Paul was a great bass player, but yeah that interview is amazing
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
holy fuck this interview is just chock full of gems
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
does david marchese purposely pick to interview artists who want to talk about being pisces
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
You sure seem to know a lot.
I know too much, man.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
That reminds me of when I interviewed Cecil Taylor. A million gossipy stories (man, did he hate Miles Davis), but he'd shy away from some subjects in highly theatrical fashion.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
And since Bono was invoked in that first piece:
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A. When I go to Dublin, Bono makes me stay at his castle because Ireland is so racist. Bono’s my brother, man. He named his son after me.
Q. Is U2 still making good music?A. [Shakes head.]
Q. Why not?A. I don’t know.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
this is amazing. 1/4 of the way through and i already know who killed JFK and that we missed out on a Hendrix/Hancock/Kirk collab likely too cosmic for this world
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
It’s such a strange juxtaposition — how Michael’s music was so joyous, but his life just seems sadder and more odd as time goes by.Yes, but at the end Michael’s problem was PropofolIn 2009, not long after Jackson’s death, the Los Angeles County coroner announced that the singer’s death was caused by “acute propofol intoxication.” Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, had been prescribing the powerful sedative, which Jackson called his “milk,” to help with the singer’s insomnia. In 2011, Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s death. , and that problem affects everyone — doesn’t matter if you’re famous. Big Pharma making OxyContin and all that shit is a serious thing. I was around the White House for eight years with the Clintons, and I’d learn about how much influence Big Pharma has. It’s no joke. What’s your sign, man?
Pisces.Me too. It’s a great sign.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
it's like the inverted non-pissy version of "I'm a Pisces we pick up on these things"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
Ahhh just read this via the Longform thread. Absolutely amazing stuff, man.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
lmaoooo
What were your first impressions of the Beatles?That they were the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don’t even talk about it. I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and Ringo8 had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn’t get it. We said, “Mate, why don’t you get some lager and lime, some shepherd’s pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.” So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, “George, can you play it back for me one more time?” So George did, and Ringo says, “That didn’t sound so bad.” And I said, “Yeah, motherfucker because it ain’t you.” Great guy, though.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
And the Ed Sheeran record is great
― mizzell, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
Far be it from me to question someone with the chops he has, but that diss of McCartney's bass playing is crazy.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He’d fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
seems totally reasonable that someone used to working with jazz and studio pros could think McCartney was terrible. We judge Paul on his recorded output, which could've taken him 100 takes plus overdubs to get right, idk.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
an 85-year-old studio genius only a decade younger than the Beatles but generationally as distant as T.S. Eliot says stuff about rock music.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
I spent every second of reading that wondering if I was actually reading a spoof article.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
at least 3/4 of Jones' takes are solid, which is extremely high for an 85-year-old
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
He slept with them? How do you know that?[Frowns.] Come on, man. He did not give a fuck! You like Brazilian music?
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
We judge Paul on his recorded output, which could've taken him 100 takes plus overdubs to get right, idk.― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 9:59 AM (fifteen minutes ago)
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 9:59 AM (fifteen minutes ago)
He's supposedly talking about first hearing them. First Beatles album was recorded in 13 hours.
But clearly he's delusional about this and many other things.
― everything, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
Ah. I thought people give Paul props mainly for latter era Beatles + solo stuff, which was more labored over in the studio? Does just seem like jazzman dissing rockers. Would like to know which rock bassists Q approves of. I'm guessing it'd be almost exclusively studio musicians.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
rumors have swirled about studio musicians being subbed in for the beatles on some tracks/records for a long time from a bunch of sources. Doesn't really seem all that surprising given how common the practice was.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Yeah he clearly appreciates a jazz-trained studio musician who is super schooled and can execute anything in one take. Reminiscent of Prince trash-talking musicians who clearly have something to say, but aren't complete-package monsters.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
the beatles content in this intvw is the least hilarious/interesting!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
Anyone know who played bass on the Nana Mouskouri albums Quincy Jones was producing round about the time the Beatles were doing Please Please Me?
― everything, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
klaus voorman iirc
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
OMG! This film just showed up showing the recording of the drum track for Love Me Do!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5p80BMHYk
― everything, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
lol.
Much better drum miming there than in Whiplash!
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Q seems as permanently high as Peter O'Toole was permanently sauced
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
In that GQ interview Q was dissing Elvis and citing others who felt likewise, plus he was mad about Jerry Lee's subsequent version of "Whole Lotta Shakin Going On" getting more airplay and money than the Big Maybelle version that Q produced years before. So his take on the Beatles arguably had its roots back in the 50s
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
"My favorite memory of Elvis was when he fucked a space alien in Sinatra's backyard and just left her there on that damn UFO. But that was him. I wouldn't fuck around with no aliens. Anyway, we probably shouldn't be talking about this in public. You ever eaten a mango before?"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
Now that's what you call an interview.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
lol, he even jams with the son of Benito Mussolini. He's literally done just about everything.
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
And then she told me something that really hit home. She told me everybody in the Third Reich was on cocaine. See, I worked for pimps when I was 11, and they used to do that, too—they'd take cocaine because it raised the propensity for violence, from the primate brain. That's the primate in us, the four F's: Fright, Fight, Flight, and Fuck. I never understood why sex and violence were so commercial—it's the primate brain, the animal brain. Heavy."
She saw Hitler using cocaine?
"Of course, man! She was Goebbels's girlfriend." (This is not generally understood to have ever been their relationship—in fact Riefenstahl often spoke of her dislike for Goebbels—though in his diaries Goebbels did write of socializing with her in the early 1930s.)
So how does she think it affected Hitler?
"Well, shit, the history proves how it affected him. He killed every motherfucker he could see."
You think a huge part of the horror of Nazism was just down to cocaine?
"I think it had a lot to do with it."
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
Now that MES has died we need QJ more than ever.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
I think the bulk of the scholarly work links amphetamines to the Nazis.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
this is the book: https://markgorman.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/methode-times-prod-web-bin-4442ed14-8a14-11e6-aa51-f33df6df2868.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
Hitler was given tablets by his quack that contained human excrement and shitloads of 'phet wannit?
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NalkOQBWeGk
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
So we called each other Leroy till the day he died.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
lol he bought drugs from malcom x? good god
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
quincy jones is forrest gump
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
Richard Pryor's Widow Confirms He Slept with Marlon Brando https://t.co/BqBDnB6gRu— TMZ (@TMZ) February 7, 2018
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
looool
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVdpTPEU0AASzOO.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
Haha, nice
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
Richard was more of a radiator man, Brando more a mailbox man.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
And the Ed Sheeran record is great;_;
― niels, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
T-Pain, man, he didn’t pay attention to the details.
― niels, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
xxxxxpost - in All These Lifetimes Vol 1 iirc the Beatles mostly played -- or insisted on playing -- on their stuff. This book only went through the very early recordings, but I think the very first session Martin subbed out Ringo, which Ringo resented and sort of held against Martin for many years, but after that they played on their stuff
the whole session musician rumor thing is weird to me just given they are probably the most documented musical artists in history and the BBC was way more meticulous than most in terms of documenting sessions, seems like there'd be more hard evidence if it were true.
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
"We shouldn't talk about this publicly" vs. "He'd fuck a mailbox!"
i mean, where to begin? incredible interviews
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
"He'd get drunk, and Jilly, his right-hand guy, stone gangster, would get behind him and break the guy's ribs. Man. What memories. We had a good time, though."
I love the juxtaposition he does on some answers in these two interviews.
― earlnash, Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
This is kind of like the PG-13 version of what the conversation was actually like. jesus
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
the GQ interview is like 20,000 words or something, the Vulture one felt like a brochure in comparison.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
https://jezebel.com/kidada-and-rashida-jones-had-an-emergency-meeting-with-1823234307
― how's life, Thursday, 22 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
I realized I'd never listened to much of Q's stuff after having read the article, so I spun Walking in Space and The Dude. Both are true artifacts of their time, but reasonably fun listens. The title track to the Dude is absolutely hilarious though. I've had it stuck in my head for days.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
Not sure what countries this is available in (if any), but this is a fantastic introduction: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoulCoolRecords/dj-spinna-tribute-to-quincy-jones/
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 February 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
that apology is great (and unnecessary?)
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Friday, 23 February 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link
i'm a big fan of the sanford & son theme personally
― crüt, Friday, 23 February 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
he wrote that? It may be the first piece of "funky" music I could identify (and love) as a child.
Also a fan of the score to In the Heat of the Night
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 23 February 2018 04:47 (six years ago) link
'ai no corrida' is my shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAlGvc9t2Ig
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 23 February 2018 08:19 (six years ago) link
which is a cover but whatever
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 23 February 2018 08:20 (six years ago) link
between Pryor and Gaye hoovering up the coke I'm surprised they weren't fucking vacuum cleaners
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:30 PM bookmarkflaglink
there was this older kid in my high school that supposedly someone walked in on him fucking a vacuum cleaner
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:59 PM bookmarkflaglink
was it lj
― mookieproof, Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:33 PM bookmarkflaglink
was always given to understand there was one in every school, as there was in mine
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:38 PM bookmarkflaglink
yep. the guy i remember fucked a trumpet supposedly. what bad luck it is to have become that guy. where did they all go.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:41 PM bookmarkflaglink
it's so messed up usually cuz they are generally total bullshit
some dude supposedly fucked a sheep then years later some dude from my high school was like "oh yeah i just made that up" jeezus man
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:42 PM bookmarkflaglink
shit I didn't expect to see in a Quincy Jones thread
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hvlBtYvOE
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 5 December 2019 05:37 (four years ago) link
shit I didn't expect to see in a Quincy Jones thread― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), donderdag 5 december 2019 5:59shit like... that?Walked in the jointThey were lined up back to backAnything you can name, no shameUh, uh, an' stuff like thatDo it, do it, do it, do itWhat makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?Before my eyes was the promise of paradiseIs she real, can she feel, is she a dreamIf you know what I mean'Cause she was built out of stuff like thatDo it, do itStuff like thatDo it, do itStuff like thatDo it, do itStuff like thatI knew I was capturedBy the rhythm of the magic flutePulling and urging meTo taste the forbidden fruitAnd though I felt naiveI did not want to leave, fever was in the airAnd all of us sudden and I didn't careAnd no reason why, I just had to testifyWhat makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 5 December 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
Ladies call him the candy rapper
― calstars, Saturday, 5 June 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link
Soft talking with a rap so smooth
― calstars, Saturday, 5 June 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link