing some clavinet, very Stevie Wonder-type feel to it, and I said, 'That's fine; could you do a synth-bass on it?'And then I literally started whacking the top of the grand piano. So the actual rhythm-track of 'The Funky Gibbon' has only got me and Dave on it - he plays clavinet and synth-bass and we miked up the top of the piano. Then we got the horn section of Gonzales playing a Memphis Horns-type thing. It was lovely for me to be able to use musicians I liked and try to reproduce sounds which I also listened to. And then put the stupid song over the top of it. The idea that all that effort went into 'The Funky Gibbon'! It sounds like Parliament on a bad day, or something like that [laughs], that kind of thing. I think subconsciously people feel it - this was always my theory about it, I thought: I want the music to sound good or authentic, whatever style it happens to be in.
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Steev (Steev), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)
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― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)
I'll say it again: dancehall is not RX's strong suit. It's not bad though, but Petey Pablo >> MIA.
― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam west (adamwest), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)
Ciara f/ MIA - "Goodies (Remix)"
I like it. Not mind-blowing but worth a listen.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 22 January 2005 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)
this is hot btw and still the best thing Ciara has done to date
― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:59 (fifteen years ago)