dr_mabeuse
seduce the mind
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- Oct 10, 2002
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Okay, I wasn’t going to say anything about this but I need some serious cheering up, so I’ll share:
Dr. M. is a rapper! Jay-Z sampled a song I played on in the 60’s and put it on his “Black Album”, and so if you get the CD and listen to a song called “Interlude: Public Service Announcement”, the music is you hear in the background is a very young Dr. Mabeuse and his friend Ray L. playing a song called “Sea of Love”. Jay-Z put the song on a loop and raps over it.
I just found out of this the other day. Back in ’68, my friend had a band called The Little Boy Blues and they cut an album, “In The Woodland of Weir”. I wasn’t in the band, but I’d known Ray since grammar school and we'd played together a lot and so I went to a couple of the recording sessions. I played uncredited bass on one song, and doubled the bass part on contra-bass clarinet on “Sea of Love” to give it a dark, haunty feel.
The album wasn’t much of a seller, although it really was quite good for the time. I don’t know how in the world Jay-Z came across that track, but he uses the opening eight bars to rap over, and if you listen closely, you can hear me buzzing away on the contra-bass clarinet way down on the bottom.
I’m credited on the original album only as Basil Accolade, a name I used for various nefarious purposes at the time. (Jay-Z credits the song, but not me, of course.) I couldn’t use my real name because the contra-bass clarinet—a very expensive instrument—was “borrowed” from my college symphony without their knowledge. (Yes, it was returned the next day.) I remember that the part was so low that, as I played, my glasses would keep vibrating down my nose and I’d have to keep pushing them back up.
Cool, huh? That makes me bad, right? You think I can get some ho’s and bitches up in the crib now?
--Zoot
Dr. M. is a rapper! Jay-Z sampled a song I played on in the 60’s and put it on his “Black Album”, and so if you get the CD and listen to a song called “Interlude: Public Service Announcement”, the music is you hear in the background is a very young Dr. Mabeuse and his friend Ray L. playing a song called “Sea of Love”. Jay-Z put the song on a loop and raps over it.
I just found out of this the other day. Back in ’68, my friend had a band called The Little Boy Blues and they cut an album, “In The Woodland of Weir”. I wasn’t in the band, but I’d known Ray since grammar school and we'd played together a lot and so I went to a couple of the recording sessions. I played uncredited bass on one song, and doubled the bass part on contra-bass clarinet on “Sea of Love” to give it a dark, haunty feel.
The album wasn’t much of a seller, although it really was quite good for the time. I don’t know how in the world Jay-Z came across that track, but he uses the opening eight bars to rap over, and if you listen closely, you can hear me buzzing away on the contra-bass clarinet way down on the bottom.
I’m credited on the original album only as Basil Accolade, a name I used for various nefarious purposes at the time. (Jay-Z credits the song, but not me, of course.) I couldn’t use my real name because the contra-bass clarinet—a very expensive instrument—was “borrowed” from my college symphony without their knowledge. (Yes, it was returned the next day.) I remember that the part was so low that, as I played, my glasses would keep vibrating down my nose and I’d have to keep pushing them back up.
Cool, huh? That makes me bad, right? You think I can get some ho’s and bitches up in the crib now?
--Zoot
