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Rustee Allen (born March 3, 1951) is an American musician best known as the bass guitar player for the influential funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1972 to 1975. Allen replaced founding Family Stone member Larry Graham, who was forced out of the band and went on to start his own, Graham Central Station .
17. Nov. 2023 · You're The One by Rustee Allen, released 17 November 2023.
- You Picked Up The Bass at Fourteen. Did You Start on guitar?
- What Do You Consider Your First Serious Work?
- How Did Your Parents Feel About That?
- Did You Meet Sly Stone While You Were Working with Johnny?
- What Was It Like The First Time You Met Sly?
- Your First Record with Him Was Fresh. Had You Been Playing with Him Before That?
- Are There Any Particular Gigs That Stand Out from Tour?
- Sly Has An Autobiography Coming out. What Are Your Thoughts on That?
- What Kind of Amp Were You running?
- Have You Been Writing Music Or Did You Just Have A Recent Burst of Creativity?
I started on guitar only because I didn’t know what a bass was. I’d be playing with my friends and they would say, “Someone has to play the low notes,” so I would just play the first four strings of a guitar. Later on I discovered that there’s an instrument that only employs four strings and it’s called a bass. [laughs]
My first serious work was with a guy named Johnny Talbot. He was from Texas and he had a band called Johnny Talbot and De Thangs. They were like a funk band. Good singing, but those guys [were amazing musicians]. The drummer was Lamont Scott was from New Orleans so he had a groove that was stupid good. As they would play, the funk would just evolve...
My mom was one of my biggest supporters. As I said before, when I realized there was this thing called a bass guitar, she bought me one. She even tried to get me some lessons in Alameda, but I just wanted to play. I didn’t want to sit there and study chords and scales. She bought me my first bass. It was called a St. George, which was like a Fender...
Actually, while I was working with Johnny, I met Larry [Graham]. He would come and listen to me play with Johnny in little local clubs. He would sit at the table and just watch. I knew who he was only because when I was in Sobrante Park, I’d look out my living room window and see this guy going to see his girlfriend across the street. He drove a Bu...
I was playing with a band called Lighthouse for the Blind. Freddie Stone had given us that band name. It was Willie Sparks, who went on the play drums for Graham Central Station, and David Stallings, who went on to play guitar for Lenny Williams. We had a little funk power trio. Were were playing Grand Funk Railroad and little things that Sly and F...
No, but I had been playing with Little Sister then and we had been opening up some shows for Sly. Larry had left and had recommended that I play for the band. At the time that we were recording, I was basically already in the band. That’s another story, too. [For the audition], we were in Roanoke, Virginia in front of 20,000 people. It was me and t...
There were so many good ones. When Andy Newmark was there, we just clicked on a crazy level. I can’t just pick one out, but I will say that some of the Ohio gigs with the Ohio Players in Dayton, Columbus, and those kind of places were special. We were in the dressing room and Sly gathered us up. All he said was, “You all know what we’ve got to do.”...
It should be full of some very interesting situations and scenarios. I just recently did a segment with Questlove for his followup to the Summer of Love documentary about a month ago. But Sly’s memoirs should be some serious reading. If he just exposes everything, it’s going to be like…. wow. He’s one of the few black entertainers that was featured...
I had some Cerwin Vega folded horns, some front-loaded JBL 4x10s, some Crown power amps, some preamps, a bunch of stuff. I had a wall behind me.
I just came up with some lines and collaborated with people for hooks and lyrics. I came in with the bass lines and guitar parts. Levi Seacer, who played guitar for Prince and the New Power Generation, we play together in a Prince tribute band called The Purple Ones. He did the mixing and was in my band for the album release. I write in spurts. If ...
26. Nov. 2022 · Featured is bassist Rustee Allen, best known as bass icon Larry Graham’s successor in Sly & the Family Stone. First catching on with Sly Stone protege act Li...
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29. Aug. 2020 · Funk Chronicles interview with Rustee Allen bassist for Sly and the Family Stone, w/host Rhine McLin. This interview was recorded at DATV Studios in Dayton O...
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- The Funk Music Hall of Fame & Exhibition Center
24. März 2017 · Rustee Allen (sometimes referred to as “Rusty” on album credits) is a soulful pocket and harmonic player who also cut sides and/or worked on stage with Angela Bofill, Rose Stone, George Clinton, and Bobby Womack, among others.
Rustee Allen. Oakland, California. He had the daunting task of succeeding Larry Graham in Sly & the Family Stone - on Larry’s recommendation - AND James Dewar in Robin Trower’s iconic British blues band affording Robin a decidedly funkier disposition. Rustee Allen is a soulful pocket and harmonic player who also has worked with Angela ...
