That's me!" He explains that his original inspiration was, in fact, David Garibaldi-specifically the introduction of Tower Of Power's 1974 funk classic "Squib Cakes." The song has frequently been sampled, and The Time would even duplicate the drum intro for "Release It" on the 1990 Graffiti Bridge soundtrack. Roger Linn's demo disc used for programming preset patterns on the LM-1.Īfter I sent him a link to the demo disc, Wood takes a listen. He acknowledges that the hi-hat rolls on "777-9311" are "exactly how I play" but is still puzzled as to why he continues to get the credit. And they all have the same story: 'It's your beat.' And Prince maybe spruced it up." It was Jellybean who told me about this first. I know Prince was a huge Tower Of Power fan. "I know Morris and all those Prince guys. "It's kind of confusing to me, even," he admits. Sitting at his drum kit in his Northern California studio, Garibaldi scratches his head. He has no recollection of ever programming such a beat for Roger Linn, the pioneering creator of the LM-1. There's just one problem with this story: David Garibaldi. "And the one preset that those guys all really loved was the one that Prince used on the song '777-9311.'" "Now as you know, David Garibaldi, I think, in the LM-1, put some presets in there," she says. And that's how that ended up becoming the beat for '777.'"Įven Susan Rogers, Prince's former engineer, has been told that the beat comes from Garibaldi. David Garibaldi was Morris Day's hero playing the drums. If you ever have the opportunity or pleasure of hearing Morris Day play the drums, Morris Day plays exactly like David Garibaldi. The '777-9311' beat was put in by a drummer named David Garibaldi, who is a drummer for Tower Of Power. "When the LM-1 initially came out, there were drum beats that were put in by drummers. During a 2016 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, former Time keyboardist Jimmy Jam said: This is an opinion shared among many of Johnson's former bandmates. And that beat is a prime example of David's personality." "He put his personality into that program. Just listen to some of those iconic R&B beats he played," Johnson insists. "That's David Garibaldi from Tower Of Power. And Johnson knows exactly where it originated: from one of the drumming heroes of Prince and the rest of their Minneapolis musical circle. There's no better example of a "not humanly possible" drum pattern than "777-9311," with its hiccuping hi-hat pattern and off-beat snare hits. Some of that stuff is not humanly possible. "So I had to learn all those crazy-ass drum machine beats. "Prince did a lot of our songs on drum machine," he tells me. He shakes his head as soon as the subject is brought up, adjusts his black bowler hat, and settles in for a story he's shared many times before. No one in the world has more experience playing this backbreaking beat than Time drummer Jellybean Johnson.
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