Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like Flea, I like him as a musician.
A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'
When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.