Flood by Herbie Hancock & The HeadHunters

bassist15 · #1 04-04-2006, 07:51 AM

Ive heard about this album but ive never personally heard it. Is it very good? Does anyone know where I coudl get a copy like Best Buy or something?I was just wondering casue I am a huge HeadHunters fan especially when Mike Clark was the drummer. He and Paul Jackson made up one of my favorite rhytm sections of all time.

DaveBeny · #2 04-04-2006, 10:03 AM

'Flood' is a LIVE album. It's been a Japan-only release for many years, but I think there are plans to reissue it in the US as part of the Columbia Legacy range.

www.dustygroove.com have it for $16.99. It's not one of Herbie's better-known discs, so good luck finding a copy in you run-of-the-mill record shops.

If you're a Headhunters fan, you might enjoy this live videoclip from 1974:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fMg2vbN9kLA

Alan Vorse · #3 04-04-2006, 03:45 PM

Hard to find, VERY VERY good. Blackbyrd McKnight from P-Funk on guitar.

JimK · #4 04-04-2006, 05:12 PM

Flood is easier to find than it was a few years ago...like Dave said, dustygroove(a great source for R&B & Jazz) is stocking it at a reasonable price.
I think I bought my 'Mastersound' copy from Audiophile Imports a few years back for about $30.
Very good live recording + playing.
Headhunters' fans should buy it, no doubt.

Blackbyrd, IIRC, also had a cup of coffee with the RHCP.

DaveBeny · #5 04-04-2006, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by harmolodic

Blackbyrd McKnight from P-Funk on guitar.

His current activities are at:
www.myspace.com/blackbyrdmcknight
www.blackbyrdmcknight.com

A fine player in the Hazel/Cosey/Sharrock vein.

Lo. · #6 04-04-2006, 05:36 PM

You're going to love it - Jackson is just amazing on it.

Hope you've got the double live album "VSOP" - Flood is like its evil twin.

bassist15 · #7 04-04-2006, 08:00 PM

What are all the Herbie HAncock albums that Paul Jackson is featured on . I thought that he played on a few before HeadHunters and a few after.

Bruce Lindfield · #8 04-05-2006, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by David Benyahia

'Flood' is a LIVE album.

I have a recording on MiniDisc that I took off the radio - BBC Radio 3 - of when Herbie and Headhunters came to London a few years ago!!

That makes a good live album!!

jerry · #9 04-05-2006, 07:13 AM

+1 to what everybody has said, one of my favorite electric Herbie albums! I recently picked up the live Jaco/Hancock album is was a wee disappointed, Paul Jackson was a much better fit for the Headhunter tunes.

bassist15 · #10 04-05-2006, 01:57 PM

What album is JAco/Hancock live? Is it a jazzy album? Id be really interested to hear that. I really love most all of Herbie's funk-jazz . I have HeadHunters and i want to get Thrust , Flood , FAt Albert Rotunda and any others with funk on it. What ones am I missing?

jerry · #11 04-05-2006, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bassist15

What album is JAco/Hancock live? Is it a jazzy album? Id be really interested to hear that. I really love most all of Herbie's funk-jazz . I have HeadHunters and i want to get Thrust , Flood , FAt Albert Rotunda and any others with funk on it. What ones am I missing?

The Hancock with Jaco is a import, but I'm not sure how legit it is. They do Headhunters funk and some jazz. Audiophile imports has it.

DaveBeny · #12 04-05-2006, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by bassist15

What album is JAco/Hancock live? Is it a jazzy album? Id be really interested to hear that. I really love most all of Herbie's funk-jazz . I have HeadHunters and i want to get Thrust , Flood , FAt Albert Rotunda and any others with funk on it. What ones am I missing?

Harvey Mason was the drummer on 'Headhunters'. Mike Clark had taken over for the follow-up, 'Thrust'. If you don't have it, that should be your next purchase.

The Headhunters recorded a couple of good albums in the '70s without Herbie, 'Survival of the Fittest' and 'Straight from the Gate'.

'Sextant' is a very cool space-funk-jazz record from Herbie's pre-Headhunters band, the Mwandishi band.

'Sunlight' and 'Mr Hands' are two albums from the late 70s (credited to Herbie only) and move in a more disco-oriented direction. Jaco Pastorius appears on 'Mr Hands'.

JimK · #13 04-05-2006, 04:00 PM

There's also a Headhunters' reunion cd from a couple years back...I'm no fan of it.
The 2 albums Headhunters' albums sans Hancock mentioned by Dave(above) are alright; not as good as Thrust, Flood, or Headhunters. Anything with PJ is worth checking out...how about his solo disc from the '70s, Black Octopus?

Sextant, IMO, is very happenin'...totally different vibe, though, from the Headhunters.

The Owl · #14 04-07-2006, 08:21 AM

Paul Jackson and Mike Clark also did an album together back in the 90's called "The Funk Stops Here"