Tom G. Warrior о происхождении OUGH (TL;DR: Джеймс Браун лол).

Ever since the first recordings of Hellhammer, you use that sort of “Uh!” exclamation in your songs that today has become a sort of trademark for you. And I was listening to the new live the other day and at the end of Maniac, the audience was screaming “Uh! Uh! Uh!”. It’s amazing how it’s become so associated with you. Do you remember where that came from? Was there like a specific idea behind that or was it just something that happened when you were recording? 

Well, I heard it all the time in the 1970s and early 80s. A lot of soul and funk bands that I listened to did it. And all of a sudden, I was like, oh, I’m going to do this. And a lot of the new wave of british heavy metal bands that I liked did it. You know, you can hear the “Uh!” in Tygers of Pan Tang and Diamond Head and so on. There’s a whole list of bands who have done this. Iron Maiden, the early Iron Maiden did that too, Paul Di’Anno. And we always loved that in Hellhammer. And so we also did it like many others. And myself, I listened to so much funk music. I still do, actually. And you can find it there very often because it enhances the rhythm. And I don’t know why out of all these musicians I was associated with it. There was an article in the English magazine Kerrang! in the first half of the 80s where they basically only wrote about that. And maybe that was the start why people started saying, ok, Tom Warrior does this. But I’m not the inventor of it. I have to be honest and fair. I’m not the inventor of it. It existed maybe 15 years before I even created music. Listen to James Brown, for example. But yeah, here I am. And when I’m dead, I’ll be remembered like that [laughs]. 

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