Who played drums on . . .

[five eight]

Prince's SEXY MF? Those beat displacements are the funkiest! One of my favorite all-time beats and I don't even know which of Prince's drummers did it, or if that drummer was instructed: "Backbeat on one and two &."

I ask this bearing in mind the Tony Williams maxim: "Drummers play drums and rock drummers play beats."

Which may not necessarily be true anymore. [img]eek.gif[/img]

[ntbCreative]

i love that track too..and i play it everyweekend.
Michael Bland was the guy who played on that album....also check out..."love you to the nines"...its kinda swung songo groove.
i think prince tells you what to play or her at least shows you too....lol
think its a take off on a James Brown Groove..
Cheers!!

[got_a_matchgrip]

Absolutely correct.

Mike Bland is a baaad boy, & arguably Prince's "best" drummer to date IMHO [no contests, pls! [img]wink.gif[/img] ...or should i say, most interesting?] Of course, he always has good musos.

Do a search here & you might find several threads where we spoke of him.

I also liked The Morning Papers off that same disc. Heck, I liked most the tunes off that disc...I dug the melodic [enharmomnic] changes in the pop tune "7," AWA its vocals [the lyrics there, I couldn't tell you about, tho. Too busy enjoying the music... [img]wink.gif[/img] Besides, sometimes he just sometimes sounded a little too superficial lyrically for me perhaps, back in the day?]. We used to cover that tune in a Top 40 band i was in briefly in the early/mid 90s.

I also like that stuff MB did w G Benson, a tune of which was posted here a goood while back.

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[heideldrum]

I LOVE michael Blant!!!!
Do you know this Ricky Peterson CD, he plays on? Called "A tear can tell". There?s a instrumental Ballad on it, where you?d never guess to put a drumsolo on. M.B. does it, or let?s say the producer did it and M.B. did his job in a way that kills your ears... It ends with a live played fade and the the Introfill to the next song is sooooo cuttttttting!!!!!!

It hurts!!!!!

[Klemme]

If you love Michael Bland, check out guitarist Dean Brown. his unreal on a tune, just amazing, lemme find that album.

TBH I really miss Michael infront of John Blackwell in the NPG.

[Si71]

Another good Michael Bland album is 'That's Right' (1996) by George Benson. Ricky Peterson is on this too. Some fantastic grooves.

[five eight]

I'd like to thank all my dawgs who kept me from havin' to Froogle that. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Kinda thought it might be Bland, cause he trashes some tunes on The Gold Experience, one which suspiciously sounds punched in but's still killer.

And while I'm at it I might as well say, "God bless Sheila Escovedo."

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[Cameron_Mahoney]

Dean Brown sounds like a familiar name. I think he plays on a live Marcus Miller album I have.

[got_a_matchgrip]

If Klemme & Cam are referring to guitarist & Beklee alumnus Dean Brown, I don't know...this particular DB was also on the 1st couple of Stv Smith Vital Information albums from the early 80s ['83 & forward], AWA Cobham's live Glass Menagerie "Smokin'"... [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]

This DB i refer to is a fine jazz & fusion gtrst...great feel & tons of knowledgeable chops...& he does some great solos on SS&VI's 1st & 2nd ["Orion"] releases AW [along w Mike Stern], one of which was on the jazz-swing-fusion tune Blade, awesome...which i would kill to find on disc...

If i rem corr, ben posted mp3s of a few of the tunes a while back, one of which had one of DB's great solos, from the tune All That Is, off the 2nd SS/VI album [Orion].

IF this is in fact the same DB...do you know if it is, Klemme? [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]

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