Must be the James Brown Dave Matthews.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 5 October 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
bingo!
― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2007 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Greatest Hits was being played in my work this morning, man, was that guy smooth. I do hate that thing where guitarists sing along with their guitar solos though.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
Dude, the video is great. It's twilight in LA, and he's boppin' around with that fat-ass hollow body around his neck, doing twirls on the skates. Those clips are interspersed with some rehersal footage, and also some scenes of him taking a fine young lady on a suave, classy dinner date. It's all capped off wonderfully with a shot of George and his date in the midst of a midnight cruise down Sunset, and you can see the billboard for his new album off in the distance. Classic.― Keith C (kcraw916), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 23:14 (10 years ago) Permalink
:)
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
A good friend of mine pointed out to me just how much Benson had accomplished when he was just a kid, this total guitar wunderkind. When you're cutting your teeth on Jack McDuff, playing with Miles, establishing yourself as a formidable player and leader before you're even 22, it's no wonder he eventually decided to go pop. Nothing left to prove!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
A number of years ago -- I wanna say early 80s -- some friends-of-a-friend lived next door to Alan Alda. They were having a graduation party in their back yard and playing tunes on a boombox. A George Benson song came on, and when Alan heard it, he showed up to the party with his visiting pal George Benson. They hung out at the party for the rest of the day/night, playing basketball with the kids.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
o_O
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
Anyone know if he has more work that is similar "You can do it (baby)" with Nuyorican Soul? More energetic jamming/groove stuff? Live albums maybe? Find a lot of his stuff too slow & bluesy for my liking.
― inventionsforjohn, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
i'd probably check out his late '70s studio or live albums, i think those are probably mostly in that vein and feature far less of the slow bluesy mood music. as he gets into the '80s he gets into slow jam + vocals territory and i like a lot of it but ymmv.
― nomar, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
Give Me The Night or Weekend In L.A. are a pair of solid bets imo
― nomar, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
I would have loved more material by the band that's on the '71 CTI concert with Ron Carter and Billy Cobham as the rhythm section. There's also johnny Hammond on keyboards and Airto Moreira on percussion. There are a couple of tracks by them on the California concert set plus they appear as the backing band for the horn players elsewhere but do wish there wasa whole set of the unadorned band.
Also was discovering the instrumental stuff a couple of months back after having mainly dismissed him asa rather schmaltzy MOR crooner. He did some great stuff in the late 60s prior to CTI.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
A number of years ago -- I wanna say early 80s -- some friends-of-a-friend lived next door to Alan Alda. They were having a graduation party in their back yard and playing tunes on a boombox. A George Benson song came on, and when Alan heard it, he showed up to the party with his visiting pal George Benson. They hung out at the party for the rest of the day/night, playing basketball with the kid
this is wild
― Mr. Magic's Rap Attack (m coleman), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Thanks a lot nomar! I'd forgotten about his version of 'On broadway', but never listened to the 'Weekend In L.A.' album before, sounds good from my quick listen.
I know I asked about uptempo stuff, but I really like his bluesy stuff when he's playing completely solo, as well , if you know of any thing like 'Ode To A Kudu" or 'From now on'? I need more of the intense scat heavy tracks like 'World is a ghetto' too. I guess it's the in-between sounding ones that don't do it for me, definitely not the sugary ballads.
Stevolende - I'm liking some of that All stars concert, i think what I'm finding with his own albums is that there's 2-3 tracks per album (from all eras) that I love but i really can't listen to the rest.
― inventionsforjohn, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cHEtetL.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 23:41 (eight years ago) link
wow!!
― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link
whole video's pretty smooth! https://vimeo.com/24973023
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link
TURN YOUR LOVE AROUUUUNNNNND
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
There's a whole long hilarious section about the writing of that song in that otherwise average Hired Gun documentary. Bill Champlin, Jay Graydon and Steve Lukather!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
(Long story short, Graydon was charged with writing Benson a hit but was stumped, so he went to the bathroom and left it in the hands of Lukather. Lukather casually comes up with some chords and, on the toiler, Graydon, listening, comes up with the melody. Except I guess Graydon has an OCD compulsion to undress completely when he's on the toilet, so he had to hurry up and get dressed to get back to Lukather before he forgot the melody to go with the chords Lukather was playing!)
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
Came across this good clip of George Benson with Clark Terry on trumpet on ye' old YouTube a few weeks back. It's a pretty groovy version of "So What".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snCGxc4qK50
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
Clark Terry looking way more fly at age 68 than I will ever be on my best day.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
Rad clip. Thanks for sharing! Loving all the seamless gear-shifting.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, this one is another really cool George Benson clip I found that has him jamming with Benny Goodman. This is one of those things you are glad the meeting happened and even more that it was filmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNljvp_CnI&feature=youtu.be
― earlnash, Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
take 2...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNljvp_CnI
― earlnash, Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
Whoa, earl. Nice find!
Now where's the clip of George Washington Jr. and Woody Herman?
― pplains, Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
Except I guess Graydon has an OCD compulsion to undress completely when he's on the toilet
are you a shirtless shitter?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Grover Washington, good lord what's wrong with me.
― pplains, Thursday, 8 March 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpjgOCp354U
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 23 January 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link