Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Herbie Hancock - Rockit 1985
YouTube via cminor7add9th.
via Jeff Bova on the Rhodes Chroma list:
"That patch was Herbies. To have 8 voices he had each of the two layers of the sound in the chroma and expander. Live I play the part when herbie is soloing but played as a layer on my single chroma. Here is a you tube video I have been meaning to share, It's us playing live in tokyo at Parco Theatre Shibuya. You get to see more use of the Chromas than in other videos I have seen on line. ALl the sounds we are playing with the remote keyboards are Chroma patches, the sounds the other guys are triggering with dx7's are the fairlights."
Also Roland AXIS keytar and a turntable used for synthetic sounds. Pretty cool.
video description:
"Herbie Hancock plyed Chameleon Live in Shibuya Tokyo Japan on May 13, 1985
Herbie Hancock:key,Barnard Fowler:vo,D.S.T:DJ,Jeff Bova:key,Wayne Brathwaite:b,J.T.Lewis:ds"
Two more with notes on each from Jeff:
Herbie Hancock - Earth Beat 1985
"The opening patch and the harp like sounds where herbie is padding on the fairlight were Chroma"
Herbie Hancock - Sound System 1985
"Note the polaris in the bassists(Wayne Braithewaite) rig as well
Please pardon the blue 80's jumpsuit."
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What??? No one has commented on the baddest jam of jams of the entire 1980's??? Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" has got to be the freshest sounding, most imitated, most sampled, bringing-turntablism-to-the-mainstreamingest, most requested MTV video havingest, closest thing to listenable jazz that has ever, dare I say WILL EVER, been made?
ReplyDeleteOk, I have to admit that I broke my record player trying to scratch after hearing "Reckless" by the Glove and ICE-T in the movie "Breakin'" in I think that same year (84'), but Rockit captured my imagination like nothing up to that point.
I mean, what teenage guy didn't want a pair of those robot legs walking around his room???