JSngry Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 What Rick Holmes lacked in subtlety, he made up for in tastelessness. Those of you who have heard The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free remember this immortal Holmesian line - SEX! SEX! SEX! Oh yeah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 What's wrong with me? I actually like quite a bit of Soul of the Bible (French Blue Note put this out as a two cd set!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted March 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 What's wrong with me? I actually like quite a bit of Soul of the Bible (French Blue Note put this out as a two cd set!) Maybe something's wrong with David Axelrod! I'd be curious to hear it...along with SOUL OF THE ZODIAC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 I suspect that Axelrod was hesitant about the subject matter. Just a hunch. But I also dig the music on both of those. Rick Holmes, however... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Soul Zodiac has the painted lady on the front, but what is Soul of the Zodiac? Is this a second part...or continuation or...? Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted March 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 I suspect that Axelrod was hesitant about the subject matter. Just a hunch. But I also dig the music on both of those. Rick Holmes, however... Jim, you'd probably enjoy the continuation of that conversation: Interviewer: You didn't have a problem with the astrology record? DA: No, astrology was fine, and Rick Holmes was really into astrology. Then we gotta do a follow-up, because the first one was a smash hit. That thing was, like, the number one R & B record in the fucking country. I had to be a little careful with Holmes, because he was a big jazz disc jockey at KCBA, so, you know, that was the big jazz station, and what could you do? So I actually recorded him in mono, because he was stepping on the solos. I told him a hundred times, "Don't talk during the solos." It's like he didn't hear me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted June 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Picked up a copy of Wax Poetics #14 (truly great mag for those interested in hiphop/funk/soul jazz, etc.) and read Part 1 of the Axelrod interview. Evidently Axelrod broke into the music biz partly by working as a drummer in Gerald Wiggins' 1950s trio, and he also gigged w/Dodo Marmarosa. Relevant quote: I played with Gerald Wiggins in clubs. I played a lot for Gerald, and I played for Dodo Marmarosa. He was a very legendary dude, 'cause he's so mysterious. Hardly anyone knows who he is, but he could really play. He called Wig and said, "I need a drummer." And Gerald said, "I got a kid who can play for ya, but he's by far not the best drummer you ever heard. But he'll keep time." Another quote about Phil Spector's "wall of sound": Interviewer: So you're saying that the arranger should have gotten credit for developing the Wall of Sound? Axelrod: I always thought the engineer at Gold Star should have gotten about half the credit for that. He had a studio that would hold 14 people, and in walks Spector with twenty people. You have to give credit to the engineer to make it possible to hear anything. And still have room to record the singers. He probably called Spector a fucking idiot. Interviewer: We can't print that, can we? Axelrod: Why not? Is he paying your salary? Fuck him. The article also cites Songs of Innocence as an influence on Miles and Bitches Brew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 So Ghost, have you explored more of Axelrod's music since this thread was started? I LOVE Axelrod's Capitol albums - They are a tripped-out, cinematic montage of everything that was weird and wonderful about the early 70s. And they have that green Capitol label with the purple logo that always looks so badass spinning on the turntable - especially if there is flokati rug in the room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mikeweil Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 Probably sounds terrific on a high end system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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