Ep033: The Story of the Amen Break, Interview w The Winstons founding member Richard L Spencer
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The Amen Break is the most popular, most used, most sampled drum beat in history, and it's appeared on over 2000 separate recordings and spawned new music genres. Hear the story of the song, the track, the sample and the man behind it. We speak to Richard L Spencer, owner of the song 'Amen Brother' and the Amen Break.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, record fans, welcome back for another episode of the Vinyl Guide podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | This week we discuss six seconds of audio that changed the face of music and the unlikely source of this sound. |
| 0:20.0 | Yep, this week we are telling the tale |
| 0:22.2 | of the Amen Break, the most popular drumbeat in history, and how to spot an original record |
| 0:27.7 | when you see it in the wild. And also today we have a guest interview with the owner of the |
| 0:32.4 | rights for the Amen Break, Richard L. Spencer. Richard will talk about the making of the Amen break, the song, the studio sessions, and |
| 0:39.5 | of course the trials and tribulations of his efforts to get creative and financial control |
| 0:44.1 | over it. |
| 0:44.6 | And this episode of The Vinyl Guide is sponsored by As the Record Turns.com. |
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| 1:11.7 | That's groove washer.com. So with that, let's start today's show. |
| 1:16.8 | Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. Welcome to the vinyl guide. |
| 1:22.2 | The podcast made for record nerds like yourself. Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of |
| 1:27.2 | them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 1:28.8 | Well, hey there, welcome back, everyone, for another episode of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast where we get |
| 1:33.1 | together and we talk about records and turntables and all sorts of fun music factoids and things |
| 1:38.9 | like that. I hope you guys are doing well. It's been a great week for me. I expanded my collection with some Black Sabbath white label promos. I'm totally stoked. So for those of you who know me on follow me on Instagram or have joined the Facebook Vinyl Guide group, that's Facebook.com slash vinyl guide. You'll know that I am a Black Sabbath fan. |
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