#ROGER TROUTMAN PLUS#

I've loved your threads in the past, about the Jazz artists particularly.

Well, we do have a lot of same tastes in music. E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator Wendy added nothing but being there on the right place and the right time. They(him and Prince) didn't get along very well from what I gathered,and the shit hit the fan during the Naked tour I believe.Īnd I know I'll catch hell from this but out 'the girls' who really was edgy and added something to Prince's music was Lisa Coleman IMO. Mico was the shit, even though he wasn't given the same light as Dez or Wendy did, but from the short space he got, he worked it for his advantage. Never was a fan of Wendy's or Mike Scott's funk playing. Out of all of Prince's guitarists, the only one that could nail it was Mico. Prince being one of them.įunk guitar that is in the pocket, swung right, and leaves some space here and there, is an elusive art. There R only a few guitarists in that league. Yes, Roger's funk guitar was some of the tightest ever. I've brought this up a few times on the ORG. Proves to me more and more about how shady this biz isĪs for his guitar, I think he was thee BEST rhythm guitarist that ever lived, maybe I'm being over-the-top here, but his playing is truly exceptional. Makes you wanna think where all THAT money went,esp his then-recent big success with California Love and Thin Line Between Love & Hate. I swear that I had a sad feeling seeing him getting in that taxi. I never forget that he had on this pearl white suit and I seen him catching a taxi in the parking lot. He said that he had been out here doing some more things with Dr.Dre. I gave Roger my business card telling him that I played and produced too. Then, I was like Tommy Davidson on Living Color when he gave somebody his card 'BLAAAAAM!!'. I told him how much I dug his rock lead guitar work as well. I was able to tell him just how big a fan I was and how much respect I had for him as a muscian. Anyway, we went over to him and we talked a little bit to him. So my mother was very familiar with who he was.

#ROGER TROUTMAN PLUS#

Plus I had seen Zapp/Roger several times in concert. I played their music TOO DEATH in our house. I saw Roger in the store and told my mom 'That's Roger Troutman!' She knew who he was through me, because evers since I was 11, I was a mad fanitic over Zapp and Roger. I was with my mother at Tower Records on Sunset in out here in L.A. I've mentioned this several times on here before in the past I too had the pleasure of meeting Roger not too long before his death. On the morning of his death, my mind went back to that day.I just could not believe what had happened, but at the same time, I was glad to have met someone like him. He told me that he loved it and that he was glad that his music would live on to influence future generations, long after he was gone. We spoke about his music and how he felt about the other artists that have used his music. I had the pleasure of meeting Roger about a year before his death, at the Black Expo here in NY.

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