New
Age
(1979-1999)
“Summer In The City”
Ray Gomez
Volume
1980 —
((( fusion is what? )))
dave.
“Take A Walk On The Wild Side” — Tack>>Head (2009) New York City rehearsal for a show supporting Bernard Fowler’s solo release of “New York Time,” a video for the song that closed his 2007 album, Friends with Privileges.
“Scary Man” — Bernard sings on the vocal version of Doug Wimbish’s “Scary Man.” Described as a James Bond Theme-style orchestration, featured on his 2008 album, CinemaSonics.
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
Larry Levan
Opportunities were eclectic and many for a talented young musician, coming of age at the turn of the 1980s. In the beginning, Bernard was interested in exploring it all, to discover which road would take him on the wildest ride.
((( mixup in clubland)))
Hollywood’s depiction of the B-Boy Culture that had surfaced in the parks and abandoned buildings in and around New York City’s Five Burroughs.
FREE TO THE PUBLIC — After being created under cover of the night, New York City Graffiti shows itself on the subway trains as they emerge, and run across all five New York City Boroughs. Depending upon how you saw it, Graffiti was either an act of vandalism, or a rolling exhibit of fine art. [StyleWars]
“Power”
John Hall — No Nukes
The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future
1982 —
((( funky b-boy )))
“Unity”
James Brown w/ Afrika Bambaataa
Unity (The Third Coming)
1984 — At the time, the new Hip-Hop sound was exerting itself in the streets of New York City, when James Brown and Afrika Bambaataa got together to build an important, musical and generational bridge. “Unity” successfully connected Brown’s original funk, with Bambaataa’s experimental electronics.
((( b-boy funk )))
Keith LeBlanc
1980 (JUST SAY NO)
1981 (MTV RETURN TO SPACE)
1982 (NO NUKES OIL CONCERNS)
1979 — Hip Hop Happens
THE ORIGINAL SUGAR HILL RHYTHM SECTION
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald (guitar)
Doug Wimbish (bass)
Keith LeBlanc (drums)
•Living Colour (discs)
•Tack>>Head (discs)
•Little Axe (discs)
•Bernard Fowler
•On-U Sound (Adrian Sherwood)
“No No No”
*audio — Deep Purple (1971)
((( Fireball )))
Deep Purple
1980s — Just Say No
1980 — Ronald Reagan
1981 — Shuttle
1982 — No Nukes
NYC Central Park June 12, 1982
1983 — No Sell Out
Keith LeBlanc
Malcolm X (12″)
1984 — Keith LeBlanc
w/ Betty Shabazz vs. Sugar Hill Records
((( the original hip-hop beat )))
1984 — BEAT STREET, Herbie Hancock Sound-System Keith LeBlanc (“King Of The Beat”) “NO SELL OUT” (Malcolm X) vs. Sugar Hill Records (Joe and Sylvia Robinson) w/Betty Shabazz.
1985 — Live Aid
Mick Jagger & Tina Turner
Farm Aid
We Are The World
Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones
Artists United Against Apartheid
Miami Vice
Adrian Sherwood, On-U Sound
Fat’s Comet,
Gary Clail
Mark Stewart
Bernard Meets Mick Jagger
She’s The Boss.
Jeff Beck Flash
w/ Jimmy Hall, Rod Stewart, Nile Rodgers and Arthur Baker (Production) Carmine Appice,
1986 — Jeff Beck Flash Jan Hammer, Simon Phillips, Doug Wimbish, Steve Lukather, (TOKYO)
1987 — Living Colour Vivid, Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction, Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien
1988 — The Young Americans
The Second Coming of Mick Primitive Cool The Brothers of Sodom
1989 — Bill Hicks
Viciously Honest (“Patriot”/”American Scream”) “The Gospel According To Bill Hicks” (GQ)
“The Story Of Willie”
King Missile (downtown nyc)
((( apocalyptic opinion )))
sunday
month 11, 1980
vol 11 no 111
Truth Be Told
by Bill Hicks
90s —
1990 — Time’s Up
1991 — Living Colour Lollapalooza (Inaugural) Jane’s Addiction
1992 — Living Colour Biscuits
1993 —
1994 — Living Colour No Dread
1995 —
1996 —
1997 —
1998 —
1999 — It’s Prince’s Party (and he’ll jam if he wants to.)
“Little Red Corvette”
Prince
1983 — 1999
((( timeless )))
1983 —
“Eve Of Destruction”
Barry McGuire
“Eve Of Destruction” (single)
1965 —
((( warning )))
dave
1979 — IRAN & HOSTAGES
11/4/79 — 1/20/81
Jimmy Carter v. Ronald Reagan