{"id":24992,"date":"2011-08-19T20:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-lafayette-afro-rock-band-darkest\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T20:09:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:09:03","slug":"austinkleon-lafayette-afro-rock-band-darkest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-lafayette-afro-rock-band-darkest\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"540\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F15103659&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true&show_comments=false&color=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/9127971731\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">austinkleon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Lafayette Afro-Rock Band, \u201cDarkest Light,\u201d off <i>Malick<\/i> (1975)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Horns sampled for Public Enemy\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l7MjgcNXZLs\">Show \u2018Em Whatcha Got<\/a>,\u201d the song that made Questlove <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/interviews\/8031-uestlove-15-years\/\">quit his job<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I quit my job the day [<i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It_Takes_A_Nation_Of_Millions_To_Hold_Us_Back\">It Takes A Nation Of Millions<\/a><\/i>] came out. I was cutting onions and potatoes as a short-order cook for this 50s-style restaurant chain. I would walk 12 blocks to work everyday, from West Philadelphia to the University of Pennsylvania, where the restaurant was. Before Nation of Millions, I would usually show up five minutes late. I didn\u2019t care, I just had the job to earn extra money so I could buy records.<\/p>\n<p>But when I bought that album, my entire walk changed. I wound up getting to work 20 minutes early, simply because you almost had to walk to the bpms of what you were listening to. And by the time that I got there, I just made it to \u201cShow \u2018Em Whatcha Got\u201d and, at work, I couldn\u2019t stop singing that sampled horn line from the Lafayette Afro Rock Band. I went on my lunch break and was just like, \u201cFuck it, I\u2019m not going back to work.\u201d So I went to 7-Eleven, purchased about four Duracell batteries, and sat in a park from about 1 p.m. until about 6 p.m., just listening to that record.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019d be fun to compile a list of art that\u2019s made artists quit their day jobs. Art Alexakis (Everclear singer\u2014remember those guys?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnetmagazine.com\/2010\/12\/07\/best-of-2010-guest-editors-everclear%E2%80%99s-art-alexakis-on-the-pixies%E2%80%99-%E2%80%9Cdoolittle%E2%80%9D\/\">quit his job after hearing The Pixies\u2019 <i>Doolittle<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I bought the cassette and popped it in my Walkman and headed back to work. I was so overwhelmed by the first song that I went to a pay phone and called in sick to work. I got on a city bus to go home and ended up staying on the bus for three hours until my batteries died. I went home and told my wife that, like it or not, I was going to get into a band. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any other examples? Hit me on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/austinkleon\">@austinkleon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>art begets art<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>austinkleon: Lafayette Afro-Rock Band, \u201cDarkest Light,\u201d off Malick (1975) Horns sampled for Public Enemy\u2019s \u201cShow \u2018Em Whatcha Got,\u201d the song that made Questlove quit his job: I quit my job the day [It Takes A Nation Of Millions] came out. I was cutting onions and potatoes as a short-order cook for this 50s-style restaurant chain. 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