{"id":7081,"date":"2022-11-17T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2022-12-18T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:25:37","slug":"music-ramon-tiki-fulwood-drummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7081","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Ramon \u2018Tiki\u2019 Fulwood, drummer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"396\" height=\"230\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_5245.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7082\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_5245.jpg 396w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_5245-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fulwood laying down the groove.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I absolutely adore some of the Funkadelic\/Parliament music. And it\u2019s often very largely due to tremendous rhythmatics, from the drums, obviously, and bass, guitar, keys, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the engine room crew responsible for some of this musical wizardry was Tiki Fulwood. As the years go by, and my appreciation for musicians like Fulwood grows, I want to know more about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post will, I hope, grow into a little biog\/tribute to this superb musician. First of all, I\u2019ll link to a few things I found on the web about him, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/georgeclinton.com\/family\/tiki-fulwood\/\">this<\/a>, from George Clinton\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_5246-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7083\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_5246-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_5246-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_5246-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/img_5246.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tiki, funky cowpoke, in wide-brimmed hat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was surprised to learn that Fulwood had played the drums not only on lots of fab Funkadelic stuff, but also on two stone cold soul pop classics, Tyrone Davis\u2019 Can I Change My Mind and Turn Back The Hands of Time. Dude should be a legend for those alone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another more in depth piece can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/rateyourmusic.com\/list\/soulmakossa\/the-tiki-fulwood-story-1944-1979-from-tha-foot-up\/\">here<\/a>, posted to the \u2018rate your music\u2019 website, by someone going by the tag <strong>soulmakossa<\/strong>. Whoever you are, thanks for this superb piece!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ev4pnOpVS7g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In my search for all things Tiki, I also found  <a href=\"https:\/\/benwoollacott.com\/one-of-my-favourite-drum-fills\/\">this<\/a>, from another drummer (props to Ben Woollacott), giving his take on one of Fulwood\u2019s opening fills, in this instance from the Funkadelic track Goold Old Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUeHaR24f8Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely adore some of the Funkadelic\/Parliament music. And it\u2019s often very largely due to tremendous rhythmatics, from the drums, obviously, and bass, guitar, keys, etc. One of the engine room crew responsible for some of this musical wizardry was Tiki Fulwood. As the years go by, and my appreciation for musicians like Fulwood grows, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Ramon \u2018Tiki\u2019 Fulwood, drummer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[70,144,130,77,114,113,140,143],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1Qd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7527,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}