WEBVTT - Questlove Reaches Into The Mail Bag & Answers - January 16

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<v Speaker 1>The Quest Loft Show is a production of iHeartRadio. What's Up,

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<v Speaker 1>good people? This is quest Love.

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<v Speaker 2>In addition to our weekly interviews of The Quest Loft Show,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to be doing some things periodically where I'll

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<v Speaker 2>tell you a little bit more about a guest or

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<v Speaker 2>what's going on in my life.

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<v Speaker 1>I think they call this musings. You know.

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

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<v Speaker 2>take your questions, and I will answer.

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<v Speaker 1>Them to the best of my abilities.

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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. You could DM me to either the QLs account.

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<v Speaker 2>Matter of fact, only dm the QLs account. Don't DM

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<v Speaker 2>my account because I barely check my own account. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>follow QLs on ig or go through Questlove Supreme dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, we'll be recording these a few times

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<v Speaker 2>a month where I'll basically, you know, answer letters.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, people, this is a first for me.

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<v Speaker 2>I am going to go through I guess it's like

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<v Speaker 2>letters to the editor or letters to the podcaster. And

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<v Speaker 2>we get a lot of email, and the last configuration

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<v Speaker 2>of the show, we have not answered fan mail or

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<v Speaker 2>fan email.

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<v Speaker 1>But we're going to change that and do a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit you know, one rule in life I have is

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<v Speaker 1>to never read the comments.

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<v Speaker 2>And I know y'all are never going to let me

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<v Speaker 2>live down the Open Mic Eagle episode.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, people, I know you have to understand.

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<v Speaker 2>The taping of that episode happened at a very, very

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<v Speaker 2>kind of emotional time for me, so I kind of

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<v Speaker 2>went rogue that episode. But I promise you that open

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<v Speaker 2>Mic Egle is going to return to the Quest Left

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<v Speaker 2>show for a proper interview, and I I have read

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<v Speaker 2>the comments. I will I promise to improve. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>little new for me even though it's old, but it's

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<v Speaker 2>still new for me anyway. Probably the most asked question

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<v Speaker 2>is about the theme music. So as a Soul Aquarian unit,

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<v Speaker 2>people often ask have the four of us ever worked together?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm happy to say, well, I don't want to spoiler

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<v Speaker 2>alert it, but when the Dila dot comes out, even

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<v Speaker 2>I was shocked. Shout out to Waiji for just always

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<v Speaker 2>having the camera on, especially when I didn't know there

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<v Speaker 2>was a camera rolling so wellaied actually ask proof that

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<v Speaker 2>all four Soul Aquarians played together.

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<v Speaker 1>We've done.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess you can say maybe three to four songs together,

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<v Speaker 2>most notably time traveling on commons like Water for Chocolate album.

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<v Speaker 2>But I mean that was the one time where the

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<v Speaker 2>four of us are playing together at the same time.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, just to put in perspective, the Roots haven't

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<v Speaker 2>played in a studio together as a band since Do

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<v Speaker 2>You Want More. Actually, the newest Roots album, which is

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<v Speaker 2>Do You Want More? Live at Blue Note. Mostly just

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<v Speaker 2>for engineering reasons, I record separately, like I'll do my

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<v Speaker 2>drums first or whatever. So in the case of the

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<v Speaker 2>theme song, people are like, yeah, it sounds like Jones

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<v Speaker 2>and my bones. DiAngelo's playing what he calls the Flying

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<v Speaker 2>j patch. Probably the most genius thing about di'angelo is

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<v Speaker 2>him being one of the very few people I know

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<v Speaker 2>that doesn't adhere to the rule of using patches. So

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<v Speaker 2>when I say patch, when you buy a keyboard and

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<v Speaker 2>you want sounds like hey, let me get some bells

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<v Speaker 2>or offenders, or I want a piano sound or some strings,

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<v Speaker 2>you call those patches.

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<v Speaker 1>So d'An angelo is.

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<v Speaker 2>The only person I know that have the ingenuity to

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<v Speaker 2>not want to just use the factory settings. Actually, D'Angelo

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<v Speaker 2>and Prints are the only people I know that will

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<v Speaker 2>quote unquote hook up their patch settings. So in other words,

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<v Speaker 2>most of us will just take the machine out the box,

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<v Speaker 2>plug it in and start working with what the manufacturer

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<v Speaker 2>gives us.

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<v Speaker 1>But there are options to change sounds.

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<v Speaker 2>So that particular Jones and my Bones patch is the

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<v Speaker 2>D'Angelo what he calls the Flying I don't know why

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<v Speaker 2>he calls it the Flying j but it's essentially a

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<v Speaker 2>filtered colimba that also has phase on it. Phase is

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<v Speaker 2>kind of the sound when you play two records at

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<v Speaker 2>the same time and they sound like they're squeezing together

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<v Speaker 2>in and out.

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<v Speaker 1>That's called phasing. So these playing.

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<v Speaker 2>Flying j on that Dyla actually made that beat. He's

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<v Speaker 2>flipped Jones of My Bones a few times. If you

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<v Speaker 2>listen to You for You on Fantastic volume two, that

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<v Speaker 2>little noise is from Jones of my Bones. So what

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<v Speaker 2>I do know is that the night that we made

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<v Speaker 2>tell Me for some Village.

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<v Speaker 1>Is fantastic with D'Angelo on it.

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<v Speaker 2>The night that Me d Dyla made that joint, we

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<v Speaker 2>also just jammed for like two hours, and a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of that was on tape. So Dyla actually took the

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<v Speaker 2>di'angelo Flying j patches and hooked up a beat. Initially,

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<v Speaker 2>Common was going to rhyme to that on like water

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<v Speaker 2>for chocolate didn't happen, and so that was kept in

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<v Speaker 2>my pocket. James Poyser added his keyboards probably last, and

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted it to be a full soul Querian affair.

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<v Speaker 2>So anyway, that's the long sort of history of the.

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<v Speaker 1>Theme song I'm using.

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted the soul Quarians to represent, So that's what

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<v Speaker 2>it is, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>What else we got we got.

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<v Speaker 2>James Bradley, a tenth grade student at wild Lake High

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<v Speaker 2>School in Maryland. Shout out to wild Lake High School

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<v Speaker 2>in Maryland. He asked me to sort of share my

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<v Speaker 2>thoughts and wax poetic on the subject of drumming. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>we know that two of the most universal forms of

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<v Speaker 2>communication and language. Numbers are one thing, and music is

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<v Speaker 2>the other. The sound of the drum is sort of

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<v Speaker 2>how Africans communicated. That was the original cell phone, That

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<v Speaker 2>was the original Social media to me, are really important.

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<v Speaker 2>There was a point in the early aughts where I

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<v Speaker 2>was a little concerned because there was a period in

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<v Speaker 2>hip hop the kind of a rival of snap music.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of DJ Premier's Premiere actually confessed to me that

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<v Speaker 2>it was my very own platform of OK player that

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<v Speaker 2>was ragging him about his high hats and so thus

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<v Speaker 2>premiered for the last twenty five years, decided no more

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<v Speaker 2>high hats, which is kind of weird. I didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>that OK player had that much power. But one of

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<v Speaker 2>the things that I celebrated with the new Premier NAS

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<v Speaker 2>album was Premier bringing the high hats back for the

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<v Speaker 2>first time.

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<v Speaker 1>In a long time. But yeah, you know, drumming is.

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<v Speaker 2>A communal kind of exercise and communication and rhythm speaks

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<v Speaker 2>to your chakra. It's a metronome, it's a traffic cop.

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<v Speaker 2>I highly recommend it. Shout out to Wild Lake High

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<v Speaker 2>School in Maryland. All right, Scott Steinhardt wrote, I mentioned

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<v Speaker 2>in passing interviews on the podcast and in other places

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<v Speaker 2>another person from a younger generation is doing what you

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<v Speaker 2>are doing, but different and you mire their approach and

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<v Speaker 2>who is this person and what are they doing differently?

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<v Speaker 2>I would probably say minus the scarcity marketing, which kind

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<v Speaker 2>of frustrates me a little bit. But you know, what's

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<v Speaker 2>good for the goose might be good for the gander,

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<v Speaker 2>and that person to me, I think inflow just what

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<v Speaker 2>he's doing now with community, I mean, I love the

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<v Speaker 2>idea of community. Of course, one of the first examples

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<v Speaker 2>of community that I saw was the Juice Crew and

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<v Speaker 2>hip hop. The Juice Crew consistent of Big Daddy Kane,

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<v Speaker 2>Bismarquis mc shan, Roxy and Chante g Rap collectives you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like the Native Tongues, a tripe called Quest Dal La Soul,

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<v Speaker 2>Jungle Brothers.

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<v Speaker 1>Salt one of my favorite groups right now.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, this is their tenth year and they're using

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<v Speaker 2>scarcity marketing to the hilt. All their album covers look

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<v Speaker 2>the same. We barely know who's in the group, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>Imagine my shock. I was at dinner one night with

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<v Speaker 2>a friend and I was trying to put her on

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<v Speaker 2>the sault and imagine my shock when she's like a mirror.

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<v Speaker 1>That's my group.

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<v Speaker 2>Shout out to Melissa aka Kid's sister who you know

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<v Speaker 2>back then swore me to secrecy. But I think it's

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<v Speaker 2>pretty much known that Salt is a collective featuring an Inflo,

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<v Speaker 2>Cleo Soul, Kid's sister, Chronics, few other members that I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know. You know. Again, I think as a as

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<v Speaker 2>an initial marketing plan, it's genius based on no video,

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<v Speaker 2>no visuals whatsoever. Like Cleo Soul sold out Radio City

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<v Speaker 2>Music Hall like three nights in a row just on

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<v Speaker 2>the buzz alone.

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<v Speaker 1>So that shows me the power of music and that

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<v Speaker 1>you don't need.

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<v Speaker 2>To subject yourself to silly marketing schemes or whatever like.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes the music can speak for itself. So it encourages me.

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<v Speaker 2>But right now, you know, the world needs Salt more

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<v Speaker 2>than ever, So I wish that Inflo had my mojo

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<v Speaker 2>in terms of wanting to tour and get out there.

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<v Speaker 2>Oftentimes studio geniuses want to stay just in the studio

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<v Speaker 2>and only in the studio. I mean it just that

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<v Speaker 2>way with Dilla, was that way with Brian Wilson of

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<v Speaker 2>the Beach Boys, is that way? We're prints like you know,

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<v Speaker 2>but sometimes you need to go out and preach the gospel.

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<v Speaker 2>And I consider Salt really a gospel group, and gospel

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't mean religion, just more spiritual and based on how

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<v Speaker 2>healing the Cleo Show was, this is one of the

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<v Speaker 2>cases in which I think more salt actually means healing

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<v Speaker 2>for people. People need a soundtrack of healing right now.

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<v Speaker 1>So there you go.

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<v Speaker 2>Also, Scott says, PS, sorry I rushed you at thirty

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<v Speaker 2>Where I can ask you for a selfie thirteen years ago?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't remember, but okay, you're forgiven. I mean everything

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<v Speaker 2>I said about Game Theory fantastic record and simply underrated.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Scott.

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<v Speaker 2>I appreciate that Game Theory is kind of a sad

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<v Speaker 2>period initially. I mean I've told the story before. We

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<v Speaker 2>were just about to purchase two houses in New Orleans

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<v Speaker 2>and we were going to relocate to Louisiana because like

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<v Speaker 2>there was a vibe down there. Lenny Kravitz was living

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<v Speaker 2>down there and telling me, like, yo, I need to come.

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<v Speaker 2>So Lons was down there. It was like, yo, you

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<v Speaker 2>need to come. My friends had and I love New Orleans,

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<v Speaker 2>like I think if I were to live down south,

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<v Speaker 2>that would be the city. I mean, Austin is my

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<v Speaker 2>favorite city of all, but I think New Orleans is

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<v Speaker 2>in second place. And so we wanted to go to

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<v Speaker 2>New Orleans basically just to explore the music scene down there.

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<v Speaker 2>They're big on jazz but also bounce music and also

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<v Speaker 2>like you know, zidago and marching bands and line bands

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<v Speaker 2>and whatnot. And there was a brass band that we

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<v Speaker 2>saw down there called the to Be Continued Brass Band,

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<v Speaker 2>and they reminded us of us when we were first busking.

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<v Speaker 2>They were slightly different than your average line band, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. And so we thought, Okay, we're

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<v Speaker 2>going to get this band on the next record. So

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<v Speaker 2>we had it all planned out from two thousand and five.

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<v Speaker 2>January two thousand and five to August, we just toured

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<v Speaker 2>and then in August we had our house and we

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<v Speaker 2>were going to fly to New Orleans and record this

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<v Speaker 2>Game Theory record.

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<v Speaker 1>It started to rain and it didn't stop.

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<v Speaker 2>Raining, and it destroyed the two cribs that we were

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<v Speaker 2>going to move to, and so we just decided to

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<v Speaker 2>stay in Filly and record. And this is actually how

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<v Speaker 2>Tuba got in the group, Tuba Gooding Junior. We had

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<v Speaker 2>so much lined up for like a brass band to

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<v Speaker 2>play that we didn't want to throw the idea out.

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<v Speaker 2>So we went to our comrade, Sir Jeff Bradshaw of

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<v Speaker 2>Brass Heaven of Philadelphia, and told him to put something together.

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<v Speaker 2>And we toured with that unit, that brass unit, and

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<v Speaker 2>like this so much. We stole Tuba. We kept him

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<v Speaker 2>in the group and he's been a spark of energy

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<v Speaker 2>ever since having him in there. So yeah, not to

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<v Speaker 2>mention like Game Theory was also made at the time

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<v Speaker 2>when Dyla was really sick and dying, and his kind

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<v Speaker 2>of took me out the game.

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<v Speaker 1>That's kind of when.

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<v Speaker 2>Besides, you know, I would do like maybe an occasional

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<v Speaker 2>Al Green, an occasional Elvis Costello, like I would do

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<v Speaker 2>like a legacy artist, just one, but this whole like

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<v Speaker 2>me living in the studio and working, and I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>I just lost my fire for it. So, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>game theory is kind of a mournful record. But there's

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<v Speaker 2>no record that the Roots released that I don't put

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<v Speaker 2>my heart into, even if it's a sad thing.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm glad you like it, Scott, thank you. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So an anonymous commenter listen to my appearance with Christian

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<v Speaker 2>McBride on Norah Jones is Playing lawng podcast and said

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<v Speaker 2>to me, I said that me, Christian and Kurt Rosenmrinkle need.

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<v Speaker 1>A project together. Any chance, I would love nothing better.

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<v Speaker 2>There was actually a moment when Joey de Francesco was

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<v Speaker 2>alive in which the four of us Joey de Frincesco

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<v Speaker 2>master organist, Christian McBride, bass player, Kurt Rosenwinkle guitarist, and

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<v Speaker 2>myself on drums, we were going to do a gig

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<v Speaker 2>at the Blue Note shout out to Little John Roberts

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<v Speaker 2>were filling in for me. However, I wasn't able to

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<v Speaker 2>make that gig. Wish I would have made it, because,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, our dear friend Joey di Francisco passed away

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<v Speaker 2>shortly thereafter, and I should have been there, but I

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<v Speaker 2>was on the road. I would love to do more

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<v Speaker 2>jazz projects. I kind of shy away from those types

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<v Speaker 2>of projects because I just have so much on my

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<v Speaker 2>plate already, and I feel like any album that really

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<v Speaker 2>has to show me in a sharpened musical skill set,

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<v Speaker 2>I tend to overthink it. But overthinking is very twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five to me, so now that we're in twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty six, I'm open to any idea