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jgrizz
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Jamiroquai get their groove back
Jamiroquai get their groove back
By MARY DICKIE - Toronto Sun
Jamiroquai are huge stars in England, but they've had a hard time translating their success over here.
Maybe that's because their brand of anglicized American funk sounds a little fresher there.
Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that they haven't released a new album in four years, or played a show on this side of the Atlantic since 1998.
"There's a reason for that," Jamiroquai main man Jay Kay explained over the phone from New York yesterday.
"The last album was released on Sept. 11, 2001. We were here in New York, and we had a flight to L.A. at 11 that morning to do the Jay Leno show. We never got there -- we were here for a week, and eventually got home and sat looking into space and bursting into tears. We were a bit shy about flying for a while."
Apparently, Kay also had to take the time to break a cocaine habit.
"I needed to kick cocaine in the teeth, which I managed to do," he said proudly.
"I've been clean a year and 10 months. I didn't go to rehab; I basically paid a friend of mine to stand next to me for 24 hours a day 'til I could be trusted to go out and enjoy myself without being tempted.
"It's not easy in this business. If you're not the life of the party, no one's interested. It's part of your job, in a sense, to be out there, and if you can't go out without staying awake 'til noon, it's no good. It was a clear choice: Did I want to continue my career, or do cocaine? It was scary -- I wondered whether I was going to lose my edge. I gave it up the day after my birthday, January 1, 2004, and that's when we started the album."
Dynamite is Jamiroquai's sixth album, and the first without longtime keyboardist and songwriter Toby Smith, who left in 2002.
Kay found a replacement in Matt Johnson and used the opportunity to open up the band's whole process.
"I wanted to make sure people couldn't say it sounded like my last record," he said.
"It's difficult when you have a style -- I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But I wanted to give it a sound that made it more accessible to North American audiences, 'cause I'd been fairly unsuccessful at that.
"We recorded in Costa Rica for a month, then we went to Majorca and Italy and Scotland, where we wrote Starchild in my little crofter's cottage in the snow. And I wanted to see what American players and arrangers and vocalists could do and how different their approach was, so we did a month in New York and a month in L.A."
The result balances Jamiroquai's trademark funky-hippie sound with a lot of frankly lustful lyrics.
"I wanted to concentrate more on groove, on having fun," Kay said.
"I wanted to make a sexy record. Dynamite is what I call my sexy mid-30s song. I did what came to me, and I'm in that stage."
According to Kay, the band is happy to have the chance to win over North American audiences as if for the first time.
"We're back to square one," he said cheerfully.
"We've been doing gigs for 45,000 in Europe and now we're playing to 2,000. But I'm enjoying it. And it's been such a long time that we almost forgot how good North American audiences are. I have fond memories of playing in Toronto and
everybody going wild. And I've just gone out and bought myself a goose down jacket, so I won't freeze my ass off like I did last time!"
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robotscantadlib
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 02:48 |
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Re: Jamiroquai get their groove back
| jgrizz wrote: |
Jamiroquai get their groove back
And I've just gone out and bought myself a goose down jacket, so I won't freeze my ass off like I did last time!"
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some environmentalist, haha. |
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Jamiro-Pi314
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 22:23 |
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Re: Jamiroquai get their groove back
| robotscantadlib wrote: |
| jgrizz wrote: |
Jamiroquai get their groove back
And I've just gone out and bought myself a goose down jacket, so I won't freeze my ass off like I did last time!"
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some environmentalist, haha. |
 , good call.. |
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Little H - KSA
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| Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 23:17 |
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Re: Jamiroquai get their groove back
| robotscantadlib wrote: |
| jgrizz wrote: |
Jamiroquai get their groove back
And I've just gone out and bought myself a goose down jacket, so I won't freeze my ass off like I did last time!"
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some environmentalist, haha. |
Do you have to kill the goosey to get it's down ??? I have geese malting everywhere and their nests are knee deep in the cloudy fluff.
It's not like it's fois gras ???
Burning all those fossils fuels isn't too good either, but I'm no enviromentalist - so I leave all this stuff to other's more astutely tuned than myself.
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Lydster
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 20:34 |
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I always thought you just have to pull those feathers out? And then they grow again and in a year, you can pull them out again? |
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monisum
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 21:11 |
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| I always thought you just have to pull those feathers out? And then they grow again and in a year, you can pull them out again? |
You could do that of course....although it would be same nice feeling as if someone would pull out your hairs bit by bit... 
But reality is, that geese are breeded for food, they don't live the next year anymore. They are stuffed with foods forced to swallow, until they are fat, the feathers are ripped out when they are still living cause they get more easy out then (comfortable for the people doing that, not for the animals  ). Finally, when they are naked, they are sloughtered 
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Little H - KSA
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jamihead
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| Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 15:33 |
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what a story... don't get it ...hahahaha 
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Little H - KSA
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| Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 19:10 |
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| jamihead wrote: |
| what a story... don't get it ...hahahaha :lol: |
Read back a little, and read it again until you do - you are a native English speaker aren't you ???
Get your little Jamihead into it then . . . and let me know !!!
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jamihead
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 16:52 |
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I don't give a sh*t.
..movin on!
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Samiroquai
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 17:46 |
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Sorry, only just read this.
"Maybe that's because their brand of anglicized American funk sounds a little fresher there."
Just goes to show, music journalists really don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about a lot of the time...
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Little H - KSA
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 19:57 |
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| jamihead wrote: |
I don't give a sh*t.
..movin on! |
. . . movn' on to the big school where you'll learn joined up writing ???
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FunkEducation
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 01:55 |
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Jamiroquai will get the groove back when Jay put again the brass section and all in the band... without it, there's any groove... 
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Little H - KSA
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| FunkEducation wrote: |
| Jamiroquai will get the groove back when Jay put again the brass section and all in the band |
It's like having a palace with a gravel floor, it's needs it's Persian carpets back.
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jamihead
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 16:29 |
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| Little H - KSA wrote: |
| jamihead wrote: |
I don't give a sh*t.
..movin on! |
. . . movn' on to the big school where you'll learn joined up writing ??? |
got a problem with that?
That WAS my personal opinion .. so what! (unless you don't understand what that f**kin means..).
I don't question your opinion , DO I ??
...and if you read carefully , didn't you notice the icon..
... so don't be SO uptight!
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