Thursday, July 19, 2007

Eat Your Heart Out, Dave Chappelle

Holy Shit!Music Wonkery

So there’s this website I am doing some work for, that’s run by the Herb Alpert Foundation. Yes, that Herb Alpert as if there were any other.

In any event, while cruising through the site’s content library I recently came across proof positive that being old kicks ass. Some of you may have heard of Teo Macero, the legendary jazz producer who basically helped Miles Davis invent like four kinds of jazz, plus fusion, funk and electronic besides. Well, he’s old now and kind of cantankerous. But he’s got awesome stories.

Watch this great clip of Teo talking about working with Miles Davis, and wait for the part where he says “so I said book it, you white motherfucker!”

I’m g-dd-mn dying here, with the laughing. You can’t make Blazing Saddles today, and you can’t tell that kind of story if you’re under sixty-five. Absolutely priceless.


Posted by Johno on 07/19/07 at 08:37 PM
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