Episode 148 — Young Randolph Mantooth

[Kickpuncher 5012]

One other thing from this episode - The idea of PFT as a security guard feels really, really weird.

[cmac94 191]

One other thing from this episode - The idea of PFT as a security guard feels really, really weird.

The only way I can make it work in my mind is if he was a security guard of a suit store. And his uniform must also be a suit.

[Bucho 188]

I think all of those EDM songs are about taking drugs and partying ...

 

I'll never be able to read "EDM" and not immediately think of Eagles of Death Metal.

 

And that's a good thing.

[wakefresh 689]

I found it: http://www.gq.com/en...w?currentPage=1

 

D'Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn't look as cut as he did in the video, he'd delay shows to do stomach crunches. He'd often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn't he an artist? Couldn't the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that?...

 

"One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel fucked-up, and I threw the money back at her," [D'Angelo] says. "I was like, 'I'm not a stripper.' "

 

Yep, he was real torn up about that. He's basically a band geek that got ripped and then people wanted ripped D'Angelo instead of his music. I sort of liked the idea behind the video "Untitled", but it ended up biting him in the ass. He was objectified and it made him not want to do music anymore.

 

Which makes it even more amazing the pressure that women are under. It is a matter of fact that they are going to be objectified no matter what they do and that their looks and music are going to be intrinsically tied to each other.

[wakefresh 689]

On another note, Questlove is like the depressed musician's best friend. He goes to D'Angelo to try to get him to make music, and then goes to Fiona Apple to try to get her out of her funk. He needs to pay a visit to Jay Electronica, because Drake sort of took the spot that he supposed to be in, imho.

[wo 265]

On another note, Questlove is like the depressed musician's best friend. He goes to D'Angelo to try to get him to make music, and then goes to Fiona Apple to try to get her out of her funk. He needs to pay a visit to Jay Electronica, because Drake sort of took the spot that he supposed to be in, imho.

 

It would be pretty awesome if Questlove took a year to roam the country and help motivate talented musicians.

[robinsbruce 4985]

 

It would be pretty awesome if Questlove took a year to roam the country and help motivate talented musicians.

 

It could be a doc. called "Why don't you want more??!??!"

 

But seriously, this is cool. I remember reading an article a loooong time ago about how hard it was for Black Thought growing up in in Philly (his story is really crazy) and he said something like hooking up with Ahmir/starting up the roots kept him from going insane because he and questlove just buried themselves in the music and spent all their time performing etc etc. Questlove is zen, and I would watch anything with him on it.

[PhillipMedoc 648]

It would be pretty awesome if Questlove took a year to roam the country and help motivate talented musicians.

Maybe he could get Howie to finally record a comedy album? Or the Skokie Binyon Junior record?

 

Yep, he was real torn up about that. He's basically a band geek that got ripped and then people wanted ripped D'Angelo instead of his music. I sort of liked the idea behind the video "Untitled", but it ended up biting him in the ass. He was objectified and it made him not want to do music anymore.

 

Which makes it even more amazing the pressure that women are under. It is a matter of fact that they are going to be objectified no matter what they do and that their looks and music are going to be intrinsically tied to each other.

Yes yes yes, a thousand times yes, cf the aforementioned Fiona Apple.

[PhillipMedoc 648]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8X7Re7PbPY

[mobo 116]

"Of all the challenged people, [stevie Wonder]'s the best one. Is that true? If I said to you, Name the best artistic person who's missing one of the five senses, who's going to beat Stevie Wonder? Jose Feliciano? Doubt it. My friend J.R. who can't smell? Doubt it."

 

- Howard Kremer

[Kickpuncher 5012]

Maybe he could get Howie to finally record a comedy album?

 

This is already done! Not sure when/how it's getting released, but he talked about it quite a bit around the time of the recording.

[wakefresh 689]

 

It could be a doc. called "Why don't you want more??!??!"

 

But seriously, this is cool. I remember reading an article a loooong time ago about how hard it was for Black Thought growing up in in Philly (his story is really crazy) and he said something like hooking up with Ahmir/starting up the roots kept him from going insane because he and questlove just buried themselves in the music and spent all their time performing etc etc. Questlove is zen, and I would watch anything with him on it.

 

They used to say that Bushwick Bill was the spiritual core of the Ghetto Boys, and I think Questlove is the spiritual core of not only the Roots but all good music.

[DanEngler 5249]

I worry that Earth might be torn apart by unfathomable cosmic forces if Questlove and Reggie Watts were to collaborate.

[PhillipMedoc 648]

They used to say that Bushwick Bill was the spiritual core of the Ghetto Boys, and I think Questlove is the spiritual core of not only the Roots but all good music.

On one of my old phones I have a pic of my twin smoking blunts with Bushwick Bill (he's a gambler and apparently so is Bushwick; they hung out at a casino). My brother is kind of a loony toon and apparently Bushwich said he was crazy, and my brother was like "dude, you shot yourself in the fucking head". I'll see if I can dig it up.

[PhillipMedoc 648]

Yes yes yes, a thousand times yes, cf the aforementioned Fiona Apple.

Speaking of horrible body shaming, way to go, Portland:

 

http://www.stereogum.com/1507742/fiona-apple-blake-mills-newmark-theatre-portland-1032013/concert/

 

Some asshole basically humiliated Fiona Apple on the first night of her tour, had to get escorted out and was still yelling.