I was lucky enough to jam with Clyde at the Frequency in Madison. One of the nicest guys I've ever had the pleasure of playing with. Rest in peace my brother.
Not really. Kraftwerk-inspired synth music mixed with funk became Electro and that's the genesis of hip hop. Afrika Bambaata's afrofuturistic take on funk had more to do with the birth of hip hop than Clyde did.
They are all innovators but the first ever hip hop tracks were funk/disco inspired, look up King tim iii (personality jock) which pre dated sugarhill gangs rappers delight and kurtis blow the breaks, some of the first ever hip hop tracks. I think clives drumming influenced the golden era/boom bap era of the 90s, which is my personal favourite. Kraftwerk influenced loads of genres and were brilliant, bringing out those sounds in the 70s is wild when you hear what else was around!
@@itslikeajungle Agreed. Rapper's Delight is on record as being the first hiphop track, but the multi-disclipline movement (breakdancing, rapping, grafitti) solidified when Planet Rock landed in '82.
Clyde is such a humble and polite man. He came from an Era where you just played by feel... and figured it out on your own. Today, everyone wants to super analyze things and break it down to notes and measures... you can study the mathematics of it until the cows come come... if you can't play it with FEEL ... it means nothing. God Bless you Clyde you were part of history.
You might notice that he never played it the same way he played it on the original record. The many artists who sampled that record made money off that without giving Clyde anything
@@mohddalibinzali1165 he played it perfectly on the album, but after all the other artists sampling it without giving him credit for it, he never played it again
He's so lovely ❤ and of course talented. I've not seen the whole interview, but I don't enjoy the dynamic with the interviewer here. He's going through the motions and I dare I say even acting superior to CS. I don't get that at all.
I love hearing these explain things that they don't really think about... which is why they have hard times explaining cause they're not musically trained musicians... that's just pure soul and practice...I love to hear them say some mumble jibberish then say...boom go into the example... when they do the mumble and it with "say' or 'so i" without finishing the sentence... get ready for them to play some soulful beautiful shit lmao... what he do at 3:55
I found other commentators said clyde dont play this song well in album because james brown dont give him money he deserve🤔. Which mean in this clip clyde playing that beat so well but not in the album. Is that true?
Interesting that Clyde doesn't quite play the Funky Drummer properly here - there is a bass kick missing. There are two possible reasons for this: one, in his senior years he may have found it difficult to play so he left it out (or simply forgot) and second possibility, as some will have you believe, he deliberately played it incorrectly because he resented that beat due to the millions in royalties Brown got from it when Clyde got nothing. There are, as far as I am aware, no videos of Clyde playing the Funky Drummer correctly from the time he left James' band to the day he died. Naturally, people were always asking him to play it and he always did it wrong. My own belief is that he did resent what happened and he deliberately didn't do it correctly. He was by all accounts a very nice, polite man so he'd rather play it a bit wrong than tell people the truth (which might have tainted their views on him - unfairly, in my opinion, given the way he got shafted by Brown).
With all due respect, even though what he’s playing here also sounds great, theses are not the same patterns as the iconic recordings. The original Cold Sweat has open hi-hats on the and of one and the and of three; the original Funky Drummer has a continuous flow of sixteenth notes on the hi-hat.
Sixteenth notes being kept in the right hand at @ 96 bpm is a challenge in itself, then throwing in the syncopation and occasional buzz strokes and accents. I think, no matter who you are, you need to be in top form to be playing "The Funky Drummer" the way Clyde did originally. And, you need the right set-up for it to be as tight.
He didn't forget. He deeply resented the fact that his beats made other people very rich, when he got nothing for his hard work. When he got sick later in life, he couldn't afford his medical treatment and he relied on hand-outs from musicians in his home city. People were always asking him to play this stuff but he never did it right for that reason. It's well documented this was the case.
