Set Me Up and Give Me What I Want
"Pleasure Doin' Business," a sneering greed-is-good funk number from my Millhouse band days, always went over big with audiences, and I suspect it wasn't just for its tight rhythm section (thank you, Steve Harris and Mark Baker) but for its mid-song disco break, complete with a modulation (up from the song's home key of A-flat to a cool B-flat minor) and a kitschy interpolation of a bit of another song (on the record we did "Alabama Song," but I'm pretty sure there were others—I just can't recall which).
I didn't realize until years later where I got the idea for the disco break. While there were certainly countless songs from childhood that did this kind of thing, the direct inspiration was clearly from a track burned into my pre-adolescent brain, one I certainly roller-skated to circa 1978: Meco's indelible "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band." It's at the 1:48 point below (it's at 2:42 in the Millhouse song above):
I didn't realize until years later where I got the idea for the disco break. While there were certainly countless songs from childhood that did this kind of thing, the direct inspiration was clearly from a track burned into my pre-adolescent brain, one I certainly roller-skated to circa 1978: Meco's indelible "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band." It's at the 1:48 point below (it's at 2:42 in the Millhouse song above):
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