Clyde Stubblefield’s Heavenly 80th, Celebrating his life with Joey B. Banks on Max Ink Radio

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Jimmy the funky JBS are a group of musicians from Madison and Chicago and they're dedicated

to preserving the legacy of Clyde Stubblefield.

The group is led by two-time Grammy-nominated drummer Bobby Masano and the five-time Madison

Area Music Association drummer of the year and 2024 Grammy nominee for drummer of the

year, Joey B. Banks.

Joey B. Banks, welcome to Maxine Gradyo.

Joey, Joey.

Hey, hey, hey, guys, how you doing?

So you're driving up from Chicago right now, huh?

I'm in my car with my family driving back from my granddaughter's third birthday party.

What's her name, Joey?

Her name is Harper and she turned three on April 2nd, but the birthday party was today.

Happy birthday, Harper.

So I got my mother-in-law, Kelly and my dad and Trevor Banks in the car with me.

Trevor?

Well, hi, Trevor.

Get the- Trevor?

Well, perfect time to talk about Clyde then.

I was sleeping.

I think Trevor's sleep.

Yeah, but yeah, yeah, we're driving back, so.

Well, Joey, tell me, why are you so dedicated to preserving the legacy of Clyde's double field?

Well, I think that kind of speaks for itself.

I mean, he's given, you know, I was given the opportunity to grow up having him be in

our community and influence me in a lot of different ways in my performance.

And just became really good friends and I think the biggest thing is really just the recognition

model that surrounds him and not really like having him be like as recognized as he should

be.

For example, he should be in the Rock and Roll Hall thing, and he's not.

So it's really like more about keeping that legacy alive for a myriad of reasons, but,

you know, I've been heavily influenced by him.

All my students are influenced by him.

Millions of drummers in the world have been influenced by him and he was a good friend.

So it's really like a no-brainer for me.

It's part of who I am now.

And again, everybody that's in contact with me, my fans, students are all influenced by

that relationship that I had with Clyde.

How did you meet Clyde's double field?

I met him at Club de Walsh.

I met him at a new Monday, really?

Paul, yeah, Paul Black used to have a Monday jam and I was a teenager at that time going

that there's two jams in Madison.

There was one at the Club de Walsh and there was one at Morgan's.

And Morgan's was on the east side.

Club de Walsh was really close to my house on the south side of Madison.

So I would go frequent that one and one of the earlier times I was jamming.

With Paul Black and Paul Caining and all the old guys, old blues guys, Clyde was there

jamming too.

And he saw me play and approached me and just said I saw me grade and was really very encouraging

from the very first time I met him for most of my adult life after that.

So that's how we met.

We met at Club de Walsh.

Now there is a celebration of life and music of the funky drummer Clyde's double field.

It's at the majestic theater in Madison on Thursday, April 18th.

The funky J.B.'s will be playing along with V.O. 5 and Kaboombox.

What can you tell us about this very funky show?

First of all, it's located right across the street from the King Club, which is the main

kind of last main Monday night funky Monday, which he did for over 40 years in Madison.

That was kind of one of the last official places for it.

But all I'm going to do really is kind of create a funky Monday night.

On a Thursday night, on his birthday, play some of his favorite tunes with the funky J.B.'s.

We'll play some of the songs he played with with James Brown.

I'm going to actually have the J.B. 3s open.

J.B. 3s are basically a smaller version of the funky J.B.'s.

And we're going to do some instrumental versions of some applied songs he did with James Brown.

And then the full band is going to do kind of like a funky Monday set that you would have

like heard if you were at the King Club at one of those street clubs show.

So the crowd is going to be a lot of those people that used to attend a lot of those funky

Monday.

So we're just going to just going to try to duplicate that musically and duplicate the

vibe of that show and just celebrate his life and celebrate his birthday and we'll be

selling merchandise there for the scholarship fund.

The Clive Double Field Scholarship fund through the Madison Area Music Association.

I established about five years ago, actually I established it back in 2015 when we did

the scholarship series show.

So it's part of that.

Part of that is also a fundraiser for the Clive Double Field Scholarship.

And tickets are going really fast.

Tickets are gone.

I think all the tables and all the reserve seating is gone.

I think there's a few general admission tickets left.

The balcony is sold out.

So it's it's going up quickly.

It's going to be a great crowd for sure.

And it's encouraging that you're close to a sell out and I'm sure Dia show it will sell

out.

Joey B. Banks joins us here from the funky JB's.

We're talking about Clive Stubblefield's birthday party coming up like Clive Stubblefield

of course a legend here in Madison, but such an important part of rock and roll history.

I mean, he was I mean, the not just rock and roll, but also hip hop.

I mean, he I think he still holds the record for being the most sampled drummer ever.

If is that fact, correct Joey?

Yeah, it's pretty pretty accurate considering the fact that there are people that are still

sampling his music and popular music today.

I can hear it in and Nicki Minaj to name some more current current up to date artists.

Yeah, I mean, it's it goes without saying.

I mean, I think that beat for a lot of producers is like, just the go to, you know, if you

want to have a good drum track, you just use that, just use that track.

Just use that track.

So with that said, Joey, why is in Clive Stubblefield in the rock and roll hall of fame yet?

You know, that's a really good question and, you know, I think it's really the the

theme of his life, like under being under appreciated under under valued, you know, I say this

all the time, if Ringo star can be drumsticks or it can be in, you know, he's not a very

influential drummer, Ringo, but he's in the rock and roll hall of fame.

I use that, yes, you know, he's, you know, beetle notoriety, but as a drummer, not,

not nothing really groundbreaking there, pioneering him and not really that influential in music,

overall Beatles music, influential, yeah, but, but the drumming part of it, pretty basic stuff.

Clive kind of like was a very unique mold that, that was, you know, that nobody's really

been able to duplicate him, you know, he's kind of like by rich, you know, he's just like

one of a kind.

Yeah.

Very, very original drummer, but I think, I think this movie, the movie, the fact that Trevor's

doing, you know, I think that's going to be very helpful in the argument for why he should

be in the rock and roll hall of fame.

Absolutely.

I think that's going to help boost the visibility and boost that concept to the general

public.

And hopefully, you know, some of those, those inductee people that vote for the rock and roll

hall of fame inductees, you know, get a, get a whiff of the movie and they see his influence.

And they say, we should have had him in here, you know, two decades ago, because there's

been a lot of people that have passed him over that, that has not been as as influential

in music as he has.

Hey, you know, who would love some, though?

We love him.

We love him.

We do.

We appreciate him more than any of those people.

Yeah, Madison loves Clyde.

Definitely.

And it's always, always loved Clyde.

So part of the reason, you know, this is, this is, I mean, I'd like this to be a community

event.

And, you know, I'd like to have all the people that were influenced by Clyde in the Madison

area and people that, that either played in a band with him or had him play in their

backyard or play at their wedding or, you know, he, you know, he, that's the kind of

person he was.

He was pretty much played for anyone, anywhere in Madison and played in a lot of backyard

for a lot of people, but he's very well loved and I'm just hoping all the people that love

him will come out and support the show on his birthday.

He would be 80 years old on his birthday.

This Thursday.

Still rocking the drums.

I'm sure.

So I'm sure.

Yes, he is.

It's the, it's the Clyde's double fill party.

It's happening at the majestic theater here in Madison is on Tuesday, April 18th Thursday,

April 18th.

Thank you, rocker.

V.O.

Five is going to be there.

You still drumming or playing with V.O.

Five.

Joey.

What?

Of course.

I mean, that night, you mean in general, just in general, probably, yeah, we're doing

a two drummer thing.

So I mean, even if rocker comes, rocker, and we, I might even let rockers come up and

play.

Yeah.

We have a two drummer thing in jail, the drummer for V.O. Five and myself will be playing

on some V.O. Five tunes.

And then I'm going to have some student drummers play in with the funky J.B.s because that's

kind of like a thing we did, fight and I did at the King Club.

We would bring young, young drummers up to play with five.

A lot of those drummers were my students.

So some of my students are going to be playing with the funky J.B.s on two or three selected

songs for them.

That's awesome.

Yeah, but there will be two drum kit, so we'll be doing the two drummer thing for sure.

V.O. Five and the funky J.B.s.

Wow.

Joey, we have about 60 seconds left here.

Do you have some new music coming along soon?

I do.

I mean, I'm working on a solo album right now.

I'm working on some solo stuff with Brian Liston.

I'm in a, I started a little duo group with Brian Liston called Play Machine.

You'll be hearing about that coming up.

Yes.

It's all original music.

So yeah, that's, that's what's happening with that.

But I got a lot of shows and playing with their element.

I got a show coming up next Friday with orchestra, South Soul, Del Mad, F.C.A.

Coda, a Latin group I play with.

They are awesome.

Yes.

Do you have to be with me?

It's going hard.

30 shows on the book.

Oh, wow.

2025 through 2025.

And of course, we'll be playing at Atwood Fest this year.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Dr. Bob.

Freaky news.

Joey B. Bakes is going to be at Atwood Fest.

Yeah.

Wow.

Atwood Fest tonight.

Now it's something I shouldn't have announced.

No, that was beautiful.

You played right into it.

It was perfect.

Joey was, Jimmy was trying to get some stuff out of me before about Atwood Fest.

And he was, you know, we were talking about Joey B. Bakes.

So, you know, it's played every one.

Yeah.

And so it was, it was perfect.

It was fitting.

And I said, you know, we'll have something that everybody recognizes at Atwood Fest.

And, well, Steely Dane is probably one of them.

Absolutely shocking.

You're going to be at Atwood Fest.

Absolutely.

It's my favorite East Side Festival.

Yeah.

Joey, you're awesome.

Thank you for what you do for the Madison Music scene.

Thank you for keeping Clyde alive, Van here in Madison and around the state.

We love you.

Thank you so much.

Jimmy K. Rock, I appreciate you.

Thanks, Joey.

You're awesome.

Thank you.

Bye.