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The Secret Origin of Prince’s Most Famous Drum Machine Beat | |
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Incredible article, incredible beat, one of the greatest drumloops evarr. | |
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Interesting article. Thanks. Had me looking up and listening to Tower of Power (always thought it was "Tower Power"") and also the drummer. They were definitely a tight band. Lead singer went to jail for 30 years after a drug deal gone bad. | |
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And Prince sampled or replayed Tower of Power twice (that we readily know about) in his music. I love they were on his radar over the years. He certainly learned from them in many, many ways. Horns, drums, arranging. " ![]() | |
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My takeaway is that...no one seems to know for sure who made this beat, including Garibaldi and Wood. There are snatches of it here and there on the demo flexi, but no smoking gun. Which means that...shocker...Prince made it? [Edited 6/9/23 10:06am] | |
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Thanks for posting! | |
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Thanks. - Plus this :
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/03/the-ballad-of-dorothy-parker "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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TrivialPursuit said:
Well, I’m willing to buy Garibaldi and Wood are responsible in the way grandparents or great grandparents are responsible. But Prince seems to be the parent of the beat unless anything else is revealed. If involved it is weird that Garibaldi wouldn’t at least go “yeah, maybe I did, I don’t remember” instead of expressing puzzlement at his own involvement. And would Roger Linn really have that bad a memory about his iconic Linn to flat out deny Garibaldi was a key contributor to its stock programming? Sure, Prince probably heard the flexi demo, I buy that, and maybe culled some licks from it, but we have zero evidence (or correct me if I’m wrong) that anyone but him and maybe Morris sat down to painstakingly construct these two measures of iconic patterning. I know it’s hard to accept because it is the most impressive drum beat of all his beats, even trouncing Dorothy Parker, but I’d say he had it in him, in the same way he seems to have had the Sound 80 piano parts in him from the very beginning. [Edited 6/9/23 19:18pm] | |
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Great piece
I need to listen to all the audio though to determine who did what [Edited 6/9/23 22:21pm] | |
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The only thing I get out of a vague article like this is that Prince absolutely did this himself, regardless whether or not that drum pattern was allegedly programmed onto a demo flex or anything.
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paraded said: TrivialPursuit said:
Well, I’m willing to buy Garibaldi and Wood are responsible in the way grandparents or great grandparents are responsible. But Prince seems to be the parent of the beat unless anything else is revealed. If involved it is weird that Garibaldi wouldn’t at least go “yeah, maybe I did, I don’t remember” instead of expressing puzzlement at his own involvement. And would Roger Linn really have that bad a memory about his iconic Linn to flat out deny Garibaldi was a key contributor to its stock programming? Sure, Prince probably heard the flexi demo, I buy that, and maybe culled some licks from it, but we have zero evidence (or correct me if I’m wrong) that anyone but him and maybe Morris sat down to painstakingly construct these two measures of iconic patterning. I know it’s hard to accept because it is the most impressive drum beat of all his beats, even trouncing Dorothy Parker, but I’d say he had it in him, in the same way he seems to have had the Sound 80 piano parts in him from the very beginning. [Edited 6/9/23 19:18pm] I hear snatches of Dorothy Parker on that flexi, too. | |
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So wait, what, 1) Whether or not Prince played the drum track himself physically,
[Edited 6/10/23 3:24am] [Edited 6/10/23 3:26am] | |
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