Groove

Because the second I'm playing on drums, and if the groove wasn't ready or wasn't right, you get that tap on the shoulder, and here comes somebody else behind you to come play.

And so I always took that to heart.

Groove has got to be number one.

Even whether you're playing swing or funk or rock, jazz, anything.

So that's the one thing I learned from church that was like...

They're stuck with me pretty much throughout any type of professional setting that I'm in right now.

Got you.

Groove has got to be number one.

But you didn't get the whole thing.

It wasn't until August 1986 that it first appeared in its entirety on a record called In the Jungle Groove, a compilation.

The first time, the full nine minute version, and it included, for DJs, a bonus beat reprise-

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