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SOULTRAIN (1971)
WATTSTAX (1972) RICHARD PRYOR
Isaac Hayes
List of American films of 1973
Watts Riots
Soul to Soul
STUDIO 54
54 (Movie) TrailerStudio 54 Documentary
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)
Saturday Night Fever Trailer
Saturday Night Fever (VH1) Behind The Music
1976— FUNKANOVA
Wood Brass & Steel
A FUNKY KIND OF FUSION
OriginalNoise.Org
Wood Brass & Steel — A Dance/Funk band, playing small clubs in and around its home, Hartford, Connecticut.
New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston, and north into New England.
Wood Brass & Steel had signed with a small label called Turbo Records, one of many such companies under the tight-fisted control of Joe Robinson and his wife, Sylvia.
The Robinsons had always struggled to make their living in the music business. Sylvia, a recognized singer (“Pillow Talk”) and stage performer(Mickey & Sylvia). Then, there was Joe, the intimidating “owner” of the “business,” who was partnered with less-than-honorable characters, including Morris Levy, to help “control” the business, and “enforce” the Sugar Hill company rules.
It hadn’t been easy, but the Robinsons always had the talent to recognize the talent in whatever “crowd” of the day. 1979 — The Day The Robinsons recognized the value of what would be called Hip-Hop, and they recognized the Wood Brass & Steel Rhythm Section (of which they already “controlled”) as having the talent to create the foundational architecture for their new musical “idea.” The couple had decided that Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, and Keith Leblanc would be the house band in their (business) plan to make records of the new rhythm and rhyme music they heard being played in the parks in and around New York City.
The China Syndrome (1979)
The China Syndrome premiered in the U.S. on March 16, 1979. In Pennsylvania, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident occurred 12 days later on March 28, 1979
1979 — HIP HOP HAPPENS
• HIP HOP HAPPENS / SUGAR HILL RECORDS
• SUGARHILL GANG “RAPPERS DELIGHT” (SOUL TRAIN)
“The Message”
“White Lines” (Don’t Don’t Do It)
b/ Melle Mel & The Furious Five (1983)
After “The Message,” “White Lines” was another important Hip Hop anthem, Melle Mel’s warning of the dangers of cocaine.
“White Lines” (video)
w/ Spike Lee, Laurence Fishburne
Sugar Hill House Band
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald (guitar)
Keith Leblanc (drums)
Doug Wimbish (bass)
“THE FIRST GIG AT HARLEM WORLD,
THAT WAS DEEP.”
— Doug Wimbish
“Most Memorable Stage Performance”
w/ The Sugarhill Gang (1980)
“Cavern”
by Liquid Liquid (New York City)
• I WANT MY NAME BACK “RAPPER’S DELIGHT” (DOC.)
• WIMBASH 2013
1980 — GOING TO NEW YORK CITY
Little Annie
“Strange Love” b/ Little Annie
John Lennon Murdered (1980)
Stevie Salas
Basquiat (1996)
The Radiant Child (documentary) Trailer
Sid And Nancy (1986)
The Police (1980)
Walt Disney World
@ The Future World Cafeteria
Space Mountain / Roxanne
Absence Of Malice (1981) MIAMI
1982 — GOING TO NEW YORK
TIME MAGAZINE PICTURE DEPARTMENT SUMMER
• WildStyle (1982)
• Style Wars (1982)
• Beat Street (1984)
“Unity”
w/ Afrika Bambaataa and James Brown
“No Sell Out” (Malcolm X)
Shootout On Sugar Hill
1984 — “No Sell Out” (MALCOLM X)
b/ Keith Leblanc
Malcolm X speeches cut to Keith, the drummer’s beats.
Keith vs. The Robinsons (Sugar Hill Records)
KLB w/ Malcolm’s widow (Betty Shabazz) “The Queen”
vs. Joe & Sylvia Robinson, the Sugar Plantation “owners.”
(Federal Court) Newark, New Jersey
Across the George Washington Bridge (GW)
• Do the Right Thing (1985)
“Living In America” b/ James Brown (1985)
“Afraid Of Malcolm” b/ Garland Jeffreys
DAVID BOWIE (as Andy Warhol in “Basquiat”)
Peter Max “Statues Of Liberty”
VELVET UNDERGROUND
(Banana Cover)
White Light/White Heat (1968)
The Velvet Underground (1969)
Loaded (1970)
THE DOORS (1991)
The Factory w/ Crispin Glover as Andy Warhol
PLATOON (1986) — Platoon was the first of three films Stone has made about the Vietnam War:
each dealing with different aspects of the war.
Midnight Express (1977) — Drugs In Turkey
Scarface (1983)
Year of the Dragon (1985)
• After Hours (1985)
BILL HICKS
— Beat Street
Caption for Beat Street
Bernard Fowler
Bernard Fowler
North Carolina
Street Basketball
Bacon and Eggs for breakfast
Beat Street (1984)
Beat Street (trailer)
Beat Street (Roxy Battle)
— dave.
Working Girl? (Downtown)
Learning to skate (cross over) Step to the beat, don’t snuffle. The Roxy (Roller Rink by Day) Hip Hop (B-Boy Dance Club by Night) Bernard Fowler Beat Street Preacher.
• Paradise Garage
• THE LOFT / DAVID MANCUSO
• Six Degrees Of Separation
1988 — Colors
An American police action crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, and directed by Dennis Hopper. The film takes place in the gang (ridden) neighborhoods of latre 1990s Los Angeles: South Central Los Angeles, Echo Park, Westlake and East Los Angeles. The film centers on Bob Hodges (Duvall), an experienced Los Angeles Police Department C.R.A.S.H. officer, and his rookie partner, Danny McGavin (Penn), who try to stop the gang violence between the Bloods, the Crips, and Hispanic street gangs. Colors relaunched Hopper as a director 19 years after Easy Rider, and inspired discussion over its depiction of gang life and gang violence.
1991 — New Jack City
An American action crime film based upon an original story and screenplay by Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael Cooper, and directed by Mario Van Peebles. This is the latter’s directorial debut, and Van Peebles also co-stars in the film. The film stars Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, and Bill Cobbs. The film was released in the United States on March 8, 1991.
Wesley Snipes plays Nino Brown, a rising drug lord in New York City during the crack epidemic. Ice-T plays Scotty Appleton, a detective who vows to stop Nino’s criminal activity by going undercover to work for Nino’s gang.
• MALCOLM X (1992)
• BILL HICKS / POST PANDEMIC EASTER
• 1992 — BACK TO NYC
Teddy’s Sexy Romp, David Letterman, Mick Jones, Martin Mull, Bruce Helander. SoHo Gallery, Mull’s Opening, Mexican Restaurant after, Downtown, Dennis Leary, late night, Compared to Bill, The Attitude, No Substance, Making fun of a French accent saying the word Croissant. Freshly Fallen snow. 3AM.
b/ David Bowie w/Adrian Belew (1990)
HURRICANE ANDREW
— August 24, 1992
JFK (1991)
— Bill Hicks (JFK Assassination) “No Fucking Way”
“Oh, come on Bill. Let it go. It was a long time ago.”
“Okay, and I guess you’ll forget about Jesus too, as long as we’re talking shelf life, here.”
Bill Hicks
•BILL HICKS (2020) POST PANDEMIC EASTER
• BILL HICKS (1988) BURNING ISSUES
Dangerous (1990)
Relentless (1992)
Arizona Bay (1993)
Rant In E Minor (1993)
Annex Houston (1986)
— bootleg video of an early Laff Stop performance.
Sane Man (1989).
— first official video recorded Bill Hicks show.
Dangerous (1990).
— first official live recording of Bill in a small-crowd, late night NYC (comedy) club.
Ninja Bachelor Party (1991)
— (extremely) low-budget, family-movie-like comedy film produced by, and starring, Bill and his high school friends Kevin Booth and David Johndrow.
One Night Stand (1991)
A half-hour performance recorded for the HBO stand-up series.
Relentless (1992)
— In the minds of many friends and believers, Bill’s second album stands as his best.
— The Relentless (video) performance was recorded at the Centaur Theatre, the night after the end of the annual Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Revelations (1992)
— Video of a 1992 (November) performance at the Dominion Theatre, London, England.
Arizona Bay (1993)
— Filled with his distaste for Los Angeles and the Television Industry, Bill’s third album, featured soft (sometimes sweet) guitar interludes between live, stand up performances.
Rant In E Minor (1993)
— Filled with his distaste for Los Angeles and the Television Industry, Bill’s third album, featured soft (sometimes sweet) guitar interludes between live, stand up performances.
TV Experience
David Letterman, and Bill’s Late Night, Abusive Relationship
A Day In The Life of Bill (CBS) 48 Hours
Complete David Letterman (Late Night) Performances
Flying Saucer Tour (Vol./1/2/3)
— UnEarthed For Posthumous Chuckles
Volume One?
Does this indicate there are more on the way?
We can only hope.
Nixon (1995)
World Trade Center, (2006)
W.(2008)
— Stone wrote and directed the George W. Bush biopic, chronicling the former President’s childhood, relationship with his father, struggles with his alcoholism, and rediscovering his Christian faith.
The story continues until the Iraq Invasion (2003).
Ani DiFranco (Q&A) — “It’s A Mad Mad Mad World” (2003)
@ Hollywood Circle
Righteous Babe Records (1989)
“Terrorism”
— Head>>Fake (2005)
Will Calhoun / Doug Wimbish
“Danger”
— Doug Wimbish (2008)
Linda Zacks (Twin Towers Painting)
DOWNTOWN NEW YORK CITY
NEW YORK CITY / DOWNTOWN
New York (1989)
Richard Belzer
WALK ON THE WILDSIDE
Transformer (1972)
“New York Time” b/ BERNARD FOWLER
w/Tack>>Head @ Highline Ballroom (2009)
Paradise Garage
Beat Street (1984)
The Roxy
They Only Come Out At Night
JOHN ZORN
“Naked City”
WEEGEE
They Only Come Out At Night
VERNON REID — 1980
“The Message”
b/ Melle Mel (Not) Grandmaster Flash
“White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)“
b/ Melle Mel & The Furious Five (1983)
After “The Message,” “White Lines” is another important Hip Hop anthem in Melle Mel’s (Sugar Hill) catalogue. Many consider “White Lines” (a warning of the danger of cocaine) to be Mel’s “signature” tune.
Sugar Hill house band (Doug Wimbish/bass) covered a song called “Cavern” by a New York City band called Liquid Liquid.
“No Sell Out” b/ Keith Leblanc (Malcolm X)
Malcolm X speeches cut to Keith, the drummer’s beats. (1984)
vs. Sugar Hill Records
w/ Betty Shabazz (Malcolm’s widow) “The Queen”
vs. Joe & Sylvia Robinson (Federal Court)
Newark, New Jersey
Across the George Washington Bridge (GW)
“I Was Afraid Of Malcolm”
b/ Garland Jeffreys
Style Wars (1983)
Wild Style (1982)
•After Hours (1987)
Do The Right Thing b/ Spike Lee (1989)
BLADE RUNNER (1982)
FLASHDANCE (1983)
TOP GUN (1986)
PLATOON (1986)
Corey Glover
BROADCAST NEWS
WALL STREET
AFTER HOURS (1987)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
Sex, Lies, and Video Tape
1988 — The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988), covers the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of 1987–1988.
Twin Peaks
The Candidate
Ready To Wear (1994)
1998 — The Decline of Western Civilization III (1998), chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in the late 1990s. The film features a mix of live concert footage and interviews with established heavy metal performers such as Lemmy, Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, and W.A.S.P.. Several unsigned club bands are also prominently featured, such as Odin and Seduce.
Twin Peaks
The Candidate
