![]() ![]() We started out in our first conversation – I flew to New York to interview him – talking about his upbringing in Kentucky. You can imagine how I felt! And he signed it “David” in parentheses “to differentiate myself from the other guy.” But I think that all of us are here to see him. Well, he contacted me because he went online and searched for himself. Who is this man? Where is David Matthews, not Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band, but David Matthews? In an online interview I gave to some obscure website somewhere in Australia, they said, “Who do you want to interview?” I said, “David Matthews, the guy who did The Grodeck Whipperjenny for James Brown in 1970, an all around funky guy who we all need to know more about.” I haven’t seen any written text on the guy. The guy who made an album called The Grodeck Whipperjenny in 1970, which was a psychedelic opus of the highest caliber. A kind of unsung hero in my mind, because he was the guy whose name I was reading on some of my favorite records, as the arranger, musical director sometimes, if I saw a concert flyer or something. ![]() ![]() Because that’s a big part of what I do, and the one guy I was looking to talk to was this man, the guy in the midst of James Brown’s revolution. I’ve interviewed so many people that formed the foundations of funk, as it were. Now, this is a special treat for me because I didn’t think I would ever be interviewing this man. The composer, arranger, funk master, bebop master, all-around amazing individual who we’ll be speaking to today about music, dating way back, and how it turns around and is made new again. Well, not born and raised in New York, but this was the guy I was telling you about in my brief introduction. Ladies and gentleman, sitting in front of you is David Matthews, all the way from New York. ![]()
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