Posts Tagged Questlove
Archive
June 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 285
The Roots, The Tipping Point (2004) A mate told me he had a copy of this on vinyl – he liked it, but didn’t think he’d be playing it all that often and did I want to take it off his hands? I did! I really did. And yet in this way of the world we […]Archive
June 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Tenderlonious: Hard Rain
Tenderlonious Hard Rain a22 Ed “Tenderlonious” Cawthorne clearly doesn’t want to be thought of as one thing only, so very soon after the wonderful Shakedown album with his 22archestra he is back with solo effort, Hard Rain.Archive
March 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Best Gig Ever # 13: The Roots, San Francisco 2012
Me and my brother-in-law drove down to San Francisco – left the rest of the family back in rural California, decided to take a couple of days out for ourselves. The aim, at first, was to see The Cult. But we drove down with no tickets, no accommodation, and turned up to find it sold […]Archive
October 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Questlove: Something To Food About
Something To Food About: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs Questlove Clarkson Potter Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is a drummer, bandleader and composer, a music consultant, author, blogger, photographer, social media expert and when there are enough hours left in the day he’s a keen foodie type. I hate that expression, but there you go – he’s […]Archive
November 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 796
The Roots, …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (2014) My least favourite album by The Roots – easily. But a bad Roots album is still good, right? Well, er, nearly…in the case of this there are really only a couple of decent songs (rather worrying, especially when one is actually a Nina Simone song they’ve […]Archive
August 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #129 – The Roots, San Francisco, 2012
I had seen The Roots twice in New Zealand – but was pretty keen on the idea of seeing ‘em in America. They had started on the TV show by then, so it was unlikely (remains unlikely?) we’ll ever see them down our way again. And I was over there on holiday. I had to […]Archive
June 17, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 874
The Roots, Rising Down (2008) Anything by The Roots is worth hearing, almost all of it is worth having – but I have a particular fondness for the dark trilogy of records released by the band between 2004-2008, one every two years, a continued stripping back of their sound, to form a brutal funk that […]Archive
May 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 894
The Roots, From The Ground Up (1994) I have – at this point in my life – a pretty simple rule: see anything by The Roots on vinyl = buy it. I mean, yeah, I probably have one or two other rules, but relevant to this post that’s the one worth mentioning. That’s how I […]Archive
December 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 10 – Questlove
His name is Ahmir Khalib Thompson but most people know him as Questlove. Or even Quest. He is the drummer of the greatest, most versatile band on TV – The Roots. Prior to their TV spots (currently on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, previously on Fallon’s Late Night show) they were the greatest, most […]Archive
November 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 17 – DJ Questlove, San Francisco, 2012
We ditch the families and rip down to San Francisco for two nights, me and my brother-in-law. Our aim, on the first night, is to see The Cult. Except we forgot we weren’t in New Zealand and didn’t book any tickets, we figure there’s door-sales. We turn up and there are not. We’ve booked no […]Archive
June 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman