Floyd Miller and Steve Arrington ought to team up with a music biographer and tell the SLAVE story "chapter and verse". I think the fans are waiting for CLOSURE on the group.
Floyd just don't know how Slide was got .y mind in the Right direction many times back in the day it was nothing like that groove, thanks for this interview Scott
In 1979 and early 1980 during the Iran Hostage Crises I had run away from an orphanage in Albany NY and was chilling in a housing projects in Schenectady. We would walk around the projects all day listening to Slave (Just a Touch) and the Whispers (The Beat Goes On).🎉
1977 Slide was a street funk favorite. Drac just ripped that track. Slave, Jimmy Castor, B.T. Express, Brass Construction that Ghetto Funk. A grand time !
One of my favorite bands of all time!!!! Being a bass player, I gravitated to the late great Mark Adams and was mesmerized by his skill and tone!!!! I still am!!! I'm wondering if the Ohio Players, another amazing group, was a little intimidated by Slave who BLEW UP!!!! That's a cool story about the creation of "Slide". Faze O was nowhere near as successful. This is yet another example of record company executives making questionable decisions that affect the group's continued success.
Not really. I say that but keep in mind I was younger then. All bands from Dayton were friends and offered help anytime ya wanted it. OP was older but the young guys admired them and could not wait to show them what they learned. They all knew no one could touch OP because they were the OGs. Satch managed and helped Faze O he was the OP sax player from Chicago. He also introduced them to the powder after their second record hit the charts. Mark was my 2nd cousin and he and I watched the Dr Creep show that had all the classic scary movies from the old days. He started calling himself drac before he was in jr high. Success comes when determination meets opportunity often people just see the industry and decide this aint for them. Once I asked Ray Parker Jr back in the day who the best player he knew of.....he said "well the best players no one will ever know or hear because if they were smart they would have other jobs". He was so right. Playing is not always about being famous especially when all of these people came from familys that had plenty of money. That is rare in other areas so we get the rep of being black folks struggling to come out of the hood......NOT dayton
@@Bassic778 I just have fond memories then I went off to college and met people from Baltimore, DC Atlanta, Cali, and all over and realized just how different Dayton was. I discovered BB King's stories about meeting the POPE and how learning how his playing affected people he never had a clue loved his work so much.
Thanks Scott!!! I am a HUGE hardcore fan of Slave. I listen to Slave everyday all day. Have for years. Especially since we lost Mark Adams, Mark Hicks, and more recently Orion Wilhoite, and Danny Webster just last year.
Scott I enjoyed this interview. Thank u for these interviews. Mr. Miller I am die hard slave fan. As a teenage bass player Mark Adam's caught my attention. Man! His bass playing blew my mind. Slave on a whole did not sound like other bands. You guys brought it! Looking forward to a Slave reunion. Mr. Miller, everything will work out, I literally felt your pain in this interview. The record industry is a MF. Keep your head up Sir. No one can tear down the the Slave brand. I'm in Slave's corner. God bless.
Big thank you to scott goldfine for keeping the funk in the media. The book everything is on the one is fab, a true bible of funk. Slave my fav funk band. 100% underated. Their albums stone jam and showtime were vintage classics. I think god put football in brazil. Cricket in the carribean. Oil in the middle east . Hollywood in the America and bass in mark adams . He was a genuis . He played his hansolo bass beautifully. It spoke to you. Danny websters guiter licks on , ( just a touch of love and I,d like to get you into my life were also superb. Floyds pumping horns ( blowed your mind) . We were spolit. Thank god for cds ,you tube and shows like this.
Steve Washington is from Jersey but the other members were from Dayton or grew up there like Floyd Miller. Many of them played together prior to being in Slave
The ability to create and express your inner desires is a blessing. In Dayton no one was poor but had parents that did not struggle so your first guitar was a high end name brand fender or gibson just because life was good.
