Thread: What is Music to You?

Originally Posted by icedog

Hey Ribbs, I don't know where you dug that up but it's not much of a tribute to Etta James. Someone just took one of her songs and mutilated it. I don't think there is any tribute at all in taking a song that an artist worked very hard to record and electronically twisting it into a bizarre abstract of what it was supposed to be. The next time I get the chance to talk with her, I will ask Etta what she thinks of this sort of thing.

Well first of all you would have to dive into the deep dark mysterious and terrible world of something called "HIP HOP MUSIC". After having done so you might understand that hip hop started with two turntables and a mixer. The "mutilating" that you're talking about is actually called "sampling" which is a very popular method in music production these days. At the beginning there were no such thing as hip hop beats. Hip hop beats started primarily from "sampling" music such as jazz, classical, soul, etc.

That's a beat I made. Simple but I made it and enjoyed doing so. I sampled about 10 seconds of an Etta J song and I made a bass line, drum beat, etc. from my own samples. It is a "HIP HOP" tribute to Etta J. I think she would be honored to have a hand in the creation of such a broad new genre such as hip hop.

Hip hop is like the bastard child of many different types of music. Her music and many like it have contributed to something that has changed the world as we know it. Whether you like it or not is up to you. And I'm not taking offense but it's something you might want to venture in to or respectively agree to disagree. Thanks.

So are you saying that you are taking credit for Etta James song?? I don't quite understand.

Originally Posted by icedog

So are you saying that you are taking credit for Etta James song?? I don't quite understand.

Absolutely not. I think if I was going to do that I wouldn't of even mentioned Etta J. I would of named the song something else. I have tremendous respect for Etta J and her music.

I guess the best way to explain it is when someone does a cover song and makes it their own, a lot of the times whoever is performing the cover is tributing the original artist but not taking credit. Jimi Hendrix, for example, admired Bob Dylan very much. When did All Along the Watchtower he made it his own and it became very popular. It was actually Jimi Hendrix's only top 10 hit in the United States while he was alive.

I'm not stealing her music and twisting for myself. My sampling her music was a tribute. By making music with her beautiful voice, considering I don't have Etta J to sing for my track, I composed a song that is an homage to her.

Sampling is something that has been around for a long long time even before hip hop. Here's a couple of links that might help you to understand:

samplinglaw.com>history of sampling

http://www.furious.com/perfect/sampling.html

Gentlemen,

Forgive me for interjecting a note here. This conversation muddles the focus of the original question.

What is your favorite music to you? That was the original question.

Regards,

Obie

Ah, I see!

Its an escape, the soundtrack to my life and its soul food. Its a way of relaxing or firing myself up.

Originally Posted by Obie

Gentlemen,

Forgive me for interjecting a note here. This conversation muddles the focus of the original question.

What is your favorite music to you? That was the original question.

Regards,

Obie

Obie,

No, please forgive me.

Brad

Thinking about what CD's are in my car at the moment:

Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Tony Bennett - Basie Swings, Bennett Sings
Diana Krall - From this Moment On
Yo-Yo Ma - Simply Baroque
Bela Fleck - Tales from the Acoustic Planet

Perhaps an odd combination, I know.

Originally Posted by Obie

Gentlemen,

Forgive me for interjecting a note here. This conversation muddles the focus of the original question.

What is your favorite music to you? That was the original question.

Regards,

Obie

I apologize for the back and forth business. I should of continued that discussion privately. Thank you.

Music is often for me, a vehicle for time travel. Nothing can transport me back to an earlier period of my life than a song from that period.