Quincy Jones - Search & Destroy

His material is usually a bit too whitebread, but i would recommend a search on his work with Billy Eckstine.

i'm sure these whitebread songs if interpreted differently would be monsters

Maybe it would help if people thought of it as a collection of unreleased B-Sides to Off the Wall or something...?

- The Pawnbroker
- The Deadly Affair (available on CD in a 2-fer w/ the above and which also has my favouriteb Astrud Gilberto song as its theme tune)
- The Hot Rock
- $

I quite like Big Band Bossa Nova too. I bought his 1961 straight(ish) jazz LP The Quintessence recently, but have only listened to it once thus far.

i've had Body Heat for YEARS and never actually listened to it until today?! wtf. it's soooo good. really nice and soulful and funky and spacey. and there are a couple of songs that sound EXACTLY like Whitfield produced Temptations.

http://991.com/newgallery//Quincy-Jones-The-Dude-361627.jpg

Most of the album is nice-but-forgettable light disco and R&B, even though it's cool to hear one of my favourite unsung soul singers, Patti Austin, who's featured on several tunes. There's also a bunch of big name guests, like Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock, but they fail to make an impression. However, the two opening tunes are really quite something. The first one is this disco stomp, "Ai No Corrida", sung by James Ingram, which gets its name from the original Japanese title of In the Realm of The Senses and seems to be thematically linked to it. It also has very melodramatic string and horn arrangements, which makes the whole tune kinda over the top. But even better is the second tune, a mid-tempo electro funk number called "The Dude". The whole tune is just a praise for this superfly guy called The Dude (aka Quincy Jones), sung by Ingram, a female chorus, and someone using a vocoder. On top of that there's some rapping by The Dude himself (I'm not sure if it's really QJ, could be), with the voice slowed-down for a Barry White kind of effect:

"I graduated from the college of the street,
I got a P.H.D. on how to make ends meet,
Inflation in the nation don't bother me,
'Cause I'm a scholar with a dollar,
You can plainly see"

...and so on. Wonderful stuff. If only the rest of the album was as good as these two tunes.

"The Streetbeater," aka the theme from Sanford and Son, is a tremendous well put together slab of orchestrated funk.

I'm a fan of his George Benson album (Give Me The Night) and his own Back on the Block, which has splendid performances by El Debarge, Chaka Khan, and Brother Ray.

YES.

Wasn't there supposed to be a cartoon about the Dude that never materialized?

"Somethin' Special" is my favorite from that album.

"Ai No Corrida" is a cover of Chas Jankel's proto-Basement Jaxx original.

Body Heat is BAAAAAD. You cannot fuck with Leon Ware.

Mellow Madness has some great slow-motion synth sleaze. I also love the first song, with the Brothers Johnson (before their first album).

What Dave said about Gula Matari. "Gula Matari" itself = ungh.

Good interview here (at least I think it's good, but I didn't really know much about the man):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96579839&ft=1&f=1039

How do we feel about Back on the Block? I just got it.

'secret garden' is a jam.

You see this one in dollar bins a lot and it's pretty good.

http://www.ifmusic.co.uk/images/product_images/quincyjonessmackwater-jack.jpg

"Secret Garden" is awesome, yeah. So is the remake of "I'll Be Good To You" and an Ice-T rap. Theoretically I'm attracted to the idea of "Q" trying to capture fifty years of black musical history in seventy minutes.

's OK but the dude is better

http://fhenso.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/lookoutfornumber1.jpg

Watching Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones now. Ugh. IIRC, Back on the Block has Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald on about two bars each.

https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story

probably the most insane interview I've ever read

Incredible.

haha, what a life. hope he does make it to 120.

Oh shit, I just posted this in another thread. This was really awesome to read.

His bono-dependent analysis of Ireland hmmmm

That was unfortunate. Fuck Bono imo

The world needed this:

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html

Paul was a great bass player, but yeah that interview is amazing

holy fuck this interview is just chock full of gems

does david marchese purposely pick to interview artists who want to talk about being pisces

You sure seem to know a lot.

I know too much, man.

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.

And since Bono was invoked in that first piece:

--

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.

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

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.

it's like the inverted non-pissy version of "I'm a Pisces we pick up on these things"

Ahhh just read this via the Longform thread. Absolutely amazing stuff, man.

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.

And the Ed Sheeran record is great

Far be it from me to question someone with the chops he has, but that diss of McCartney's bass playing is crazy.

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.

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.

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.

I spent every second of reading that wondering if I was actually reading a spoof article.

at least 3/4 of Jones' takes are solid, which is extremely high for an 85-year-old

He slept with them? How do you know that?
[Frowns.] Come on, man. He did not give a fuck! You like Brazilian music?

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

the beatles content in this intvw is the least hilarious/interesting!

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?

klaus voorman iirc

OMG! This film just showed up showing the recording of the drum track for Love Me Do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5p80BMHYk

lol.

Much better drum miming there than in Whiplash!

Q seems as permanently high as Peter O'Toole was permanently sauced

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

I spent every second of reading that wondering if I was actually reading a spoof article.

"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?"

Now that's what you call an interview.

lol, he even jams with the son of Benito Mussolini. He's literally done just about everything.

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."

Now that MES has died we need QJ more than ever.

I think the bulk of the scholarly work links amphetamines to the Nazis.

this is the book:
https://markgorman.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/methode-times-prod-web-bin-4442ed14-8a14-11e6-aa51-f33df6df2868.jpg

Hitler was given tablets by his quack that contained human excrement and shitloads of 'phet wannit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NalkOQBWeGk

So we called each other Leroy till the day he died.

lol he bought drugs from malcom x? good god

quincy jones is forrest gump

Richard Pryor's Widow Confirms He Slept with Marlon Brando https://t.co/BqBDnB6gRu

— TMZ (@TMZ) February 7, 2018

looool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVdpTPEU0AASzOO.jpg

Haha, nice

Richard was more of a radiator man, Brando more a mailbox man.

And the Ed Sheeran record is great
;_;

T-Pain, man, he didn’t pay attention to the details.

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.

"We shouldn't talk about this publicly" vs. "He'd fuck a mailbox!"

i mean, where to begin? incredible interviews

there's the whole thing where Bernard Purdie claims to have played on Beatles sessions too, but it does sound a little questionable at least. I have to wonder if he just played on so many sessions that he maybe played on some other brit invasion record of some band he'd never heard of and later got confused and thought it had been the beatles.

yeah bernard purdie has made a lot of claims

the whole idea that it would be the guarded secret feels very retroactive, as if when they were recording the first stuff there was any reason to believe that the band would be more significant than herman's hermits or whoever

it's also not completely crazy though, like didn't every single band recorded in LA in the 60s turn out to be the Wrecking Crew?

yes

Neil Young was actually The Wrecking Crew in audio disguise and the first album he performed on himself was Landing On Water.

plus weren't the Beatles touted in marketing/PR from the get-go as playing own instruments & writing own songs? a novel concept at the time?

guys as Simon said upthread, the Beatles stuff is the least compelling/hilarious material in these interviews. there are other things to talk about. like marlon brando fucking a mailbox

Q going on a date w/ Ivanka is a good one.

and yet it has compelled many posts to be made here. almost like different people can be intrigued by different things, crazy man.

My man just told us who killed JFK, y'all are arguing about Paul's bass playing? booo

Interview seems like charmless enough bullshit tbh

can't wait for the Trump tweet

Pryor and Brando both spoke about their bisexual histories publicly in the '70s... just not about each other.

I just posted the Beatles thing cuz of that “Beatles fuck off” thread

Richard Pryor's widow saying drugs were good in the '70s and therefore implicitly are not now erases and stigmatizes the experiences of contemporary teenagers.

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) February 7, 2018

would have been better without the gratuitous “stigmatizes”, but 6/10

I’m glad this interview is going viral but seriously the GQ interview is even better

that's really scraping the bottom of the barrel for woke takes imo

it’s parody

does david marchese purposely pick to interview artists who want to talk about being pisces

― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 10:38 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I’m sorry to jump around

Be a Pisces. Jam.

28. Jones composed the theme to Cosby’s first sitcom. Sitting with me, flicking through a book of photographs, Jones comes across one of the two of them together. “Cosby… Jesus,” he says, and moves on without further comment.

Interview seems like charmless enough bullshit tbh

Racist.

'Revered rock musicians aren't considered to be great musicians by people who know what they're talking about' isn't exactly a surprise here.

Miles was trashing big rep "non-playing mofos" in a similar uninhibited fashion decades ago as well.

Jazz musicians do this to other jazz musicans all the time, let alone the guys who played on "Love Me Do".

QJ is (rightfully so) super psyched about his role over the decades as arranger, spent largely working with studio pros and/or people that can sight read charts and stuff. none of The Beatles could even read music so yeah they would be probably useless in that context of being a good musician theory-wise/technique-wise. professionally illiterate.

ofc it doesn't actually matter to the listening public if you are technically a good musician, otherwise somebody like Dream Theater would be the consensus greatest band of all time.

Dream Theater has nothing to do with what QJ is talking about. they are a guitar mag rock band, he's talking about pro jazz and session musicians that UNDERSTAND MUSIC. yes many of them have chops on demand but they don't use them in most contexts, because they understand how a guy like QJ puts a great record together, which might involve everything from a great solo to playing 2 notes over and over. they unlike Dream Theater do not view music as a medium for their chops, but their chops are there to make sure they play whatever part, no matter how simple, with the right timing and feel the first time, so as to not waste studio time.

also they understand theory and sight read so they can communicate with him on his level.

frankly these people COULD have played every note on those Beatles records or on another project done things none of the Beatles were remotely capable of. they've all played on pop songs that were as immediate and beloved as anything the Beatles did, and as economical.

so to bring Dream Theater into it (btw do half the ppl that hold them up as a strawband even take the time to listen to them?) shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how QJ and his generation of producers and musicians see music. he would laugh at DT lack of feel.

I like Ringo in the Beatles but he's limited

I like McCartney's bass a lot and Harrison is good.

Lennon can't play for shit

There's a link to 'Love is a Many Splendoured Thing' from Sentimental Journey in the anecdote about Ringo, so QJ's not talking about the Beatles.

are we really having this, uh, discussion again

frankly these people COULD have played every note on those Beatles records or on another project done things none of the Beatles were remotely capable of. they've all played on pop songs that were as immediate and beloved as anything the Beatles did, and as economical

balking at this a bit: there's a phenomenon that really irritates me -- you see it a lot in advertising on the underground for some reason -- where a capable commercial artist has been tasked with drawing something like a little kid would draw (often a house with people). and they CAN'T do it right, they can't draw as if they can't draw (and it bugs me because it's so obvious a professional grown-up trying to fake something, and doing it badly)… likewise i think there's something about the way musicians hang together, in time especially, when they're self-taught and not technical masters of their instruments, which is very evident all over white 60s rock, which is actually HARD to reproduce if you're a "better" musician (not least bcz you want to iron it out as an effect that no one would want -- but of course rock musicians and fans liked it and DID want it)

similarly, i think being able to read music brings a step-change in how musicians think about music that makes it really hard for them to replicate forms of music that don't achieve unisons via bar-lines: of course the people quincy works with a superb musicians, but they couldn't just step into a west african drum orchestra and participate usefully without "unlearning" a bunch of hard-won stuff. whereas a three-year old kid with a cowbell brought up in the community the drum orchestra's from CAN contribute usefully: it's a form of music designed to enable the latter but not the former

i don't mean it's impossible: but the jazz musicians after ornette etc who went out to think about and play alongside musicians from non-american, non-"reading" cultures, needed to do a lot of unthinking

p sure i've posted something like this three or four times before: consider it my pro forma tribute to quincy

https://img.discogs.com/VdIgLKYjfqS816BMFAFzNC-8qU0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-320334-1415432971-5859.jpeg.jpg

the Beatles though weren't unschooled they read and wrote music

quincy didn't think so :)

I don't think that's true, especially if you substitute 'wrote' for 'notated'. McCartney certainly couldn't.

When McCartney did his Oratorio he sang or played the individual parts on the piano and got Carl Davis to write it all down, which really isn't the sort of thing QJ is talking about at all.

They couldn't read or write music. mark s otm btw. Also let's remember that Q is talking about his first impressions of the Beatles, not his overall impressions. What about the Microsoft guy who can play and sing like Hendrix though?

" And the Ed Sheeran record is great."

Can't comment on Ivanka Trump's legs either tbh.

Disappointed he didn't say arranging The Wiz soundtrack was his proudest moment.

seems to me like he's absolutely otm about everything

I for one am very glad a Quincy Jones interview finally got us talking about the musical talents or lack thereof of the Beatles. It's a debate that's long overdue.

The interviewer asked him if there were any guitar players who compare to Hendrix and he said "yes, Paul Allen, the guy from Microsoft who lets me hang out on his yacht."

This is a fabulously entertaining interview, but it seems like a lot of the time he was just saying things just to say things

See that's the weird thing, a lot of musicians are Pisceans which is why there seems to be an awful lot of talk about Pisceans in these kind of interviews, and in lyrics (Pumpkins, Nirvana, Erykah etc). It's enough to make you think, almost, that there's somethign to it all.

^^^from a trustworthy source

Is Fish a Pisces?

something's Phish-y here.

Fish is not a Pisces

Pisces is at the end of the Zodiac

They feel all the weight of the other signs

Aries is at the beginning and they don't give a fuck

The older I get, the less I know what Cancer is supposed to be.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/uA8WItRYSRkfm/giphy.gif

Cancer and my name is Larry, huh
And I like a woman that loves everything and everybody
Because I love everybody and everything
And you know what, ladies, if you feel that this is you
Then this is what I want you to do

Gutted to learn Erykah Badu is not actually an Aquarius.

QUESTLOVE

I always knew that James Poyser and I were born in January. It was really J. Dilla that made me pay attention. One day, Dilla said, “Wait a minute. I was born on February 7th.” Then D’Angelo said, “I was born on February 11th.” Then James said, “I was born in January, and I’m an Aquarian, too!” I said, “Well, I was born on January 20th.” Also, the late great guitarist of The Soultronics, Jef Lee Johnson said, “I’m an Aquarian, too.” Then Common and Erykah came in, and Erykah said, “I’m a week late for being an Aquarian. I’m a Pisces, but at least I was born in late February.”

these interviews demand a poll, somebody

I am more surprised/interested in Brando-Gaye than Brando-Baldwin or Brando-Pryor

interested in Brando-gay.

James Baldwin was crazy, man. He'd fuck a washing machine.

the fridge next time

One time Baldwin and Medgar Evers tag-teamed a deep fryer, no joke. But we shouldn't be talking about this in public. Do you read Tony Robbins?

morbs otm

I am more surprised/interested in Brando-Gaye

Same.

between Pryor and Gaye hoovering up the coke I'm surprised they weren't fucking vacuum cleaners

there was this older kid in my high school that supposedly someone walked in on him fucking a vacuum cleaner

was it lj

was always given to understand there was one in every school, as there was in mine

yep. the guy i remember fucked a trumpet supposedly. what bad luck it is to have become that guy. where did they all go.

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

i would ask where all the guys who made up the "that dude fucked a blender" stories went but i think we all know it's government and ilx

whoever peddled it, diddled it

every school activity that could have some sort of back room students had access to always had rumors or stories about kids hooking up, too. drama, choir, band. seemed salacious, now that I'm old and have seen some shit it seems goofy

now Quincy Jones, that guy has really seen some shit

I'm confused about the mechanics of people allegedly fucking all these appliances.

Every school had one guy caught with a vacuum cleaner and one girl caught with a cafeteria hot dog.

that's an urban legend, the true story is that a girl was sent to the hospital when a banana got stuck

I once heard a story about QJ at a scoring session that he stopped, noting that a violin was out of tune.

And then he had sex with the violin. True story.

Consensual, I hope.

Have you ever eaten applesauce?

I love the exchange where he actually reveals who killed Kennedy but then when asked whether the mob helped kennedy win Illinois in 1960 he's like "we can't talk about this in public."

they're not called f-holes on the violin for nothing

frogbs are you suggesting applesauce is created by fucking an apple into the resulting paste?

Clearly Jacko wasn't the only wacky bastard in the studio during the making of Bad.

that's how James Brown made it!

now can we talk about how QJ thinks paul allen is as good of a guitarist as hendrix

i heard paul allen fucked jimi hendrix

have you ever seen a $2 bill?

motherfucker

earlier today i actually looked to see if paul allen is a pisces (he is not)

Come on, detectives, there's a link in the story!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYY-MmonYU

Paul Allen could be a lot worse.

Who's richer, though, Paul Allen or the Hendrix Estate? I think Hendrix Estate is around $170 million, while Allen is ... 20 billion. Clearly having the blues has nothing to do with the green.

Crosby says he’s friends with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and they often talk about Jimi Hendrix, who Crosby jammed with in the ’60s.

“In Seattle, I can’t get Hendrix out of my mind,” Crosby says. He calls Allen “a pretty good lead player” but laughs that the billionaire has never offered Hendrix’s Woodstock guitar to play.

David was there first.

better quality vid (4:50 start)
i'd say bonnamassa quality
better than james dolan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=294&v=L_r6bgPQfj4

seems to me like he's absolutely otm about everything
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:43 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark

Except for Ed Sheeran yes. Now we know who to thank for all of those artists winning multiple Grammys.

He's referring to The Beatles in the early days when they were not great musicians.

He revealed who killed Kennedy which means Q will be dead in 2018.

I'm not sure whether y'all are serious about this Kennedy conspiracy theory shit

I thought we established that he's talking about Ringo's Sentimental Journey?

I think the gist was they were all terrible when he first heard them then Ringo carried on being terrible.

trying to square QJ talking about Ringo not being able to play 4 bars vs. Yogi Horton commenting that Ringo Starr had "impeccable time"

"Impeccable time, of course he can't play the fucking things..."

maybe he had *an* impeccable time

well he didn't die in an average nursing home after a decade of scraping by on benefits and bootlegging his own material for beer money like Sunny Murray, so the Thomas The Tank Engine guy from fucking Herman's Hermits deffo had an impeccable time.

this paul allen guy sucks at guitar btw

affluent white man enjoys, causes the blues

he plays the bluescreen of death

PC rider

WC Tandy

Clippy Sings the Blues

Finally got a shot to read that whole Quincy Jones article, that is one of the wilder musician interviews I have read in a while. The guy has lived an interesting life and I definitely would read a biography on him.

don't bother with the raymond horricks biog, it's slight and dull

I just keep imagining being the journalist and walking home at the end of that interview knowing what you had on tape.

When people fantasise about being the journalist rather than Quincy Jones #ilxor

Some ilxors are journalists, none are Quincy Jones afaik.

Considering the dark fucking shit Jones went through during his childhood according to these interviews I don't think I'd wanna be him, no matter how many cultural legends he's partied with.

yeah - I've never partied with Sinatra or James Brown, but at least I can say I've never eaten a rat. or made love to one. y'all ever played wiffleball?

imo it's better to be the listener than the storyteller when the storyteller is good at it

for all we know he's embellishing a lot and all of these things extremely sucked and celebrity is a horrible soul-crunching maw. did I tell you about the time Frank Sinatra tried to sell me his teeth?

It does seem like a perfect mix of truth and embellishment, like, he never makes it a challenge to believe his stories. Have you ever tried Ethiopian food?

Some ilxors are journalists, none are Quincy Jones afaik.

I am Quincy Jones.

Pisces?

xpost otm lot of vicarious wannabe chroniclers of history here

We didn't talk about the GQ story huh?
http://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story

"So we invited [Prince] over to Michael's house at Hayvenhurst. He came in and he had an overcoat on, and he had a big white box labeled camille. He called Michael 'Camille.' " Prince, it seems, had brought a gift for his host. "The box had all kinds of stuff—some cuff links with Tootsie Rolls on them. Michael was scared to death—he thought there was some voodoo in there. I wanted to take it, because I knew Michael was gonna throw it away."

What happened to it?

"He threw it away. In the garbage."

I totally forgot about the "Prince literally tried to murder Michael and LaToya Jackson" part

trying to square QJ talking about Ringo not being able to play 4 bars vs. Yogi Horton commenting that Ringo Starr had "impeccable time"

― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Impeccable time, of course he can't play the fucking things..."

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe he had *an* impeccable time

― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every time I read katherine's post I lol

that part where he joked about having a security system in place to keep out fat and old women wasn't very cool

I totally forgot about the "Prince literally tried to murder Michael and LaToya Jackson" part

Yep no one really talking about that. I loooved the details about that JB/MJ/Prince night though, I've watched that footage countless times.

yeah he kind comes off as a asshole imo

no doubt!

be a pisces, man. jam.

The Ed Sheeran record is great.

otm

I notice in the GQ interview he manages to slander the Scots AND the Irish.

i never said he didn't bring up any good points

lol

Fascinating to know Prince coined “Camille” as a tease to MJ. When you think of it, Cam-mille sounds like an inversion of Mi-cael and maybe the sped up voice was him thinking well if the high voice is all you’ve got, I can do that too.

I just keep imagining being the journalist and walking home at the end of that interview knowing what you had on tape.
― Matt DC, Friday, February 9, 2018

GQ interview >>> Vulture interview. GQ was more autobiographical, Vulture had more crazy celebrity gossip. To each their own though.

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Oh, for fucks sake!

I love guided conversation-style interviews, myself

"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.

This is kind of like the PG-13 version of what the conversation was actually like. jesus

the GQ interview is like 20,000 words or something, the Vulture one felt like a brochure in comparison.

https://jezebel.com/kidada-and-rashida-jones-had-an-emergency-meeting-with-1823234307

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.

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/

that apology is great (and unnecessary?)

i'm a big fan of the sanford & son theme personally

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

'ai no corrida' is my shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAlGvc9t2Ig

which is a cover but whatever

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hvlBtYvOE

shit I didn't expect to see in a Quincy Jones thread
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), donderdag 5 december 2019 5:59


shit like... that?

Walked in the joint
They were lined up back to back
Anything you can name, no shame
Uh, uh, an' stuff like that
Do it, do it, do it, do it
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
Before my eyes was the promise of paradise
Is she real, can she feel, is she a dream
If you know what I mean
'Cause she was built out of stuff like that
Do it, do it
Stuff like that
Do it, do it
Stuff like that
Do it, do it
Stuff like that
I knew I was captured
By the rhythm of the magic flute
Pulling and urging me
To taste the forbidden fruit
And though I felt naive
I did not want to leave, fever was in the air
And all of us sudden and I didn't care
And no reason why, I just had to testify
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?
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

Ladies call him the candy rapper

Soft talking with a rap so smooth