Herbie Hancock "Chameleon" - Songs That Changed Music
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2024
- “Chameleon” is a foundational track in the history of funk-jazz. It appeared in 1973 on Herbie Hancock’s classic album Head Hunters, and remains influential more than 50 years after its release. It has not only become a benchmark for funk-jazz, but also a jazz standard. On top of this, “Chameleon” pioneered the use of synthesizers in funk and in jazz, and it had a significant impact on hip-hop.
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Concept/Producer: Warren Huart
Script: Paul Tingen
Editing: Raphael Tingen
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Who else should we feature? What songs do you believe changed music?
"Subterranean Homesick Alien" by Radiohead. "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden. "Fame" by David Bowie. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes. "I'm on Fire" by Bruce Springsteen. And so many others!
Steely Dan with the Aja album changed music. Great musicians and songwriting.
Oxygene- Jean Michelle Jarre. I am also a big fan of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream. These artists opened the door to electronic music employing soundscapes employing sampling, looping and using Synths as the primary instruments in their music production. Well, ok we can go back to the Beatles "Sgt. Peppers" etc. etc. but you have already covered the Beatles :)
Agreed 100%!@@stangovers7441
If we're in the jazz realm, Herbie's long-time collaborator Wayne Shorter deserves mention. His tune "See No Evil" sounds incredibly fresh and modern for 1964.
One of my favorites. I'm a keyboard player who played classical and rock when I discovered jazz and Herbie Hancock. Living in Los Angeles, I was able to see many jazz artists including Herbie. What great times!!😊😊
The middle section is just so satisfying after such a killer groove - they just start soaring and floating - genius!! Love Herbie 🖖🏼✊🏼 Thanks Warren!!
Agreed 100%! Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Herbie is by far my favorite musician. When I was a kid I would put my boom box up against the TV and wait for songs to come on MTV so I could record them. I had to record Rockit a few times because it kept eating my tapes 😢
When I was in HS one of my teammates would put his boom box behind the basket when we were warming up for a game. The song was Rock It. Best song ever for doing layup drills.
I was about 9 years old when I first heard the Headhunters album and it blew me away. As a budding drummer I was particularly drawn to Harvey Mason's work on Chameleon, but every element on the album is virtuoso stuff. I'm approaching 60 now and still regularly listen to it
Thank you. Great introduction to a great musician.
You're very welcome!
We used to open with Cameleon a lot back in the day because you could bring the musicians up on the stage one at a time.
So much good music came out of Wally Heiders in the 70's, All the Crosby Still and Nash stuff, American Beauty, Headhunters, Crazy Horse, CCR, Santana Abraxis, T Rex, Tupelo Honey, Gram Parsons, Betty Davis, Venus and Mars, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac Rumours, not to mention all the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown albums. One of my favorites from that time is David Crosby's If Only I Could Remember My Name with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane backing him up. Phil Lesh's bass tone and Jerry Garcia's Pedal Steel on "Laughing" is amazing.
I've been inside different fur studios and hyde street studios where headhunters was recorded. both are still hanging on, thankfully.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
I agree this piece was simply genius… and it never gets old!
Herbie is The Jazz Master of today.
Incredible talent John!
Hi Warren, thank you for making this video and show casing the living legend of Herbie Hancock. I had the wonderful fortune of meeting him 2 times in my life, he is as Gracious a Human being as he is a virtuoso in music! I highly recommend the doc "Defying Gravity" about Wayne Shorter (who considered Herbie his best friend) which also covers much of the history of Jazz of that era. I love your mini-documentary videos with so much behind the scenes breakdown of the Artists, the gear and nuances of production. Your channel is a true GEM on the youtube landscape
This changed my life when I heard it when I was younger, I couldn't understand what it was doing to me, like someone found the switch and released all the electricity at once. I must have listened to that album 100s of times. Love it, Thanks for the video W, so awesome :)
Wonderful! Thanks ever so much for sharing!
@@Producelikeapro no worries, these videos are great mini docos, i highly enjoy them, thanks for making them
Hey Warren, thank you so much for covering this seminal classic.
Thanks ever so much Leo!
@@Producelikeapro I meant to type a lot more but had my 4 year old today. I’m so grateful you’re making these videos with such attention to detail and meticulous research. I always seem to learn something new about even the songs that I know a lot about. And I love the breadth of music you covers. It’s so great for people to have access to that, in a world of ever increasing genres and categorisations.
Totally love Herbie Hancock (even if I don't like everything he's done) - and Chameloen has such an infectious groove. HH has many times throughout his career pushed the envelope - we need these guys!
Yes! Incredible groove!
Great video and information. Also great to see Herbie Hancock get the recognition he deserves!💥💥
As always, exceptional work and very much appreciated sir. Keep it up.
Thanks ever so much I really appreciate it
Top notch and educational as always. Thanks!
Thanks ever so much
"Sly" is my favorite on the record. It was a mind altering record in my high school years.
Yep. That's the one. One of the heaviest pieces of music ever.
I have a midi bass guitar which is great for playing this bass line. You just gotta love Herbie, been a fan for a long time
These are so awsome. Excellent presentation. Really love the whole series. Thanks alot.
This is a really great min-doc & breakdown of the song. Worth the time to produce. Really awesome!
So good!!
Thanks ever so much
Nice one. Headhunters is a fantastic album. 😊😊👏🏿👏🏿
Absolute masterpiece!
Great video. I like that you’ve added deconstruct in the actual face lines and stuff. But what a wonderful way to get an idea of how this great musician work. Thanks for your great effort.
I remember my Dad bringing home this album. The cover was fascinating to me as a young kid. Then as I got older, I got hip to the music. I love that when they comback to the A section, they are WAY faster. Click tracks are for suckers 🙃
Cool. The middle section!!! Fantastic
Agreed 100%! Thanks ever so much!
I love this tune. I like the short instructional interlude. I didn't know how to play that second part.
Brings back many memories. 2 years after graduation, grade 12, in Coquitlam, a suburb municipality of Vancouver, British Columbia. I loved it ssoo much. I was totally into jazz, Miles Davis Bitches Brew was awesome. Excellent video. I had a Mini Moog, one of the few that was available, and a Fender Rhodes which sound I never get tired of. Great review of Chameleon. Thanks Warren. Have a nice day 🎶 🇨🇦 ☮
Another brillant documentary. I appreciate these so much.
Thanks ever so much
Awesome. Great to have the series back. Cheers Warren.
Super music and real musicianship. Great video, thanks very much
Thanks ever so much Joey!
Great album Warren!! Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
great video, thanks Warren!
Very comprehensive Warren ! totally love Herbie and this is an outstanding history lesson which is easily one of the best on the net ! well done sir X
Love it! What an icon! What an inspirational artist Herbie is and was. Thanks Warren.
An all time fav of mine and is ofcause on my shelf :) Great video guys :)
Correction to the saxophonist name in the "Headhunters".......! "He is Bennie Maupin"
Thanks so much for highlighting this amazing piece of music. Watermelon Man was played everywhere in its time and is fabulously danceable. I'm surprised it isn't getting more airplay, given that so much back-catalog music is playing in the front of the house these days. Miles Davis was such a giant, and how great that Herbie Hancock just went with the flow.
Thanks Warren for this... Very good!...
Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing track! Blew my mind the first time I heard it. Great video!
Thanks ever so much!
Such fantastic music. To me his music connected beyond Jazz and was compositionally appealing beyond just virtuosity .Great video again😁
Actual Proof and Butterfly on the Thrust album are mind blowing. When I listen to Butterfly the song takes you from a crawling caterpillar to chrysalis(pupa stage) to a butterfly hatching and taking off in the wind.
I know it is tough, but pleeeeeease make a video about Prince. He was a musical genius, one of the Mozarts of our time. He is not as represented on RUclips as he most definitely would deserve!
That would be an instant like from me. He did so much more than Purple Rain. Jazz funk rapping country classic blues, ok everything. And he maybe be the best live performer to ever get on stage. So yes please do some Prince
My high school’s jazz band always played this. Fun song to play bass on 😁
Awesome insight 😎
Thank you.
Absolute classic. I have to take issue with the statement that you can't think of a single human that doesn't like it, I know loads of people that can't stand jazz funk. Just watch 'The Mighty Boosh' for example 😂
Haha that’s very true! Unfortunately ha
Please do !0cc, although i am not a techie, i love your unique musical insight. Also thanks for doing herbie. he is a true legend of inovation
Check out my 10cc video here: ruclips.net/video/U7-nOTw6BuQ/видео.html
Herbie Hancock is the definition of "Legend"
You should have asked Herbie about his AC Cobra he bought new in the 1960s.....
Great story..
🙏❤️☝️ full appreciation.. totally..
Thanks ever so much
Cool, didn't know this song! But it's great!
I’m a fan of that album. Thank you for the walk down memory lane. I was 13 when that album came out and played keys in my band. We faked it but everyone enjoyed the new JazzFunk. In going to play the album today. Yes kids, album, turntable, 33’s…🤣
just hear hear so cool
🎉 ✨ thanks 🙏
For me it was my Mum that was the classical influence, my Dad was a big jazz guy, though. You mentioned a name in there briefly that would be amazing to hear more about: Bill Laswell. I guess with him it's less about any single thing and more about all the different things he's done and people he's worked with. Some of his solo stuff is really wild, though, like "Hashisheen" from 1999, about the original Islamic order of assassins, with a crazy roster of guests doing readings, from William Burroughs to Patti Smith. I don't know a whole lot about him outside of his work product, but Bill Laswell's name pop up everywhere!
He is absolutely in my top tier keyboard players, me and my partner in "crime" in the 80s Marc Schellekens played this song but on Roland synths with Cubase 1.0, that's a long time ago lol. Grtz Gunther!
At 18:06 i think you got it wrong. On watermelon man herbie does the "guitar part" but the chameleon guitarpart is laul jacksons bass with a wah. You can see him do it in the live footage of the song
💃It is good to move with!
thanks! herbie is sooo great! what about a video about weather report without using birdland? ;)
Herbie is the mother of all jazz funk keyboard players. Period.
Hancock played the ARP Odyssey on his performance of Chameleon on Soundstage in 1974. So either that caused people to think he played it on the record, or he misremembered. I mean, sometimes I don't remember what I had for dinner the night before.
Yes! Guilty of covering this! 😬
Good choice!
Great material as usual here. But wasn’t “Future Shock” with “Rock It” released in 1983? Greetings!❤
YES! My bad!
An awesome video , loved it. Can you pls do some foreigner songs like I wanna know what love is and Waiting for a girl like you ? Pls ❤️🕊️
That’s a marvellous idea!
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It amazes me how Miles Davis dragged Jazz forward, usually kicking and screaming. From Hard Bop to Modal Jazz to electronic and jazz elements. Miles also had so many disciples like Cannon Adderley, Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and more.
Jazz would not be Jazz without Miles Davis.
Chameleon bass line is clearly 12db filter Odyssey to me. But it could be that it’s doubled by a Mini as there are two bass lines at the same time.
Are you sure that's not Paul Jackson's upper-register bass riff @ 18:04?
I like the Mr. Hands album best.
11:32 ARP Odyssey.
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I'm actually a bit afraid to watch these videos. It usually means that I have to buy me some new records :D
I wish the music community would come together on the pronunciation of MOOG. :) Which is correct?
It should sound like rogue, or vogue. I think it's probably a Dutch name originally. As a cycling fan, there was a great rider called Tom Boonen, pronounced 'bone-en'. HTH.
Thanks. That's the pronunciation I thought was correct. @@VirtualModular
Miles Davis has a lot to answer for. 😁
What about Stanley Clarke?
he was in return to forever.
ruclips.net/video/xCCkY55bEO8/видео.html Warren Huart. I think 'RIDE - Leave Them All Behind' should be chosen as a SONG THAT CHANGED MUSIC
Didn't Paul Jackson play the "guitar" part on the upper register of his bass? 🤔
"Nothing was what it seemed: the bassline was a synth; the guitar-sounding riff was a bass, played by Bay Area funk stylist Paul Jackson in the altissimo register. Hancock plays his clavinet like Hendrix comping time with a wah-wah pedal."
Yeah that’s totally played on the bass….not a clav
I think of the guitar part (As Herbie describes) as the wah wah pedal guitar!
Indeed the funky wah wah guitar part Herbie says was Clav is the Clav! The high line is a Bass!
@@Producelikeapro That's right!
“Moog” rhymes with “rogue”…
YOU HAVE 'ROCKIT' 1974 INSTEAD OF 1983..
Thanks for pointing it out. It shows that even with repeated proofing, mistakes can slip through...
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YOU'RE WELCOME, TRUE THAT..
73' holy wow .....