The Funk Brothers have been on more #1 hits than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined. Do yourself a favor and track down the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

GreenAdder: Do yourself a favor and track down the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!

/RIP, drummer man

GreenAdder: The Funk Brothers have been on more #1 hits than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined. Do yourself a favor and track down the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

Came here to say this.

RIP

Wow, he worked on some of my absolute favorite songs. RIP.

coco ebert: Wow, he worked on some of my absolute favorite songs. RIP.

I second that emotion.

I like the documentary, but I almost wish they'd kept the interview segments and the concert segments separate and not alternatingly intermingled. The band was hot and I know that's what it was about, but I wasn't a fan of all the guest singers (*coughjoanosbornecough*) and that broke some of the momentum for me.

RIP, Funk Brother, and thanks for all the great work.

Well, I guess God needed a drummer in his band...

/I hate that cloying crap

Uriel Jones dies and goes to heaven. Outside the Pearly gates he's talking to St. Peter about the band.
"Who" askes the drummer "do you have playing here?".

"Everybody" says St. Peter, "We've got Billie Holliday, Ella and Bessie Smith sharing vocals, Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Willis on guitar, the bassist you just wouldn't believe'"

"So," askes the drummer, "who leads the band?"

St. Peter waits just a second before answering and replys, "Well, it's God of course, but occasionally he thinks He's Berry Gordy".

Uriel Jones dies and goes to heaven. While he is waiting outside the pearly gates, he hears some incredibly fast drumming coming from within heaven. He immediately recognizes the playing, and asks St. Peter if that really is Buddy Rich playing drums in heaven. St. Peter responds:
"No, that's God. He just thinks that he's Buddy Rich."

Maybe he was watching American Idol tonight...

Earguy: "No, that's God. He just thinks that he's Buddy Rich."

Man, if God thinks he's Buddy Rich, I can only imagine how he'd chew out the non-believers...;)

*hides pocket recorder in trumpet case*

This is the perfect time to say nice things about Detroit.

/The HOME of Rock 'n' Roll
//BABY!!

Godspeed? Where's he going?

CarnySaur: Godspeed? Where's he going?


The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns,

KwameKilstrawberry: This is the perfect time to say nice things about Detroit.

/The HOME of Rock 'n' Roll
//BABY!!

The Mississippi Delta would like a word with you.

/Chicago, too...

Was it because American Idol butchered one of his songs tonight?

KwameKilstrawberry: This is the perfect time to say nice things about Detroit.

At least it's not Paramus, NJ.

/was that nice enough?
//RIP Funky Man

PerfectlyCromulent: KwameKilstrawberry: This is the perfect time to say nice things about Detroit.

/The HOME of Rock 'n' Roll
//BABY!!

The Mississippi Delta would like a word with you.

/Chicago, too...


Fair enough...but in my defense, I said "Home of Rock 'n' Roll"...not the "Birth of Rock 'n' Roll".

But can you beat this list, with Mississippi and Chicago combined:

Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
Question Mark & the Mysterians
The Stooges
John Lee Hooker
Del Shannon
Alice Cooper
The Supremes
The MC5 (used to see the lead singer and his wife around town all the time. May he continue to kick out the jams with the rest of Heaven's Rock 'n' Roll Band)
Nolan Strong & the Diablos
Brownsville Station
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
The Marvelettes
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Tammi Terrell
The Temptations
The Dynamics
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Jimmy Ruffin
David Ruffin
Aretha Franklin
Edwin Starr
The Falcons
Iggy Pop
The Four Tops
Little Willie John
The Bob Seger System (& The Silver Bullet Band)
Martha & the Vandellas (Martha shoulda stuck to singing and stayed out of local politics)
Junior Walker & the All-Stars
The Capitols
Funkadelic
Chairmen of the Board
The Undisputed Truth
The Contours
Mary Wells
Grand Funk Railroad
The White Stripes
The Dramatics
The Parliaments
Madonna
Barrett Strong
Brenda Holloway
The Amboy Dukes (and reluctantly, Ted Nugent)
The Spinners
Freda Payne
Jackie Wilson
The Frost (Vanguard) 1969
Todd Rhodes and his Orchestra
Eminem
The Reflections
George Clinton
The Romantics
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
Kid Rock
The Originals
Detroit Cobras
J.J. Barnes
Marshall Crenshaw (went to HS with his little brother, whom I had a HUUUUGE crush on)
Tommy James & the Shondells
Shades of Blue
Was (Not Was)
The Knack
Patti (and Fred) Smith
The Isley Brothers
Honey Cone
The Woolies
Berry Gordy
Don Was
Punch Andrews
The keyboard guy from the Black Crowes
Sonny Bono
Anita Baker
Glenn Frey
The Winans Family
CKLW
WABX
WWWW
WDRQ (Where "Paul is Dead" orignated)

Honorary, because they love Detroit:
KISS
J. Geils Band

and MOTOWN, Hitsville USA, FTW

I'm sure I left many out, particularly the techno and hip hop peeps.

/it's just an old WRIF-FM tagline.
//with apologies to Arthur P.

KwameKilstrawberry: Kid Rock

Y-you're sure you want him on the list...?

GreenAdder 2009-03-25 05:37:43 PM
The Funk Brothers have been on more #1 hits than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined. Do yourself a favor and track down the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

BKITU 2009-03-25 05:50:21 PM
GreenAdder: Do yourself a favor and track down the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!

/RIP, drummer man
MyrnaMinkoff 2009-03-25 05:55:21 PM
GreenAdder: The Funk Brothers have been on more #1 hits than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined. Do yourself a favor and track down the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

Came here to say this.


Oh, so much THIS!

During the intro to 'Grapevine' you can hear the bassist's notes causing the snare on the drum to rattle before the drummer kicks in; just one of the coolest things ever.
And Standing in the Shadows of Motown is a great documentary.

whidbey: KwameKilstrawberry: Kid Rock

Y-you're sure you want him on the list...?

LOL...my mom (79 years old) loves Kid Rock. Just wishes he'd not cuss so much. And the Kid is good to the City, so yeah, he can stay.

Hey, there's a few on there you wouldn't catch me listening to, but I'll admit it's subjective.

/really thought Madonna would have been the first to be slammed
//Diana Ross actually had to cancel concerts here for lack of sales. She has quite the reputation for being a majorly despised biatch in this town.

Here's Ben Harper doing "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" with the Funk Brothers from "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

Soon as I saw the headline I was going to come in here and mention Standing in the Shadows of Motown. I see it has been well covered. What really amazed me is that most of the guys now look like the crowd found at Denny's for breakfast or walkin around the mall. Then they start to play...

RIP Drummer Man
Glad you lived to get some of the respect that Jamerson missed.

KwameKilstrawberry:
Nice list. I'm gonna save it. You can also add
Roxy Petrucci of the metal band Vixen (new window) with whom I went to High School.

Now that I looked it up, you can also add these to the list of people from Detroit area or if not born here, got their start here:
Rare Earth
Wilson Pickett
Insane Clown Posse
Ray Parker Jr.
Suzi Quatro

Was Frijid Pink known nationally?

Am I the only one who feels sorry for the kids coming along now and the music they have to listen to on the radio? We had Motown, Stax, TSOP, the English Invasion and all those great one-hit wonder bands who made some awesome records. So much great music, so many great musicians. These poor kids got Kanye, Jay-Z and Bouncie Knowles. WTF happened to talent?

The_Philosopher_King: Now that I looked it up, you can also add these to the list of people from Detroit area or if not born here, got their start here:
Rare Earth
Wilson Pickett
Insane Clown Posse
Ray Parker Jr.
Suzi Quatro

Was Frijid Pink known nationally?

I stole it from Metro Times Top 100 Detroit Songs. There's some old blues people that I'd never heard of that I took off, but probably should have left in.

Oops - I meant to put Rare Earth on there! Their version of "I'm Losing You" is epic.

Hmmm, dunno if Frijid Pink was nationwide or not, but I sure have heard of them.

/Still pissed Cleveland got the RNRHOF. WTF?

KwameKilstrawberry: Hmmm, dunno if Frijid Pink was nationwide or not, but I sure have heard of them.

They had a hit with House of the Rising Sun in the mid-70s. Although the only place I ever heard it was on a K-Tel commercial when I was a kid...

Kind of a creepy sludgy version of the song.

whidbey: KwameKilstrawberry: Hmmm, dunno if Frijid Pink was nationwide or not, but I sure have heard of them.

They had a hit with House of the Rising Sun in the mid-70s. Although the only place I ever heard it was on a K-Tel commercial when I was a kid...

Kind of a creepy sludgy version of the song.


You might catch it here someday:

www.wcsxdeeptrax.com

or here:

www.wdrv.com


/alarm goes off in 3.5 hours...too tired to linky
//the only places I hear "Bip Bop" played (one of Paul McCartney's silliest songs ever)
///and then the next song will be "Hangman" or some growling psychedlic blues.

Jones provided the propulsion for the short-lived "psychedelic soul" movement. That's him cooking along on the Temptation's "Puzzle People," a criminally forgotten album.

/come in and take a look at your mind.

He wasn't the last great funk drummer alive. I can see Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown's drummer) play every Monday night here in Madison, WI.

AiryAnne: Maybe he was watching American Idol tonight...

I didn't see the whole show, but as I was watching Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy, as well as the "Idols" singing Motown songs, I couldn't help but think about this cat and wonder why nobody mentioned him-not even Ryan Seacrest. Did I miss it?

GreenAdder: The Funk Brothers have been on more #1 hits than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined. Do yourself a favor and track down the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

One of the best documentaries, of any kind, I've ever seen. Two thumbs up from me.