Wax Poetics Issue 35
Issue 35 cover artists Roger Troutman and Booker T. Jones were both innovative musicians of extraordinary vision. Each is known for a career defined in part by an instrument. While Troutman took the talk box to the people, Booker T. ruled the Hammond B-3. Also: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Def Jef, E.Z. Mike Simpson, and Ralph Macdonald.
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Featured Articles:
Roger Troutman
Watching old video clips, it's strange hearing Roger address the crowd in his dinner table voice. We assume his speech has always been talk-boxed, as if he'd permanently swapped out his pipes for the tube.
Booker T. Jones
"Yeah, the Stax sound was 'keep it simple, keep it funky.' That's the only element that I can think of that was consistent in the mind of the players when the sessions were going on."
Mahavishnu Orchestra
"I'd just finished a gig, and Miles and I were in the band room. The guys had gone. Out of the blue, he turned to me and said, 'It's time you formed your own band.' "
Also Includes:
- Re:Discovery - Willie and the Bumblebees, the Joe Cuba Sextet, Jerry Moore, Kip Hanrahan, Alfredo Gutierrez y Los Caporales Del Mangdalena
- Shaolin Soul - El Michels Affair channels the Wu-Tang Clan's ruckus
- Gravitational Pull - U.K.'s Broken Keys forged a funky core of heavy sounds
- Organic Synthesis - STS9 integrates the power of the computer into its live instrumentation
- The Hard Way - Glass Candy fights to shatter disco's stereotypes
- Daily Operation - Lord Finesse is on a habitual quest for musical knowledge
- Natural Groove - Ralph MacDonald put his artistic touch on classic soul and jazz sides
- Dynamic Dragon - Musician Byron Lee's renowned studio lit a fire under Jamaica's music scene
- Dusty Fingers - Dust Brother E.Z. Mike Simpson pulls endless possibilites from a funky past
- Heavy Rhymes - Rapper Def Jef weighed in with a conscious voice
- Analog Out - Talk Box
