Stanley and Jaco are the reason I kept playing 4 strings all this time. If Stanley could do all that with 4, who needs the low B, I mean really? I think it just gets in the way of the groove for me. To each his own I guess.
Like DSlam just said, listen to the fantastic interplay between Clarke and Billy Cobham on drums, especially starting at 4:51 and beyond. Stanley is totally getting off, but Cobham is right on him, beat for beat, step by step. They are totally in sync, playing absolutely incredibly! Billy is just tearing up the bass drum.
This was the second Album i ever bought ( Spirit by EWF was the 1st) I was 14 at the time and I used to hear this music being played in a shop nxt to the bus stop where I used to wait 4 the bus home from work. One night i plucked up the courage to ask what it was and then went and got it that week with my spends. Still gets blasted in my car even to this day, pure class.
I saw this guy 4 times...All in small venues...He never disappointed....Every time i saw him, people walked out of there thinking it was the single most insane performance they'd ever seen, or heard, and convinced he was the best bassist in the world....I also saw Jaco, before he died....He was incredible, but he came out and played by himself, warming up Pat Metheny, and it may have been the craziest thing I'd ever seen..At that point, Jaco was too far gone...A real shame.
You see, Stanley got tagged a long time ago as a sellout, because he didn't toe the jazz line, so to speak, by so many jazz snobs...He didn't follow "THEIR" rules...God forbid you wanted to step outside of the box...The snobs want to keep it one way, even though interest was waning for jazz...The only true musician, in their eyes, is a starving musician....Fuck that noise!
Thank You for the post.Good to get some of the "MAN WITH THE GOLDEN STICKS"on ear because thats the only one cobham plays one the album but steve gadd worked it well too!!
@voncoolio..You know shit about music, dude...Go back and study this guys background, and who he's played with..Horace Silver, Art Bakey, Stan Getz, John Mcloughlin, Chick Corea, just to name a few....You must be high, if you think these guys would play with a guy who knows one lick, as you say....Maybe your ears only HEAR one lick!...Better have them checked....I hear a whole lot more going on hear.
One of the superlative efforts from Mr. Clarke. So wonderful to experience the same feeling now as I did when I first heard this composition back in the 70's. This goes to show the endless power of his craft. My hats off to you Stanley Clarke for bring me back to the garden.
Stanley loved to show off his classical training on these early albums, and he pulled it off through his own skills, but also by surrounding himself with some of the most technically gifted musicians of the 70's. Always highly listenable.
This might be my favorite cut off of this LP. Always made me think of a crazy 007 film since I was little. The title of the track alone sounds like it should be 007 movie. Roger Moore, maybe even Timothy Dalton era lol.
I first had the ORIGINAL release of "School Days" on the Atlantic-distributed Nemperor label; I got later copies on Epic (When Clarke signed with then-CBS, and his Nemperor catalogue was bought out by CBS).
Gawblimey, along with "Hot Fun", this is my ALL-TIME UBER-MEGA-ULTRA RAVE-FAVE from that LP!
Ill be a 60-yr-woman 1/4/2010 and actually have SCHOOL DAYS on Vinyl, looking at it right NOW and listening to some of its songs again after SO many years. I fn LOVE the INTERNET! My 20 yr-old-sons interest in learning the bass brought me here and inspired me to look/find my album, show it to him and make him watch/listen. Hes also thinking about taking up drums again after quitting in grade school. I turned him onto Sandy Nelson. What a blast from the past! ;) TX Google & YouTube! ;)
@Zenster01 Not a question of "being ahead" on anyone. . . when you think about it, . . not everyone is (really) into music, which is okay. Some like movies or sports more. But the people who are, like you and me, this is fking music.
im20 years old and heard this for the first time yonight and lovening every second on it.. blowing my heard of with the introcosy of the drums and bass
Afro was normal back in the 70's. What's your hair gonna look like in 30+ years time? And besides, it's his music that counts; the man is a bass-god. What can you do? nothing?
Life is just a game and there's many ways to play and all you do is choose. lalalalalalalalalalalalala...oh yea baby. This was the sh*t. This song was the hottest on "School Days". Billy Cobham on drums, George Duke on keyboards, Icarus Johnson on Electric Guitar. Incredible!
I remember hearing this track for the first time in high school. This track totally changed my musical expectations... glad to see Stanley is still rocking out hard in SMV this summer!!
How dramatic this sounds !
Stanley Clark has great talent for composition,too.
Is this drum Billy Cobham ?
I want to see Live performance .
japeraYokohama 2 weeks ago
Thanks for posting. One of my favorite songs.
garagestmarien 1 month ago
the greatest me and my homie use to sit smoke and listen to this album over and over and over again for hours.
BIGBIGKEVINNAZTY 1 month ago
rippin it
SplitYoWigBack 2 months ago
i like it picks ups and then near the end it goes back to being all depressing sounding
GodsTouch12 3 months ago
always loved this albulm cover
GodsTouch12 3 months ago
LOVE IT LOVE IT !!!!
melibass 6 months ago
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211bill 7 months ago
A an older friend of mine once said, "Yeah - life is a fuckin' game when you can play like Stanley Clarke." total truth.
anomalousclouds 7 months ago
Stanley and Jaco are the reason I kept playing 4 strings all this time. If Stanley could do all that with 4, who needs the low B, I mean really? I think it just gets in the way of the groove for me. To each his own I guess.
RoyMcDonald420 8 months ago
Does Stanley Clarke look like Ted Williams, or what, the guy with the golden voice.
abston60 8 months ago
@abston60 - he looks like Michael Vick with a fro
boozygrogy 2 months ago
Like DSlam just said, listen to the fantastic interplay between Clarke and Billy Cobham on drums, especially starting at 4:51 and beyond. Stanley is totally getting off, but Cobham is right on him, beat for beat, step by step. They are totally in sync, playing absolutely incredibly! Billy is just tearing up the bass drum.
ncmtman 10 months ago
Magnificent! The interplay between Stanley and Billy on this cut is simply phenomenal! Priceless playing by priceless musical artists!
DSlam 10 months ago
Awesome Post!!!
musicminor25 1 year ago
@musicminor25 awesome post 111 jijiijjij
SOULMUSICFX 1 year ago
This was the second Album i ever bought ( Spirit by EWF was the 1st) I was 14 at the time and I used to hear this music being played in a shop nxt to the bus stop where I used to wait 4 the bus home from work. One night i plucked up the courage to ask what it was and then went and got it that week with my spends. Still gets blasted in my car even to this day, pure class.
HaplessHarvey 1 year ago
@HaplessHarvey Me too... Ijust love it too! Especially Life is Just a Game..
guavaflower1 1 year ago
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@HaplessHarvey lol, great story.
>> I used to hear this music being played in a shop . .
What kind of shop was it?
GaryNull 1 year ago
I saw this guy 4 times...All in small venues...He never disappointed....Every time i saw him, people walked out of there thinking it was the single most insane performance they'd ever seen, or heard, and convinced he was the best bassist in the world....I also saw Jaco, before he died....He was incredible, but he came out and played by himself, warming up Pat Metheny, and it may have been the craziest thing I'd ever seen..At that point, Jaco was too far gone...A real shame.
cheezer57 1 year ago
You see, Stanley got tagged a long time ago as a sellout, because he didn't toe the jazz line, so to speak, by so many jazz snobs...He didn't follow "THEIR" rules...God forbid you wanted to step outside of the box...The snobs want to keep it one way, even though interest was waning for jazz...The only true musician, in their eyes, is a starving musician....Fuck that noise!
cheezer57 1 year ago
The build towards the end of this song, starting at about 7:00 is just insane! I can listen to it endlessly.
ejrosenthal 1 year ago
classic!!!!!!!!!
BOTTOM432 1 year ago
What an amazing album. Every song an epic. Stan is one of my fav composers.
amsedelm 1 year ago
what an fking jam ..... "real" passion is gone today.
GaryNull 1 year ago
@GaryNull absolutely right!!!!!!
19211265 1 year ago
Thank You for the post.Good to get some of the "MAN WITH THE GOLDEN STICKS"on ear because thats the only one cobham plays one the album but steve gadd worked it well too!!
autoracer1man 1 year ago
my favorit Bass player
MarcoBurrone 1 year ago
Amazing Bass playing.
KeithIsPissedOffabiX 1 year ago
Let's see a youtube bassist attempt to play this!
PhuckHue2 2 years ago
Quanti ricordi...
slapbass1982 2 years ago
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doc2earth 2 years ago
It is Cobham, dumbass. Read the Liner Notes.
TokenRah 2 years ago
Billy Cobham is on drums. anybody can recognize his sound
PhuckHue2 2 years ago
@PhuckHue2 - the sound, the period, . . . man music just sucks today.
GaryNull 1 year ago
Cobham!
PhuckHue2 2 years ago
Who's faster....Stanley or Jaco ???
Who's cleaner.....Jaco or Stanley ???
Listen @ 6:20-7:05 Now tell me da answer!!!
cshann59 2 years ago
Does it really matter??? They are both some of the baddest bass players to ever live!
flatchest32 2 years ago
comparisions, comparisions, the YouTube sickness...
stonelenny 2 years ago
@cshann59 yeh but stanley only knows one lick.
voncoolio 1 year ago
@voncoolio..You know shit about music, dude...Go back and study this guys background, and who he's played with..Horace Silver, Art Bakey, Stan Getz, John Mcloughlin, Chick Corea, just to name a few....You must be high, if you think these guys would play with a guy who knows one lick, as you say....Maybe your ears only HEAR one lick!...Better have them checked....I hear a whole lot more going on hear.
cheezer57 1 year ago
One of the superlative efforts from Mr. Clarke. So wonderful to experience the same feeling now as I did when I first heard this composition back in the 70's. This goes to show the endless power of his craft. My hats off to you Stanley Clarke for bring me back to the garden.
bubulous 2 years ago
@bubulous ditto!
mychalsimonzmusic 2 years ago
Stanley loved to show off his classical training on these early albums, and he pulled it off through his own skills, but also by surrounding himself with some of the most technically gifted musicians of the 70's. Always highly listenable.
Parrock1 2 years ago 2
This might be my favorite cut off of this LP. Always made me think of a crazy 007 film since I was little. The title of the track alone sounds like it should be 007 movie. Roger Moore, maybe even Timothy Dalton era lol.
oRuTRa45 2 years ago 3
Great post! I played the hell out of this when I was 17.
louiseduvee 2 years ago
Me too!!!
TokenRah 2 years ago
Oh, yeah...days of Zappa and Clarke.
louiseduvee 2 years ago
Stanley Clarke (Bass) and Billy Cobham (Drums) are my favourite's of all time!
Killer Tune!!!
15chipshops 2 years ago 2
How far back does this jam & Yours Truly go?
I first had the ORIGINAL release of "School Days" on the Atlantic-distributed Nemperor label; I got later copies on Epic (When Clarke signed with then-CBS, and his Nemperor catalogue was bought out by CBS).
Gawblimey, along with "Hot Fun", this is my ALL-TIME UBER-MEGA-ULTRA RAVE-FAVE from that LP!
Thanx fer it, m8..
BadNews88 2 years ago
Ill be a 60-yr-woman 1/4/2010 and actually have SCHOOL DAYS on Vinyl, looking at it right NOW and listening to some of its songs again after SO many years. I fn LOVE the INTERNET! My 20 yr-old-sons interest in learning the bass brought me here and inspired me to look/find my album, show it to him and make him watch/listen. Hes also thinking about taking up drums again after quitting in grade school. I turned him onto Sandy Nelson. What a blast from the past! ;) TX Google & YouTube! ;)
cameonet1950 2 years ago 2
Omg you rock! Your son is lucky to have a mom like you.
doc2earth 2 years ago
Yeah i had this "album" in high school also. But i don't think i was a head of anyone i just had different taste in jazz fusion
Zenster01 2 years ago
@Zenster01 Not a question of "being ahead" on anyone. . . when you think about it, . . not everyone is (really) into music, which is okay. Some like movies or sports more. But the people who are, like you and me, this is fking music.
GaryNull 1 year ago
I had this album in high school, I was way a head of most of my class mates
newberry58 2 years ago
Just bought this CD. Great music!
rockjohnson80 2 years ago 3
im20 years old and heard this for the first time yonight and lovening every second on it.. blowing my heard of with the introcosy of the drums and bass
ride4life123987 2 years ago 4
the best album cover ever!!!
RalphusXL 2 years ago 2
Ladies and gentlmen, Stanley Clarke!!!
ckit4u 2 years ago 3
a orgasm for the ear!
WHAC92 2 years ago 7
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LMAO he has a AFRO
LATINZYKO 2 years ago
Afro was normal back in the 70's. What's your hair gonna look like in 30+ years time? And besides, it's his music that counts; the man is a bass-god. What can you do? nothing?
LuciadiLamamoor 2 years ago
this song is the absolute sh*t!
jp3podlesnik 2 years ago 2
are you deaf ?
2k6baranello 2 years ago
Um...lol... HE means it in a good way.
SexyBrown213 2 years ago 9
Haha i love stanly clark... in the summer i saw him in concert for Return to forever
TLONG2294 3 years ago 3
kick ass song.
buzybass 3 years ago 3
the amazing Stanley Clarke.
outofdatemate 3 years ago 4
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This is sooooooo simular to a song on rocks pebbles and sand...i can't remember the name of the track...but parts of this are allmost identical.
just saying.....
HEYBUDD 3 years ago
Love the horn arrangement on this cut
jangofettish1 3 years ago 5
Life is just a game and there's many ways to play and all you do is choose. lalalalalalalalalalalalala...oh yea baby. This was the sh*t. This song was the hottest on "School Days". Billy Cobham on drums, George Duke on keyboards, Icarus Johnson on Electric Guitar. Incredible!
plutaris33 4 years ago 7
work out the bass in this song and you will be a bloody good bass player.
spliffidge 4 years ago 8
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Dude, what kind of a tool puts a song up on You Tube with a still of the album cover?
GunnarVagotis 4 years ago
Most people. But maybe you won't be interested if there's no video?
BlueCobolt 4 years ago 4
God!!! I remember being 17 and listening to this album on and old portable lp player and trying to learn the guitar parts. Awsome...
bbanks89 4 years ago 3
Me too!
patrissimo 4 years ago 3
I remember hearing this track for the first time in high school. This track totally changed my musical expectations... glad to see Stanley is still rocking out hard in SMV this summer!!
samsonbrassknuck 2 years ago 2
still one the bassis ever
bigsteady0033 4 years ago 2
what a band. Duke, Cobham and Clarke
PhuckHue 4 years ago 6
One of the best bassist ever known to man kind. Just how many fingers does this man have ??
cshann59 4 years ago 13
@cshann59 we will need your anal report for that.
GaryNull 1 year ago
@cshann59 i saw him live his fingers are huge
TheIllegalKind 6 months ago
cobham rules
EnnesymousError 4 years ago 7