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Date: 15 Jul 2024

By: dave hogerty

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The Whole Damn Earth Is Shaking

“Airborne Ranger”
Tack>>Head
The Whole Damn Earth Is Shaking.
((( the fuse )))

dave.

[FROM THE TOP]

“Airborne Ranger”

The Day the Earth Stood Still
9-11 — Living Colour was in the middle of its New Millennium Reunion Tour when two hi-jacked planes crashed into New York City’s Twin Towers.

2001 — Other than that Christmas Week (2000) at CBGB, it had been seven years since Vernon, Corey, Will, and Doug had played together as Living Colour. But after embarking on a 2001 REUNION TOUR, the band picked up where it left off, aggressively and virtuosically expressing its always pointed and viciously honest opinion.

June 26, 2015 — The day the United States Supreme decided that homosexuals had the right to marry. Also that day, Living Colour was playing at the Tupelo Music Hall (Derry, New Hampshire), and during sound check, Vernon suggested, and the band agreed, that “Bi,” a song about sexuality from the 1993 album, Stain, should be included in that night’s set.

December 28, 2001 — Just before Living Colour’s last show of it 2001 reunion tour, the band played Orlando’s House of Blues. “Release the Pressure” featured Doug Wimbish’s mastery of the electric bass guitar. One week later Living Colour would play its last 2001 show at CBGB. Back where it all began.

Release The Pressure was a tune the band had written for what would have been its fourth studio album, but the band split before the record was finished. “Release The Pressure” was released on Pride, a best-of Living Colour release in 1995.

“Funky President”
TACK>>HEAD
2014 — For The Love Of Money
((( Story of a Song )))

dave.

HOPE & PRAYER — A homeless man walking along the Indian River (US1) just south of Melbourne, Florida. Thanksgiving day, 2012. (Did not want a ride.)

HAVANA DAY DREAMING — Bernard Fowler had been a Rolling Stone since the “Steel Wheels” tour in 1989, and had been around the world many times, playing stadiums and arenas in front of audiences numbering in the hundreds of thousands. The difference in 2016, as he stood before 500,000 Rolling Stones fans in Havana, Cuba, was that the half a million residents of the small Caribbean (Communist) Island Island had never seen such a thing. (HAVANA MOON: ROLLING STONES IN CUBA)

FUNKY OBAMA — Just after Barack Obama delivered his first Inaugural, I called to ask Keith LeBlanc if he was watching it. “Of course” he said, “Recording it too.” Two hours later, he sent me a file (MP3) of a James Brown tune (“Funky President”) he and his Tack>>Head bandmates were making as part of the new record they were working on. Two hours and Keith had already cut Barack Obama into the mix. (“NO SELL OUT, MALCOLM X”)

2000 — y2k
Head>>Fake @ CBGB
David Sancious
Living Colour Reunion

2001 — 9-11
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Living Colour
2002 — In The Post Apocalyptic Area
2003 — CollideOscope
Tack>>Head (Reunion)

“Self Evident“
Ani DiFranco
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
2003 —
((( song )))

“Flying“
Living Colour
2003 —
((( song )))

2003 —
2004 —
2005 —
2006 —
2007 —
2008 —

2004 — “We’re An American Band”
Asylum Street Rehearsals
@ Sully’s Pub & Tiki Bar
Hartford, Connecticut

Tack>>Head
ALSO:
London @ The Town & Country Club
New York City @ The Ritz (w/ Melle Mel)
Chicago @ The Abbey
San Francisco @

2004 — Champagne & Grits (Little Axe)
2005 — A Bigger Bang (Rolling Stones)
2005 — Rarities 1971–2003 (Rolling Stones)
2006 — Friends With Privileges
Little Axe (Real World Records Sessions)
Shine a Light (Rolling Stones)
2007 — Friends With Privileges
2008 — WimBash 2008

“Dope Fiend”
Bernard Fowler
((( Drug Problems )))

dave.
paintings by Linda Zacks

2009 —
2010 —
2011 —
2012 —
2013 —

“Back In The U.S.S.R.“
Living Colour
Songs For Linda (for Paul McCartney)
2014 —
((( song )))

“Take A Walk On The Wild Side”
Bernard Fowler
2014 — Tack>>Head
((( painted patriots )))

dave.

Patriots

(Top) A Civil War Bugle Corpsman stands on the Washington Mall in a ceremony to dedicate the National Museum of African-American History and Culture (September 24, 2016).

(Above) On the sidewalk in Times Square, a body-painted, “American” model counts the money she earned having her photograph taken with bug-eyed, curious tourists.

2015 —

Memories Can’t Wait”
Papa Was A Rolling Stone Glamour Boys”
Living Colour
Paris
((( 2004 )))

dave.

September 24, 2016 — Living Colour @ Freedom Sounds, concert at the end of the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

2016 — Tack>>Head
“Funky Obama” v. “King Bee”
2017 —
2018 —
2019 —

2020s — The Terror Within (Domestic Concern)
2020 —
2021 —
2022 —
2023 —

“Mother Earth”
Keith LeBlanc
2024 — New Moves (The Chess Project)
((( remixing the blues )))

TACK>>HEAD @ Sweetwater Studios
Martin Scorsese (Blues)

SweetWater Sudios (New York)

2023 — Still Alive and Well — Tack>>Head, all taking time from their individual projects (Living Colour, Rolling Stones, etc.) met in London and with Adrian Sherwood. Adrian, celebrating 40 years of his ON-U Sound record label, did much with his American brothers.

Chess Records revived … an album of classics reinterpreted by a supergroup.”

— The New Yorker

FOR YOUR GRAMMY CONSIDERATION (Best Contemporary Blues Album) Marshall Chess and Jamar Chess team with producer Keith LeBlanc to reimagine their family’s hallowed Chess Records vault — including favorites by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, and more …

The Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald (guitar)
Doug Wimbish (bass)
Keith LeBlanc (drums)
Bernard Fowler (discography)
Tack>>Head (discography)
Living Colour (discography)
Little Axe (discography)

2024 — For Adrian Sherwood’s party at London’s Jazz Cafe (Town & Country Club), celebrating ON-U SOUND’S 40TH YEAR, all the original Tack>>Head bandmembers took time away from their individual projects (Living Colour, Rolling Stones, Chess Records) to play their English mate’s show.

“What A Wonderful World” (and Time?)
Tack>>Head
((( Keith LeBlanc Dub Mix )))

2024 — To Be Or Not To Be America?

and the beat rolls on.

2025 — The Nazi’s Plan

2026 — ?

“What A Wonderful World” (and Time?)
Tack>>Head
((( Keith LeBlanc Dub Mix )))

dave

[FROM THE TOP]

1995 — “Dope Fiend” Mas Feedback

2002 — At Jazziz, we featured a trend at Blue Note and Verve records to let turntablists and Djs into their archives and allow them to reinterpret the Straight-Ahead classics. Ella Fitzgerald included.

2008 — Bernard put the band (Tack>>Head) together in 2008 to do a tour through Austria and Germany, supporting Friends With Privileges, his 2006 solo album. At the time, he called the band “Bad Dog,” to avoid any confusion with Tack>>Head, and he did the same for a show at the Highline Ballroom in New York City to announce the release of “New York Time,” a video celebrating his hometown. “Stealing” (above) was played that night, before heading back UpTown for an after show party at …

2009 — Tack>>Head
@ The Highline Ballroom (NYC)
“New York Time” by Bernard Fowler

2009 — CinemaSonics

2010 — Bought for a Dollar, Sold for a Dime
Little Axe
2010 —
2011 — Colors (Herb Alpert)
2011 — Tack>>Head The Black Album
2012 — Hot Night Tonight (Barbara Lynn)
2013 — Little AxeStone Cold Ohio
2013 — Best of Material (Material)
2014 — For The Love Of Money

BLUE: THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN
The Original Sin
1979 — 1999

Tack>>Head (tack>>head discography)
Living Colour (living>>colour discography)
Little Axe (little>>axe discography)

1999 — Michael Hutchence (Michael Hutchence)
1999 — Colors (Herb Alpert)
1999 — Prince & The Color Purple
It’s His Party, and He’ll Jam If He Wants To.