{"id":601,"date":"2006-01-18T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/2006\/01\/make-way-for-snakefoot\/"},"modified":"2009-01-03T01:54:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T09:54:57","slug":"make-way-for-snakefoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/2006\/01\/make-way-for-snakefoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Way For Snakefoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mouzon-Snakefoot_128.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bywayof.net\/captains_crate\/images\/Mouzon-Snakefoot_128.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Alphonze Mouzon<\/b>: <b>Funky Snakefoot<\/b> and <b>Gotta Have You<\/b> and <b>The Beggar<\/b><br \/>\nTaken from the album <b>Funky Snakefoot<\/b> on Bluenote (1974)<\/p>\n<p>Ok. So I&#8217;ve been gone for a minute. But ask yourself this: if ever there was a way to resurface from oblivion, is this not it. That opening break for &#8220;Funky Snakefoot&#8221; is straight danger&#8211;I was in my living room shouting &#8220;Pull up!&#8221; to no one. Woah. Best five bucks I ever spent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mouzon is a man of many talents. A pioneering fusion drummer (that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s his break), actor, scholar, the man is also responsible for a vast array of the musicianship on <b>Funky Snakefoot<\/b>. He&#8217;s singing, drumming, moog-ing out. Keys, synths, et al. Snakefoot was part of an early run of nasty solo releases that, by mid seventies, gave way to some seriously misguided pop attempts. <b>Funky Snakefoot<\/b> was followed by <b>Mind Transplant<\/b> one year later, arguably his last solid record.<\/p>\n<p>The title track is fairly widely-known, primarily for the break (I mean, it hits like a cudgel). For me, however, the real joint is &#8220;The Beggar&#8221;. When I first heard it I kept praying to the gods of funkiness that the song wouldn&#8217;t deteriorate into a slushy, stringy breakdown or a cheap synth bridge. I listened with bated breath. And I listened. Around every turn, Mouzon kept his promise. And by the time he hit the solo near the end of the track I was convulsing on the floor. PULL UP!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alphonze Mouzon: Funky Snakefoot and Gotta Have You and The Beggar Taken from the album Funky Snakefoot on Bluenote (1974) Ok. So I&#8217;ve been gone for a minute. But ask yourself this: if ever there was a way to resurface from oblivion, is this not it. That opening break for &#8220;Funky Snakefoot&#8221; is straight danger&#8211;I [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-captains-crate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}