Dr. Dre "Dream Team"

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so everyone will know..its not always a one man show..its once one name gets the credit...

Dre's Dream Team

Dr. Dre is quick to give his Dream Team credit. “I don’t have a main instrument. I feel my brain is my instrument. In my opinion, I’m not really that good of a musician. That’s why I hire the best musicians around. Like Camara Kambon, he’s one of the keyboard players, and Mike and Scott. Everybody just adds their part to the soup and it comes together.” Here are the vital statistics:


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LARRY CHATMAN
Title: Production Manager
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Nickname: Uncle
Years on the Job: 10
Job Description: In charge of organizing Dre’s recording, movie, video, and tour activities. Chatman makes it happen! “Dre comes up with the ideas and I’ve got to put it all together. Basically, he makes one call to me and I do the rest.”


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MAURICO IRAGORRI
Title: Engineer
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Nickname: Veto
Time on the job: 7 months
Job Description: “Dre wants me to make his stuff sound as clean and clear as possible. I always EQ the tape. We put a lot of bottom on kicks, even snares, and get it set so, when it comes back, it already sounds EQ’d. [Dre] expects me to make the session run smoothly — have everything set up and ready to go when he walks in.

“The other thing he depends on me for is to know everything we’ve done and where it’s cataloged on DAT. If he plays a beat that we did for Mary J. Blige, I have to know which one he’s talking about and play it for him right there. Of course, I know where it’s at because I recorded it.”


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MIKE ELIZONDO
Title: Track Writer/Bass/Co-Producer
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Nickname: Bomba
Years on the Job: 5
Job Description: “Dre, Scott, and myself will show up at the studio and just start vibing. Dre will have some beats going and I’ll start with a guitar riff or a bass line — we start jamming. Once an idea sounds good, the skeleton of it, Dre will ask Veto to start rolling the DAT. While Dre and the artist are writing the lyrics, we’ll be laying the track down on two-inch. That’s the beginning stage of it.

“On Snoop’s The Last Meal record [2000, Priority], it was just Dre and I goofing around. I started off with the guitar riff and he’d have the drums and there would be something there that would spark an idea. Then we would start building on top of that. My big thing is — in any situation — to just try and latch on and find a role and do that. With Dre, it began with being his musician, then it led to doing co-writes on some things, then the Snoop record, with some co-production.”


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SCOTT STORCH
Title: Keys/Songwriter/Co-Producer
Birthplace: Long Island, NY
Years on the Job: 2
Job Description: “There’s no one particular formula. I get cracking on a couple of beats with Mike and Mel-Man — we try to come up with the best music collectively. But, typically, Dre will come in with a beat idea and then we all play around it.”


from http://www.hiphopgame.com/index2.php3?page=dredreamteam
 
yeah, i read this a while ago i don't know if it was online or in a magazine but it was the exact same thing. it's funny because now i know who scott storch is.
 
yeah...it was online at hihop game dot com.. i had read it awhile back..so i went lookin for it...
 
Storch

Most of you probably know that Scott Storch did most of the beats for the cronic album. When Scott Storch became known, people were saying that he was taking from Dre. Dre's style. They didn't know Scott co-produced most of that album. Man, I didn't even know when I got the album. :D And what's up with the beef between Lil Jon and storch. Storch sounds nothin like Lil Jon. If anything he sounds more like Dre..

And ya it's not always a one man show. We have about 3 producers that make the beats. One starts it off. One adds to it. And one edits, and masters it. That way one person doesn't get tired of the beat. And each person brings their talent to the beat. I just think everyone should get credit for a beat. Not just the main person.
 
tru but storch used the exact same cheesy lil jon synth patch from "yeah" added 808 kicks (well thats ok, since everybody does that) and sold beats to chris brown for 50 grand. (each, which i still low for him).....

i would call that biting because scott storch should just know better, he's such a great musician, yet he still had to bite lil jon's lead synth sound from the the roland 5080 hardware sound module. :(
 
Aight, I knew that.

It's very clear on some tracks, like Still D.R.E. (those Storch keys were dope.)
 
I read this about 3 years ago in the EQ maganzine featuring DRE.. I still have the magazine it also gives his compression tips too for each song he did on the chronic 2001
 
silvershake said:
tru but storch used the exact same cheesy lil jon synth patch from "yeah" added 808 kicks (well thats ok, since everybody does that) and sold beats to chris brown for 50 grand. (each, which i still low for him).....

i would call that biting because scott storch should just know better, he's such a great musician, yet he still had to bite lil jon's lead synth sound from the the roland 5080 hardware sound module. :(


How can YOU steal a sound from the roland 5080 module; it is free for anyone to use that owns that module. Just because you use a sound doesn't make it yours. Shyt I might buy a 5080 and I'll be damned if I can't use a sound because so-and-so made it famous. Plus Lil Jon sucks when compared to Scott, who is a REAL musician. BTW I've been bumping lil jon since the mid 90's and there isnt anything special to his production.
 
I didn't know people still used DAT's, are there any kind of sonic advantages to using them???
 
I was talking about the video BeatsBuy posted, not the article.
 
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