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Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Soul Train and more...

Ed Piskor at 6:00 am Tue, Aug 7, 2012

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  • https://twitter.com/misterjayem MrJM

    Yep.  

    That same Doug Wimbish plays bass with Living Colour.

    • http://devojane.blogspot.com devophill

       He does, but not on that track.

      • http://twitter.com/bigbadchang Chang Terhune

        They are also the nucleus of the great TACKHEAD!

        • noah django

           whoops, sorry Mr. Terhune.  I loaded this page before I went to work, didn’t refresh to see you mentioned Tackhead until after I posted.  annnnnd Disqus isn’t giving me an edit button now because it is a failure of a code.  awesome.

    • noah django

      I was more into them when they had Muzz, though.  Wimbish was in a group called Tackhead inbetween, IIRC

  • Glenn Rice

    Haha, love it how “Rush” Simmons even thinks with a lisp.

  • jarmstrong

    I read that first panel… then I reread it and sounded it out… and I thought, “Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, Dum Ditty Dum Ditty Dum Dum Dum”

    • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

       40 sec’s in for Run DMC’s perfected version of their Dr. Seuss routine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7KDyxa9Wcs

      • noah django

         over this Big Beat drum.  drum-ditty-drum-ditty-ditty-drum-drum!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mVSPXVaEVE

        i feel i must state this explicitly, what with the fucked-up state of hip hop these days:  “Here We Go” is JMJ looping two copies of the Big Beat live, there are no wack Sugarhill-esque backing bands *nor* samplers employed in the above recording.

        • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

           Yeah, man. I like how you can hear Billy Squier chime in a little bit, here and there, because JMJ would hesitate a second too long. It adds to the rawness.

          • noah django

            raw like sushi.  hard to say if it was intentional or not, though.  i mean, it *can* be done intentionally, but it’s kinda one of those “only the DJ knows for sure” things.  personally, I like to loop that way, but it sounds the same if you just don’t cross the fader in time.  either way, the rawness.

            was searching around for the SNL footage of them doing Its Tricky, where you can actually watch Jay doing this (actually, a more difficult re-sequencing of the notes type of loop) with The Knack’s “My Sharona” via an overhead camera, but it ain’t on Hulu anymore, and none of my other searches came up with it, either.  jeez, internet; wtf?

  • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxOu3-kpHrU

    • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

      Check out the Fantastic Five/Fantastic Romantics/Fantastic Freaks in their memorable performance from the flick, WildStyle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCas6larVCw

      • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

         DJ Hollywood’s first record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_UbFJWAj4

        • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

           Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: Freedom (zodiac sign routine at 3:50) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E8jqTVLK4Y

        • citykids

          I’m with the kid, “Feh”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Jones/1466350552 Matthew Jones

    So THAT’S where Keith LeBlanc started…

    • citykids

      Oh man, “Malcolm X-No Sell Out” was my cut back when I was a youngin!

      • http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

         Interesting story behind the Malcolm X jam. We’ll get into it eventually.

  • tedrock

    I love this series and look forward to it every week! Thanks Ed!

  • benher

    Ah, life temporarily complete for another week.

  • http://twitter.com/sxipshirey sxip shirey

    Always so enjoyable to read each of these Ed!