 So, one goal of Madison Roeby has always been to bring people to Madison, show them what a cool place it is and get them to come and spend some time and fall in love with the city. So, that's why we've got Clyde here, so I will let you take it away. Thank you. Thank you. Hello Madison. How y'all doing? He beat me to it, he was calling off all the states and stuff and y'all ain't from Madison are you? Who's from Madison? All right, we got a few, that's cool, that's cool. I do a lot of clinics in town, out of town and all about everywhere, Canada, I love them and talking to the people is so amazing because they make me feel good and that's what I look for in music or anything is to feel good. If I don't feel good, something ain't right. I loved going out and giving to clinics. Jabbo, he's one of my, he's a drummer, used to be with, no he used to be with James Brown, he's no longer with him, Brown left, but Jabbo and I was with James Brown show, well the way it started out in Chattanooga, I'm from Chattanooga, Tennessee and Chattanooga was a good city, I love it and in school when I was in grade school, we had to get permission to go downtown to hear the bands coming through town and I got permission to go downtown and so they had the kids, we all went downtown and I was very satisfied because when the drums came through, it was boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, I never ever wanted to play a thought about playing drums, so when they came through I went home all day, boom, boom, boom, boom, I said wow, that sounds good, so I got on a garbage can lid and that was a lot of work because I didn't have no drumsticks, I had tree limbs, oh yeah, tree limbs, but I got on them tree limbs and drive this can lid and learned my thing that I knew to play in drums, but see I don't read, I don't write, if you put notes up before me it looks like Chinese mute writing, so I have nothing to do with reading or writing, the only thing I have to do with is putting a groove there and making it funky or whatever it calls for, thank you and I made a lot of James Brown tunes funky, but I didn't get no money for them, but I wasn't looking for that, actually when I went out on the road to, well when I played in Chattanooga, Tennessee I played with Otis Redden a few days, but when I went on the road I wasn't going out there to look for money, I was going out there to entertain myself and have a good time, so I went to, James Brown was, I used to live in Augusta, Georgia and James Brown came in one night, I was, it was a jam and I was jamming there and he sent someone up to me say, hey man, when you get through Mr. Brown want to see you and I don't know, I didn't know James Brown from no one else, actually, you know, it was okay, and so when I got through with that song I played another one and the guy came up again and said, hey man, when you get through Mr. Brown want to see you, I said, okay, hey, leave me alone, and then we got through with that song, Brown came up, he said, man, when you get through I want to see you over at my table, and I said, cool, so I did that, went over his table, he said, I want you to come to some part of Georgia, I forgot, says, I want you to come down and audition for me, I said, okay, I'll do that, so I went and the club owner was his friend, they were good tight friends, so I went down and auditioned for him and the whole auditorium was surrounded, jam packed with people, and I was shaking, scared, I could not believe it, I went, okay, so he had six drummers at that time, six lines of drums, and so he says, get on one of the set of drums and we're gonna get a few songs going, so I picked the far set and he said, no, get over by the organ, I says, okay, so I got the closest one to the organ, we jammed a few times and the people started screaming and hollering, and I was just, oh, cheer bumps all over me, and when we got through he gave me a hundred dollar bill and says, I'll be getting in touch with you, I says, cool, so when he got in touch, when I went back home, Clint Bratley, the club owner says, hey, man, about two weeks later says, Mr. Brown wants you in North Carolina, I says, okay, so they put me on a flight and everything, he says pack a bag with your clothes and stuff, I says clothes and stuff, all right, and you know, I wasn't a big traveler, I was at a nice place and so I did that, when I got to North Carolina, usually the musicians that come in and want to join the James Brown show, stand on the side of the stage for about maybe three or four days before he let them come on stage, but no, he told me to come right on right now, I says, all right, man, Jesus Christ, and so I went out and I was with the James Brown show there, and Jabbo, that's the first time I met Jabbo, because he was from Bobby Bluebland's band and BB King, and him and I got to be real tight, he says, man, we're not playing enough, we got to get rid of some of them other drummers, and that's just what we done, we started moving them out, moving them out, and James says, okay, I got my two drummers and just that and the other, and I think the first song I recorded with him was Cold Sweat, I think that was my first one, I don't know, I recorded about five or six hits with him, and so we got to move around like that, but I wasn't, like I say, I wasn't a big traveler, the next thing I know, he says, the manager's saying, we're in New York, I'm going to New York, damn, life, whoa, and it was all new to me, so I got to New York and enjoyed myself, I'm a TV watcher, I love TV, so what happened was, they says, okay, you go get a shot now, your arm is going to be, you're going to get shots in New York, I'll be going to Vietnam, I went, where? Vietnam, I said, Jesus Christ, Vietnam, I never even thought about going to New York, so what happened was, I wouldn't have got my shots, and that night I was sick as a dog, I called the front desk and asked them, do they have a doctor in the house, and they says, what's wrong, I said, I just got some shots for Vietnam, they says, ain't nothing a doctor can do, you got to suffer through it, I said, okay, and I was moaning and groaning all night, moaning and groaning, so when I woke up the next morning, I was more of a, and eventually, because it was worse than that earlier, it was, oh, but now, when I died down, I was okay, and so we got on a flight and we went to Vietnam and it was interesting, I enjoyed playing for the soldiers, that's what I, my main thing was to go and I played for the soldiers and it made me happy, and we had a good time, all of us, and so that was some of my travel, when I travel, anything shows, I never look for money, I never look for nothing but just to sit and play and enjoy myself and put a groove together, so like going in the studio with Brown and recording his hits, I just get in the studio and sit my drums up and I start playing a little bit, and then the bass player might come in and start playing something, and the guitar player might come in and start playing something, we just groove on that and then Brown walk in the door and go, hey man, let's do this, all of his songs were put together, no idea, just do it, okay, you got a groove going, I'm gonna put these lyrics with it, so we did that and that's how we got their hits, and he says, I was riding the bus and Maceo Parker says to me one day, hey man, that's a hit song right there, cold sweat, I went, a hit, you know, I wasn't into all that stuff, I was just into grooving and having a good time, and I made myself do that, I got into enjoying people in different countries, I learned they trades and everything, it was beautiful, Japan, I went there, and you know, it was fabulous, but now, some of my drum patterns, that's before I came to Madison, all this is before I came to Madison, I didn't know anything about Madison, but some of my drum patterns were like, that's one of them, okay, I got the feeling, one, two, three, I don't listen to no one else telling me something about drums, so you ain't gonna tell me something I don't know about that I'm supposed to learn it, don't forget it, so I'm not a reader, I'm not a writer, I don't know what they do, they've been not, I've turned down some big bands because they had people reading papers in front of me, I go, no, you better get you another drummer, that ain't for me, and I didn't do it, but I like that kind of stuff, and so I played with Brown for seven years, going around the country, around the world, traveling different places, which I got into, and it was very, very beautiful, and so I started thinking, actually, I never, like I said, I never thought about, you know, a money thing, how much money I'm gonna make, that never crossed my mind, it's the thing of where, what are we gonna do, and how are we gonna do it, and well, I'm gonna make mine feel good, so that's what I was thinking, but now we played all over, and one night we played in Madison, Wisconsin, I had never heard of Madison, Wisconsin, from nothing, looking at maps, I never heard of Madison, Wisconsin, and so we got here and got everything set, and I loved it from the get-go and everything, and we played the show and had a real good time, I don't know what it was, but I was saying, now I gotta find a place to live when I come off the road, so I had LA, London, England, San Francisco, and I put Madison in there, so I said, it's okay, when I quit Brown, I was in Detroit, Michigan, I can't, I don't even like driving through that place, I'm sorry who was ever from there, but them people crazy of it, but I came to Madison and I had my home here, I started my home here, and I love it, I love Madison, anywhere I go today, I always think about home, I wanna be back home, I love Madison, I love the comfort, I love my everything, I met my beautiful wife here, Jody Hannon, right over there, and she keeps me going, she keeps me up on everything, and I love Madison so much, it's that you cannot pay me to go somewhere else and live, actually, that's how much I love it, and it's a place, well it's gotten a little rough now since guns were legally, you know, that's how, but we played here because we played in Milwaukee quite a bit, and they said we're gonna play in Madison, Wisconsin, I said okay, we came here, and I got through playing the show, and we stayed over, and I went, had a few drinks out to the bars, the strip clubs of course, and my brother was working at one of them, and he's our force, and I got to know a few people, and I said okay, this is where I'm coming when I leave the road, when I leave the road, I'm moving to Madison, so I didn't check out none of the other places or anything, I just said I'm moving to Madison, and that's what I did, and I've been here since 1971, and I love it, and I'll tell you over again, I love it, I love it, I love it, and I asked where Paul Soglin and I hung out for a while, he was the mayor, we had good times, I got to meet some very nice people and give you another drum pad in here, that's my time signal right there, whatever I'm doing, that's my time signal that I keep up with on the other drums, here on the cymbals, everybody play, which is good, but you got different tones, you got tone there, tone there, tone there, and a tone there, so you got about four or five tones on your cymbal that you should use in different songs because it gives you a different flavor and a different feeling, so drums is an instrument, it's not just something you beat on, and I learned that, and I started doing all the stuff that I needed, and I love to do that, I can't get this foot fell ahead together, but that's okay, and I put it there, and if it's too hard to do, I break it down a little bit, different flavors and different beats on it, but it's just a feeling, but it's just a different, just to pick up the sticks is very much so much fun, I'm talking about, if the bass player, the bass player and the drummer has got to be together there, if the bass player and the drummer is not together, you can't, one of them got to go, that's all, but that's the whole trip, and that's where Madison taught me a lot about feelings and emotions, and I just enjoyed that experience from doing those things, not knowing what I'm doing, but enjoying it all because I can make it happen, and I didn't know when I moved to the Madison that they had an airport so close, I used to go to Milwaukee when all my gigs, I used to go to drive to Milwaukee and catch a flight there, and I learned there was an airport here in Madison, and I said, y'all forget it, if you can't book me out of Madison airport, I ain't going, that's where I got started getting booked out of Madison airport, and there's a few more dollars, I said, I don't care, I ain't going if you don't, I ain't driving to Milwaukee just to catch a flight and come, nope, and so they took care of all that, and I even played with Michael Feldman, what do you know show, I like that, that's a beautiful, Michael is a great man, and that's a hot show too from Madison, you know anybody heard of that show, that's a great show, and Michael came up to me in a club one night, I've been waiting for about 18, 19 years, and he came up to a club one night with me, and I didn't know him, he says, hey, he says, would you like to be on my show, I said sure, I don't know what kind of show it was, and I found out it was the radio show, and I've been waiting for about 19 years, and it's been a pleasure, it's heaven, it's a nice family, and beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, and you know, I'm just a happy person, my wife makes sure I'm like that, but you know if I have a question or two they would like to ask, do you have any money, if I mean, okay well I'm going to ask this gentleman's question, I didn't know that the artist was using my drum pattern, I didn't know that, you see, I think I was still with Brown, and that's where some of the guys came up to me saying man that's your drum pattern that they're using, I go cool, and I found out that, see I still went after money still, and it's not a thing now, it's like I need my, just a pleasure, but when I, I said God, those guys just give it, they, Brown made all the money off of my drum pattern, I didn't get a penny of it, but I enjoy it being out there in the world, that was, that was money for me, and I think they, they took about two, one of my drum patterns I hate, I can't stand, that's the first one they use, and I don't know what that one was, funky, yeah, funky drum, I can't stand that pattern, it's sickening, that's like being in the studio and just getting there and starting jamming, and Brown came in and did that, put his little lyrics in, and we had funky drummer, somebody said we got a hit tune, I go, I'm serious, funky drummer, but I was proud to have it out there in the world, people get to know me, but I wonder why did they choose that one, you know, there's others out there they could have chosen, but they chose that one, and I was happy, and that's about my sampling, and I still haven't gotten any money from sampling, I'm working with Chuck D right now, and some of the artists in his area, uh, nice, having a good time, anyone, yes, what, but that's not a show that I, I can't pick one place that I really enjoyed the show, the main place my first enjoyment was the Apollo Theater, that was a nice one to me until we have found out we had to do six shows a day, and on Saturday we do seven, I eat, and they said they had people standing in line around, like this building around in line for the next show, and I'm going why are they doing that, go home, but it was, it was packed, every show was packed, and I got into the Apollo Theater, it was very nice, until one night I was, we were playing, and this crew came in, like an army military crew, and some came down that aisle, some came down that aisle, and Jabba and I, just the two of us playing, and some one or two, four in the front right down, he came, the guy walked up on stage, the leader of that, and he walked up on stage and whistled to Bronson, and he turned around, and they all walked out, and I don't know what he said, but I'm glad he said it, because we all could have been dead right there, and nobody'd realize it because they didn't know what that crew was doing, that crew just didn't come in there to look good or something, so whatever Brown decided with him, and they got off on it, and it was nice, so I'm happy for that part, yeah, and that's your question sir, anyone else, what's that, I'm not sure I hear you well, I'm a drummer man, oh my favorite, was I playing the drums in 67, I thought it was in 71, I mean uh 67, you're right, yeah, you're right, I was, I was with him in 67, I played the Apollo with him around that area, but I joined him in 65, but um my favorite drummers right now is uh David Garibaldi, Steve Gatt, and Bernard Purdy, those are my favorite drummers right today in front, I always been, and it's not something I listen to, well what got me was uh AWB, when I quit Brown, I heard AWB on uh pick up the pieces, and that was, that's a hot tune, anything AWB do, they are hot, and I go damn, he done got another hit tune out, and I just quit him, I kept asking everybody man, who is that, they didn't know, and everybody said that's AWB, I said whoa, and that's when I got into AWB, they were hot, and the drummer was hot, and uh Steve Gatt, he's more of a jazzy drummer, and he's hot, Jabba was more of a bluesy drummer and jazzy, so Billy Blake, who is that, I have no idea who Billy Blake is, what, no, no you can't send me nothing, I, no, no, no, Steve Gatt, uh David Garibaldi and Bernard Purdy, now if you've got somebody else you keep them, uh anyone else, oh my man, it's a little tough because of the energy, but I, I, I, I accommodate it, accommodate it and stuff, and I don't make my beats as off as they used to be, uh and my age, I am 69 years old, and uh I love it, well I better love it, but I'm very happy with my age, and uh I can't believe I'm that old either when people ask me, I tell them 69, they go you ain't 69, go yes I am, they gonna tell me I'm, you're 50, I says okay, anything else anyway, what's that, no because I make my own patterns, no I'm serious, I make my own patterns so it's nothing difficult for me, but um right now I'm learning the two bass drum, so that's gonna be a hard pattern for me, sort of, at the age of I'm two and 69 and stuff and try to keep up with all me, okay, yes, do I have any regrets, I have a few, I can't think of them because I don't keep them in my head, that would slow me down in my life and I'm not out for that, I like happy good things, so regrets I don't hang around, I don't let them hang around me, or either my friends either, so excuse me, uh anything else, anybody, anybody else in here got regrets, but uh I want to say I got my CD, this is one of my CDs for sale, Jabba and I, Hot CD and uh this was uh uh a few of the James Brown members are on that, we put out Jabba and I put out so many CDs and uh I wanted to tell you see, now I play with Marvel Whitney and uh I play with Jimmy's on one or two tunes, but uh that's Jabba up there and myself, but now what happened if you went to Facebook, it's so much stuff on Facebook that I have never been into it, all I see is Clyde Stubblefield, Clyde Stubblefield, Clyde, I went who knows about what I've been doing and it's just just just rolls, rolls of it, I imagine if you go to any other uh computer whatever, my wife has a computer, I don't know nothing about computers, that's out, I have a phone and all I know is to click calls and put out calls, but I don't know nothing about that to my half to go to my brother-in-law, hey man what happened here, ain't something ain't happening but I'm not into computer and phones that much, but I enjoy them, they come through for other people, so what's that, yeah the Guga, okay and that's my sweet baby there and we have two Boston Terriers, we love them dearly and uh but I love, I can say I love Madison, the first day I got here since the day today, I love Madison and I will always love Madison, the people are fabulous, I love the people of Madison, they are so great, they don't take no bull, I like that you know but they don't give out bulls that much but if you're wrong you're wrong but otherwise than that I love it because of the people in the city and the things that goes on in the city, it's real nice, I know I love Paul Soglin, he should have went for Governor, what is it, yeah he should have went out for Governor, he would have been a great Governor but that's one other thing, ah yeah, do I, you see what I'm playing, mind playing it, I'm trying to think of it, funky drummer, I really can't think of it brother, it's because I didn't like it and it's something I don't keep in my head or could make another pattern of I'm gonna, when I go home I'm gonna have to hear funky drummer, just to hear it, what?