Wow....

http://www.austin360.com/..._2008.html
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wow

He was only 60?
I did not know that.
RIP
[Edited 2/27/08 13:29pm]

Hendrix Drummer Buddy Miles Dies At 60
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2/27/08

Buddy Miles, who co-founded and played drums in Band Of Gypsys with Jimi Hendrix, passed away yesterday (Feb. 26) in Austin, Texas, at the age of 60. A cause of death has yet to be announced.

Miles was born Sept. 5, 1947, in Omaha, Neb., and was introduced to music at a young age by his father, who played in a band called the Bebops. As a young man he also played with Wilson Pickett, the Delfonics and the Ink Spots.

Miles met Hendrix in the early 1960s but didn't begin collaborating with him until 1969, when Hendrix produced an album by the Buddy Miles Express.

Miles, often decked out in sequined clothes and an enormous Afro, went on to drum on Hendrix's landmark "Electric Ladyland" album before officially joining Band Of Gypsys with bassist Billy Cox a few months later.

The group's lone self-titled album chronicled a New Year's Eve 1969/1970 concert at New York's Fillmore East, and is regarded by many as one of the best live albums of the era.

After Hendrix's death on Sept. 18, 1970, Miles contributed drums to a handful of posthumous Hendrix releases, including "Cry of Love" and "Crash Landing." He spent time in jail in the late 1970s and early 1980s on drug related charges, but returned to the spotlight in 1986 when he served as the voice for the hugely successful California Raisins claymation TV ads.

Miles and a studio band recorded a cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" as part of the campaign, which became a minor radio hit in 1988.

In 2004, Miles and Cox revisited the Band Of Gypsys material for a live album, "The Band of Gypsys Return," which was released two years later.

Throughout his career, Miles played with such superstars as David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, Barry White and George Clinton. According to his Web site, Miles' family is planning a tribute show with details to be announced.

R.I.P.

I was just thinking about this dude and was playing "Them Changes" and "Down by the River" in my house.

Damn. Another Hendrix protege gone. Buddy was a lot like Rick James, he knew everybody. I found out not too long ago Buddy played drums on Funkadelic's "Good To Your Earhole". That backbeat is the same groove on B.O.G's version of "Foxy Lady".

R.I.P "Sugar Bear".

RIP Buddy.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...MOFPV4hQ_U

I don't believe Buddy Miles gets the true recognition he deserves.
Not necessarily for his drumming skills or his association with Ruby & The Romantics, Wilson Pickett, The Electric Flag, Jimi Hendrix and others, but because he had a Rock audience he was able to introduce them to classic R&B tunes (and arrangements of familiar Rock tunes done in that style) presented in the Soul Show & Revue format.
There are probably many Rock fans that were introduced to Otis Redding & Rufus Thomas by way of his covers.

Some recommended listening...





...(We've Got To Live Together can also go into this list)

That Hardware album is a Bill Laswell produced project that features Buddy with Stevie Salas (guitar) & Bootsy Collins (bass),


Unfortunately, due to my own lunacy, I didn't get to see him with Jimi Hendrix but I did see him live with Wilson Pickett, The Buddy Miles Express and Carlos Santana and he knew how to drive a band.




...


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

SPYZFAN1 said:

I liked Buddy's drumming and his vocals under his projects. He seemed to be a cool dude. Wish I could have met him. Did not know untill seeing your post Spyz, that Buddy played on Earhole. That is cool. GOD bless him.

OH NO!!

R.I.P.

carlcranshaw said:

Copycat said:

Sad to hear this b/c he was hell of a drummer. R. I. P. Gypsy soldier Buddy Miles .

WOW.....Im kinda blown away here...RIP

SPYZFAN1 said:

Thought it was Comin' Round The Mountain ?

SPYZFAN1 said:

Whoa. Damn, that's deep. That's a Funk tidbit that got by me. I knew Miles was bad but I didn't know he was that bad.

Wow... RIP, Buddy.

I loves me some Free Form Funkafide Filth.

R.I.P.

Man, when I was four or five years old and didn't know shit about music I used to trip the fuck out looking at my old man's LP copy of "Message to the People" Buddy in his bigass afro blowing lava from that volcano...I thought that was coolest fucking thing ever...just the album cover...then when I was like 20 I sat down and listened to the motherfucker - and let me tell you it WAS a motherfucker..."That's the Way Life Is" is my alltime Buddy Miles #1 JAM. RIP Buddy.

2the9s said:

funkpill said:

What?! That too?

Oh man, this bums me out. Buddy was the absolute shit.

I saw him in the late 60's in Chicago with Electric Flag and his own Buddy Miles Express twice. The second time he had another drummer with him so he could get out from behind his kit and front the band on some of the vocals.

But on many of the songs they both played their kits which both had double kick drums. Man, that shit was drivin' hard like a locomotive.

Then I saw him again in '71 touring behind Message to the People. We saw him at the Auditorium theater and somewhow we wound up at an aftershow at a small club on the south side. Besides a few members of his band my girlfriend and I were the only white folk in the house. It was good vibes all night. Great memories.

If ya wanna hear some good shit go to http://songza.com/ type Buddy Miles into the search bar and click on Joe Tex.

37 years later that jam still kicks major ass and the mix sounds as fresh as anything modern.

We will miss you Buddy. Keep drivin' on.

I know Buddy wrote "Comin' Round The Mountain". God Bless him. I bet he and Jimi are having a play right now!

sunlite said:

Are you sure about that?

The album credits George Clinton & Grace Cook (aka, Eddie Hazel's mother, for legal reasons) as the writers..

SPYZFAN1 said:

HE ALSO PLAYED ON FUNKADELIC'S "COMIN' 'ROUND THE MOUNTAIN"!!!!!

I'M A DRUMMER.....AND BUDDY MILES IS IN MY TOP 5 DRUMMERS OF ALL-TIME!!!!!
THIS HURTS, MAN!!!!!
R.I.P. "BOOGER BEAR"!!!!!

Yup. He played on "Mountain" (he is credited on the LP) and "Earhole".

theAudience said:

God I'm so late to this thread. He was so young.

Love that photo though. I've never seen it before.