WEBVTT - Questlove Reaches Into The Mailbag & Answers - February 1

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<v Speaker 1>The quest Loft Show is a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>What's Up, Good People? This is quest Love.

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<v Speaker 1>In addition to our weekly interviews of The Quest Love Show,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to be doing some things periodically where I'll

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<v Speaker 1>tell you a little bit more about a guest or

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<v Speaker 1>what's going on in my life.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they call this musings. You know. Another thing

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<v Speaker 2>we want to do is take your feedback, take your.

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<v Speaker 1>Questions, and I will answer them to the best of

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<v Speaker 1>my ability.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm giving you the listeners a chance to engage

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<v Speaker 2>with me.

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<v Speaker 1>You could DM me to either the QLs account. Matter

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<v Speaker 1>of fact, only dm the QLs account. Don't DM my

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<v Speaker 1>account because I barely check my own account. Okay, follow

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<v Speaker 1>QLs on ig or go through Questlove Supreme dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, We'll be recording these a few times

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<v Speaker 1>a month where I'll basically, you know, answer letters. So

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<v Speaker 1>we have a message from executes on ig as. What

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<v Speaker 1>are my top five TV theme songs no particular order.

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<v Speaker 1>The theme to Barney Miller funky bassline, but we used

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<v Speaker 1>to do the Barney like Google or YouTube Barney Miller theme,

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<v Speaker 1>very funky number four.

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<v Speaker 2>You know it's weird one.

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<v Speaker 1>It has a very odd title, which is a song

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<v Speaker 1>called Suicide Is Painless. Suicide is Painless is also known

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<v Speaker 1>as the theme for Mash. Mash was I've never watched

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<v Speaker 1>one episode of Mash, but the second you heard that theme,

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<v Speaker 1>no matter where you were, if you were.

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<v Speaker 2>My age, you didn't it was time to go to bed.

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<v Speaker 1>So whenever I hear Mash, suddenly the next thing that

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<v Speaker 1>happens is.

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<v Speaker 2>Go to bed. So suicide is Painless the theme to match.

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<v Speaker 1>The third theme I will mention is the Bobby McFerrin

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<v Speaker 1>version of the comedy show now known as The Huxtable Household.

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<v Speaker 1>I can say Huxtable right, yeah, as you know each

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<v Speaker 1>season there would be uh. I love shows that do

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<v Speaker 1>new title cards each season or spices it up and

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<v Speaker 1>does new things. So the all a cappella Bobby McFerrin

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<v Speaker 1>version of that comedy show with the Huxtable family and

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<v Speaker 1>it that, to me is a very notable when you

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<v Speaker 1>start harmonizing with the theme that that means you onto something.

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<v Speaker 1>So I will say that that's number three. Okay, this

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<v Speaker 1>is weird. There's a piano player named John Costa. I

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<v Speaker 1>believe he's Pittsburgh Late it and jazz musician and he's

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<v Speaker 1>the sound of Fred Rogers, which we effectually known as

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<v Speaker 1>Mister Rogers Neighborhood Show. As a child of the seventies,

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<v Speaker 1>that's one of the shows I was allowed to watch,

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<v Speaker 1>a very friendly you know, like it's so weird that

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<v Speaker 1>it with just very little, very little to work with

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<v Speaker 1>in terms of instrumentation.

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<v Speaker 2>Somehow, John Costa.

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<v Speaker 1>Just absolutely sort of conveys warmth and emotion and his

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<v Speaker 1>entire scoring, the theme song and the closing song and

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<v Speaker 1>things in between as well. Probably my favorite thing of

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<v Speaker 1>that whole show is the sort of sign off production tag,

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<v Speaker 1>which is the last thing that you hear. There's a

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<v Speaker 1>really long our peggio at the very end of the show.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like seven eight seconds, and that is the comforting

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<v Speaker 1>like if I think of a comforting moment in my childhood,

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<v Speaker 1>that's the soundtrack to it, just that last eight second

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<v Speaker 1>arpeggio thing. But my number one theme song of all

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<v Speaker 1>time comes courtesy of my all time favorite television show,

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<v Speaker 1>which is Soul Train. Now, Soul Train is going through

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<v Speaker 1>various themes. The most iconic of them, of course, was

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<v Speaker 1>written by two legendary Philadelphian producers, Gamble and Huff.

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<v Speaker 2>The sound of Philadelphia Soul Trained Soul Train.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the most iconic one. But that's not my favorite

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<v Speaker 1>soul train theme. The best soul training theme of all

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<v Speaker 1>time comes courtesy of an artist named O'Brien, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty seven Soul Train's

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<v Speaker 1>a Coming theme.

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<v Speaker 2>There's two versions of it.

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<v Speaker 1>Shout out to my boy DJ Nick Puzzo, who likes

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<v Speaker 1>the original version, only the LP version, which is cool.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean it sounds like zap or like West Coast, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, trunk music.

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<v Speaker 1>But the remix version of Soul Trains Are Coming, the

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<v Speaker 1>late eighty three to the spring of eighty seven version,

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<v Speaker 1>to me, is the best. And actually, to add on

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<v Speaker 1>to Adilla theory, j Dill's mom made note that the

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<v Speaker 1>sort of offbeat clapping of the final scene in the

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<v Speaker 1>Cosby Portier trilogy movie a piece of the action. If

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<v Speaker 1>you're a movie theater of ficionado of the seventies, you

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<v Speaker 1>know that Bill Cosby Sidney Poitier made.

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<v Speaker 2>Some classic films together.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not counting Ghost Dad, well, I think Portier The

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<v Speaker 1>Ghost Dad, but of course I'm talking about Uptown Saturday Night,

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<v Speaker 1>absolute classic.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's do it again, absolute classic. A piece of action.

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<v Speaker 1>Is not as strong as the first two, but it'll do.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe that's the acting debut of Shirley Ralph. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean winner Shirley Ralph as a teenager. But at the

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<v Speaker 1>very end, it's a story about a school teacher in

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<v Speaker 1>the public school system, and there's a scene at the

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<v Speaker 1>end where someone brings out a boombox and they all

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<v Speaker 1>start dancing. But you know, when they make movies, they

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<v Speaker 1>have not admitted a device that will let you listen

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<v Speaker 1>to music in real time and also have dialogue without

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<v Speaker 1>bleeding music bleeding or dialogue bleeding. So oftentimes what they

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<v Speaker 1>used to do was just have people dance to nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you're ever watching a movie and the music's

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<v Speaker 1>not matching the movement, it's often because the directors says

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<v Speaker 1>and and they'll just dance to anything. Nowadays, I just

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<v Speaker 1>did a cameo on the new Mandy Kaling show, her

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<v Speaker 1>new project, and there's a music scene in there, and

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<v Speaker 1>what they do is they just play a click track.

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<v Speaker 1>So they'll be in like a nightclub setting or whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>and you'll just hear and you're supposed to respond to that.

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<v Speaker 1>But when the editing happens, then they'll insert the song

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<v Speaker 1>that's supposed to be in there. But in this case

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<v Speaker 1>PC of Action, they're clapping to a song. But once

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<v Speaker 1>they added the staple singer song to it, the clapping

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<v Speaker 1>started to drag and a ten year old James Yancey

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<v Speaker 1>took a note that wow, why are they clapping off rhythm?

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<v Speaker 1>And that was his eureka moment. So for me, in

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<v Speaker 1>Soul Train, there's a half hour mark in the theme,

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<v Speaker 1>and in that theme there's an editing glitch, and that

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<v Speaker 1>editing glitch causes the clap to be delayed as well.

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<v Speaker 1>That's sort of the reason why I like playing offbeat,

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<v Speaker 1>like just as a tribute to that my favorite theme.

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<v Speaker 1>So they are my five favorite themes executes. All right, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>next Mario, what's up?

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<v Speaker 2>Mario?

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<v Speaker 1>Mario says question from the mailbag? All right, what's respect

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<v Speaker 1>for you? Having the late great legend Frankie Beverly. But

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<v Speaker 1>it was a hard listen because he really wasn't providing

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<v Speaker 1>much in the way of details and his answers. Since

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<v Speaker 1>you've always been finding your way with interviewing, how do

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<v Speaker 1>you feel when you have.

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<v Speaker 2>A difficult interview?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you do anything special when the Frankly Beverly interview

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<v Speaker 1>was done, or do you just treat it like it

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<v Speaker 1>was any other show. It's hard to know what type

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<v Speaker 1>of guest you're going to have when you're in this

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<v Speaker 1>type of situations. Oftentimes there is kind of a cigh

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<v Speaker 1>of relief on the end of the artist, who will

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<v Speaker 1>usually give note back that wow, I never did an

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<v Speaker 1>interview like that. Oftentimes I like to ask questions that

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<v Speaker 1>no one asks. I learned this probably during Sli in

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<v Speaker 1>the Family Stone. There was a two members of that

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<v Speaker 1>group that I interviewed that started to tear up at

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<v Speaker 1>the end because they said.

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<v Speaker 2>To me, like, wow, I never.

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<v Speaker 1>Knew how important it was for someone to ask me

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<v Speaker 1>how do I feel? I purposely in the Sly in

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<v Speaker 1>the Family Stone documentary, asked, hey, how do you feel

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<v Speaker 1>about something which is different than tell me about when.

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<v Speaker 2>Blah blah blah happened?

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<v Speaker 1>Because how you feel causes you to question yourself and

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<v Speaker 1>your emotions. That's how you know a person's human, and

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<v Speaker 1>oftentimes we're not treated as human. We treat his product,

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<v Speaker 1>and artists are especially treat his product. Tell me about

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<v Speaker 1>your new album now. Sometimes I just want to ask

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<v Speaker 1>where do you have for breakfast today? But in the

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<v Speaker 1>case of Frankie Beverley, Frankie was, yeah, kind of north

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<v Speaker 1>of seventy. But regardless, we felt it was necessary to

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<v Speaker 1>give him his flowers, so that's why we titled it

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<v Speaker 1>Frankie Beverly Gets his Flowers. Previously, I will say that

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<v Speaker 1>the Roy Airs interview was a little bit difficult. We

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<v Speaker 1>weren't prepared because he had sort of spotty memory on things,

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<v Speaker 1>and sometimes you just gotta go with it. I too,

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<v Speaker 1>had a lot of questions. I had read Jan Gay's book.

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<v Speaker 1>Jan Gay is a wife widow. She just recently passed

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<v Speaker 1>of Marvin gay and in her book, I believe it's

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<v Speaker 1>called After the Dance, I think, and she talks about

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<v Speaker 1>her time with Frankie Beverly and that was.

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<v Speaker 2>Her version of stuff. Wow.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so yeah, I had a lot of questions pertaining

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<v Speaker 1>to Marvin Gaye discovering him and also his time in

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<v Speaker 1>Philadelphia and all that stuff. But nevertheless, I'm glad to

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<v Speaker 1>have gotten one of his last interviews.

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<v Speaker 2>Very honored for that.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, sometimes you just it makes you a

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<v Speaker 1>better communicator. I just say that having a conversation with

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<v Speaker 1>people sometimes you're just not prepared for how open someone is.

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<v Speaker 2>But I enjoyed nevertheless. But thank you for your question,

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<v Speaker 2>Mario