Clyde Stubblefield\u00a0was the person who performed drums with James Brown<\/strong><\/a> throughout a few of his most celebrated years and created the endlessly-sampled break on 1970\u2019s \u201cFunky Drummer.\u201d<\/p>\n When he died on February 18, 2017 of kidney failure, at 73, his fellow member of Brown\u2019s band and later funk figurehead Bootsy Collins wrote on Facebook: \u201cWe lost another Pillar Stone that held up the Foundation of Funk. Mr. Clyde Stubblefield has left our frequency. I am lost for words & Rythme [sic] right now. Dang Clyde! U taught me so much as I stood their watchin\u2019 over u & Jabo while keepin\u2019 one eye on the Godfather. We all loved U so much.\u201d<\/p>\n Ironically, among the many many Brown classics on which Stubblefield performed, \u201cFunky Drummer\u201d was not one of many Godfather of Soul\u2019s greatest hits, reaching No.20 on the R&B chart and solely No.51 pop. But it went on, successfully, to create the hip-hop breakbeat, sampled greater than a thousand instances on such staples as Public Enemy<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s \u201cFight The Power,\u201d LL Cool J<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s \u201cMama Said Knock You Out,\u201d and, usually, within the pop world, on such hits as George Michael\u2019<\/strong><\/a>s \u201cFreedom \u201890.\u201d Public Enemy wrote on Twitter: \u201cR.I.P. to the \u2018funky drummer\u2019 \u2013 Clyde Stubblefield \u2013 from the entire PE family.\u201d<\/p>\n Stubblefield was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 18, 1943, and was an expert drummer even in his teenagers. He joined Brown\u2019s band in 1965 and have become one of many soul legend\u2019s two drummers of alternative into the early Seventies, together with John \u201cJabo\u201d Starks. Clyde performed on such enduring tracks by Brown as \u201cCold Sweat,\u201d \u201cThere Was A Time,\u201d \u201cSay It Loud \u2013 I\u2019m Black And I\u2019m Proud,\u201d and \u201cGet Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine).\u201d<\/p>\n He subsequently labored with numerous different musicians, releasing his first solo album The Revenge of the Funky Drummer <\/i>in 1997 and recording within the early 2000s with Starks because the Funkmasters. In 2008, with one other Brown bandmate, trombonist Fred Wesley, he launched Funk For Your Ass.<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cPeople use my drum patterns on a lot of these songs,\u201d Stubblefield stated in an interview with the New York Times<\/em> in 2011. \u201cThey never gave me credit, never paid me. It didn\u2019t bug me or disturb me, but I think it\u2019s disrespectful not to pay people for what they use.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen to the most effective of James Brown on\u00a0Apple Music<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Spotify.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Clyde Stubblefield\u00a0was the person who performed drums with James Brown throughout a few of his most celebrated years and created the endlessly-sampled break on 1970\u2019s \u201cFunky Drummer.\u201d When he died on February 18, 2017 of kidney failure, at 73, his fellow member of Brown\u2019s band and later funk figurehead Bootsy Collins wrote on Facebook: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}