4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2015
⏱️ 3 minutes
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In this bonus mini-episode, Ndugu Chancler tells Joe about recording Michael Jackson's classic song, "Billie Jean". You can hear Ndugu's full length episode by subscribing to The Trap Set on iTunes or RSS.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Joe. This is a bonus outtake from my interview with Andugu Chancellor. |
0:05.2 | You can hear his full-length interview by subscribing to the trap set on iTunes, RSS, or Stitcher. |
0:11.0 | You can hear the progression from your sound on like, say, those George Duke records to what was going on Thriller. |
0:17.3 | But was there a specific methodology that Bruce had to reporting you that was |
0:21.7 | different than everybody else? Well, I won't say different. When I work with Ike Turner, |
0:28.5 | we recorded Kicks, Nair, and Hat. So by the time we got to Thriller, we went back to that |
0:36.7 | premise, Kicks, Nair, and hat, overdub the other things. |
0:40.9 | So that's how we did Billy Jane, kick snare and hat. |
0:44.0 | Now, did he have that kick drum zipper cover thing going? |
0:47.5 | He had the zipper cover, he had a lead shield blocking the mic for the snare drum, all that stuff, pad me on a riser. |
0:55.1 | Okay. |
0:55.7 | The whole thing. |
0:57.0 | Wow. |
0:57.8 | That album comes out in 83, right? |
1:00.1 | Or did it come out 82? |
1:02.0 | I want to say 82, but it might be 83. |
1:04.9 | I can barely remember. |
1:06.2 | But it was the very first record that I ever owned, for sure. |
1:09.4 | Really? |
1:09.9 | Yeah. |
1:10.2 | My mother got |
1:12.1 | it for my birthday I read I can still remember I was I was born in 80 but I can |
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