Mooching around on youtube the other day as you do, i remembered that in music, what goes around comes around and that James Brown, perhaps the most sampled man in the music business, also did a bit of sampling himself.
Here's a video of Miles Davis in 1958 playing 'So What'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FAKRpUCYY
(that's John Coltrane behind him on sax)
and now in 1964, with herbie hancock, tony williams and ron carter (just look at the size of his hands on the acoustic bass) when he's upped the BPM on the rhythm section
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR5b0Eryr1U
roll on 4 years and James brown is making a new record. It's called 'cold sweat' and saxophonist pee wee ellis takes over the story
“After one of the shows, one night somewhere, James called me into the dressing room and grunted a bass line of a rhythmic thing (demonstrates), which turned out to be "Cold Sweat." I was very much influenced by Miles Davis and had been listening to "So What" six or seven years earlier and that crept into the making of "Cold Sweat." You could call it subliminal, but the horn line is based on Miles Davis' "So What."
I wrote that on the bus between New York and Cincinnati. The next day we pulled up in front of King Records studio, got off the bus, got in the studio, set up, and I went over the rhythm with the band. By the time we got the groove going, James showed up, added a few touches--changed the guitar part, which made it real funky--had the drummer do something different. He was a genius at it. Between the two of us, we put it together one afternoon. He put the lyrics on it. The band set up in a semicircle in the studio with one microphone. It was recorded live in the studio. One take. It was like a performance. We didn't do overdubbing.”
and here is the 68 version before james had a bouffant and when riff king maceo parker was only 25.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIVLvs6IK98
and here is the 1980 version from the days when you wanted to watch brown's backing singers more than him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfm8yUPJ71U&feature=related
and now, the what comes around bit. Here's post-headhunters herbie hancock who's obviously listened to some funk in his time with a thunderous rendition of so what (and ron carter still giving him a big hand)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVh2o9yKcs
whoa. You wouldn't want to meet me in a pub either!
Here's a video of Miles Davis in 1958 playing 'So What'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FAKRpUCYY
(that's John Coltrane behind him on sax)
and now in 1964, with herbie hancock, tony williams and ron carter (just look at the size of his hands on the acoustic bass) when he's upped the BPM on the rhythm section
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR5b0Eryr1U
roll on 4 years and James brown is making a new record. It's called 'cold sweat' and saxophonist pee wee ellis takes over the story
“After one of the shows, one night somewhere, James called me into the dressing room and grunted a bass line of a rhythmic thing (demonstrates), which turned out to be "Cold Sweat." I was very much influenced by Miles Davis and had been listening to "So What" six or seven years earlier and that crept into the making of "Cold Sweat." You could call it subliminal, but the horn line is based on Miles Davis' "So What."
I wrote that on the bus between New York and Cincinnati. The next day we pulled up in front of King Records studio, got off the bus, got in the studio, set up, and I went over the rhythm with the band. By the time we got the groove going, James showed up, added a few touches--changed the guitar part, which made it real funky--had the drummer do something different. He was a genius at it. Between the two of us, we put it together one afternoon. He put the lyrics on it. The band set up in a semicircle in the studio with one microphone. It was recorded live in the studio. One take. It was like a performance. We didn't do overdubbing.”
and here is the 68 version before james had a bouffant and when riff king maceo parker was only 25.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIVLvs6IK98
and here is the 1980 version from the days when you wanted to watch brown's backing singers more than him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfm8yUPJ71U&feature=related
and now, the what comes around bit. Here's post-headhunters herbie hancock who's obviously listened to some funk in his time with a thunderous rendition of so what (and ron carter still giving him a big hand)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVh2o9yKcs
whoa. You wouldn't want to meet me in a pub either!
