RIP Clyde Stubblefield

To go even deeper, I heard someone say on a podcast that Clyde subbed on a portion of Scofield's A Go Go tour with Medeski & Wood, which totally seems to be the case:

DB: After that record came out you went out on tour with Clyde Stubblefield. How did that come about?JS: Well Billy got married and he went out on a honeymoon so he wasn’t available.DB: How did you find Clyde?JS: I was a fan of his because he had played on all those James Brown records that we all grew up on. He was part of that generation that invented funk. Medeski and Wood were real into him too, and when we were talking about the different possibilities on drums, they said that they had played with Clyde when they were out in Wisconsin and that he was in great shape. So we decided to call him and he agreed to do it. I loved it. He’s a great man, a wonderful guy and he really does sit in the groove like nobody else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_7w5i1uwo

Btw that podcast has lots of good nuggets, going into his life in Madison and why he was perfectly happy kicking back with local bands rather than being on the road with someone like James Brown (also stories about doing liquid opium on a military base in Vietnam with JB).

It also reminded me why I didn't go see him more often in all those years even though he's one of my absolute favorite drummers, you had to really work to appreciate him with some of those bands he was playing with on Monday nights.

Sounds like you have some great memories and didn’t ruin them by spending too much Monday night time with bad bar bands ( except for their drummer).