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MississippiRed said:Big Brother Omowale....I had to re-read this.....you did say Don Cherry is your cousin right.......The Don Cherry.....well hell......now he was an innovator..........yeah I'm a lot like you ...music is my passion...I love it with every fiber of my being....good music gives me chill bumps man......it trips me out an actual physical manifestion of love ...........yeah I almost had to love the Blues and Jazz......my across the street neighbor growing up was a man named Otis Smith....he was also a trumpeter and played some evenings in his bedroom window...man I can still here that trumpet dude was beautiful......he played with a group called Hezekiah and the House Rockers and at times with his own no name quintet......then my around the block neighbor was the Jones family......Olu's Mama and Daddy...I used to cut their grass in the summer for change and met Nassir before he blew up when he came down 1 summer..he didn't want to hang out with us though ....but it's all love we weren't bout nothing then anyway..........
Therious I think your view of the History of Hiphop is a little off ....but that's cool......just dig a little deeper bruh..
Isaiah....don't tell me you got hit up because you like live music.......and you know bout the Dirty Dozen, Rebirth and Secondlinin.....man o man you ain't no rookie... .....next you gon tell me you a Wild Tchoupitoula, Fi-yi-yi , or Congo Nation.....nah you gotta be with my folk...Wild Magnolias..."Indian!
"(Tell yo' story!)
Indian from Handa Wild Magnol-ba (tell)
Said uptown rulers and downtown, too
Said-a Wild Magnolia's got Injun blues!"
Yeah Big Brother Omowale...Kraftwerk....now that's a name I haven't heard in a while...Trans Europe Express....LOL....
MississippiRed
"I got a letter this mornin how do you reckon it read it said hurry hurry the gal you love is dead"
Yo, Sip, you and O got a brother pumped up with all this Black Music history! But, yeah, when I first started posting at Destees, these younguns, Mr. T., and Manasiac grabbed me up in my collar, and told me that my time had come, gone, and goodbye...(smile!) Called me everything but a old gray-headed fogey when I started talking about the power of live instruments, and how we had lost that "sound" in Black Music because we no longer prized their use...(smile!)
But seriously, I love REAL music, because I came up with it all around me... In church, in the streets, and of course, on vinyl and the radio... This ish! they're doing now is the ODD stuff...(smile!) And yeah, I've heard The Dirty Dozen, the Neville's, Kermit and the Barbecue Swingers, and the Rebirth Band, and love 'em... Also, do you remember Bamboula, and them??? Heard them too!(smile!) But my first love is probably tradtional golden-age Gospel, because my moms didn't allow nothing else played in her house... Dixie Hummingbirds was from her state, and so was Clara Ward's mom before she came to Philadelphia... Archie Brownlee and the Mississippi Five Blind Boys, and Clarence Fountain and the Bama Boys(smile!) That's what I grew up with...
The musical director in my church was a brother from HONDURAS, and he got me interested in African percussion, the drums, the chekeres, the cowbells(agogos), claves, and so forth... African Americans once knew RHYTHM... I don't know 'bout us now... All we do now is thump, thump, thump, and bob our heads like we got whiplash, or something... No more hustlin', no Lindy hoppin', and all that athletic stuff... Just move ya head back and forth like somebody slappin' you from side to side - LOL!
All love though! Yawl can come on in now and blow no if you want tooooo!(smile!)
Peace!
Isaiah