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11-14-2012, 07:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA; Mitchellville, Maryland | | | How do you feel about The Chicken?
Particularly Jaco's versions of the song. Frankly, I think it's one of the cheesiest pieces of music I've ever heard, not counting joke songs and such. It's like it's trying to hard to be funky and falls on it's face. My buddy, on the other hand, LOVES it. Ever since we played it back in high school he just can't get enough.
Just curious to see what other folks think.
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11-14-2012, 08:53 AM
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I'd love to hear Rocco and TOP do a take on it.
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11-14-2012, 11:53 AM
|  | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | To make it groove like Jaco did YOU have to groove like Jaco did, which is grooving like Jerry Jemmott did. It's not a funk bassline but it is very funky.
I like the track. How can Pee Wee Ellis be cheesy? Soul Intro's pretty cool, too. |
11-14-2012, 11:55 AM
|  | El Nada | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Jaco's version reminds me of Saturday Night Live music, any time I hear it I start seeing GE Smith and that big bearded sax player (and HE reminded me of a better kempt Captain Lou Albano) that was in the SNL band at the time. It's a fun enough tune, but I'm by no means a fan.
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11-14-2012, 12:00 PM
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11-14-2012, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by DWBass I'll take Maceo's or Brian Bromberg's versions every day! Never really a Jaco fan. I prefer my funk much harder and much more authentic. Jaco could be funky but he was not, IMHO, a funk bass payer.
I'd love to hear Rocco and TOP do a take on it. | I agree with much of what you say except I am a Jaco fan. I love his playing, but he was not a funk bassist to my ears. He was a sort of r&b mutant who could get funky, but his true calling was fusion.
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11-14-2012, 12:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Tampa, Florida, US | | | Honestly, despite the fact that I'm more or less a Jaco fan, I hate that song with a passion.
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11-14-2012, 12:42 PM
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11-14-2012, 12:49 PM
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11-14-2012, 12:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: South Carolina | | | The james brown version is outta sight but the Jaco version is funky too. Lovin those dom 7th chords all day long |
11-14-2012, 01:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Urbana, IL | | | I'm with your friend. I absolutely LOVE Jaco's version of this tune. To each his/her own.
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11-14-2012, 01:27 PM
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11-14-2012, 01:29 PM
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Well, if the OP doesn't think Jaco is funky, he will most likely hate this version even more. My old buddy Tommy Kennedy with the Weckl band.... sterile, precise fusion at its best |
11-14-2012, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Marial Jaco's version reminds me of Saturday Night Live music, any time I hear it I start seeing GE Smith and that big bearded sax player (and HE reminded me of a better kempt Captain Lou Albano) that was in the SNL band at the time. It's a fun enough tune, but I'm by no means a fan. | Lenny Pickett was and is the sax player! Totally unique and kick ass. IMHO. Jaco swung so hard on some grooves like "the chicken" that it was funk!
Lenny was playing with Tower of Power when he was a teenager. Serious credentials of funk and just plain good R&B.
Still....different strokes for different folks...
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11-14-2012, 01:48 PM
| | El Nada | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Yep, I just not a big fan of that type of music, all respect to the players.
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11-14-2012, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by KJung | The funny thing is that Weckl's take is the only one that I've found that I actually like. He cut all the cheese from the tune and left the musicality. It sounds so much more fun and alive as opposed to a bad game show theme.
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11-14-2012, 05:37 PM
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11-14-2012, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by colcifer To make it groove like Jaco did YOU have to groove like Jaco did, which is grooving like Jerry Jemmott did. It's not a funk bassline but it is very funky.
I like the track. How can Pee Wee Ellis be cheesy? Soul Intro's pretty cool, too. | Ditto. |
11-14-2012, 05:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Madison, WI. | | FWIW, Jaco had been doing that tune going back to his pre-discovery days in Ft Lauderdale. I seem to recall there was a version floating around some years back of Jaco in an organ trio he was in back in Ft Lauderdale. This version is off the Jaco video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhkPSEXs1Q |
11-14-2012, 07:26 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Ohio | | | It's hard to watch a post 1984 Jaco concert. He goes through his mental cycle or whatever with each song, and it's easy to see.
He did break from his disorder for the Live in Italy album... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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