Marcus Miller w/ Miles Davis "Fat Time" Live 1982

[piovragb]

Miles, marcus, mike's...wonderful

[sukifuki1]

ofcourse is fat time.. it's just a bit faster.

[SHARPsUnite]

For all you haters, Miles would have probably told you (and rightly so) that you don't know sh*t about jazz...

[onthe1drop]

Hot music.

[kameleon40]

Blast beats right there: 5:55.

[klustjerauw]

Definitely not "Fat time". It's another song.

[Vittorione62]

Che bellezza!

[def2008]

On dirait bien que ce matin la quelquun a chier dans les céréales de Miles...

[BerserkaViking]

This is not "Fat Time." Nice tune tho.

[twinqletwinqle]

You go boys!

[jazzuffe]

This is soo incredible! Great upstart band when the Miles returned.

[Zeemanuk]

Sounding Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet here in 2011 ------ i was born in the wrong time -------- i was -5 was this was recorded

[CptChaos88]

@Zeemanuk

i wasn't even alive, when this here was recorded... i was born like 10 years later...

[aliensporebomb]

Amazing that this take seems twice as fast as the album take but is within two seconds of the album version in terms of time.

[addictedtobass42]

lol who`s workin miles i cant see any wires!!!!

[Musicartsandcoffee]

Mike Stern also wipes the floor with Miles' future guitarist Robben Ford. Robben's great though but he's not really a jazz player as such.

[Musicartsandcoffee]

Wow yeah, the drummer is laying down the fattest groove ever. I love Marcus' tone here, wish he kept this tone. I love Mike's playing, what a top class player.  Miles, what more can be said about Miles.

[Spankeedoodle]

miles davis was WAAAAAAAYYYYY AHEAD OF HIS TIME

[mcreinhart]

karate kid on sax

[AmazinRetropolis]

they tryin to erase good music...

but it will never happen!!

this is more then good this is great music

[piccinini02]

i'm sorry, i'm not a expert in jazz, but I didnt get whats so terrible about this version. Please somebody tell me, cause it sounds fine to my lay ears.

piccinini,Brazil.

[KABRIS1]

@piccinini02 What is terrible is that there are a lot of critics out there that don't know shit about music.

[heymrmacbookpro]

Ok ya'll... at 4:54 Marcus plays a line. Then at 4:59 Bill looks over at Marcus in disbelief. Maybe he's a lil mad!!

[RTBM]

@heymrmacbookpro man that is really hilarious! i've seen it almost 10 time and i kept on laughing... :)

this dude Bill looks like he is pissed off. But i must say that was one of the best fast licks if heard!

[cbfeeling]

@heymrmacbookpro Marcus played over Bill and killed his flow. It was a cool line though.

[bobbygoesbig]

Sounds nothing like the version on The Man With The Horn.

[partidoalto1]

Al Foster is laying it down. Everybody follows suit. Stern looked different then.

[brantc]

Some people just dont know good groove when they hear it!!!!

[konshess]

quite honestly..GARBAGE...Miles was wayyyyy off that day...sad.....no musical taste or soul just fast food jazz...

[yobhsiFehT]

@konshess

I'm not a Miles expert by any means, but I think it could probably be argued that Miles was kinda' "off" for 15-20 years, don't you think.?. :S I mean, you *can't* hate the guy even so, but... honestly...

[konshess]

@yobhsiFehT miles is the greatest genius in Jazz..outside of Armstrong..but this was just terrible...

[JustusFriedolin]

@konshess charlie parker, john coltrane? well whatever fuck this im out of here :D

[konshess]

@JustusFriedolin Coltrane and Parker cant hold a candle to Armstrong..they are DISTANT second...

[KnowKnot]

Beautiful Stern solo. Love the in and out of the walking groove with Marcus at 8:28 (etc.).

[4578a]

You should read all about Miles davis, This was a hard period for him just getting back into playing music after 5 long and silent years. He's doing good but he said it was a few years after this that he got his "tone" back.

[jokeob]

I just don't get it... I like this music but I'm really not sure why. ^^ I mean... don't get me wrong but as someone who is totally unexperienced in listening to trumpet players i feel like what Miles plays sounds... a bit wrong here and there. Wrong notes and poor tone... why does he do that? What is his point?

Can somebody explain?

[artysan]

@jokeob he seems emotionally beat, very dissatisfying to watch for such an adoring fan..

[KnowKnot]

@jokeob Depends. Do you feel like that about all Miles' work? If so, it's something in his style that's throwing you - and anyone who says there's nothing to work through in "getting it," whatever that means, is arrogant. If not, then maybe it's the condition he was in emotionally/musically at the time. Listen to the studio version and see what happens.

In the end, all the "why" of "liking" something is crap. It just speaks. Everything else is just trying to find a way to be comfy with it.

[bobvanluijt]

Nice, nice, also cool that Marcus Miller is about 14 years old in this clip :-p

[bassje01]

@bobvanluijt Do you mean he LOOKS like 14? Because he is born in 1959.

Groeten aan Job ;-)

[bobvanluijt]

@bassje01 Well, actually it was my "very evolved dutch sense of humor" :-P

Ik zal ze doorgeven! Vette clips trouwens (pentatonic rulezzzz)

[bassje01]

@bobvanluijt Shame one me that I as a real Dutchman didn't got that :-)

Zie je denk ik wel op de bruiloft, ik mag in de dienst spelen...

[bobvanluijt]

@bassje01 haha, leuk. Zie je dan!

[bakvarnyu]

lots of drivel on the saxophon

[ox092]

i like both versions of this song. Because they both have a great rhythm of drums.

[impala327]

I just read that Miles told Stern that he should go to "Notes Anonymous" because he was playing too many. Er, uh, 'Trane??? LOL!

[shadowknight132]

@impala327

Coltrane was during the Bebop area where it was important to play a lot of notes.

I think Miles Davis got that idea from that famous critic who said that the main problem of guitarist are they play too much notes.

[boertush]

@shadowknight132 A lot of work Coltrane did with Miles besides bebop was modal, and it is possible to play bebop with playing fast a good example of this ironically is Miles Davis.

And as a guitar player meself, you shouldn't compare a guitar with a horn. I don't think you'd say most pianists playes to many notes, and they can easily play twice as many notes as most guitarists.

[lubass66]

che musica ragazzi pelle d'oca!!!!!

[suckfist]

Saxophonist looking tough as nails with that orange bandanna.

[FCO0710]

whats up with miles mouthpiece?

[faroutspaceboy]

that's some kind of PICKUP on his mp

[FCO0710]

as in an electric one? like the kind on a guitar?

[cali22boi]

Miles' mouthpiece from the 1970's. It was used for the wah-wah pedal. The only reason he used that mouthpiece during his "comeback" is because story has it that he lost his "straight" one. This one was molded from the Gustav mouthpiece one he used from the late 50's on. So as time progressed from he eventually got a new mouthpiece made around 1983-4.

[boomfield]

timeless

[aetio2]

A Question pls: this video is taken from the dvd "Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1982"?

It's very good!! there is also a superbe solo by Mike Stern...Thks vm...

[inuyashaspet]

Why'd they focus on the guitardist's face when Marcus was playing the fat chops? I'll never, EVER understand the camerawork of most concert videos....

[cm0220ster]

Woops my bad. I posted elsewhere that I was disappointed Stern wasn't in the video. But there he is......

[cm0220ster]

If you listen to Mike Stern tell the story Fat Time was the nickname Miles gave to Stern when he was a member of the band, because he liked his sense of time. Also, Pat Metheny, who was Stern's teacher at one time, also loved Stern's feel and time. It's one of the things that makes Mike stand out and a HUGE part of his talent. I was hoping this was a Davis/Stern video. Still good though.

[couchvej]

I read that it was also because Mike was chubby back then :)

[TheLebivic]

AL FOSTER AL FOSTER AL FOSTER

[gabdragon]

MARCUS MARCUS MARCUS

[youreok88]

original studio version has better guitar solo from Stern :-)

[flashmaster1990]

The were all so young ^^

[meditatio1]

great

[crazy4blues]

Miles' chops are spot on here! Better than the studio recording. And the band!

[tonyfreejazz20]

Awesome...and nice to see a young Bill on the sax