Herbie Hancock with the ARP ODYSSEY 

That's it, that's also how Miles Davis worked apparently: they went for first takes as much as possible to keep it all as fresh and spontaneous as they could I guess. As opposed to playing the same tune for 37 takes until there are no mistakes anymore but it has completely died in the proces.

I always LOVED that bit in Chameleon. The way the note is a little off than sliiiiides into the correct pitch. I thought it was totally intentional and was herbie being playful and brilliant. Playing with the pitches. I really felt that part of the solo, and used to play it for others like "listen to this sh#t!"

I'm amazed that was an accident! A happy one at that, buy unintentional. That small bit of the solo was incredibly effective at creating tension and slowly resolving it, all the while making perfect sense melodically and thematically with the song. Wow, how I am glad he made that mistake hahaha

Mine too! When I first heard that LP as a 20-year-old who was just dipping his ear into the Jazz-fusion realm, it almost blew me away more than my first fusion experience, the Weather Report LP Heavy Weather (another knock-your-socks-off demonstration of the ARP synthesizer).

ShreadTheWeapon I will never forget hearing Headhunters for the first time. It was just dripping with funk. First the stone solid groove of Chamealon then watermelon man with it's morphing intro. I was hooked for life. I was 18 years old in 2003. I would also soon discover weather report and it took a little longer before that gripped me the same way. But Herbie was immediate. What an album, what a career

My gran bought the album for me when I was thirteen and I wore it out !!!

@@kevinr.3542 Sir you did your homework real good that what i do i did my research

or at all

But he rolled with it and made it work…that's the real lesson!

Bass part on chameleon

Was about to say the same thing! Always thought it was on purpose. Amazing!

Yeah I think that just about anyone you talk to would have thought it was a part of the tune, that it was by design rather than default. The beautiful thing about jazz is that it allows the musician to recover from what initially seems like an error and articulate it in a way that makes it seem quite intentional

you can hear it at the end of the synth solo.

That just seems to be the B-roll oddyssey

You realize he gets payed to say these things, right?

YES

damn you cold as ice son! Training day in affect.

+MUSIC EAT PEOPLE cool, which track? On the "Headhunters" album?

+tsandell The famous solo in Chameleon..... towards the end....

that solo is at about 6:50

What rubbish. This is 3 years old and no-one has called you a bullshitter. Well I do. You don't know what song he's talking about. I have been playing music since the 80's and I can be out half a step and not notice myself, and I'm pretty sure no-one would notice it stand out on Herbies recording. I like Herbie, I have friends who like Herbie, yet not one of them has ever said, ''Hey did you hear when he was out a half step and slowly crept it back to pitch, that sneaky old devil!

still awesome, that tension/resolve is one of the best parts OF the Odyssey solo!

Uh yeah, he has. He is still a handsome devil, but he looks grandfatherly now for sure.

@Drivethebeat okay - give me your bank account number, ABA code and just in case, your social security number and address, and I will wire a dollar into your account.

Prove you're a bass player..

noone thinks that. Its THE quintessential synthbass song

+Reid Lowery yeah i think he just got his phrasing wrong. i definitely noticed the no midi out lackage. BUT if you do your midi setup like i do, just have one master keyboard that sends midi out to all of your midi devices.unless you reallly wanna touch the arp keys haha

You can trigger other analog synthesisers and control their pitch. There was, indeed, life before MIDI...

I got all his albums

@@oholm09 I always liked Head Hunters.

yeah korg should of thrown a midi out on there especially for that price!!!

What I’d like to know is if it responds to aftertouch from a controller like my Minimoog Voyager, Alexis QS6 or Yamaha S90XS.

No pitch bend or mod over midi kills it for me, ridiculous in this day and age, arrr but it's a players board, not with those mini keys, poor effort that's trying to set you up for a mk2 as soon as you've bought it 😠

Herbie doesn't have an issues with it..

I just got mine today the shit is ridiculous. Doesn't sound like anything else but the original. Those people complaining don't even own originals never sideline gear because of some snob who probably can't play for shit.

Is David Friend still on board with Korg to try to keep the new Odysseys as close to the originals as possible? I heard Alan R. Perlman started some kind of software company close to the original startup site, but admittedly has no musical talent nor interest and supposedly just started his namesake company as a businessman/engineer to compete with Moog.

Don’t let him hear you say that, Thorsten!

Hes a legend

If the truth is racist, then Louis Farakhan is racist.

Hey! It's a racist troll on RU-vid with the nerve to call someone else a racist! Do all black people look alike?

Lol at people defending conspiracy nut and anti semite Louis Farakhan.

Lol. Someone who can't understand this video isn't about Louis Farakhan, because he thinks all black people look alike.

Hey dip shit, have you tried looking at both of them, I didn't know who the other guy was but if you look him up and put them side-by-side it's almost like they look similar or something and that's why they said they look similar🤔

+securityrobot What? The man's a Jazz pianist, genius.... how many albums have you cut that have gone on to be the defining and best selling album of your genre?

Lousy music?? The dude has been an INNOVATOR for his entire career.

Holy shit, he's only one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time...

Go listen to "future shock"

securityrobot 10/10 trolling