guys why is there not a genuine HEADHUNTERS THREAD

the first time i tripped on mushrooms i listened to this bitch like six times in a row driving around eagle rock trying to find the top of a hill

haha did u find said peak

you drove the first time you shroomed?

man on some website on the internet i once wrote about how "sly" is like this platonic ideal of fusion

and if i was brash i might say some shit like "sly" surpasses "On the Corner"

but yall know i am not a brash dude

i carefully consider whether or not to throw homophobes out of my hotel

(and also whether or not to ghostwrite books for them but that's for that other thread about robots)

if not for the electric instruments "watermelon man" is almost straight blue note style shit

well if not for the electric instruments and the parrot sounds

and the wood flute

and polyrhythms

well it's a remake of and older herbie blue note song.

but yeah, headhunters is in my top ten 4eva

it's a remake of and older herbie blue note song.

feeling so enlightened now! thanking u :D

Herbie Hancock
Bennie Maupin
Paul Jackson
Harvey Mason
Bill Summers

they look so serious on the back cover.

yeah but it looks so put-upon serious

like "oh damn we gotta take the back picture, everybody quit having fun for a minute"

now I am also listening to this.

HOOS- check out Survival of the Fittest; it's funkier than anything Headhunters did with Herbie.

in the queue!

imo they improved greatly when mike clark joined as the drummer. thrust kills the first album dead.

also the album with blackbyrd mcknight (post herbie) is super funky.

http://home.earthlink.net/~ricksimeone/Kinabalu.JPG

the comeback cd in the 90s is pretty good actually

Can't say it much better than this recent Destination Out (http://destination-out.com/?p=166) post on Flood, the live Herbie/Headhunters LP from '75: “Yes, yes, the grooves, the grooves are funky. Yes, those are some tasty bass licks … yeessssss … [five minutes in] … but do not forget, MOFOS, THAT I PLAYED WITH MILES AND WAYNE AND THEM, AND WE WORKED THIS SHIT UPSIDE-DOWN AND SIDEWAYS AND WENT SO DEEP THAT IT FELT LIKE YOUR FRONTAL LOBES HAD SWITCHED PLACES WITH YOUR EARS BLEEAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGG … aaaand: outro.”

im totally biased against this album cuz its one of those MY FIRST JAZZ CD :D records

and it SOUNDS like it

thrust is great, but it's not like harvey mason is NOT funky, c'mon now.

LET'S ALL GO ........
DOWN TO DUMAS WALKER!

when i saw bill summers with mike clark's band he did the watermelon man intro on a random-ass miller lite bottle.

mason is funky yes BUT paul jackson and mike clark had this interconnected, blood brother, amazing, unspoken thing with their rhythm parts that were missing with mason.

love this story:
http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/02/mike-clark-interview?linkId=21107638

The story behind “God Made Me Funky” is crazy!

When Paul and I lived in the hood in Oakland, around ‘71, there was a small BBQ joint called Everett and Jones right next door and we were eating that stuff every day. The owner said, “If you boys write and record a piece of music for an advertisement for me, I’ll feed you for a month.” So Paul and I wrote “God Made Me Funky” on a napkin while we were in the joint waiting for our order. We went recorded it in one take. I don’t know where that version is, but it’s the funkiest thing I’ve ever done in my life. So now, KDIA, the local soul station, is playing the advertisement and people are calling up asking for it. This was way before the Headhunters did it.
The Headhunters - God Make Me Funky
The Headhunters re-recording of “God Made Me Funky” became one of the most sampled drum breaks of all time.

That version had the Pointer Sisters and I appreciate all of them, but it was overproduced. It sounded like The Four Freshman’s version of “God Made Me Funky.” (laughs) Something you’ll appreciate – the snare drum (wires) on “God Made Me Funky” broke while we were recording and the snare was on tom-tom. The producer told me to keep playing and I’m bugging! It’s hard to groove like that, but I’m thinking we’re gonna do another take. They decided not to do the take again; they thought it was a good take. They said, “We don’t have no budget to do it again, go home!” Then the engineer put a microphone and speaker in a wastebasket and puts it under my snare, which is now repaired.
So every time the broken snare hits in the original take, the sound coming from the speaker vibrates the wires on a separate track to get the complete snare sound?

Exactly.
That’s insane!

But it left out a ton of the ghost notes because it was an Oakland vibe. The hip hop guys loved that snare sound, which I hate because that wasn’t the full beat! The ghost notes are missing!

that's crazy

interconnected, blood brother, amazing, unspoken