The Questlove Show - Questlove Supreme Presents First Musical Memories Part 1

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

Over the years, many of the Questlove Supreme interviews begin by asking, "What was your first musical memory?" In a special episode, looking back at memorable answers, Questlove offers his own and explains his curiosity. Part 1 of this series includes looking back at answers from Larry Blackmon of Cameo, Dave Matthews, Maya Rudolph, Macy Gray, Organized Noize, Blondie, Bonnie Raitt—and many others. While we're at it, write a review or drop us a line on socials, and let QLS know your first musical memory.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I remember, like, the first heartbreak I had with a girl and Anita Baker's sweet love comes on. Sometimes, you know, Chappelle often jokes, we turn the car radio volume down because no one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack. But, you know, oftentimes music helps us remember what life is. And so that's why I ask them that. I believe the first episode that the public heard was the Maya Rudolph episode, of course, our very first. And that was, I believe, September of 2016. and I asked my about it and you know it wasn't like the staple of QLS episodes

until like 2019 that's when I realized that that's a good deal breaker oftentimes you got to gain the trust of the artist that comes on the show and I kind of want them to know in the first 15 minutes what type of show this is and oftentimes especially with creatives they often do interviews on the defensive. We call that gotcha journalism. Like you're asked an awkward question that you don't want to answer.

And, you know, kind of puts them in a pickle. So sometimes it surprises people. I think the Steve Stout episode was hilarious because, you know, I know that Steve Stout walked into this interview knowing that we were going to ask him about the infamous, uh, Nas hate me now video controversy between him, Nas and Diddy. And we really didn't go there. Like he was genuinely shocked that we wanted to know about his life.

Like he stopped the interview. It was like, wait a minute. This is what you guys want to know about? Like he was shocked that if there were any other outlet, he knew that they were more or less there for the juicy gossip stuff. And, you know, for anybody in a prominent position in music, I want to show the path that led to that so that you, the listener, you might get inspiration from that.

Like, oh, okay, well, I went to high school and I tried to start my band and da-da-da-da. So if you hear the people that you admire going through a process, then that might spark an idea new to do the same. And so I will say that when John Oates of Darrell Hall and John Oates, Hall of Notes, of course, mentioned my dad. That was kind of cool. He said that, you know,

growing up in Philadelphia, the duop scene, my father was definitely a pioneer, and that meant a lot to me to hear. So I guess I should share with you guys my first musical memory. It's rather apropos now that the slide doc is done.

But my first musical memory is also my first memory in life. and I will say that I was two years old. This is 1973. I'm in my West Philadelphia house getting my hair washed. And, you know, I'm two years old, so I don't know the rules that once I have their eyes closed when getting their hair washed. My sister's hand accidentally hits the bath detergent or the cleanser, Ajax. and it sort of hits the marble tub hard.

And, you know, it's like a cloud of smoke. It gets in my eye, and I'm just burning, stinging, stinging, stinging, crying, having a fit, you know. And all I remember was I ran from the bathroom on the second floor to the first floor, just running. My dad grabs me. And all I remember was that they pinned me. I was like a wrestler.

Like I was pinned to the ground. My aunt Karen and my sister Dawn were pinning my shoulders. My mom pinned my ankles so that couldn't run. And my dad was trying to, like, you got to think of it like, what's the movie? Oh, Clockwork Orange, like the way they forced the eyelids open to stay open. my dad has a gallon of water and he's trying to flush my face and all this is happening while the second song on sly is very depressing there's a riot going on album is playing called just like a baby and if you know the song just like a baby the ominous baseline very spooky

sounding song that's my first memory in life and that kind of made me obsessed with sly and probably made me highly eligible to direct this documentary because of my relationship and obsession with the guy who created that song. Weird enough, I didn't hear that song again until like eight years later. And when I was like 10 or 11, I heard that baseline and instantly ran to the record player. And all those memories came triggering back. like, you know, the scene in Kill Bill, whenever, like, Quincy Jones'

Ironside, please. That's what it felt like. It was, like, triggering. Like, oh, my God, I remember that feeling and me being pinned to the floor and them trying to wash my eye out. So that's my first musical memory. So what was your first cognizant memory of...

Music? Yeah, just of the environment you grew up in? Like, you don't remember that soul train episode in which you were crying during your mom's interview segment? I don't remember it, but I remember that

all that era for me was, I mean, we were on the road with my parents most of the time until I started school, so, I mean, when we were little, little, sometimes they'd go out on the road and they'd take us with them, but pretty much,

especially when I was a baby. I think my mom went out on the road for a minute and then she called my dad. She was like, you have to come with me. I can't be without the baby and without you guys. And so we were on the road a lot. And I remember being on the road with my parents,

like, I remember somebody lost a tooth in, like, some town with a casino and we got, like, a chip or something. You know, like, I remember, like, sound check to me is like my childhood. You or someone else lost a tooth. I think it was me or my, I think it was me or my brother. I think you meant like a bar fight or something. No, like the normal things that happened to a kid, but the tooth fairy brought me, like, a casino chip.

because we were in Lake Tahoe or something. But like being on the road was very normal. And then like seeing my mom, yeah, like being in studios, being backstage and like seeing my mom before the show, like before the audience was there, all that is like tied together as one kind of large memory. That was my Rudolph and here is Darrell Hall. Do you remember what your very first musical memory was? Probably seeing what my mother and father both were musicians, I see my mother in a band. I mean, my mother was in a band in Pots Town,

and I was like, yeah, from the age of two years old, I'd watch the band. I always wanted to be the band leader, you know, the guy that had the, he had like a white coat on. Everybody else had red coats on. He had a white coat on. So, yeah, I wanted to be that guy. What does Darrell Hall's mom's voice sound like?

What is her singing voice? She was a soprano. She's 98 years old now. Wow. Is she still here? Yes, she is. Still here. She's still six.

But, yeah, she's an amazing singer, amazing soprano. And my father was in a gospel group, a vocal group. And so I learned harmonies from him and his brothers and his friends and all that. So I, you know, I grew up in that, the whole world. Were they closer to Duwap or more Mills brothers or like harmony? Like, what was there? Church harmony. You know, like,

Quartet harmony. Yeah, gospel harmony. What was your first musical memory? My mom would sing at this park across the street with her band, and she had this big afro and bell bottoms, blue jean, bell bottoms in a green shirt and some big hoops. And she had this tambourine, but she would hit it with her hip all the time. And I just love, every time her hip would move her,

She'd sing, the audience would just, I just saw them go crazy. I didn't know what that meant, but the sound of her voice always would do something here. So that memory, I always remember that before I go on stage, but that was one of my first memories of music. The other one is the A track. The band would record to the A track,

and it would sit in our room. We had a shotgun house that just go straight ahead. And in the live room, the band would record in the living room and my mom will record her vocal part with the A track in our bedroom, which was the next room. So I would stare at the A track and watch my mom record on the edge of the bed. And then when they pressed play and her voice came out of it, I was just blown away. And that's when I, like, those two memories, that's when I wanted to sing. Did your mother, did she like make records or she was recording artists or did she just sing?

Yeah, she was recording. artist, she had her own band called Caranova in New Orleans. They had their own band. It was interracial, racial, a bass player, guitar. My stepdad played drums. That's why I started on the drums. That's why I loved watching drummers. That's why I became a fan of a mirror. That's why we're friends. Okay. Yeah. I would watch the way drummers set up their snares. It slanted. Is it low? Is it below their knees? Like every little technical thing. So I started on the drums and I would watch them perform, rehearse in our bedroom, but we were too young to go in the club,

so they would have the car close to the side door so that my mom can babysit while performing. So she would do double duty. So I'm a kid from that kind of era where they did a lot of performing and recording at the same time. But she had her own band, lead singer, and her and the bass player would write songs together all the time. Wow, I know you're probably obsessed with Darwin Jones

if you're trying to figure out drumming ankles. All right, that was Lettucey, and now this is Bonnie Rape. I start off every episode with the same question, so you're no exception to the rule. Could you please give me your very first musical memory? Oh, I think my dad, who was a Broadway, leading man singing the songs from his show with my mom warming him up on the piano. She was his musical director and rehearsal pianist.

And I remember being really little and hearing this big, old booming voice singing these great Rogers and Hammerstein songs. So I'd have to say my folks playing in the house. We also have organized noise. We begin with Sleepy Brown, whose father, Jimmy Brown, was the singer and flute. player of a very well-known funk band from the 70s called Brick. Of course, Brick gave us the classic song, Daz. I believe Daz is what they call a portamento of danceable jazz.

They call it Daz. And then we're going to get to Ray Murray, and, of course, the late great Weiko Wade. And this was recorded in Atlanta in 2023. Very special episode, Organized Noise. I know your lineage runs deep. I know all your lineage runs deep, but especially Sleepy being the son of the legendary Jimmy Brown of Brick. I'll start with you.

Can you tell me what your first musical memory was? I was six years old. Right. And it was my first concert I went to. And I was with my grandparents. And we get to the concert and walk on the side of the same. and my dad didn't start performing. And when I seen them do dads, my mouth dropped.

And I looked back in my grandma and I said, this is what I want to do. Wow. Period. I knew I wanted to do music. As soon as I saw my dad up there playing them on and everybody screaming and going crazy, I was just like, I gotta do this. This is what I have to do. And plus, you know, my mom would buy me Jackson Five albums every Christmas.

Right. You know, so I was like the sixth Jackson, Plus, I was in Brick and Commodore, and I was in everybody group. So my first experience of music was the greatest era of music to me was the funk era and the disco era. No music has been made more beautiful than that. So that's my whole being, you know what I mean, no matter what, that's why they call me funk or not, because if it ain't funky, I ain't doing it. I funk's with that.

Aschewing Daz and Doozick and Ain't Going Hurting a Body, the Captain obvious brick Do you have a favorite brick song That isn't a hit or anything? Yeah Um Yep fine It's one of them

Um Happy You know what I was gonna say Damn always always say But I've already confessed that I'm kind of working on soul tree Yeah right I always like preface with like

I'm not supposed to say this but No I'm getting to the 77 episode seven episodes. And I gotta see, your dad was a charismatic motherfucker. Even when performing happy on Soul Train, like I just... My day always had the biggest smile. It's like when you saw him perform, he was just excited and happy to perform for people. And he's always been that way. When he was younger, he had a band in Savannah that did a couple of records, Jimmy and the Mighty Sensations

that did pretty good. Right. So he's always, always loved music. To this day, you know what I mean? I'm working on the album right now with them. We're doing like an instrumental. Yeah, instrumental. Jazz soul phone-dial. He still playing flute? He played flute. He plays flute.

He plays flute. Trombone, alto-sax. Wow. Every horn you can put in front of them and kill it. Living from the mine was also one of my favorite. Yes, sir. That bass line killed me. And, uh, Somerset, uh, Summer.

Tell on the white album cover with it. Yeah, yeah, I know that you're on the house. Yeah, yeah, I know that you're right now. Wait. Some said, something like that can't relate right now. Brick trivia. Brick trivia. Have you heard this tidbit about Prince?

Do you know the story? So Prince was such a fan of Brick. What? Do you know that he wrote Get It Up? He wrote that for Brick and they rejected it? We interviewed Morris. Wait a minute. I'll do this, hold on.

I'll do it for you. I'll do it for you. Sound effect, sound. Yes. Morris and we, I mean, we've had damn near every member. of the time or except for Terry Lewis. Terry Lewis. But yeah, when we asked

Morris about him and Prince Kraft in the first record, you know, he told us that he's playing drums on everything. He was like, when we made Get It Up, for some reason, like, Prince was really into, not for some reason. I mean, everybody was into it. Man, you just blew me a wave.

Prince had wrote, Get It Up for Brick. For Brick? To be what? Whatever the album is with the green, where it's like, it's, like, it's like the green leaves. It's for that album. They rejected it. You got to talk to your dad about that.

Hey, I'm going to call him. What you doing? What? Yeah, man. Are you tripping? There you go. That's crazy. All right.

So, Ray, what is your first musical memory? Me and my brother and sister used to turn the lights off and dance around to flight time. By Donald Bird. Yes, sir. The airplane landing. Now, as New York State of Mine, so early on, I kind of like, my father's jazz head, so he had all of this music,

which was like everything that we ever heard in hip-hop. You feel me? All of the shit that cat sample, that's the shit that I grew up with, playing in the house. All three of you were born in Atlanta? I was born in Savannah. Okay. Yeah, I was born in Alabama.

And you, where were you born? Brooklyn? No. Well, wait, I'm about to say, you got heavy swag going, so I know is, where are you born? Where are you born? I was going to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Oh, no! All right, yins?

Yes! Yes! My mom's from Pittsburgh. But I grew up before we came to Atlanta. We came to Atlanta with Manny Jackson. When he took over the city, when he became the first black mayor. Right. My father and mother were in Tuskegee, Alabama.

So I grew up in Tuskegee pretty much Alabama. Okay. I got roots there too. Shout out to Mobile. Not Texcgee, but Mobile. All right. For you, Rico, what's your first musical memory? Oh, man.

Even with listening to their memories, I was, mine is as simple as, um. That's good. No, it's as simple as hearing music on the radio. Because, you know what I'm saying? I didn't really hit, we didn't have a car when I was younger, so I didn't really hit a radio until, like, mom was cleaning up or something.

Or when I finally just went into that back room, we had an extra room and I just kind of went to digging. The guest room? Yes, the guest room. And also the room where all the junk sits in the boxes. Man, I ain't enough finding more than records back there one day. But the records. No, no, no.

Money. Oh, okay. Better. Better better. Better than a bunch of roaches. Yes. Yes, money. But like Donna Summer and.

Like the ring my bell and all that kind of stuff with some of the records and Isley brothers. I was seeing that stuff as records, but on the radio, it was just the energy of how she would be a different person. When the music came on and was she turning up loud and she cleaned up. So when people always made that,

I always say, you know, I like to play my music when I'm cleaning up. I really understood what that meant. It's like, I feel good today. Today is, this is what I'm doing. I need to feel good. I need to feel good while I'm getting this. Yeah, so my examples of music.

And another one at a young age was my first little job. When I was like 10 years old, just unloading the back of an 18, like a truck or whatever, they used to play the radio. And I just remember that made it go by. So for music, music was always a, I didn't never think I could necessarily be able to make it. They never think I would be a part of the business. But I knew how important it was and how much I did, how much it did for me just at that young age. And didn't even know who, didn't know exactly who none of the artist was,

just knew that at that time being a man of my age, which is 50. During that time, 1980, I was 8. So, like, what he's talking about, like, soaking up at the right time, it's the end of the 70s. But they still on it as far as the albums. I can still see an album. I still saw 8 tracks. You know what I'm saying?

I still wrote in cards when we did that actually had an 8 track in it. I still collect them. Wow. But your knowledge of a brick is amazing. Because even when I found out who his father was or whatever, you just thought about, that's Ice Cube song. Yes, uh, Vaseline. That's the song that Ice Cube got back.

That was deep. I was so happy when they did. He did. Yeah, I was glad. How did you feel about No Vaseline? How did you feel about the winner? Take up your cool back. That must be.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I was with you, like, a lot of other artists had sampled before that, you know, Kidd play did. Ain't going to hurt nobody. You know, Hamlet did, um, he did, um, It's all good. Yeah, it's all good. Yeah, all good.

So, but when I heard Q on one of the coldest disc records ever, all the time, bro, my heart was, I checked, we're like, yeah. My daddy's rack. I won't my dad's records. My dad's record. So I was, man, that's still one of my favorite. Man, I still play that record and act like I'm in the mirror and I'm cute. And I'm, man, let me shut up.

That first batch of QLS. guess reflects on how their parents shaped their first musical memories. In some cases, those parents were professionals, known recording artists with their own careers. My parents were also professional recording artists. I grew up in a family act, a nightclub act. My father was an oldie's doo-op singer. By the time I was born, my entire family was part of the show. So a lot of my musical memories were, you know, help shaping the nightclub lounge act. One of my favorite musical memories of all time is my dad taking me bin shopping to record stores twice a month. We go to King James on 52nd Street and my dad would basically just, you know, going to a record store

back in the day was like a religious experience to me. Like this is where you first know the smell of incense. This is where you first see like black light and um you know those zodiac signs uh that are fluorescent colored and they look good in black light in your bedroom and seeing like the wall display of how they um creatively displayed the records and whatnot so pretty much i'll say that um for me been shopping with my dad every other month uh in west philly was kind of a dream for me. My dad would go to the hippest guy in the store and say, all right, give me all the 45s I need.

And, you know, my dad needed these 45s so that his band would know the latest songs to play. You know, and the guy would just grab a box and say, all right, you need casing the Sunshine Band. You need the Commodores. You need the Manhattans. You need Wild Cherry. You need the Ohio players

and the New Earth went to fire. You know, I meant to them they just saw my dad coming in knew that this was going to be an instant $300 sale. But, you know, they would just grab all the 45s and then dad would just use his instincts to see what he should invest in. Names that he was familiar with like BT Express or Gene Karn or the OJs or whatever and just buy binge, binge, binge, binge. And we come home, you know, that started my binge shopping addiction throughout the years. And we get home and then when it was time for rehearsal, my dad's band would just rummage through all the 45s and all the records and they'll be like we'll take this we'll take this we'll take this we'll take that and this that this that and the other and the weird thing is um pretty much whatever wasn't desirable whatever my dad's band didn't like i got to keep so i'll say that i'm probably a rare case in which the flop single was you know my favorite song so you know i always you know i

joke that of course they would keep like whatever stylistics hit there was but you know the stylistics would also cover like the the reggae cover of a song called like shame and scandal in the family and that was a flop and of course i would get that record um i get the casey and the sunshine band single that was not a hit and kind of that became part of my vocabulary so i think i'm in a rare case in which a lot of the music that I took in from like ages three to 11 or not hits, which explains my creativity. A win is a win. A win is a win.

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Trust me, babe. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Okay, so sometimes it's not the parents as much as records, a QLS guest parents or relatives had laying around the house. Next, you'll hear some of those stories. Yeah, you guys already know that I grew up in a house with about 3,000 records and three very distinctive record collectors. Like my father was straight ahead.

He liked vocal and he loved the yacht rock of his day, but mostly like vocal stuff. Like he loves stricane and Nat King Cole and the Beach Boys. Anybody with harmony. That was his lane. My mother was really esoteric and she would have been a crate digger if she were like of age now in the hip hop era. So she would judge albums basically.

on how funky they looked and whatnot. So my mom was very hip. And my sister, pretty much wanted to keep up with her school friends, her friends in school. So she came on with like a really diverse record collection and kind of put me on to stuff that I wasn't hip to. I didn't know about kiss. I didn't know about David Bowie, Queen, you know,

just like a lot of yacht rock stuff, a lot of AM pop. We used to listen to Wizard 100 back in Philly. And so I'll say that, if anything, my sister is really, really responsible for my elastic kind of tolerance for all types of music, you know, which, of course, once hip-hop comes, then everything's wide open.

So, you know, growing up in a house with a thousand records really helps. What was your first musical memory? My first musical memory. my memory is very bad but yeah you know driving in the vW van with my dad and my brother and sister and my dad would just blast music eight tracks always and sing along really loud and it were you allowed to curate the selections or was it like don't touch my stereo no no no he would drive he you know be driving really fast and be reaching for the eight tracks and trying to push you know the one two, three, four thing. And that's when I

really got into music as a little kid, especially from the radio. But I also knew I was like, what is it? What's the deal with Neil Young? Like, my dad would scream, sing Neil Young songs. Got it. Okay. It's a tough thing to listen to. It's like a five-year-old. Well, yeah, I was going to say that I, too, lived in a don't touch my stereo household. So

a lot of the music that I wouldn't touch with the 10-foot pole, suddenly, you know, I'll give you a great example. So my dad was like pre-pre-Yacht rock, free AM radio pop. Like he liked vocals like Johnny Mathis, Barver Streis-in, Nat King Cole, anyone that flexed harmony as well. So we have pet sounds in the house, but I'd never touch it, right? and then when

I read a review that wasn't the Rolling Stone Leave review, Paul's Boutique, someone said, oh, this is Sergeant Pepper, she's like, I disagree, this is the pet sounds of hip-hop, there's more pioneering. And I was like, wait, dad has that record. So actually, like, Paul's Boutique opened my mind to something I would otherwise resist

before the age of 18. I'm now open to. So I'll ask you, like, because if you're listening to all of the music that you guys and all your references, and if you're familiar with the rapid fire way that you guys craft records, I would have thought that coming out the wound that you guys were just like music savants that grew up with the pedigree at the age of one of all this music. So I might have believed that at least for the first 10 years of your life is more like

forced learning or Stockholm syndrome, like. No, no, no, no. So that's an ingrained memory. You asked, like, my first memory, that's an ingrained. It's not a pleasant one, but it's a memory. But I have older brother and sister, and this is, you know, early 70s, when 45s, you know, 45s. And the AM radio, it was a certain time in the radio

where it wasn't like this type of music was played on this station, this type was played on this station. You know, the music being made in the early 70s was a little taste of all of this different stuff. Right. And the radio kind of reflected that for a minute. And so we had a sort of lesson from the radio for a very brief time. And also growing up in New York City, just walking down the street, you hear so much

different music that you're being taught every day. And that was Adam King at Rock, Horowitz, of the Beastie Boys. What was your first musical memory of your life? My first musical memory, my mother was a classically trained opera singer. Oh, wow. Yeah, she sang in the New York Philharmonic. She sang in Lincoln Center. Like, it's crazy.

I did Carnegie Hall a couple of months ago with D. Nice. And everybody was like, yo, we're in Carnegie Hall. We're in Carnegie Hall. And in my mind, I'm thinking my mother laughed this place three times. Like, this is not until I do it four times, until I do it four times, I've done nothing. You know what I mean? Because I looked, I would go see my mother at Carnegie. But again, she was a classically trained singer.

So around the house, she sang and played the piano since birth. And then my real, real, like, music, aha moments was when I stayed with my grandmother. And I was since I was, like, six. And she had this record that she played, like, every day when she came home for work. It was happy landings. And I would watch her be happy playing this song. And then I would just sit there and try to figure out how to play all the records in the house. But when she's coming home, I would put on happy landings for her to walk into the house too.

And I realized, maybe like a year later, like I am actually doing something to her emotionally by putting this record on when she walks through the door. And that made me always want to be the person in the house that played the record. So I didn't know that at 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 that I'm becoming this DJ until I heard records being mixed. And I was like, you know, what the fuck is happening right now? And that was the late great DJ Clark Kent back in 2023. Could you tell me what is your first musical memory in life? My first musical memory is when I was in Ohio, which is where I'm from. Yellow Springs.

Yellow Springs, yeah. You know what? I'll say that, you know, Chappelle, he could talk anybody into anything because that's the type of gift he has. But during the pandemic, those trips to Yellow Springs,

you know, it was such a welcome relief to sort of the stress of what the pandemic was in 2020. So there was half a second where I was considering getting a house in Yellow Springs.

I'm still not against the idea, you know. I know that Kuali lives out there. I know Dave convinced a few people in his community to buy property out there and whatnot. So was it always a hippie-friendly town since the Git? Or was that a recent development? Oh, no, it's always been that way. It's always been a really cool little oasis in a very conservative state. Yeah.

I was like those nine blocks exactly. Yeah, it's like a taste of heaven. Like, oh, I was like,

I can get used to this. Then I took the wrong turn. Yeah. Yeah, and I saw the wrong presidential signs. I was like, right. Yeah,

I was like, no, let me get back to the blue section. Yeah. But, yeah, so what was your first musical memory there? Well,

there were a couple. with my dad because he didn't play an instrument, but he had a collection of records because he liked jazz. So it was me sneaking into his collection and listening and hearing the drums and not knowing what that was because I was like three and four, but really liking what I heard and being drawn to that. What were those records?

He had a lot of Amma Jamal. He had some, and that was probably one of his first. favorite. He had Miles records. He had some Coltrane records. Those were his, his favorite three artists, you know, which was a great introduction for me. He had modern jazz quartet, you know, he had kind of a nice little niche of stuff. And so I would sneak in there and, you know, listen to, probably scratch some of the albums because I was too young to really, you know, take care of him well. But yeah, that's probably my first. first and, you know, maybe my second would be taking a piano lesson with my grandmother,

who was a classical pianist, and hanging out with my uncle, who was a musician as well. Were drums the first weapon of choice for you, or what was the first instrument that you gravitated towards? Oh, definitely drums, yeah. And I took a lesson on piano with my grandmother, but yeah, drums was always the thing that attracted me. That was Cindy Blackman Santana, and next up you're going to hear Tidre Moses. Can you tell us what your first musical memory was? Tina Marie.

My cousin was moving into a house behind my Titi's house, and we cut a gate in, because everybody in the South, we all lived around each other, family lives around each other. So we would cut gates or cut like little paths to go to some. someone's house and we tore the gate back from my Titi's house to my cousin who was moving to house behind and the whole time she was unpacking she was just playing that square bids album. I was really little, but that shit was hard.

I loved it. I was a little kid loving Tina Marie. That's my first, I guess gospel was my first because church, but the first time I really was excited was Tina Reed. That makes sense. It must be magic album. That was your- That one. Yes.

It loves you that? Yeah, so good. And she was just unpacking and dancing and all in her zone. It was her first place, you know. And I was just watching, and I was loving the music. And I was supposed to be helping, but I was little kids. I couldn't really help. But that's my first memory of music, yeah. All right.

So here's Dave Matthews, first with the memory involving family. And then another one involving the radio and his mother. What? Oh, my God. 28 minutes? is a new record. You, wait.

Can we each have one word of the question? Stop. Go ahead, Steve. Go ahead. Okay. What was your first musical? Memory.

Wait a minute. Time out. Time out. That's usually the first question we asked. Everybody, Dave. Wait a minute. This is the level of comfort I have with Dave Matthew's. I legit forgot I was doing a podcast.

I was totally, I let a half hour go by and I didn't even start the process. No. I was like, maybe he's doing his remade. Sometimes we remixes. Well, I'm here. So, you know, if we have to start again, I'm happy to. No, no, no. We're not starting again.

But I will say this. But the question was, what was your first musical memory? I would like to say my first line. music that I remember like I think it was my first memory because I think I was sitting between my mom's knees I was a little kid you know sort of and on the back of a flat bed truck Pete Seeger was playing the band Wow singing really and I remember thinking that guy's awesome and he was so weird He was such a weird, but he was so friendly.

And so that's my first, like, I feel like. Which country was this, Dave? Because you've lived in a lot of places. Where were you when you saw? That was in upstate, not upstate New York, but north of New York City. So he was in Croton quite a bit in that area. Was it turn, turn, turn, or?

I can't remember what, I don't think it was. I can't remember what songs he was playing. I just remember thinking this and people were, you know, it was relaxed and everything. But then I think my. I when I was five years old I remember liking the Jackson five so I'm not entirely sure whether that was because why I fell in love with them was because they had a five right right but then I really did love them and then I've I fell in love with the Beatles and I

became I would say a bore until my brother opened my brain when I was about 10 and my brother was turned me on to other kinds of music and then I and then I it was the 70s so I could listen to the radio and you could hear you know in the 70s you could have the radio on and it could be like at least well PLJ or whatever it was you know it was like it could be it would be like John Denver and then Marvin gay and then Paul and then you know Donna Summers and then you know I remember my mom would always go to the radio when Donna Summers came on and she'd be going oh love to love you baby. He made my mom like, I don't like this song. Right, right. And then she'd wait for it to be over. But I marry my mom always running to the radio and turning off. And that was the only song I could remember her response.

I think it was just, it was too much, there was too much lovemaking in that song for my mom. Okay, so a lot of QLS guests grew up around New York City. And at least two cite the Apollo as a place of musical memories. Then first we're going to hear from Mike Murphy of the system. And then next, Larry Blackman of Cameo. So the question I usually start with, can you tell me what your first musical memory was? You know, as a kid, my mother loved music.

So we used to go to the Apollo all the time. And it was at a time when you could see five shows in one day. You could just sit there, hang out and watch all the shows. And so I did that a lot. Those are my earliest memories. You know, in music in the house, of course, the Jackson 5, who I emulated in my first band, and kind of that's how I got my start. Because you have so much history, man, I might as well, I got to immediately dive in.

Can you tell me, in your life, what was your first musical memory? My first musical memory. Yes, in your life. I was about five years old, and my aunt, was staying with us in New York. She was from Augusta, Georgia, and her brother's sister. And she always talked about the Apollo, and she took me to my first show there. So my first musical memory was, I guess, being about two roles back from the stage and observing Sam Cook.

That was first musical memories. And then she tells me the story about after leaving there, I broke away from her running down the street and almost ran across 7th Avenue and came close to being met by a Greyhound bus. And she didn't think it was that funny. But she said, I would laugh and let her catch up with me and then break away and run that much more. And that had nothing to do with music. But being that my first musical experience was there, I was like, and then after becoming old enough to make it there myself, I used to play hooky from church and custom mayonnaise on Sunday for years. Okay, so do me a favor, because this is like a rabbit hole show where we nerd out on information like that. could you please walk me through

like a typical day where you go to the Apollo like how much did it cost like where would you sit the axe that played like can you walk us through a typical Apollo what year are you talking around is this the 60s 70s oh my God this this had to be the 60s

okay a typical day was you know parents would give us these envelopes. We were members of the Union Baptist Church on 145th between 7th and 8th. Okay. We would go to church. I would take my sister. She was about five years younger than me.

And we'd go and we'd wait until the offering time, which we would take the envelopes and put it in plate. And after the plate went around and everything, there was something else that happened. and they would play music, but do something. But I would give her the signal, and then we meet in the back of the church if she wasn't sitting with me. And then I would take her across the street to my cousin's house, leave her and take the 8th Avenue bus to 125th Street, and go up to the Apollo.

But anyway, they had mayonnaise on Sunday. There were two shows on Sunday, and I would catch the earlier show. And my seat was, if you're on the state, you look to the left and the first balcony right there, that was my steep, okay? It didn't have my name on it. And strangely enough, I was never challenged about where I sat.

And that went on for years. I've seen every Lake Great performer of color. I mean, everyone from, okay, Sam Cuck, Jackie Wilson, flip Wilson, Of course, James Brown now. I mean, come on. And the lines went around the corner in both directions,

all the way to the rear of the theater. Man. Became acquainted with a couple of the master of ceremonies, goodness, names. I can't think of some of the names right away, but I don't think, and I've seen everybody, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Benny King, Joe Tex. For you, who was the act that really grabbed you the most, like, when you saw them?

Like, for you, is it just like, I'm bored, let me go see what's at the Apollo? Or, you know, was the music calling to you, or was it just something to do on a Sunday? No, I did that. I was totally captivated by everything that happened. And I don't know if you have any memories of the Apollo, but they used to show a movie before the live acts. It just grabbed me. I mean, every Sunday, that's something I did, like clockwork, wasn't discussed, didn't feel as if I had to. I just had to see whoever was there.

The one show I did not see was the Jewel Box review. Didn't even know what it was until some years later. You know, I never questioned that. But, man, I was there and, you know, turned into friendships with five stair steps with Kenny and Clarence and family. And, man, I mean, I remember times when the Jackson Five were there, when Michael was running around back. stage up and down the stairs. And on Jermaine, you know, you know, if you know, if you know, he was the protector.

Right. And, you know, just to get to know those guys on a one-on-one basis was, I enjoyed that a great deal. So you were just allowed leeway, like throughout the theater or just... The more people noticed me. Okay. The more I was allowed to... enjoy what I enjoyed doing.

And that was, you know, it was a weird thing. I cannot even remember how certain things turned into friendships. But I did that. That happened a lot. At the Apollo, how many of these shows would occur a day? Is it just one long concurrent show from like, would a typical show just be like a two-hour experience and then they get rid of people and then you come back? Yes, it was like that.

I believe at one time I understand there were several shows a day. Okay. Okay. Prior to my attending, but I would remember at least two shows. And they would add a show according to whatever was going on. I watched the documentary on HBO. And a lot of it, I remember it. But some of the acts that were there prior to my going, I heard a lot of things.

And then amateur night, I believe, was on Wednesday. And that was a gas within itself. It was Apollo to me was a finishing school, if you want to call it that. But that's where I really cut my teeth. I remember George Clinton, Parliament before. It became Funkadelicman. I remember the first show when it became that. Right.

And of course, George was wild, as we've always been over the years. But there was a group called Flamingos that had a song called Funky Broadway. And that was the group that, as far as drums were concerned, that turned me out. that solo at the end of Funky Broadway was the solo you had to play if you were. Wait, not Dike and the Blazers.

Dyke and the Blazers and there was an act called the Flamingo. Dike and the Blazers was one thing, but the Flamingos, it was called the Battle of the bands or groups. Right. They were from Manhattan's, Parliament, Parliament, and a lot of other acts. win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the fourth. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show.

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My first kid record was, you know, as a Sesame Street fan, big fan of Ernie and Bert, Bert's blockbusters. I will listen to that record religiously. So when I get to school, second grade, I would sing Doing the Pigeon or La La La La, like all of Bert's greatest hits. So, yeah, man, that was my shiz-knit. Shout out to Bert, real gangster. All right. Bruce Springsteen, as if he couldn't tell by the voice.

The look or sick or Steve's face right now, like, wait, we interviewed Bruce Springsteen. Damn right. We interviewed everybody on this show. So since this album is essentially kind of, at least the spirit of it is a return to the music that you kind of fell in love with in your childhood. Sure. I guess I'll start with the first question I ask every guest on the show. even though this is like the fourth question.

What was your very first musical memory? My first musical memory was Disney Records. What was the seven Snow White and the Seven Doors? Wow. Hi-ho, hi-ho. It's all the door we go. So my first recollection was something like that, you know, or those little yellow records that played on 78 speed.

I don't know if you guys are old enough to remember these things. Oh, no, we remember. Oh, yeah. But they were little 78s that spent, you know, little kid colors, red, yellow, blue. And they played at 78, and they were basically themes from movies. So that would be my first real musical memory as a child. But after that, my mother was young. She had me when I was, when she was in her early 20s, she played the radio.

She had the radio on all time every day. in the car and in the kitchen, and she listened to Top 40. And so right from a very young age, I was exposed to, like, the great music of the 50s, and that sort of was where, what kind of inspired me, you know, and really I'm basically a top 40 influenced musician. That's how I kind of grew up. And I started there, and then I went searching in blues and folk and a lot of different other places for influences. But really, I started out just listening to Top 40 on the radio. That's a little unusual, though, because I would think, well, I mean, I would consider you maybe like the second generation of rock and roll.

So you're not, I mean, you're not exactly a greaser. And I know that you, in your teen years, you know, it was the late 60s. But it's very unusual for me to see not agreeable, but at least an amicable, musically amicable environment in the household. because normally like the music of the kid is rebellious music. Right. Turn that shit. You know, that's right, right. But you're saying that your parents weren't like that at all.

My dad was a bit like that, but my mother, no, she was a young woman and she was into, you know, we're southern Italians, which means we like music, we can sing and we can perform. Next up, we have Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, known as Blondie. I would like to know, well, I'll ask the both of you. I'll start with Debrie. What was your first musical memory? Oh, wow. I know. Shocker.

Oh, that's, that really goes back, doesn't it? I had, you know, children's records back back then. I had a victrola. At least my, that's what my dad called a victrola. And it was in a box, you know, a little suitcase. And it had a speaker that was attached to the arm where the, you know, where the needle was. And you would just drop it down onto the record. And so that those were my earliest things.

And I think one of my favorites was the thing, oddly enough, called Little Toot. Little Toot. Yeah. Was that a Disney record? I don't know if it was a Disney record. It might have been. It might have been. But it was a really great little song that went through a lot of different emotional interpretations as it told a story of this little tugboat and, you know, the worthlessness of this little tugboat and how the big tugboat is always, you know, pushed it around.

But then little too became like the hearing. of the day. So basically we root off the red nose reindeer. In tugboats. And tugboats. Chris, what was your first musical memory? Well, I don't really remember locking on it to any little kid music. My first affinity for music started when I was like, I guess, you know, around 10 or 11 with movie scores, which was.

and man, some of those novelty songs, you know, like the chipmunks and purple people eater and stuff. But, you know, I don't know how much that moved me, that stuff. But then I started, you know, like Lawrence of Arabia, West Side Story. I mean, it's very hard for me to explain to younger people what a huge cultural touchstone West Side Story was. West Side Story was as big as the damn Beatles. There's no question about it. I don't think people look at that nowadays. Oh, God.

My mother got so mad at me because I took my sister, who was seven years younger than me, to see West Side story, and she almost had a heart. Oh, no. You took her to see that. Oh, no. How could you? But it was fabulous. It was so wonderful.

And, you know, Leonard Bernstein was never better, really. I was going to say that I'm currently reading Little Stephen. Stephen Van Zant's autobiography, and he too has an immense obsession with West Side Story and pretty much described it as the way that you guys did. Like when it came out, it was a revolutionary. It was a huge deal. I don't know. I mean, you're probably on your soundtracks.

I was probably more obsessed with Lawrence Arabia soundtrack, Maurice J.R., you know. Well, the other thing that I listened to a lot was like the Cowboys sing. which is, you know, Western, not even country Western. It was really Western music. And those were great, you know, great songs and people like Burrull Lives and stuff. Burr Lives, yeah, Burr-Ly-Ly. Nobody knows she is now. Okay, so now that you, you know, declared your love for Lawrence of Arabia,

I got to ask you. No, no, this is important because the very first, okay, so I grew up in the household with an older sibling who, you know, because of my sister's, because of her school situation, you know, she was fitting in with her girlfriends, what they were listening to at the time. So, you know, she's bringing in a lot of, you know, the classic New Wave and Punk stuff or whatever. But the one album that I remember, even though she had like, you know, each of the beat and all that stuff, like, I remember the day that she brought Auto American. okay okay okay okay so on the orchestral session there was a one of the bass players played on the laurence of arabia soundtrack

right okay that so that you i was going to ask is your obsession because you know the way that you opened up auto american with the europa score yeah i mean you know you know that by then i was in tino rhoda very deep and all this other stuff you know um i always had a thing for sound I think soundtracks nowadays, that's a whole other topic, are way overused. They're becoming like laugh tracks, you know, where they steer your emotions in the direction of where whoever, whoever, the committee that wrote the thing, they think you should be feeling, you know. And then, you know, gradually I started assimilating the pop music that was around me, like locomotion. Everybody loved locomotion, you know, and this, you know, this stuff, like, the pop music that was around me, like locomotion.

the matter of what, you know. And this, you know, this stuff, like the chagralas I didn't really appreciate till a little later when we were doing the band. I was kind of like commercial to me at the time, you know? Well, I'm older than Chris, and I remember this thing. I used to listen to radio a lot. I had a little radio, and I always had my ear right next to the speaker. The speaker was only in about this big.

And they had a. a radio thing called the hit parade. Yeah. And all those like crooners and, you know, band singers and stuff like that. It was a lot of that. It was kind of great. Yeah. That's even before.

Yeah. And then I went into folk music, of course, you know, because I was 15 and 65. And by that time, I'd been playing guitar since I was 12. And folk music was it. And I remember learning how to play a house at a rising sun, was such a big deal to me. The one and only, Mark Ronson. Mark, what was your first musical memory?

I have, like, almost snapshots in my head, like, partial memories. I remember having a little trap drum kit when I was three or four. I remember also having, it was either a Sony or Fisher Price record player that was, like, plastic. Was it the brown joint? Well, like a little tan one, like a little tan joint. No, this one was like primary colors. It was like red. Maybe it was just like an English one.

It was like red, yellow, green. And I just remember lifting the needle and putting it down on the record and just that excitement when the first like crackle happened. And then like just being like, whoa, I can control this. I mean, it's so not, I mean, it's not even deep enough to compare it to DJing because it literally is DJing. But yeah, those are so. some of my first, first memories.

All right, so instruments are important too. You know, the drums chose me because my birth doctor encouraged my mother to let me be as creative as I want to be. You know, he's one of those hippies, like let him play in his food, let him draw on the walls, like things that you should not do in a black household with a bunch of plastic on the furniture. but my mother pretty much took his advice and let me just run rampant but kind of drew the line when it was like beating up the furniture so pretty much I'll basically say that after beating the furniture to death my parents got me my first drum set in 1974 when I was three years old what is your actual first musical memory that you acknowledge I think for me I I was like a kid who had, you know, you had to be outside playing with individuals and your friends.

Some of my really great friends. But I think mine was when I first got my first bass amplifier. I had this Univox. I had a copy fender jazz called Orlando. And I opened up the case and I thought it was real fur. I thought I was rich because I had this bass guitar, this fur was this fur inside of it. That was my first musical experience. experience really.

And then I play I play first trombone and jazz man too. So I want to play saxophone but they um, I want to play saxophone but they didn't have anymore. What age is this again? This is in grade school.

Well, grade school I was just starting to play but by the time I got to high school, I sat in the first chair playing trombone. And that was Raphael Sadiq in 2021. Here is bass god Nathan East. What was your first?

musical memory that you had. Yeah, there was always a piano kind of around the house that pops and moms both would play. But, you know, it was like, you know, music filled the neighborhood. And, you know, so you'd hear Gladys Knight, Marm and Gay out, you know, blasting through the homes of the neighborhood. But it was really, I'll never forget, my first 45 was more love by Smokey Robinson. We were just always gathered around the radio and listening to music.

And I remember when I played cello for three years, and then I discovered the bass, and it was actually in church. My brothers and I were doing, they were doing like these folk masses back in the day when all that started. And then there was a bass on the altar, and I went up, picked it up, and nobody claimed it, and I picked it up, and I said, oh, Lord. Mase, what was your first musical memory? My dad, whooping my ass, because I wouldn't practice my piano. I was getting my ass beat every...

Because I had to practice a half hour every day, and sometimes I would, like, wait until he fell asleep, and I'll think he was sleeping. And then I would say, yeah, I practiced it. And he would... That I would get a whoopper if I didn't practice. If you didn't practice your skills? Yeah.

Man. So, wait, how old were you when you first started playing piano? Seven. Was this, like? like a church requirement thing or like just something to do to pass the time or no it's my mom my mom had this thing for signing me up for activities so she could go do what she was going to do that was like my babysitter so if i was at the ymca all day then you know i was coming that was just my mom or like um after school i went to piano and then she would drop me off and she would like go grocery shop like

That was her, like, you know, those were all my babysitters. But I learned, you know, I learned how to play the piano. She had been archery, swimming. I could do anything when I was little. Oh, wow. Okay. You guys didn't have the white mom just dropping you off on Saturday? Yeah, boys and girls.

I had summertime, yeah. Yeah. Basketball gymnastics, yeah. Everything. I know. I was in gymnastics. That was big. Forward roll.

Bill, did you get dropped off at the wire? I got dropped off in Hebrew school on Sundays. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Hebrew schools are why. Same thing. Really? Yeah, we had a Jewish center and I had to go to that too.

Why did you have to go to that? Because they had, what class did I take? That's why I took swimming. Why? A cleaner gym. I took this, I took, that's why I took swimming lessons. You're right. That's funny.

Yeah. Yeah. Because it wasn't those swimming pool that was nice like that. Yeah. I couldn't go to the 52nd Street Y. I could go to the Jewish Y on Broad Street, but not the 52nd Street Y. Exactly. You get your ass beat at the 52nd Street Y.

No, that's real. And closing out the batch, that is Macy Gray, another one-of-a-kind voice. Thank you guys for tuning in. Come back next week and check out your podcast feed for Part 2 of QLS. First Musical Memories as we kick off a new year, new season, and more great episodes ahead. All right. What's Love Supreme is a production of Iheart Radio.

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