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10-27-2005, 05:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico | | | Covers of "the chicken"
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Hey all
Well I was listening to a cd I recently aqquired, "Mats & Morgan - On air with guests", and they have a pretty cool version of jaco's the chicken (its worth checkin it out).. I was wondering if anyone knew anyone else who covers this song..
cheers! 
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10-27-2005, 06:05 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Hey Kernel,
Jaco did not write that tune. It's an old R&B tune written by Pee Wee Ellis, one of James browns horn players (sax)
I know there is a version with Maceo Parker, Pee Wee and Maceo both played with James Brown.
The tune is kind of a classic and I'm sure there are many covers of this, but Maceo's is the only one that comes to mind right now. |
10-27-2005, 06:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Canada & USA | | | Hey, I didn't know that. Good the hear a little bit of the history behind that tune! |
10-27-2005, 06:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | For a long time I thought Jaco wrote it too, the Jaco.com forum proved me wrong a long time ago. I love that song and I have heard James Brown's band play it a few times, but I still think Jaco did it the best.
I can't think of anyone else who played it though. |
10-27-2005, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Austin,Tx | | | ummm Felix and Julius Pastorius did a cover of it with their band. |
10-27-2005, 09:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | Yeah and it was awesome. You can really tell that they're Jaco's kids. You ever hear Felix's version of Barbary Coast? It's AWESOME and it's available for free (legal) download at Ingrid Pastorius's website along with a bunch of other stuff: www.jacop.net |
10-28-2005, 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeyFingers I can't think of anyone else who played it though. | Craig Garfinkel...he's a member here, too.
His band's name is Mystery Feet.
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10-28-2005, 09:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico | | | interesting stuf... thanks for the input!
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10-28-2005, 10:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Humble, TX, USA, Sol 3 | | | If you can find a copy of the Drummer's Collective 25th Anniversary DVD, there is a great version of the Dave Weckl Band w/ Tom Kennedy on bass doing a version of it...
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10-28-2005, 12:00 PM
| | | | A guitarist called Shaun Baxter has done a version of it on an albume called Jazz Metal. He is a pretty hot guitarist and plays the lead instead of having a big band stylee arrangment. Its pretty cool... me and the guitarist in my band do a version of it.
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10-28-2005, 03:05 PM
| | Howzit brah | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Kauai, HI | | I have a live recording of Garaj Mahal doing The Chicken somewhere. Kai says 'are you ready for the funk' in his crazy accent and the band proceeds to kill it 
Man I want a Big Apple 5.
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10-29-2005, 11:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Forest Falls, CA | | I wish I could remember who recorded it, but I picked up one of the bass magazines that has a CD included and there was a pretty hip version in 6/8.
if you hit the Brotherhood of Groove's site, I'm pretty sure there's a live version of it posted from one of our old shows, too.
as a weird aside, I met a club owner in Florida while I was on tour who talked about meeting Pee Wee and I guess the original title was just "Chicken", 'cause it was his favorite food, but everyone else put 'The' at the beginning and it stuck.  |
10-29-2005, 11:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | | TB's own Adrian Garcia did a fantastic cover of this, IIRC.
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