Red Mosquito

zeb wrote:I have enjoyed Lament's posts in this thread.

theplatypus wrote:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201301A47.html

Lament wrote:

zeb wrote:I have enjoyed Lament's posts in this thread.

This compliment made my night. Thank you sir.

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:"You Can't Hurry Love" gives me a feeling that I can't describe. "She Loves You" by The Beatles is another one like that. It takes me back to a simpler time. Granted, I was born in the 70's, but everything old was new to me then, and those are special songs that still stand out today.

harmless wrote:Let's do this. Let's do this hard.

I'm halfway into the fourth "disc" of Hitsville U.S.A - The Motown Singles Collection, and after having paid more attention to several black artists of the era over the last few days (Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, The Temptations, and others here and there) I'm convinced that musically, black 60's / 70's > white 60's / 70's. It's all more interestingly structured, and clearly more influential. I can hear so many ideas that originate here but have been ascribed to white guys. As a drummer, the rhythmic innovations of Motown and Stax are what stick out; the drumming and bass guitar-work is so much more intricate than any white music of its era, and clearly a real progression of 50's Rock and Roll. The ghost-notes on the snare drum, the interplay between hats and snare, and backbeats! One track on Hitsville U.S.A is the earliest song I've heard which makes me think of Drum 'n Bass and Breakbeat (I was aware that Breakbeat originated in the seventies, when DJ Kool Herc used to play isolated drum-breaks from funk and soul songs back to back). Here's the track I'm referring to, "Twenty-Five Miles" by Edwin Starr:



Question: Which artists are more correctly labelled 'Stax' than 'Motown'?