Quincy Jones - Search & Destroy

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.

xpost:

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