NahRight did a cool piece interviewing Bob James about sampling. It's supposed to be the first in a series so hopefully we'll see more, I always find this kind of stuff fascinating. The one ironic thing I noted was that James was initially understandably upset about his stuff being sampled yet his first hit was an instrumental cover of "Feel Like Making Love" and he also did versions of different classical pieces like Pachelbel's "Cannon". Plus oftentimes arrangers like that just pay a studio musician a small fee for the day and they come up with a lick that James then owns the copyright to in perpetuity. Still that takes nothing away from his great work and interesting perspective on things.
Also, that Bob James sample on Arrested Development's "Everyday People" is great, never knew about that one.
2. "Bob James' first record was a mid-60's trio date on ESPDISK" In response to Reply # 0
its free & experimental & bears little to no resemblance to his future work for CTI & himself
in fact i believe its one of the earliest records to use electronic production techniques, which is funny in light of him being so sampled
its pretty good to although the last track is nearly unlistenable, it's what sounds like a good jazz song w/ some weird dialogue superimposed that sounds like a radio broadcast of a car race or something
also Bob has played on at least a coupla Rob Swift albums...
________________________________________________________________ whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me
I recently picked up the Wax Poetics Anthology books that have several interviews with oft sampled artists, and it's really interesting to read their perspectives. The last paragraph really rings true for me. I've been exposed to genres and artists I love that I never would have checked out if it weren't for samples.
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