Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.
One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.
If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.
It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.
For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer.
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables.