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FTM:
Who is Darryl Dixon?
DD:I am what you might describe as a music professional.
I have over 20 years of professional experience in the performing
and arranging of different types of music from funk to jazz to r&b
to pop.
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FTM: First Funk experience?
DD:
My first funk experience was in 1977 when I joined P-Funk. I had
been in other bands but not a real funk situation such as
P-Funk.
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FTM: How did you meet Glen Goins?
DD:I first met Glen Goins in 1975 when I got into a group
called "Bags". He was the lead singer and guitarist for
that group. They were based in Plainfield, New Jersey.
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FTM: How did you become a member of Quazar?
DD:When Glen Goins, myself and the horn section, and Jerome
Brailey left P-Funk, Jerome and I got involved with Glen's project
at the time which was producing his younger brother Kevin's group
Quazar. He asked me to be the sax player and music director of the
group.
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FTM: Is it true that there was a Quazar
album after the FUNK'n ROLL album?
DD:Technically, no. Most of the music on any second album
by Quazar that you might hear are songs that could not be put out
because Glen didn't own the rights to it. He signed those rights
over to Westbound. So the music on the first and only Quazar album
is the only music which can be put out legally.
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FTM: How did you become a member of P.Funk?
DD: A trombonist named Clarence Lawrey and myself "crashed"
a Parliament performance here in New Jersey in 1975. We told Fred
Wesley, who was playing trombone at the time, that we wanted to
be heard. So we played a bunch of horn riffs in the dressing room.
We didn't hear from them until we both moved to Los Angeles in 1976
and George Clinton asked me to do a solo on a Brides of Funkenstein
cut, "Love is Something". Soon after that session, he
contacted us about joining the band.
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FTM: First P.Funk gig?
DD: The first gig I did with them was in Houston, Texas 1977.
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FTM: Last P.Funk gig?
DD: The last gig with them was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1978.
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FTM: What made you decide leaving P.Funk?
DD: It was a collective decision between me, the other horn
players, Glen, and Jerome. We were owed so much money that we felt
that we should take a stand. So we refused to go on at Pittsburgh
until we got at least some of the money owed. They wouldn't give
us anything. Not even a guarantee of payment. So we had to go.
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FTM: All time favorite Funk tracks 1.2.3.?
DD: Dr. Funkenstein, Do That Stuff, and Flashlight.
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FTM: Tell us more about CHOPS.
DD: CHOPS was formed after Glen Goins' death when Jerome
took over Mutiny, which Glen started. I was also involved in the
project. Jerome brought in the other two horn players on the project,
Marvin Daniels and Melvin El. This was the first time I met them.
We had an instant bond. So we decided to form a horn section and
call it CHOPS. Our uniqueness was our ability to create very funky
horn riffs and then taking those riffs to melodic and rhythmic extremes.
Far more extreme than anything you would normally hear. That coupled
with our individual versatility in different genre of music made
us very much sought after. We started to get VERY busy!
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FTM: What other groups did you play with
after P.Funk?
DD: The Police, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Patti Labelle, The
O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, James Brown, Sugar Hill
Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Public Enemy.
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FTM: What group do you play with now?
DD: Right now I am on tour with Alicia Keys, but I still
do recording sessions and gigs with other artists as well.
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FTM: All time favorite musicians 1.2.3.?
DD: Bernie Worrell, Sting, Herbie Hancock.
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FTM: All time favorite movie 1.2.3.?
DD: I don't have any particular favorites.
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FTM: Likes / Dislikes?
DD: I like down to earth people. I dislike phonies and musicians
who think they need drugs to create.
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FTM: Do you still have contact with P.Funk?
DD: The only one that I still have contact with is Bernie
Worrell.
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FTM: All time favorite groups 1.2.3.?
DD: Incognito, Yutaka, Tower of Power
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FTM: Future plans?
DD: I am gathering material for another CHOPS CD and I plan
to continue to perform and write arrangements for various artists.
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FTM: Any message for the New Funkateers?
DD: Remain true to yourself musically and personally and
diversify into as many styles of music and as many aspects of the
business as possible.
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