Album: Do the Skate
Year: 1991
Style: Hip Hop, Jazz Fusion
Similar Bands: Urban Dance Squad, C+C Music Factory, Bent Fabric, Sublime, Arrested Development, Toejam & Earl
"One-Word" Review: Mellow Jazzy Beatnik Hip Hop Samples
Based Out Of: Los Angeles, CA
Label: 4th & B'Way, Island Records
Cover & Record
Back & Record
Do The Skate (1991)- Do The Skate 4:14
- Get Dat Grove 2:37
- Two Headed Love Child 3:20
- Irv's 4:37
- Willie Brown Live 3:51 (sample of "Pennsylvania 6-5000")
- Justice (To The Bass) Nick & Scruff Version 3:14 /
- Joe's Jam 6:27
- Right Place 4:12 (samples: Hall & Oates "I Can't Go For That," "Could Be I'm Falling in Love," and "Right Place, Wrong Time")
- More 3:25
- Hey Wooley 4:52
- Justice (To The Bass) Extended Boneless Mix 4:08
Members & Other Bands:
- Willie McNeil - Producer
- D. Thomas
- Octavio - Sax (Arianna, Luis Miquel, Los Temerarios, LabA)
- Phil Nowlan - Guitar, Keys (Cool C, Three Times Dope, Tim Dog, Toshi Kubota, Jermaine Dupri)
- Skatemaster Tate (Gerry Hurtado) - Vox, Producer, Remixed (Porno for Pyros, Stone Cold Boners, Tate&Greg, Boo Yaa TRIBE, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist )
- Willie Brown - Vox, Samples, Drums
- Natas Kapus - Backing Vox
- Don Kingski - Samples, Vox, Keys (Circle of Soul)
- Chris Garcia - Bass (Sweet Daddy, Fred Pellichero, Clay Aiken, Thyne Scabbard, Eduardo Rios)
- Jammin' Jay Davidson - Sax (Towson St U/College Jazz Ensemble, Mirjam, Marco, OC Smith, Joe the Butcher Nicolo, Cash Money and Marvelous, 7A3, Myles Goodwyn, Magnetics, Chena, Robbie B & DJ Jazz, Something Special, Cinderella, Tim Dog, Bad Mutha Goose & Bros Grimm, Pop's Cool Love, Taj Mahal, The Goats, Spearhead, Big Cheif, Ben Arnold, The Philosopher Kings, G. Love & Special Sauce, Monty Alexander, Pepper's Ghost, TM Stevens, Bon Jovi, Bruce L Cohen, Blues Anatomy, Mike Pinto, Labelle, Stroke, Greg Davis, Holy Water, Ronnie Spector, Up The Chain, Chris Kasper, Gina Sicila, American Mafia, Angel Du$t, Young & Heartless, Brit Floyd, Cast In Bronze, Pete Donnelly, Turnover)
- Andy "Funky Drummer" Kravitz - Drums (Butcher Brothers, Electric Love Muffin, Neptune Darlings, Steady B, Billy price & Keystone Rhythm Band, Schoolly D, Boo-Yaa TRIBE, Taj Mahal, Cypress Hill, Goats, Kris Kross, Wailing Souls, Billy Joel, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Luther Vandross, Smashign Orange, Rolling Stones, Spearhead, Shawn Colvin, Joan Osborne, Big Cheif, Candy Butchers, Midge Ure, Imogen Heap, Hamell on Trial, Juliana Hatfield, Figgs, Amos Lee, Pete Donnelly more)
- Tupelo Joe Altruda - Upright Bass, Vox, Guitar (Afterhours, Buru jazz Ensemble, Cocktail Crew, Jump with Joey, Sounds of Zodiac, Tupelo Chain Sex, Screamin' Sirens, Thelonious Monster, Joe Strummer, Shy Party, Levi Decter, Solsonics, DJ Bonebreak, Skip Heller, Ramblin' James & Billyboppers, Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys, Dread Filmstone, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Ernest Ranglin, Seu Jorge, Almaz, Western Standard Time, Bebel Gilberto)
- Cooper - Bass
- Z Grutzman
- Zachary Terrell - Piano, Keys
- Brown (Tony, Unsel) Brothers - Backing Vox
- Kevin Williams - Backing Vox (Bonedaddys, Untouchables, Corporation of One, Matt Wood, Ben Harper, Solsonics, Guru, Jump With Joey, English Beat, Tupelo Joe, After Hours, Zakiya Hooker, Anthony Burger, John Lee Hooker, Hubbard's Cupboard, Lights Out)
- DJ E-Z - Turntables
- Tim Kerr - Guitar (Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm, Big Boys, Jack O'Fire, King Sound Quartet, Lord High Fixers, Poison 13, Monkeywrench, Now Time Delegation, Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee, Up Around the Sun, Dicks, Quintron, Sugar Shack, more)
- Joe "The Butcher" Nicolo - Coproducer, Remixing
- Scruff & Nick - Additional Production & Mixing
- Matthew Hyde - Engineering
- Dennis Dragon - Producer, Engineer
- Chris Bellman - Mastering
- Bernie Grundman - Mastering
- John Switzer - Mgmt
- Gabriel Leconte - Mgmt
- Gary Wishik - Legal
- Kim Buie - A&R Coordination
- Lori Graves - A&R Coordination
- Rachell Stoud - Sampling Equipment Consulting
- Deborah Melian - Art Direction & Design
- Michael Miller - Photography
Album Review: This is a very interesting record. The mix of free flowing jazz, jazz influence like using a sample of Pennsylvania 6-5000, and sections that sound like the Alley Cat thrown into thoughtful hip hop lyrics and samples make me think that the musicians have a Jazz background, but wanted to fuse it to what they had around them: samples, smooth rapping and youthful street-wise topics, It makes me really wonder where the inspiration came from and what they were going for. Paying respect to jazz history by introducing a younger crowd to the fusion of beatnik night clubs and scratch /sampling. Some of the songs do have a juvenile and embarrassing take (Two Headed Love Child) and it makes me wonder how it was promoted what kind of "street cred" they earned from this. Who was their fans base? Definitely positive vibes on the album, but it is genre scattered too much for the casual listener like me. Imagine Arrested Development playing with Sublime trying to update Bent Fabric and Benny Goodman big band songs while playing Toe Jam & Earl on Sega Genesis. On the other hand, this is a true mixing of race, style and lifestyle...the absolute melting pot and predicted positive face of music in the future from 1991's view. So Tate was a real skating aficionado, skating on the amateur circuit in the 70's and hosting the Nickelodeon SK8-TV show, which only lasted 13 episodes. Well before this album in 1983, he started gaining popularity amongst the skate rock audience, having songs in a variety of skate videos, even getting a song in the film What About Bob?. Apparently he was a very friendly guy that would help out anyone he could who needed it. Tate sadly passed away in 2015 from liver cancer.
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