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Gordon was the drummer on the Incredible Bongo Band's album Bongo Rock, released in 1972, and his drum break on the LP version of "Apache" has been frequently sampled by rap music artists. [6] He recorded with Frank Zappa, including on the title track of the 1974 album Apostrophe (').
A 1973 version by Michael Viner and a funk group called the Incredible Bongo Band added a bongo drum introduction and included more percussion. The drum break was played by Jim Gordon. Although this version was not a hit on its initial release, it became heavily sampled in early hip hop music, including by Afrika Bambaataa, who cited its influence.
The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records, producer, MGM Records executive and Curb Records founder Mike Curb and arranger Perry Botkin Jr. [1] [2] Viner was called on to supplement the soundtrack to the B-film The Thing With Two Heads. [3]
In 'Drums and Demons,' Joel Selvin aims to restore drummer Jim Gordon's humanity and reputation by showing his professional triumphs in the context of his struggles with addiction and mental illness.
Jim Gordon, a top drummer for Eric Clapton, George Harrison and countless others who was diagnosed with schizophrenia after murdering his mother in 1983, has died. According to the announcement ...
Known for playing with Eric Clapton and the Beach Boys in the '60s and '70s, the drummer was sentenced to prison in 1984. Jim Gordon, famed session drummer convicted of murdering his mother, dies ...
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is the fifth studio album by English rock band Traffic, released in 1971.The album was Traffic's most successful in the United States, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and becoming their only platinum-certified album there, indicating sales in excess of one million.
The musicians on the basic track were Nilsson (piano), Chris Spedding (guitar), Herbie Flowers (bass) and Jim Gordon (drums). [6] Flowers recalls that Nilsson gave only vague instructions: "lots of tom-toms, a bass riff in D major." [6] The bass part includes a section where, following Gordon's drum solo, Flowers detunes as he plays.