From clockwise Sent Sat, Feb 21st 1998, 04:29
From clockwise Sent Sat, Feb 21st 1998, 04:29
Check the liner notes. Q-Bert is listed on the vocal album, and not on the instrumental version. Also, Keith raps on Automator releases, so the arguement of what came first is rather pointless. At 08:03 PM 2/20/98 -0800, you wrote: >>ADDITIONALLY: it was noted that qbert did all the scratching on >>the dr. octagon project. he really shows his stuff on the instrumentalyst >>version. > >->What the hell are you talking about? Nearly all of Q-Bert's scratching >->was REMOVED from the 'Instrumentalyst' versions, along with Keith's vocals, >->and replaced with flute solos and so forth. The 'Instrumentalyst' album >->might as well be an Automator solo release. > >after listening to the original DR OCTAGON release, _intrumentalyst_ caused >me to >cry out with joy. it was as if someone had finally told keith to s h u t - >u p and >he listened. i cannot agree that "nearly all of q-bert's scratching was >removed". >keep in mind that _intrumentalyst_ has a slightly different track list. >there are >the same number of tracks with scratches, minus the remixes . . . that are >only on >the original release. in addition, the extended version of _bear_witness_ >may not >have the same scratching complexity but the turntable skills q-bert >displays prove >his 6th sense. q-bert still gets good representation on _intrumentalyst_ >and it is >more noticeable without the droning lyrical disfunction of kool keith. > > > > > michael j. pickering > washington state university > xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > / _ _ __/ /_/ f / /\ > / /_ _ _/_ _ _ o / / \ > / __ s /\ / r / o / / > / /_/ i / \__/ t / n / / >/_ _ _ _x_/ / /_y_/_e_/ / >\ \ / \ \ \ / > \_ _ _ _ _\/ \_ _\_ _\/ > > if.animals...believed.in > god...the..devil...would > look.like.a.human..being > >