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Galt MacDermot feat. Pretty Pudie and Bad Bascomb
Live in Nashville
Kilmarnock
The significance of this record will probably be fully appreciated in a couple of decades.
MacDermot (on piano), who's been sampled by everyone from Pete Rock to Prince Paul, "Pretty" Purdie (drums), who's been looped by everyone from Beck to Madlib, and "Bad" Bascomb (bass), who's helped out everyone from Special Ed to the Wu-Tang Clan. All three on the same album, all live, and all playing MacDermot's most hip-hop oriented original works. From "Space" to "Coffee Cold," it's all here.
Live in Nashville marks the first time this trio of legends has ever recorded a live album together, and it's Galt MacDermot's first live album since the 1960s crate-digging classic Haircuts.
The Judge's picks all reside on the potent and HAIR-laced side B. Opening with "Where Do I Go?" (the groove from Run-DMC's "Down with the King"), and following with "Ripped Open by Metal Explosions" (the one that became Artifact's "C'mon with the Get Down"), the band renditions are must-have counterparts to the previous HAIR recordings. The eternally-paired "Aquarius" and "Let the Sunshine In" close out the album, with the latter moving the crowd and Count Bass-D into such a frenzy that they begin yelling "Go! Go!" on the upbeat like Chubb Rock's "Treat 'Em Right" record. Unreal. I don't believe a bigger generation gap has ever been bridged on a live record. Another excellent release from the Kilmarnock label. Here's hoping they continue to drop records tailor-made for the hip-hop community.
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