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Herbie Hancock's Rock It on YourTube
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Author: dynamo on June 15 2006 Viewed 9588 times. 8 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Saw this the other day, for the first time in years, and omg it rocks (pun intended)!
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That classic clicking high pitched "kraftwerk" sound... ooh, goosebumps!
And the video still feels fresh also. At least compared to much other 80's stuff. | |
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06/15/06
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tommyarthur
I wish someone would post a live version of Rock It on YouTube, such as the performance on Saturday Night Live circa 1983.
It shows how live electronic music can be interesting to watch, even without a bunch of light shows and movies...
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oerfil
Heeeeh, what the hell is this. Special effects department on drugs.
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deltasleep
its unfortunate that somebody as talented as Herbie Hancock had to resort to animatronic mannequin legs and a fairlight to sell any records. dude used to play with miles davis. does anybody remember sextant? headhunters? now THOSE were good records - still a little cheesy, but just so damned good. So much better than Future Shock or Sound System.
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Otterfan
Headhunters was (maybe still is?) the best-selling jazz record ever. He made a fortune off of that record.
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nagrom
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dynamo
i think "rock it" is the only good track hancock have done. it's the whole machine, dolls, fx department on drugs, fairlight, electro thingie that's good.
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bodo
'rock it' is fun but i prefer him in this mode
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there was another video on utoob with head hunter that was pretty funky
but the user took it down 
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nagrom
dynamo said: "i think "rock it" is the only good track hancock have done. it's the whole machine, dolls, fx department on drugs, fairlight, electro thingie that's good."
Watermelon Man?!
06/16/06
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khoral
nice video
too bad it wasn't done on 35mm or some proper format
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dynamo
nagrom said: "Watermelon Man?!"
nah, that kind of funk isn't really my thing.
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crabster
That keytar player. Wow!
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deltasleep
bodo, that video is worth it completely for Ron Carter's playing alone...my god. But I can live without Miles Davis. and to a certain extent, I kind of get this impression that headhunters might have been just another length gone to to glamorize and sell jazz-there was a lot of that around that time. I guess it just wasn't quite the length that "Rockit" was...
But if you just want stuff like Rockit, so many other bands did that style a lot better than Herbie Hancock in my opinion.
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tommyarthur
One of the most underrated Hancock albums IMO is "Sextant". It's sort of a mix of weirdo free jazz, modal funk, and proto-electro. I don't know the exact year but I'd guess 74-75.
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tommyarthur
Oh wow, it's '73. This was way ahead of its time.
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tommyarthur
My girlfriend went to a Herbie Hancock concert a year or so back, and she told me that they started and finished with something that could only be described as improvised electronic noise -- but that it was more connected to music than a lot of the stuff like that she'd heard.
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