European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Clarke takes Stock by Mary Campbell associated Pressi f superstar bassist Stanley Clarke has a signature song it s definitely school Days if a Peison tries to play to Bass and tries to get Good at it he tins to buy that record and listen la Hal song he said. Whan i meet anyone who does t know much about me i ask them to gel that record and listen to Hal song. It s my most requested song. I have to play Hal every time 1 hit the the song written about 10 years ago has the Leeling of a Rock tune he said. The Bass Soto i must have been possessed that Day. It was the absolute Best i could do at thai moment. I think that s the thing that comes across of the record. Ii has a very raw sound to ii. It s a hard tune real last and a Good tune what made it great was a great Bass Solo. It took me a minute to write that song. I was in my bedroom in Long Island. .,.1 recorded ii in one Lake other limes you spend months on a Clarke 35, studied classical music As a Ehi d growing up in Philadelphia. He graduated to increasingly larger stringed instruments violin cello then Bass. He played with Horace Silver when he was 18, joined Chick Corea s return to forever in 1972 and launched his Solo career in 1976. He plays mostly fusion though he is heavier on jazz and lighter on Rock than other fusion artists his second epic records album hideaway is his 11 the Solo up. Two tracks from hideaway were nominated for grammy awards overjoyed As Best pop instrumental performance and to boys of Johmson Street As Best rhythm and blues instrumental. Critics and fans Call him a superstar. I have no idea Why they use that word he said with a relaxed cheerful and modest Demeanour. I think it started on my second record journey to love kind of developed a cult fallowing. It was weird. It was t Romall music. Ii was a strange album had a Tot of different people on it. Jeff Beck the Rock guitar player waa playing jazz with a Rock feeling that was unusual a the Timo. I was just a race album to listen to from one Cut to another it was not Boring. The album after that. School Days still Sells today usually Clarke does t give his albums a theme but with hideaway he did. The Fisl Side is kind of quiet and gives you Hal hideaway meeting like you re Oil at a Beach House. It s a romantic kind of thing. The second Side is peeking out the door a Little in 1980, he made an album with keyboardist George Duke Tho Clarke Duke fro eco. It produced a top to pop nil Sweet baby. We were pretty surprised Clarke said. We each wrote three tunes and co wrote two. George was singing Lead and i was singing they poured together for two years and plan to make another record sometime this year. Our Anginal intention was not to be a group that s Why we called it a project Matte said. It s something we Dkl in our spare time. We Sel records Goon tour. H s fun. We both have members Sta Home some Goon Lour. Cri newyear seva1979bothrjurbandsp
