David Matthews
Talent and dumb luck: James Brown's right-hand man on musical escapism and controlled basslines
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Fela heard about it and he thought James was trying to steal his shit and he was angry.
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The Pacemakers were just kids. Well, Catfish, he was 23 or 24. But Bootsy was just a kid.
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On a record, if you don't put the hip stuff at the beginning, they might not even get far enough in to listen to it.
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I got some huge checks from Biggie Smalls and Method Man and Redman and Nas.
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Experimentation is extremely important, but 90% of it will be gone soon.
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Interviewer
Eothen "Egon" Alapatt
Eothen "Egon" Alapatt came to fame as the brainiac business manager of Stones Throw records, though his roots lie in crate-digging and rifling through phone directories to track down the names and faces behind history’s most obscure acetates, private-press funk LPs and jazz masterpieces. These days he puts these sleuthing talents to use in running his own archive label Now Again and managing legendary hip hop producer Madlib. He’s also an incredibly snappy dresser.