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Roger Troutman
Updated on Sep 30, 2022
Genres Funk, Electro, G-funk
Role Composer
Siblings Larry Troutman
Labels Warner Bros., Reprise
Music group Zapp (1977 – 1999)
Name Roger Troutman
Born November 29, 1951Hamilton, Ohio, United States (1951-11-29)
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments Vocals, talk box, guitar, keyboard, bass guitar, harmonica, vocoder
Associated acts Zapp, Roger & the Human Body, Prince, Funkadelic, Shirley Murdock, 2Pac, Parliament, A.B. Quintanilla y los Kumbia Kings, EPMD, DJ Quik, The Crusaders, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tech N9ne, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Spice 1, Jesse Rae
Died April 25, 1999, Dayton, Ohio, United States
Children Brent Lynch, Ryan Stevens, Larry Gates, Taji J. Troutman
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Roger Troutman (November 29, 1951 – April 25, 1999), also known mononymously as Roger, was an American singer, composer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and the founder of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the funk movement and heavily influenced west coast hip hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music over the years. Troutman was well known for his use of the talk box, a device that is connected to an instrument (frequently a keyboard, but most commonly a guitar) to create different vocal effects. Roger used a custom-made talkbox—the Electro Harmonix "Golden Throat," as well as a Moog Minimoog and later in his career a Yamaha DX100 FM synthesizer. As both band leader of Zapp and in his subsequent solo releases, he scored a bevy of funk and R&B hits throughout the 1980s.
30 mn with roger troutman zapp live bet in 1989
Early career Parliament Funkadelic and Zapp
Solo career and production work on other artists
Career re emergence
Early career: Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp
Born in Hamilton, Ohio, Roger was the fourth of ten children. He was a late-arriving member of Parliament-Funkadelic and played on the band's final Warner Brothers' album The Electric Spanking of War Babies. The first band Roger was in was The Crusaders; however, they are not to be confused with the jazz group featuring Joe Sample and Wilton Felder. The band played in Cincinnati and recorded a single, "Busted Surfboard"/"Seminole". The band members were Rick Schoeny, Roy Beck, Dave Spitzmiller, and Denny Niebold. Troutman had formed various other bands with his four brothers, including Little Roger and the Vels and Roger and the Human Body. In 1977, he and the Human Body issued their first single, "Freedom". Within two years, Roger and his brothers were discovered by George Clinton, who signed the newly christened Zapp to his Uncle Jam Records label in 1979. The original line-up consisted of Roger Troutman, Larry Troutman, Lester Troutman, Terry Troutman, Gregory Jackson and Bobby Glover. Zapp made their professional television debut on the first and only Funk Music Awards show. A year later, as Uncle Jam Records was forced to close, Zapp signed to Warner Bros. Records and released their self-titled debut, which yielded the Bootsy Collins produced & Troutman-composed hit, "More Bounce to the Ounce." The song peaked at number two on the Billboard Soul Singles chart in the fall of 1980. The debut album reached the top 20 of the Billboard 200 and firmly launched Zapp and Roger into the national spotlight.
Between 1980 and 1985, Zapp released the gold-selling albums Zapp, Zapp II, Zapp III and The New Zapp IV U and released top ten R&B hit singles such as "Be Alright", "Dance Floor", "I Can Make You Dance", "Heartbreaker", "It Doesn't Really Matter" - which was a tribute to black artists of the past and present, and the Charlie Wilson and Shirley Murdock-assisted funk ballad, "Computer Love". Zapp's hit making magic faded shortly after the release of their fifth album, Zapp Vibe, in 1989. Throughout Zapp's tenure, the original lineup grew to around fifteen. In 1993, the group scored their biggest-selling album when a compilation album, Zapp & Roger: All the Greatest Hits, was released, featuring remixed cuts of Roger's solo singles and featuring the new single "Slow and Easy" as well as "Mega Medley", which put together a collection of the group's hit singles in a remix. The album sold over two million copies giving the collective their most successful album to date. After the untimely death of Roger and Larry, the remaining brothers have stepped forward with the album, Zapp VI: Back By Popular Demand in 2002.
In 1981, upon the fast-paced success of Zapp's first album, Troutman cut his first solo album, The Many Facets of Roger. Featuring his frenetic funk cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", the song exploded to number one on the R&B singles chart helping the album sell over a million copies. The album also featured the hit, "So Ruff, So Tuff", which was similar to "More Bounce..." as were most Roger/Zapp singles during this time. In 1984, Troutman issued his second solo album, The Saga Continues..., which featured the singles "Girl Cut It Out", "It's in the Mix" - which was dedicated to Soul Train and its host Don Cornelius in one verse, and a cover of Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour", which featured gospel group The Mighty Clouds of Joy. In 1987, Troutman scored his most successful solo album with Unlimited!, which featured the massive hit, "I Want to Be Your Man", which rose to number one R&B and number three on the Billboard Hot 100.
Alongside his successful careers as Zapp member and solo star, Troutman also became a hands-on producer and writer for other artists including Shirley Murdock, whose 1985 platinum debut featured the Roger-produced hit, "As We Lay". He also produced for Zapp member Dale DeGroat on his solo efforts. In 1988, Troutman made an appearance on Scritti Politti's third album Provision, providing talk box vocals on the songs "Boom There She Was" and "Sugar and Spice". Three years later, Troutman released his final solo album with Bridging the Gap, featuring the hit "Everybody (Get Up)". He worked with Elvis Costello as a guest appearance on 1991's Mighty Like a Rose on the song "The Other Side of Summer". In 1989, NBA Entertainment selected Troutman among a variety of renowned candidates to record a tribute song called "I'm So Happy" for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who at the time was in the final year of his record-breaking, 20-year career in the NBA.
Career re-emergence
After the release of All the Greatest Hits, Roger Troutman existed primarily by touring. Troutman was starting to be featured on hip-hop songs by this time agreeing to appear on rapper Snoop Dogg's 1993 debut, Doggystyle. In 1995 he was featured on Eazy-E's posthumous album Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton on the last track, "Eternal E", along with DJ Yella. The same year Troutman agreed to enlist vocals on 2Pac and Dr. Dre's single, "California Love". The song became Troutman's biggest-selling and most successful single to date as the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over two million copies giving Troutman a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. This success led to Troutman being included in a top ten R&B hit cover of The Persuaders' "Thin Line Between Love and Hate", which he produced and enlisted the talk box alongside Shirley Murdock and R&B group H-Town. The A Thin Line Between Love and Hate movie soundtrack also included a club hit "Chocolate City". In 1998, he appeared in a remix version of Sounds of Blackness' "Hold On (A Change Is Coming)", which sampled Zapp's "Doo-Wah Ditty (Blow That Thang)", Roger's last recorded guest feature was on the song "Master of The Game" from rapper Kool Keith's Album Black Elvis/Lost In Space.
On the morning of April 25, 1999, Roger Troutman was found shot and critically wounded outside his northwest Dayton recording studio around 7 a.m. According to doctors, the 47-year-old had been shot several times in the torso and listed in critical condition. Roger died during surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital and Health Center. Roger's brother Larry was found dead in a car a few blocks away with a single gunshot wound to the head. A pistol was found inside the vehicle, which matched the description of a car leaving the scene of Roger Troutman's shooting according to witnesses. The gun found with Larry Troutman also matched the one that fired the fatal shots at Roger, suggesting that Larry had shot Roger and then taken his own life. With both men dead, and with no known witnesses, the specific motive for the attack remains unknown. Friends and family could only speculate that the source of a dispute was a rising tension between the brothers over issues such as Larry's financial troubles and Roger's desire to dissolve their business partnership.
Troutman, who lived 24 years in the Dayton area, was survived by 6 sons, 6 daughters, and 9 grandchildren.
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Research Article| June 15 1986
Bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced interferon-gamma production: roles of interleukin 1 and interleukin 2.
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J Vilcek
Copyright © 1986 by American Association of Immunologists
J Immunol (1986) 136 (12): 4525–4530.
https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.136.12.4525
J Le, J X Lin, D Henriksen-DeStefano, J Vilcek; Bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced interferon-gamma production: roles of interleukin 1 and interleukin 2.. J Immunol 15 June 1986; 136 (12): 4525–4530. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.136.12.4525
Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to produce interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). Monocytes play a mandatory accessory role in this process, because purified T lymphocytes failed to produce IFN-gamma in response to LPS and the addition of 2% monocytes to T cell cultures resulted in an optimal LPS-induced IFN-gamma production. IFN-gamma production was abolished in the presence of monoclonal antibodies specific for HLA-DR antigen. Addition of exogenous interleukin 2 (IL 2) markedly enhanced IFN-gamma secretion by PBMC induced with LPS. The addition of anti-Tac antibody specific for IL 2 receptors abrogated IFN-gamma production, suggesting that an interaction of IL 2 with IL 2 receptors was involved. By using a specific antibody binding assay, LPS was shown to amplify IL 2 receptor expression on PBMC, whereas exogenous IL 2 showed only a negligible enhancing effect on the expression of its own receptors. Interleukin 1 (IL 1), a product of LPS-stimulated monocytes, potentiated IL 2-induced IFN-gamma production in the absence of LPS. Neither IL 1 nor IL 2 alone induced IFN-gamma production in purified T lymphocyte cultures. When added together, however, substantial levels of IFN-gamma were induced. An enhanced IL 2 receptor expression on T cells was also demonstrated as a result of the combined action of IL 1 and IL 2. These results suggest that induction of IFN-gamma by LPS is due mainly to the generation of IL 1 and an enhanced expression of IL 2 receptors.

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In 1923, Waco physician Dr. Kenneth Hazen Aynesworth presented to Baylor University several hundred items from his personal collection of materials on Texas history. The gift has stimulated the growth of a premier research collection on Texas and Texas-related subjects which document the development of this region from the early North American explorations to the present.
Since its modest one-room beginning, The Texas Collection has grown to three floors of the Carroll Library, and four floors in Morrison Constitution Hall. The Texas Collection contains over 132,000 volumes, more than 3,000 current serial subscription titles, and over 13,000 audio-visual pieces. In addition, there are over 1.4 million photographs, over 3,600 oral history tapes/transcripts, approximately 15,000 maps, and over 2,500 archival collections.
The Texas Collection is the only private library in the Regional Historical Resource Depository program of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The Texas Collection serves a diverse universe of researchers ranging from the Baylor community to public scholars, history fair participants and journalists. The Texas Collection regularly receives inquiries and visits from independent scholars and organization representatives interested in Texas culture.
In 2013, The Texas Collection celebrated its 90th anniversary. For more details about the history of The Texas Collection, please enjoy this online exhibit.
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Abstract. The TRANSCAR ionospheric model was extended to account for the convection of the magnetic field lines in the auroral and polar ionosphere. A mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian 13-moment approach was used to describe the dynamics of an ionospheric plasma tube. In the present study, one focuses on large scale transports in the polar ionosphere. The model was used to simulate a 35-h period of EISCAT-UHF observations on 16-17 February 1993. The first day was magnetically quiet, and characterized by elevated electron concentrations: the diurnal F2 layer reached as much as 1012m-3, which is unusual for a winter and moderate solar activity (F10.7=130) period. An intense geomagnetic event occurred on the second day, seen in the data as a strong intensification of the ionosphere convection velocities in the early afternoon (with the northward electric field reaching 150mVm-1) and corresponding frictional heating of the ions up to 2500K. The simulation used time-dependent AMIE outputs to infer flux-tube transports in the polar region, and to provide magnetospheric particle and energy inputs to the ionosphere. The overall very good agreement, obtained between the model and the observations, demonstrates the high ability of the extended TRANSCAR model for quantitative modelling of the high-latitude ionosphere; however, some differences are found which are attributed to the precipitation of electrons with very low energy. All these results are finally discussed in the frame of modelling the auroral ionosphere with space weather applications in mind.
How to cite: Blelly, P.-L., Lathuillère, C., Emery, B., Lilensten, J., Fontanari, J., and Alcaydé, D.: An extended TRANSCAR model including ionospheric convection: simulation of EISCAT observations using inputs from AMIE, Ann. Geophys., 23, 419-431, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-23-419-2005, 2005.


Since the early days of cinema the creation of artificial life with its various implications has been a popular topic on screen. Amongst the large number of films that deal with the theme of androids Bryan Forbes' "The Stepford Wives" (1975) is noticeable for its focus on questions of gender and the relationship between the sexes. The film is set in a contemporary small suburban town where frustrated husbands have found a special way of dealing with their emancipated wives by replacing them with docile life-like robots. Mixing elements of the thriller and horror genres with farce and comedy "The Stepford Wives" was the first American mainstream film to deal explicitly with Women's Lib. Unlike Ira Levin in his much more ambivalent novel that the film was based on, Forbes and his actors deliberately set out to make a feminist satire, and according to some critics succeeded in producing an important document of second wave feminism which soon acquired cult status. However, it also provoked a number of negative reactions from feminists who were very uncomfortable with a film in which men get away with murdering the female population of an entire town. A closer inspection reveals that the satirical element of the film is indeed not prominent and frequently counteracted, at times facilitating a misogynist rather than a feminist interpretation. This is mainly due to the ending of the film which implies the murderous elimination of the female protagonist. Unlike all other cinematic and literary works that feature androids "The Stepford Wives" shows the successful creation of artificial life which does not backfire. In addition, the film which clearly categorises itself as a thriller and horror movie, and specifically alludes to the tradition of threatened yet strong female characters in these genres, at the same time defies this convention in favour of a seemingly misogynist ending. Thus the way in which "The Stepford Wives" refuses to comply with the traditions of both the android theme and the horror genre, involuntarily serves to undermine its intention as a feminist social satire.


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Nagotko makes record books, goes undefeated in 400, 200 meter dash
Alexandra Boni – The Bucknellian
Katherine Harris , Senior Writer
On Jan. 24 the women's track and field team competed at home to win the Gulden Invitational for the second straight year, easily ousting the field with eight individual wins and two relay wins on the day.
"I was really excited about how the team did overall. Everyone performed competitively and was supportive of one another. It was also a great opportunity to see the freshmen perform and further see what they are capable of. This meet truly showed just how strong the team dynamic is both on and off the track," Kim Nagotko '15 said.
Nagotko once again performed strongly coming off a Patriot League Track Athlete of the week award, with wins in the 400-meter dash (57.11 ECAC) and the 200-meter dash (25.20 ECAC).
"I was pretty happy with my performance this past weekend … That being said, I know there is a lot of room for improvement in each and I look forward to developing the skills needed to be successful in each event," Nagotko said.
Jenn Silvestri '16 also recorded an ECAC qualifying time in the 500 meter race, winning the event in 1:16.55. In the 60-meter hurdles, Kafilat Oladiran '18 earned a top finish for the Bison with a time of 8.91.
The Bison also dominated in the longer distance events. In the 800, Reagan Cerney '17 took first in 2:19.85, followed by Morgan Roche '15 and Grace Loh '17 in second and third. Sarah Chandler '17 earned first place in the 1000-meter run (2:58.92), while Katie Jessee '15 and Christine Bendzinski '18 went one-two in the mile. In the 3000-meter, Kate Scott '17, Deanna Godby '16, and Montana DiPietrantonio '15 swept the top three spots easily for the Orange and the Blue. Meghan Carroll '16 and Brennan Sharkey '18 also took second and third in the 5000-meter run.
In the field events, Jenna Calandro '18 led the way to her second home victory by clearing 11-03.75 in the pole vault. She was followed by teammates Yanelis Mestre '15 and Rebekka Vuojolainen '15 in the second and third spots. Abigail Brundage '16 took third in the shot put for the Bison, and Lauren Hudson '18 earned a third place finish in the high jump to round out the Bison team victory.
On Jan. 30-31 the squad will compete in two separate events: the Bison Open and Multi and the Penn State National Invitational.
"We're about a month away from Patriot Leagues so mainly [we need to work on] just keeping that in mind and staying focused on reaching goals and hitting marks in order to be successful during our championship," Nagotko said.