What is the lead instrumental sound in Dr. Dre's "Next Episode," "Still Dre,"?

[" Killah! "]

It's this "clicking" guitar mute instrumental line with some really mild filtering on it. I heard it in "Next Episode," "Still Dre," and WC's "The Streets."

Anybody know what it is?

 

[Copenhagen]

I think all are samples, at least the Dre songs are.

I think the original for Still Dre (Grant Green) is just a piano, sounds plucked though. The instrument in Next Episode (David Axelrod) sounds like some kind of ethnic plucked guitar...

 

[HaZwaiOh]

interesting! once again david axelrod. that dude has been a source for many sample seeking producers

 

[Copenhagen]

Yeah, and the man still makes great music today. He even did an album where he had collabos with Ras Kass etc...

In regards to old soul, did you all hear that Nina Simone died the other day, aged 70.

 

[" Killah! "]

"The Next Episode" from the David McCallum CD, "Music Is A Part Of Me". The song sampled is called "Edge" and David McCallum is David Axelrod's real name.

 

[Big La]

Axelrod is the MAN!

When I heard Diamond's remix for Ras Kass' "Soul On Ice", i was obsessed with finding that sample. When I finally picked up Axelrod's "Mental Traveler" I flipped!!!

 

[Copenhagen]

Yeah, David McCallum Axelrod has been used quite a lot. I'm into obtaining the original sample too...got a lot of well known (and not so well known) original samples by now.

Going even more off topic, Bob James has made a lot of stuff too. Maybe we should start a thread about it.

 

[otniel-one]

nice bunch of misinformation 'killah' --
david mccallum is/was an actor (UNCLE etc) and david axelrod
produced and arranged his albums. also, "the edge" is from
the album "music - a bit more of me" and not the "part of me".
as far as the original question, i don't think that the sounds
heard on dre's album are samples. sounds more like the stuff
is re-played with triton or something.

 

[Prosper]

yea dont even lemme get started on Bob James....he has been a source for sampling in Hip-Hop since the eighties....dude is that nice...even Timbaland....a dude who uses a keyboard, sampled Bob James...1

 

[massikrbeats]

I think all are samples, at least the Dre songs are.

I think the original for Still Dre (Grant Green) is just a piano, sounds plucked though. The instrument in Next Episode (David Axelrod) sounds like some kind of ethnic plucked guitar...

looking back on old posts, seraching if anyone has heard the likes of Grant Green, I just hopped on the bandwagon...has anyone sampled from him lately

 

[DJDRAGN9]

the next episode is from david mccallum.i believe its a interpolation,dre does that alot he'll get the sample replayed so he wont pay as much for the sample.

 

[berserk]

next episode is a replayed sample

still dre is a replayed sample

i have a similar clicking guitar mute, it's also on 50's in da club..

 

[gram green]

yo i dont think next episode is replayed... they used the same sample on a missin linx single a couple years before that... it sounded exactly the same... the drums were a little stronger on dres shit ... but it wasnt replayed

 

[berserk]

it was, because the original is a slightly different instrument... also the original goes, da da... fuck it i can't explain in text... but u get the idea...

 

[gram green]

i got the original too.. trust me he aint replay that

 

[Copenhagen]

With the musicians, instruments and gear Dre has in stock, I am sure he could replay, and would replay it, to save paying the performance rights.

Tash used "The Edge" too on his solo album, just noticed that the other day.

 

[gram green]

i guess you aint talkin bout the whole shit ... like the intro part is definately sampled... the muted guitar part i guess could be replayed.. but the intro is sampled... so i wouldnt see why sample the intro and replay the little riff in the verse

 

[B.Hawk]

yea man ask scott storch he did all the keyboard work. dont jock him ya know find ya own sh.. thats the best way man experiment and you'll come across it ya feel me?