From: Bob Davis (earthjuice_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 2003-06-30 14:37:35
Last night I had the chance to participate in an interview with the LEGENDARY bass player,
STANLEY CLARKE
Here are a few of my notes...
(btw...if you are in the Philly area on Monday July 30, you can see Stanley Clarke and his
band perform for free tonight at 8pm, in Wiggins Park in lovely Camden, NJ on the banks of
the beautiful Delaware River, with the skyline of the city of Philadelphia in the backround.
I'll be there tonight so if you see me, I'll be easy to spot. I'll be the guy passing out
flyers for the SOUL-PATROL CONVENTION on July 19 2003)
www.soul-patrol.com/convention
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** STANLEY CLARKE ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A RETURN TO FOREVER REUNION:
"Al, Lenny, and I are all for it, Chick needs to be convinced."
"You guys should bombard Chick via email and tell him this is something that everybody wants"
"A reformed RTF, along with a reformed Mahavishnu Orchastra & Miles Davis Band (Children On
The Corner) could sell out large arenas, if they went on TOUR TODAY..."
** STANLEY CLARKE ON GEORGE DUKE:
He is my favorite artist to work with. If someone told me tomorrow that I had to go on a six
month tour or something terrible would happen, then my choice would be to go on that tour
with George Duke. George Duke is a person who makes everything that he does fun.
** STANLEY CLARKE ON SCHOOL DAYS:
"The song School Days was written in about 10 minutes. It's a song about the fun I enjoyed
while I was going to school in Philadelphia"
NOTE FROM STANLEY'S SON CHRIS:
"The album cover from School Days (1974) may be the first hip hop influenced album cover of
all time, take note of the graffiti writing on the cover"
** STANLEY CLARKE ON LARRY GRAHAM:
"Larry Graham invented the SLAP BASS style of playing long before I started doing it"
"A promoter in Japan once put up a huge amount of money for Larry and I to engage in a kind
of DUELING BASS competition. We did it in front of a crowd of around 20,000 people. The set
up went something like this...
* Me and my bass plucged into a humongous stack of amplifiers on one side
* Larry and his bass plugged into a humongous stack of amplifies on the other side
* A drummer in the middle
We started out by playing a munch of Larry/Sly songs and then rolled into a bunch of my
songs.
It was less of a competition that it was more of each one of us honoring each other.
There are tapes of this "floating around, you should try and get one...."
VOICE IN THE BACKGROUND SAYS:
"you can have one for about $100"
(the room starts cracking up)
** STANLEY CLARKE ON BOOTSY COLLINS:
"read about it in the July Soul-Patrol Digest Magazine"
<a href="http://www.soul-patrol.com/join-magazine"> SOUL-PATROL DIGEST MAGAZINE</a>
** STANLEY CLARKE ON MICHAEL HENDERSON:
"read about it in the July Soul-Patrol Digest Magazine"
<a href="http://www.soul-patrol.com/join-magazine"> SOUL-PATROL DIGEST MAGAZINE</a>
** STANLEY CLARKE ON VICTOR WOOTEN:
"read about it in the July Soul-Patrol Digest Magazine"
<a href="http://www.soul-patrol.com/join-magazine"> SOUL-PATROL DIGEST MAGAZINE</a>
** STANLEY CLARKE'S DREAM BAND:
"read about it in the July Soul-Patrol Digest Magazine"
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** STANLEY CLARKE ON RICHARD BERRY & THE ARCHITECTS OF ROCK N' ROLL:
"On the LP where George Duke and I do a cover version of the song Louie Louie (the same Lp
where they also do that SLAMMIN VERSION of MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION) there is also a cover
version of the classic song "LOUIE LOUIE".
It was George Duke's idea to put that song on the record, and we had one hell of a time
trying to figure out what the lyrics were.....lol.
Years later I got a chance to meet Richard Berry (the man who wrote the song) and talk with
him.
When I look back at it and think about the fact that Richard Berry, Little Richard, Chuck
Berry, Bo Diddley and others who actually invented Rock n' Roll, NEVER REALLY GOT PAID, I
think about how fortunate I have been
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Of course there is more...
MUCH MORE
(however I have run out of time and space for the moment....)
STAY TUNED!!!!
** EDITORIAL NOTE:
Stanley Clarke's got a new CD out (and of course we will be playing it on Soul-Patrol.Net
Radio so you all can get a taste of it)
I think that it's a GOD DAMMED SHAME that the two Philadelphia KNEE-GRO radio stations that
SHOULD BE PLAYING HIS NEW CD:
* WJJZ - Smooth (soulless) Jazz
* WDAS - Adult Colored People Radio
WILL NOT PLAY HIS NEW CD
Imagine that?
STANLEY CLARKE...
* One of the GREATEST musicians of ALL TIME
* The man whose name ALWAYS comes up, when people talk about a "dream band"
* The man whose artistry on the bass changed the way we listen to jazz
CAN'T GET RADIO AIRPLAY IN HIS HOMETOWN OF PHILADELPHIA
(I suppose these two CLEAR CHANNEL OWNED ENTITIES have OTHER PRIORITIES?)
NP: "A Change Is Gonna Come"
--Sam Cooke
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Bob Davis
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