Struttin by Billy Preston

When the synthesizer came on the scene, scores of black keyboardists took to it like ducks to water. That late, great Billy Preston was no exception. Can you imagine this track with acoustic piano? Hell naw. Take it in.




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Category:

Music

Tags:

• R&B
• Funk
• Pop
• Soul

[DESMYTTER]

Louis (Brothers) Johnson plays the Bass

[roscoegino]

oh word? that's cool. guess they knew he was destined for great things.

[dantoine93]

wats the music from playing at the beginning of the video

[roscoegino]

"space" from galt macdermot

[RunawayTrane]

@roscoegino Just about to say it wouldn't be the same without that badasss bassline either

[danzarek]

Not to sound like I'm trying to undermine your post comment because I'm sure you meant the acoustic piano as the lead instrument but I can't imagine this track WITHOUT acoustic piano. One of the funkiest tracks ever recorded, period.This stuff grabbed this 7 year old white kid's soul when it came out, showed him there was more to life than Elvis, and made my ass sit down and practice the piano. The cover of Music is my Life put me on a path to collect keyboards that won't all fit in my house.

[FyodorMDostoyevsky]

@BadfingerBoogieBarb ...okay, I named 6 guitarists without even thinking about it that use this technique... go ahead and start by naming 600 guitarists who don't. It's obvious, you CANNOT name 100 for every 1 that I name, it's just silly to say that. I have no idea what the numbers are, but I still say it's a very common technique. Classical guitarists obviously don't, and alot of times metal guitarists don't, but blues and jazz guitarists do it all the time. Do you play classical or metal?

[BadfingerBoogieBarb]

@FyodorMDostoyevsky

I've played guitar for almost 40 years. I've never even thought about trying it; my hands aren't big enough for one thing. As I tried to point out, it's all relative. For every guitarist you can name who does it, I can name 100 who don't do it. I wouldn't classify it as rare but I wouldn't call it common either.

[FyodorMDostoyevsky]

@BadfingerBoogieBarb .I'm not in any position to define common for you. I said that I can't count the number of guitar players that do this and that is 100% true. All my favorite guitarists do it... Jimi, SRV, Steve Morse, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Beck, Freddie King... and how many Jimi and SRV knock-offs are out there that do it?? I do it, all my guitarist friends do it. I'm going to guess that you don't play guitar or are new to it. I think if you keep your eyes open, you'll see it's very common

[DaveWollenberg]

Billy hit #22 in Billboard, 1-25-75. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! RIP, brother Billy.

[odantoro]

synth funk overload

[nowhere8]

The first picture looks more like Eddie Jefferson .. Anyhow, nice music :)

[homero220]

toda la onda !!!!!!

[BadfingerBoogieBarb]

@FyodorMDostoyevsky

Define "common"? 1 in 100 guitarists? 1 in 500? 1 in 1,000? I think most people would say it isn't particularly common.