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Fellow musician member skylab knows this stuff but other people might not ...

In the nitty gritty world of working bands and session players, professional musicians don't play, they "blow". So at a certain point in "Funky Drummer" James Brown says "Let the funky drummer blow" meaning "drum solo now, please". Another way of saying the same thing: In "Rapp Payback", at one point JB says "Let's give the bassman some", meaning "Let the bass player blow".

Also, musicians don't have instruments, they have "axes". Why? I've no idea. Neither does any other musician I've spoken with about this.

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By the way, the drum solo in "Funky Drummer" is the source of most of the drum samples that you hear in hip-hop and rap pieces. To give credit where credit is due, the funky drummer is Clyde Stubblefield, the drummer who does the catchy one-bar signature rhythm on so many James Brown recordings

Yeah! I play sax! That has a, a, jaunty feel to it. Cool.

Heard as I walk away:

Cos I'm the Saxman, yeah, I'm the Saxman.

Cos I'm the Saxman, yeah, I'm the Saxman.

Now what where the rest of the words?

EDIT: For replacement line:

If you listen live - he'll rock your ears.

Ahh, no, double use of ears. Errr.

FOJ, it might work if all four lines were to end with "ears". Go for it and let's see what happens. :)

And if it doesn't work we'll try something else. Collaboration! If Lennon and McCartney were able to do it, we can too. :D

(Where is Weird Al when we need him?)

If you listen loud he’ll hurt your ears

If you listen live, he'll rock your ears.

If you want it good you'll need your ears

If you rock it good he'll sock your ears.

Not so sure about the sock, though. Any ideas?

We're potentially getting into inner rhymes and repetition, always Good Things in songs. Here's what I mean ...

Blah blah blah blah blah ock your ears.

Blah blah blah blah blah ock your ears.

Blah blah blah blah blah ock your ears.

Blah blah blah blah blah ock your ears.

Where ears could be

Ears

Steers

Beers

Leers

Fears

Smears

Careers

Tears

etc

etc

etc

and ock could be

Rock (as you wanted)

Sock (as you wanted)

Block

Hock

Clock

Stock

Knock

etc

etc

etc

Just thinking aloud here. We've got all the time in the world to get it right. Does any of this suggest anything to you?

If you listen loud he’ll hurt your fears.

If you listen live, he'll rock your ears.

If you want it good, you'll have some beers.

If you rock it good he'll have you in tears.

:confused:

As they say,

It's getting better all the time...

In my opinion line one really must be "ears". This of course makes for a line two problem, let's come back to that.

Line four, new direction? ... If he rocks it good he'll get some cheers. (But if "you" is the Saxman then make the appropriate substitution.)

Line three is fine.

Line two ... ... ... Still thinking ... ... ...

If you listen live he'll blah your fears. (No, that's a complete 720-degree change of direction. :))

Why don't we take a break? ...

Tell everybody about sailing. What do you do that takes a week?

But let's do it in your sailing thread ... Oops, I guess threads are automatically locked after some period of inactivity. So how about you start a new thread?