Isaac Hayes: Self - Music Composer
Quotes
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Gordon Parks : No Name Bar Scene.
Isaac Hayes : Right.
Gordon Parks : A beautiful crowd. The music should be up. Source music from the jukebox.
Isaac Hayes : Dig it.
Gordon Parks : The fact that there's violence at the end and a lot of action and the police coming in and Shaft smackin' a guy across the head with a bottle, makes no difference with the music. Because the music stays right where it is all the time. Right on the level. So that it gives a feeling that you are in a bar. Something has happened. You may hear the change of voices and the atmosphere of the people who watch the action, but the music goes right on.
Isaac Hayes : Right.
[to the band]
Isaac Hayes : Now, fellas, this time we're going source music. The No Name Bar. This is where you - eh - you're featured Mike. You've got the melody. Okay. Now watch the rhythm, man. Let if flow, you know.
[the band lets it flow]
Isaac Hayes : Move it, move it! One mo' time. Now, play.
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Gordon Parks : Now, the sequence we saw this morning, Times Square. Panned off the skyscrapers along 42nd Street over the marquees. And when Shaft *pops* up out of that subway, that's when they should really come on.
Isaac Hayes : Right.
Gordon Parks : And carry him all the way through Times Square right to his... to his first encounter with a newspaperman.
Isaac Hayes : Right.
Gordon Parks : That should be a driving, savage beat, you know, so that
[snaps his finger]
Gordon Parks : right with him, all the time. Something like that. What I heard you working on earlier seems great for that Shaft walk. Can we hear it now?
Isaac Hayes : Yeah. Okay. Let's take it!
[band starts to play "The Theme from Shaft"]
