Shandon Par Posted February 18, 2021 Author Share Posted February 18, 2021 Danny Robbins, who wrote this sketch... was in a record shop one day and heard this, and promptly went after Deekline for royalties. Got 50%. He was excited by inadvertently having a number 11 “hit” and asked Deekline if he could go on Top of the Pops with him (and was told where to go). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Bob James seems to get sampled a lot. This is a good example of someone taking a wee snippet, manipulating it, and building it into something very different, as opposed to just taking the original tune and adding a techno beat/rapping over the top. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 12 hours ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: This one surprised me when I first heard it on Better Call Saul. (fast forward to 2:05 if you can't be arsed waiting). Do you know who actually played the guitar on it? Spoiler It was Chas Hodges, of Chas and Dave fame. Seriously. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 That Labi Siffre song is tremendous, BTW. I'd never heard it before. Chas & Dave were quality too. There, I said it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said: Do you know who actually played the guitar on it? Hide contents It was Chas Hodges, of Chas and Dave fame. Seriously. Indeed, that's a popular pub quiz nugget. Almost as popular as the fact that Bob Holness played the saxophone on Baker Street. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 24 minutes ago, BFTD said: That Labi Siffre song is tremendous, BTW. I'd never heard it before. Chas & Dave were quality too. There, I said it. Chas & Dave were absolutely brilliant. Happy I got to see them live in Glasgow a couple of times before Chas became brown bread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweaty Morph Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 14 hours ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: This one surprised me when I first heard it on Better Call Saul. (fast forward to 2:05 if you can't be arsed waiting). I love ones like this, where I had no idea the sample was actually a sample and it creeps up on you mid-song. Similarly: At 2:20ish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 It can't be overstated how much better this song is without Big Willie bragging all over the top of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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D.A.F.C Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 On 18/02/2021 at 00:13, Shandön Par said: Danny Robbins, who wrote this sketch... was in a record shop one day and heard this, and promptly went after Deekline for royalties. Got 50%. He was excited by inadvertently having a number 11 “hit” and asked Deekline if he could go on Top of the Pops with him (and was told where to go). Got that on vinyl, decent tune 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 (edited) From this... To this... To this... Edited February 20, 2021 by tongue_tied_danny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Here's one for the Boney M fans... This is more of an edit than a sample, but there aren't any fucking rules so I'm gonna post it here... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 Nothing clever here, just a route-one sample on some lovely Isaac Hayes again.. I’m still puzzled, 30 years later, by how they did this album cover (where they have a copy of the album on the back seat): 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greendot Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) Weirdly enough I heard a couple of songs this week and went digging to find out where the sample was from. samples Samples also by the KLF samples * I'll gloss over the use of a Gary Glitter track in that one though! samples samples That's all for now Edited February 21, 2021 by greendot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG.Roma Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 On 15/02/2021 at 14:12, BFTD said: There's a worrying lack of respect or gratitude from some of the folk who, let's be honest, wouldn't have a song without the original work Completely agree. I'm a sound engineer by trade, moved to Philadelphia after college and worked/interned in a mixture of studios, big and small. In one of the smaller studios I was engineering for a producer who made tunes to sell off to rappers or vocal groups - fairly successfully as well I should add. One day, I was going through sounds on a Korg Triton with a couple of his crew, we were using the demo button that plays you a wee sample so you can hear the sounds in context. 3 or 4 times the guys stopped and insisted I "just use that" and they didn't mean the sound, they meant the whole sample, that literally every other owner of a Korg synth would have. There was no shame, and no desire to create their own loops. There was also a fairly big (at the time) UK Garage tune going about the top of the charts for a while who's main melody was a direct rip from a demo button on a sampler. Cant remember exactly who or which sampler, someone like Artful Dodger or So Solid Crew likely using one of the Akais or the Emu Proteus. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 6 minutes ago, DG.Roma said: Completely agree. I'm a sound engineer by trade, moved to Philadelphia after college and worked/interned in a mixture of studios, big and small. In one of the smaller studios I was engineering for a producer who made tunes to sell off to rappers or vocal groups - fairly successfully as well I should add. One day, I was going through sounds on a Korg Triton with a couple of his crew, we were using the demo button that plays you a wee sample so you can hear the sounds in context. 3 or 4 times the guys stopped and insisted I "just use that" and they didn't mean the sound, they meant the whole sample, that literally every other owner of a Korg synth would have. There was no shame, and no desire to create their own loops. There was also a fairly big (at the time) UK Garage tune going about the top of the charts for a while who's main melody was a direct rip from a demo button on a sampler. Cant remember exactly who or which sampler, someone like Artful Dodger or So Solid Crew likely using one of the Akais or the Emu Proteus. That's pretty grim. I might just be an old fanny, but I'd want people to know about the things I'd built my work on, so they could hear and appreciate it for themselves. In fact, that's pretty normal, isn't it? Authors and filmmakers talk a lot about the works that they read/watched that inspired them, and most musicians like to tell their fans about what they listened to when they were young, if for no other reason than to bring some attention and money to people that were important to them personally. Not to do that, and to implicitly take credit for things they didn't make, betrays a lack of confidence in their own ability IMO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 rave tunes sampled everything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Cracked have noticed that Daft Punk never actually made anything of their own. No, I don't know why I still check that site either. https://www.cracked.com/article_29677_daft-punk-how-much-did-they-rip-off.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miketheheadlesschicken Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 The Tracklib Sample Breakdown videos are excellent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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