Timmy Digalot Rule #1-Post '75 Records are Wack (yeah, right!)
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HOLLAFAME said:As far as funk goes...1967 - Cold Sweat (Green Onions being the exception to the rule)
1964 - Big Chief by Professor Longhair and It Ain't My Fault by Smokey Johnson.
1964 - Big Chief by Professor Longhair and It Ain't My Fault by Smokey Johnson.
Batmon, depends what you are looking for.
Soul with no hint of disco? Need to go back to the start of Sam Cooke's career in the 50s.
Funk WNHOD? Mid 60s at the earliest.
Drum breaks? I think 1970 was the year that the big studios figured out how to record drums that really slam. At some point they started compressing the drums and losing the slam. Was that '75?
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With exceptions, which is why rules are stupid.
Soul with no hint of disco? Need to go back to the start of Sam Cooke's career in the 50s.
Funk WNHOD? Mid 60s at the earliest.
Drum breaks? I think 1970 was the year that the big studios figured out how to record drums that really slam. At some point they started compressing the drums and losing the slam. Was that '75?
Edit:
With exceptions, which is why rules are stupid.
LaserWolf said:Or maybe rules are not stupid.
Rules are a result of not knowing.
Store has 10,000 records. All you know is that you want funk/soul/breaks. All you know is that you like Syl Johnson. You need some rules to get you started.
This, basically.
Rules are a result of not knowing.
Store has 10,000 records. All you know is that you want funk/soul/breaks. All you know is that you like Syl Johnson. You need some rules to get you started.
This, basically.
batmon said:
What did your parents party to?
U might be onto something... I crashed their party, born in 75. There revords pretty much stop there. Any partying after that had a wiff of nostalgia
What did your parents party to?
U might be onto something... I crashed their party, born in 75. There revords pretty much stop there. Any partying after that had a wiff of nostalgia
LaserWolf said:Or maybe rules are not stupid.
Rules are a result of not knowing.
Store has 10,000 records. All you know is that you want funk/soul/breaks. All you know is that you like Syl Johnson. You need some rules to get you started.
Or maybe Not knowing = Stupid
Rules are a result of not knowing.
Store has 10,000 records. All you know is that you want funk/soul/breaks. All you know is that you like Syl Johnson. You need some rules to get you started.
Or maybe Not knowing = Stupid
I started digging in my parents, uncle, older bro, sis, record collection before I can remember. When I was about 11 I started digging at the public library. I was 23 before I started obsessively buying records. But I already had about 100 lps I loved. I never had any rules, but I always listened to a wide variety of stuff. The rules are for collecting sub genres like funk and boogie.
HarveyCanal said:The more people say that pre-75, post-75 is actually a thing, the more it makes no sense to me.
If any one band not named James Brown kicked off the hip-hop offshoot digging craze of the 90's, it would be Parliament.
Motor Booty Affair from '78 was one of my favorite albums of all time long before I had even grasped the concept of sampling.
Bootsy's first solo album was '76.
In other words...c'mon, man.
I'll admit...for me, most R&B from 1976 onward doesn't trip my trigger.
Yes, I like latter day P-Funk (even though I don't play those records as much as the earlier things). I can even think of some other post-'76 soul records I like that aren't necessarily retro: Zapp, Isleys, Stevie Wonder, Rick James, the [em]Go Go Crankin' [/em]compilation. Hell, even the Family Stand had their moments.
Yet and still, those are exceptions, not the rule. If more "modern soul" sounded like the acts I mentioned, I'd be a bigger fan. As it is, for every Zapp I'd have to wade through all the Stephanie Millses and Evelyn Kings and Cheryl Lynns. Maybe that is somebody else's idea of paradise, but in the words of Ahmad Jamal..."BUT NOT FOR ME."
If any one band not named James Brown kicked off the hip-hop offshoot digging craze of the 90's, it would be Parliament.
Motor Booty Affair from '78 was one of my favorite albums of all time long before I had even grasped the concept of sampling.
Bootsy's first solo album was '76.
In other words...c'mon, man.
I'll admit...for me, most R&B from 1976 onward doesn't trip my trigger.
Yes, I like latter day P-Funk (even though I don't play those records as much as the earlier things). I can even think of some other post-'76 soul records I like that aren't necessarily retro: Zapp, Isleys, Stevie Wonder, Rick James, the [em]Go Go Crankin' [/em]compilation. Hell, even the Family Stand had their moments.
Yet and still, those are exceptions, not the rule. If more "modern soul" sounded like the acts I mentioned, I'd be a bigger fan. As it is, for every Zapp I'd have to wade through all the Stephanie Millses and Evelyn Kings and Cheryl Lynns. Maybe that is somebody else's idea of paradise, but in the words of Ahmad Jamal..."BUT NOT FOR ME."
Funk goes on for a long time, but it did change. Kool & the Gang 1970 was a totally different band from Kool & the Gang 1980.
"Exception" maybe, but this Evelyn King from 1979 is the lick and then some...
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