Larry Heard - Gentle Giant | | |
It’s a clichè but this time it´s really appropriate to say: Meet the man behind the myth. Many things have been circulating about Larry Heard - the man who we owe the meaning of ’deep’ in house music. He is responsible for numerous classics and deserves to be fanatically worshipped by music lovers all around the world. This time the legend himself talks about his true history, how he changed his drums for machines, and how he listened to the radio and finally got into the club circuit of the blossoming house scene in Chicago of the mid-'80s. Doing his ’research’ - as Larry Heard puts it with the thoroughness of a wholehearted musician - he met soulmates like Robert Owens with whom he gave birth to Fingers Inc.. Up to this day the self-proclaimed ’late bloomer’ has stayed a decent, soulful and still productive mastermind amidst the turbulent history of house. You’ll feel it. | | |
RBMA: »And we have a very, very special guest here and it’s my pleasure to announce him. A man who shouldn’t need an introduction, who was maybe not solely responsible for house music but certainly put deepness into it and taught the machines some soul – Mr. Larry Heard.« | | |
Larry Heard: »Thank you. « | | |
RBMA: »Welcome. So, Larry, you told me last night, while you were recording a great radio show for us here, that your time as a child and as a teenager was very important for you in terms of music. How did you come to music?« | | |
Larry Heard: »Well, that were just the formative years for me, just where I started to appreciate music and started to... well, the way I approach music when I do my original music was all formed during these years of maybe from about 1968 to 1978. It covers a lot of styles of music also.« | | |
RBMA: »You were listening to radio a lot back then, right?« | | |
Larry Heard: »Yeah, that’s pretty much all you really had. Back in those days and even the '60s, I don’t think FM radio had really blossomed at that time, so it was kind of AM radio, two or three minute singles. But the good thing about it was, it was a wide range of style so I can see where in doing some research as far as looking back to be able to say something. I didn’t notice this crazy spectrum of things I was hearing all the time.« | | |
