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“Cycles”
Head>>Fake
2003 — Live In The Area of Prague
Czech Republic @ Club Lucerna 
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“Cycles” (audio) is a song Will and Doug performed in 2003, at a popular nightclub in Prague, Czech Republic. Live “In The Area of Prague” was a recording of that night’s show at the Lucerna Music Bar in Prague, filmed and proposed by Petr Tomaides, a local Czech filmmaker. The production and release of the DVD were handled by Dude Records (a subdivision of Echo Beach), in conjunction with Wimbish’s NovaSound. Direction credits included Maťo Mišík and Petr Soukup.

ON THE RECORD — Herb Alpert Colors, Jungle>>Funk with Vinx (Vincent De Jean Parrette), and Head>>Fake Sound System, the band’s solo record. 

(((VIDEO))) — “The Way You Move” was recorded in 2005, at Howlin’ At The Moon, a nightclub in New Orleans, Louisiana. Will and Doug (HEAD>>FAKE) often invited guests to join them onstage, calling such performances “HEAD>>FAKE + 1.” At Howlin’ At The Moon, Doug and Will were playing a show to benefit the city’s public school system, that was still struggling to recover from the damage of Hurricane Katrina. For this show, Bernie Worrell, a friend and legendary P-Funk keyboardist, was the +1.

Head>>Fake Creation — When Vernon Reid decided to take a hiatus from Living Colour, Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish (Living Colour’s rhythm section) stayed together, playing out as HEAD>>FAKE, a drum-bass, dub duo, they called a “sound system,” rather than a band. They were a sort of electric wall of sound, bigger than expected when just “looking.” Doug frequently described them, calling out from the stage, “JUST TWO GUYS. NEW MUSIC FOR A NEW GENERATION.”
HEAD>>FAKE often welcomed longtime friends and collaborators to join them onstage, those times calling themselves “HEAD>>FAKE +1.

+1s included:
Vinx (Jungle Funk) #1+1 
Herb Alpert (Tijuana Brass)
Bernie Worrell (Funkadelic)
David Sancious (E-Street Band)
Max Lilja (Apocalyptica)
Eric Gales (Guitar)

“Torn”
Head>>Fake + Eric Gales
2016 — Live Session, Hobokken, NJ
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“Swamp”
Eric Gales + Head>>Fake
2016 — Live Session, Hobokken, NJ
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“I’m A Funkadelic”
Garrett Shider
2018 — I’m A Funkadelic
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“Cause We Ended As Lovers”
Eric Gales (wiki)
w/ Matteo Mancuso (wiki)
February 18, 2026
 Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina
Eric Gales joined Matteo Mancuso’s set as a special guest, performing a cover of the Jeff Beck classic (written by Stevie Wonder) along with other tracks like “Going Down.”
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“Pass It Around”

2008 — Doug Wimbish sound check before a Head>>Fake (+ Bernie Worell) show in New Orleans at Howlin’ at The Moon (2008).

For Will and Doug, after Living Colour’s “end,” it was Herb Alpert who called first, wanting their ambient sound for his new (1996) record, Colors. Alpert had met Will earlier (funeral), and knowing that he and Doug were on hiatus with Living Colour, he thought to take the opportunity to bring Head>>Fake’s distinct sound to a record he was playing for a “new” Millennium. After Colors release, it was clear Alpert’s decision to recruit Will and Doug was as good as it was bold. Doug and Will’s influence is unmistakeable, and listening, one can hear that Alpert went along, willingly, for the ride … wherever Will and Doug (one of Rock N Roll’s finest rhythm sections) wanted to take him.

“The Look Of Love”
Herb Alpert
Colors
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Herb Alpert (Colors)
w/ Will Calhoun and

Doug Wimbish (1999)
Trippy Notes for Bass (1999)

Doug Wimbish
Jungle Funk (1998)

Vinx de Jon Parette
CinemaSonics (2008)

Colors (REVIEW) — It would be easy for the former Tijuana Brassman and founder of A&M to just rest on his career achievements or just make music to pass the time, but instead, the 60-something trumpeter rings in with one of the year’s most remarkable jams.

Alpert’s recent output has ranged from the heart of smooth jazz (Second Wind, produced by Jeff Lorber) to the fiery Latin (Passion Dance), but here the muse takes him to the mystical world of studio-bred trip-hop. Working with multi-instrumentalists and producers Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish, Alpert surrounds his muted trumpet with hypnotic vibes and ambiences — some of which seem to drift into the sonic atmospheres, others bred from thick machine generated exotic percussion textures percolating over throbbing urban bass grooves.

While ethereal experimentation with tons of cool studio equipment and sonic possibilities seems to be the general philosophy, he hasn’t forgotten his Latin roots. The opening track, “Libertango,” features a lighthearted horn melody drifting over a driving, ambient bass, percussion clicks, and the galloping flamenco flavors of Wimbish’s acoustic guitar, all wrapped up in a dramatic synth orchestral sweep. “Dorita” centers Bernard Fowler‘s Spanish vocals amidst a wacky swirl of pitter patter and marching percussion, spacey sound effects, exotic soundscaping, moody retro keyboards, and Alpert’s catchy, laid-back melody.

Bridging past and present, Alpert approaches Burt Bachrach’s “The Look of Love” as if it were a Miles Davis/Brian Eno collaboration, his smoky horn enhanced by his wife Lani Hall‘s breathy vocals. He also covers himself with a new hip-hop shuffle arrangement of his popular early-’80s gem, “Magic Man.” Older and wiser than either Rick Braun or Chris Botti, Alpert gives the genre’s two top horn guns a powerful run for their smooth jazz money.

Herb Alpert
Colors
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“The Look Of Love“
Burt Bacharach
1967 — instrumental
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“The Look Of Love“
Dusty Springfield
1967 — Single
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