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BluePrint for Discovery

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Hello to Drop Fam, I hope you had a good weekend. If not, maybe this will help. Today we are covering a living legend, one of the great musician’s still with us & still working in the industry. We have a bunch of music if you’ve been waiting. Let’s get into what this drop has and why you might enjoy it. In this bundle you get the following Black Magic! (I’ve included this as a bonus. Kinda broadway sounding)Jerry Peters Blueprint for Discovery3)Melinda Soundtrack 4)The Writers-S/T5)The Writers All in Fun. The majority is out of print, included are artwork scans for front & back of the original lp plus the vinyl face scans as well.

Now that we’ve covered that, let’s get into his bio and do a quick summary of why this man is the Funk R&B-Soul Sundays drop for this week. Jerry was born in New Orleans and as a teenager his life changed drastically when he moved to California at 14. Sometime after that, he went to art college but he did some music courses on the side. He was planning to be a visual artist but he had the talent in droves for a musician-songwriter-arranger. It was here that he decided to make the turn in his life and become a full-time musician. Jerry would encounter two people that would change his life: Anita Poree & Greg Poree.

In only a short amount of time, Jerry would cowrite a standard that many people still to this day sing. You will notice immediately his proficient ability on keyboards.

This song:

Friends of Distinction was a group that was very popular in it’s day Pop-R&B-Soul, It was a hybrid & a tour de force in its day and Jerry Peters was one of the major songwriting team in the group’s success as well as a few chosen songwriters. It was here that he would be able to do his solo record because of his ascending success with Friends of Distinction. What’s unique about this lp is Jerry sings lead vocals on this. He has a solid voice, which leads me to believe all the song’s he wrote, he did vocal demo’s for as well. “Blueprint for Discovery” is a soul r&b gem of a debut record. Mercury didn’t grant him a follow up which just proves there is no rhyme or reason to this industry.

Jerry’s deft use of piano pedals with these gospel-esque chord voicing give us an idea of the musical creative scope of Peters. On the drums is the legendary Harvey Mason who is also a session legend of many many classic lp’s. Most of the song’s are written by Peters. He does do a nice rendition of Leslie Duncan’s “Love Song” which is commonly known as a definitive pop version from Elton John catalog. One of the only Elton songs where he did not write.

Whether it is organ, rhodes, piano or synthesizers, Peters is one of the very best you could ask for in a recording studio.

The second lp in this bundle is “Melinda OST” which is a soundtrack written by Jerry Peters & Jerry Butler (one of the original members of Mayfield’s Impressions, ANOTHER soul legend) It’s a nice soundtrack with a lot of funky baselines and nice touches of strings, guitar, rhodes and piano. The vocals are provided by Jerry Butler aka The Ice Man. Here’s a sample:

Sometime after these 2 projects, he would work with the lgendary family group "The Sylvers" doing arranging for their group.

The next selection of lp’s are “The Writers” which is a supergroup made up of Anthony Jackson, Harvey Mason (the session circle in LA is small) Hugh M on guitars, Jerry Peters on keyboards and Frank Floyd on lead vocals. The Writers seems to me to be a gift to these musicians for doing as many sessions as they did in the 70’s. But that’s just speculation. These 2 record’s showcase their talents as…”writers” I think the 2nd record is the better one out of the two “The Writer’s” work, imo. There are some nice latin touches here n there and there is plenty to sample and chop.

After these record’s Jerry continued to add to his session credits. Here’s just a sample of the many artist’s that you can find his work: Quincy Jones-JohnnY Hammond-Norman Connors-Earth Wind & Fire-Phyllis Hyman-Syreeta Wright-Gene Harris-Donald Byrd-Bobbi Humphrey-Edwin Starr-Buddy Miles-Tina Turner-Ramsey Lewis-Albert King-Dj Rogers-Hubert Laws, Four Tops & so forth. The list goes on & on for Maestro Jerry Peters. In closing, Jerry Peters is a quintessential component to the west coast soul sound of the 70s-80s which still permeate through modern music that is heard at this moment.

I hope you enjoy this week’s selection. If you scrolled too fast, go back to the top where the provided links are listed. Here’s some artwork.

Thank you for stopping by and I will see you next week with all new name’s and surprise drop’s

One last thing, here’s Peters in the Rhodes documentary explaining the dynamics of a Fender Rhodes in 2 minutes (which I highly suggest if you haven’t seen this documentary, you need to if you want to know the complete history of the Rhodes)

The Man is a genius & a master of touch when it comes to keys & rhythm arranging.

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Aye bro on Kendrick’s TPAB what type of bass they used on majority of the songs? Just live electric bass guitars?

Thundercat played on 5 tracks. About half of the record it says on the credits is live bass from different bassist's. It says track 11, they used a upright acoustic bass.

So it’s mostly acoustic bass not electric bass?

And did they use any 808s on that album?

Crazy

no just on track 11

Okay so acoustic bass on track 11 and electric bass on the rest?

Yes, that’s what it says 😎

Where you find that info? Cant find it :(

Wiki...surprisingly. Usually people are like “ f this I’m just typing in the features, producer and songwriters”

Bro do you think rap music will transition to more live drums and live bass rather than the typical trap drums and 808s we see today

In; and, as always, thank you very much for this.

I think it’s tricky, The Roots had to emulate sounding Like a drum machine for most of their records. The Fugees had to use drum machines.

It’s odd because, you go back to Sugar Hill records ( the first commercially distributed rap label) and what do you see? Live drums, a house band.

Will I am of BEP, Arrested Development, Fugees, Dj quik, The Coup

They all had in- house drummers.

A perfect example is, the group Digital Underground was started by a drummer: Chopmaster J. Shock G became the creative mastermind and when the debut record came out, guess who only had minute n half on a record? Eventually he understood a drummer was going to have a hard mountain to climb in hip hop on record.

You know who is a funky drummer? Pari$ I love what he does on record. He’s one of the best in the game. He has a very simple shuffle that he uses. 😎

A perfect example of someone who didn’t wait is Kid Rock. He switched from his b-boy sound to his arena sounding drums. Probably influenced by Beastie Boys when they made the transition with Check your head. Beasties was always more authentic with their crossover to mainstream.

I guess limp bizkit & linkin used drums as well by taking their hybrid sound to rock radio. But I’ve never seen anyone make the full transition to live drums.

That includes R&B soul gods Jodeci. They had a nice live drummer with them as well as Dalvin. Guy had Damien Hall when he joined with his brother Aaron & Teddy. Even Mint Condition & tTony’s had to use drum machines.

It’s a tough balancing act for hip hop. Even though people still use live drum break loops off soul-R&b-rock-funk-jazz record’s

It’s a good question that will only have an answer with time.

Look how many years it takes for a instrument to be accepted.

Let’s take the drums, a drum kit was evolved over hundreds thousands of years possibly. Drummer has always had to fight to show the importance on record. Then finally after their reign, they were brought down by drum machine & sampler in R&B-Soul-Hip Hop. It’s been over 3 decades & the drum machine still is clenched down on the game. 😳

Luckily for Drummers it didn’t phase them in Blues & Jazz. But even Gospel had to split the difference with drum machine Sounds. It’s odd what the rules are for Styles of music now. 😒

Trent Reznor or Al Jorgensen could use drum machines, drum triggers, sampled drum breaks & live drums. But any of the above was Put Under a magnify glass.

Give you a perfect example, how many p-funk records had drum programming after 1985? It took them 20 years plus to return fully to live drums for their singles. Same struggle, hip hop scene has to find a balance.

Because dj’s are programmed to reject live drum sounds for playlists. And that’s a whooooole other can of worms.

Here’s a promo single where he does a rendition of a Stevie standard.

This has to be one of the earliest version’s. Sounds like on this he’s playing a Wurlitzer piano. Great arrangement. 😎

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It indeed is; thank you very much for sharing this with me!