what do fans of miles think of the direction he was taking wiht doo bop?
did you like it or not and where do you think miles would be now a days musicly. with wich music forms would he experiment or wich artist

If we are talking about the same album, that album is da bomb!

motownlover said:

i pictured his next direction soundin somethin like Herb Alpert did with 1991's "North On South St." only darker...man.... Miles would've defintely collabed with Tribe, Nas, Gangstarr, Common....

daytonohioplayer said:

im talking about the album
i can see miles doing something like santana did with supernatural. taking all kinds of musicians/ producers and create from there

I don't like it that much. I checked it out though.

Miles does rap. Not exactly earth shattering. Kind of awkward actually.

There were some great melodies on that record!

Cinnie said:

people saw him as a sellout by doing that right? but miles basicly did what ever pleases him

It wasn't really seen as a sellout, especially as it came out after his death. But he had done a few records prior to "Doo-bop" that just scremead S-E-L-L O-U-T far much more than this one. "Rap" wasn't even considered that commercial at the time, had he wanted a commercial record he would have had recorded another "Time After Time".

I liked the album in the 90s. Haven't heard it in ages, although I do think I must have a copied tape of it somewhere in the house. Probably doesn't sound as fresh as it did back in the day.

The only stand out on that album, to me, was High Speed Chase. That rapper/producer that was all over the rest of the material irritated the hell out of me.

where would he be today> still doing hip hop or something else?

motownlover said:

He probably would have gone into the direction of The Chemical Brothers or Air. He would try to push the orders of 'jazz' or try to invent something new.

But it's kinda useless asking yourself what mr Davis would be doing. It would be like asking; "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? What would he be doing?"

I love that album..."Fantasy" is my favorite song on there...

The music was on par with other stuff of his later career, like Tutu, for example. Not Bitches Brew or Kind of Blue, but Miles never loked back and this was no exception.

But some of the lyrics "give me some of that do bop sound...with Miles Davis!"

High Speed Chase is the bomb

NDRU said:

mm not keen on tutu really there where people who liked it and people who said he killed his career

motownlover said:

Tutu's not my favorite either, but he was doing 80's sounding stuff on it rather than "Kind of Blue III." For better or worse, he lived in the present.