[ Blue ]
The Original Color of Sin*.
“Sugar Hill Medley”
Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section
1980 —
((( hip-hop anthem)))
Released in 1979, the 12″ single “Rapper’s Delight” launched Hip-Hop as a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon. The opportunistic 15-minute track also revived the career of its producer, Sylvia Robinson, a street-wise R&B veteran whose success left the true pioneers of Rap fuming, almost as much as hollywood’s depiction in the 1984 movie, Beat Street.
Sugar Hill Anthems
The Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald (guitar)
Doug Wimbish (bass)
Keith LeBlanc (drums)
(((( hip-hop originals )))
“Funky Obama”
Tack>>Head
Funky President v King Bee
2009 — Tack>>Head covered James Brown’s “Funky President,” in honor of Barack Obama, being elected the first African American President of The United States.
((( hope? )))
Keith LeBlanc (story of a song)
Keith LeBlanc
Nobody sells denim like Levi’s sells denim, and in 2007, the giant of jeans thought Little Annie’s “Strange Love” was the perfect song to sell its product (SEX).
The Early 1980s was an explosive time for street artists, especially in NYC, and the Tri-State area (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut), on street corners, subway stops, and neighborhood parks, an artistic movement was evolving into what became known as the B-Boy Culture, and what became the Universal Hip-Hop phenomenon.
B-Boy Rising
BEAT STREET (HOLLYWOOD)
MCs (“THE MESSAGE”)
GRAFFITI WRITERS (“STYLE WARS”)
BREAK DANCERS (“WILD STYLE”)
Basquiat was a Manhattan (GRAFFITI) writer of mysterious note, when a chance meeting with POP ART ICON Andy Warholthe art dealer Bruno Bischofberger poet and critic René Ricard, and fellow artist Albert Milo, opened the door into the New York City Art World, who liked the idea of selling a poor, black, little beggar boy. The story also follows Basquiat’s tumultuous relationship with Gina (Claire Forlani) a fellow aspiring artist he meets while she is working as a waitress at a diner he frequents with his friend Benny (Benicio del Toro). Their romance is affected by Basquiat’s affair with the so-called “Big Pink” (Courtney Love), a woman he picks up on the street, and his habitual abuse of heroin.
“Danger”
Doug Wimbish f/Bernard Fowler (vocal)
CinemaSonics
((( urban duress )))
dave.
“Dangerous” / “All Mixed Up” b/ Linda Zachs
“Stealing”
In the Name of The Lord
Bernard Fowler
Tack>>Head at the Highline Ballroom (NYC).
2009 — Bernard put the band together, calling them Bad Dog, and played shows in Austria and Germany in the Fall and Winter of 2008. The next year Bernard released “New York Time” (song/video), and did a one off show at the Highline Ballroom in New York City, Bernard’s hometown.
LIVING COLOUR / COVER
LIVING COLOUR Pt./1 — a vivid start
LIVING COLOUR Pt./2 — post apocalyptic reunion
LIVING COLOUR Pt./3 — back in the USSR
LIVING COLOUR / “who shot ya?”
LIVING COLOUR / SHADE (Sept. 9, 2017)
LivingColour.Com
dave.
“I’m Comin’ On Back To You”
Jackie Wilson
By Special Request
1961 — When asked of his earliest musical memories, Bernard, after 35 years traveling the entire world, remembers most fondly of listening with his mom, to her favorites, Mahalia Jackson and Jackie Wilson.
1970s — Sex Drugs Rock n Roll and Corporate Money.
1970 — Bitches Brew
1971 —
1972 —
1973 —
1974 —
1975 —
1976 —
1977 — Voyager
Pink Floyd Tampa Stadium
WKRP “Animals”
1978 — FM (Movie)
1977 — At the time Annie called herself Annie Anxiety was recording with Crass, and was a familiar character in the legendary NYC bar, home to the day’s most popular musicians, poets, and artists of all kinds. In New York, Annie recorded with Crass as Annie Anxiety, and wenton to work with Coil, Current 93, Swans, Baby Dee, and many others, including, of course, her much-loved collaborations with English dub producer Adrian Sherwood. Annie once in fact lived in a shed at the bottom of Adrian’s garden!
1979 — Hip Hop Happens
Iranian Hostages (11/4/79-1/20/81)
Jimmy Carter
1980 — Ronald Reagan
1980s — Just Say No
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 BeckFlash
w/ Jimmy Hall, Rod Stewart, Nile Rodgers and Arthur Baker (Production) Carmine Appice,
1986 — Jeff BeckFlashJan 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)))
1990 — Duran Duran
1991 — Johnnie Johnson
Bill Hicks (Truth Always Mattered)
1992 — Yoko Ono Obnox
1993 — Living Colour Stain
1994 — Little Axe, Roy Nathanson’s Jazz Passengers
1995 — NicklebagMas Feedback
STEVIE SALAS (WHY SILVER?)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Link Ray
Rod Stewart (Out of Order Tour)
SmithsonianNational Museum of the American Indian
The Living Earth Festival.
Koshi InabaChubby Groove (2017)
1996 — Nicklebag12 Hits and a Bump
Stevie Salas explained why he and Bernard painted their faces silver for the Nicklebag album cover. “Our idea was, in recognition of the obvious racism in the music business, we wanted to present ourselves in the most racially neutral way.
1997 — Bridges of Babylon RS
1998 — No Security RS
1999 — Michael HutchenceMichael Hutchence,
Herb AlpertColors
2000 — Ronnie WoodLive and Eclectic
2001 — The Day The Earth Stood Still
2002 — Forty Licks RS
2003 — Living ColourCollideOscope
2004 — Tack>>Head(Asylum Street Re-hearsals)
Tack>>Head Family Reunion @ Sully’s (Hartford)
Little Axe
2005 —A Bigger Bang RS
2006 —Friends With Privileges
Real World Sessions w/LITTLE AXE
2007 — Bad DogLive In Vienna
2008 — Shine A Light RS
2009 — “New York Time“
((( home again)))
((( video)))
“New York Time”
Bernard Fowler(INTERVIEW)
2009 — NYC HOMECOMING.
Rock N Role Reversal
1990— After the Steel Wheels tour and being asked to join the Rolling Stones as a permanent member, Bernard was back with his Tack>>Head mates to record Strange Things, the band’s second album with Bernard out front as lead singer. Strange Things is the record on which Mick Jagger asked to (and does) sing backup on “Take A Stroll.”
“Sympathy For The Devil”
Bernard Fowler
Inside Out
2021 — Bernard, with his Rolling Stone bandmates’ blessing, Bernard went into the band’s immense archive, looking for songs that were lyrically substantive, and whose words are still relevant and true.
((( the “f” word)))
Sold Your Soul For “Fame”
2017 — Celebrating David Bowie @ Ponte Vedra, Florida
Bernard Fowler (vocals)
Mike Garson (piano / musical director)
Earl Slick (guitar)
Bernard Fowler (discography)
Tack>>Head (discography)
Living Colour(discography)
Little Axe (discography)
Taking Mick Jagger for a Ride
1987 — Mick JaggerPrimitive Cool (Columbia)
w/ Jeff Beck, Simon Phillips
The Brothers of Sodom (w/Joe Satriani, Doug Wimbish, Simon Phillips, Jimmy Rip, Erotic Keys…
1993— Wandering Spirit (Atlantic)
1994 — Little AxeThe Wolf that House Built (Okeh/Wired)
2006— Real World Records 20th Anniversary
Little Axe w/ Peter Gabriel and Robert Plant
Skip McDonald (with his long-time bandmates) was at the Real World Studios on Peter Gabriel’s estate, just outside of London, England. The band was working on what would become Little Axe’s Stone Cold Ohio record. Being that it was Gabriel’s Real World Records’ 20th Anniversary, he asked Skip if he’d close the weekend’s celebratory party with a Little Axe set. Of course Skip agreed, and in the end, Gabriel and friend, Robert Plant, who had been watching the show, decided to take the stage for an hour-long encore that included Genesis and Led Zeppelin favorites. After, Plant asked Skip (Little Axe) to open for him on a (West Coast) American tour he had scheduled later that year.
2007 — Living Colour (Wimbash)
WimBash @ Sully’s Pub & Tiki Bar (Lena’s Pizza)
2008 — CinemaSonics“In The Wimbash Area.”
2009 — Living Colour Chair In The Doorway
Little Annie
Eventually, Basquiat finds himself isolated by his fame, the death of Warhol, and his drug use.
The film ends with a title card informing the audience that Jean-Michel Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27.
Art b/ Shepard Fairy
Tack>>Head Before Bernard
The Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald (guitar)
Doug Wimbish (bass)
Keith LeBlanc (drums)
(((( hip-hop anthems )))
Running For Their Lives
1985 — After Keith had slayed the Sugar Hill Monster, he, Skip, and Doug (his Original Sugar Hill bandmates), fled in fear of the Joe Robinson. It was said that Robinson felt betrayed, and was looking for payback. Everyone knew Robinson always carried a gun, and it was not beyond him to use it. More directly, Robinson demanded that the boys owed him a cut of the money they had earned on their own, after leaving Sugar Hill. Most notable (and profitable) were the Miami Vice (soundtrack) with Jan Hammer, and also writing, playing, and producing the era-changing Artists United Against Apartheid, including the anthem “Sun City,“ and others, Keith with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.
ARTISTS UNITED AGAINST APARTHEID MUSICIANS: Miles Davis, DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Melle Mel, The Fat Boys, Rubén Blades, Bob Dylan, Herbie Hancock, Ringo Starr and his son Zak Starkey, Lou Reed, Run-DMC, Peter Gabriel, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Darlene Love, Bobby Womack, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Jackson Browne and Daryl Hannah (his girlfriend at the time), Bono, George Clinton, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Peter Wolf, Bonnie Raitt, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Jimmy Cliff, Big Youth, Michael Monroe, Peter Garrett, Ron Carter, Ray Barretto, Gil Scott-Heron, Kashif, Nona Hendryx, Pete Townshend, Pat Benatar, Clarence Clemons, Stiv Bators, and Joey Ramone.
Tack>>Head was a band created in the London Underground, with Adrian Sherwood in his On-U Sound laboratory, where he was experimenting with a kind of Electro Punk. And when Keith, who had met Sherwood first, and was aligned with Sherwood’s electronic sound, introduced Skip and Doug (the virtuosos) to Sherwood (the Mad Scientist), it was as if Keith had mixed Mercury with Water. With Sherwood at the controls, like some sort of musical Dr. Frankenstein, was piecing together original Hip-Hop and Electronic Noise, and coming up with an Industrial Funk monters. Tack>>Head set out to rise from the depths and walk all over the world. (ALCHEMY)
THE AMERICAN INVASION HAD BEGUN. Hip-Hop’s founding fathers had come ashore, and made their way to London. They were a jolt, After Midnight, Mad-Scientist laboratory, filled with all forms and matters of musical experimentation. A place where sounds & frequencies mixed and flew free. A place where an Industrial Funk band could feel at home, and be recognized for its virtuosity. Such respect came fast, and from everywhere. From the more sophisticated, educated listener, to so many of the world’s finest and most popular musicians:Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Herb Alpert, Billy Idol (Cyberpunk), Annie Lennox, Carly Simon, Madonna (Erotica), Seal, Al Green, James Brown, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, Joe Satriani, Paul McCartney (Beatles), and Prince. And of course the Rolling Stones (together and each individually), have always, from the beginning has been “family.” On-U Sound, Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Stone Roses, Michael Hutchence (INXS), Massive Attack (TRIP-HOP), Sinead O’Connor, (v.Religion), Apocalyptica, David Sancious
So it was another historic moment in 2004, when TACK>>HEAD (The Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section, Bernard Fowler, and Adrian Sherwood were getting together again, playing a summertime reunion at Sully’s, a small beer bar/pizza joint (Lena’s) on the outskirts of the Hartford Ghetto. (T-Bone’s) Bassist Doug Wimbish was hosting the event. Hartford is his hometown, and with Skip and Keith being Connecticut residents too, the event felt like an after-the-summer-barbecue, FAMILY REUNION.
So there were many excited to hear the band was getting back together for a reunion tour in 2004.
The tour started in bassist Doug Wimbish’s hometown, Hartford, Connecticut. At Sully’s Pub, a small bar/pizza joint, noted in Hartford for 20 years, for being the only “club” that featured live music EVERY NIGHT.
“Danger”
Doug Wimbish f/Bernard Fowler (vocal)
CinemaSonics
((( urban duress )))
dave.
“Dangerous” / “All Mixed Up” b/ Linda Zachs
“Stealing”
In the Name of The Lord
Bernard Fowler
Tack>>Head at the Highline Ballroom (NYC).
2009 — Bernard put the band together, calling them Bad Dog, and played shows in Austria and Germany in the Fall and Winter of 2008. The next year Bernard released “New York Time” (song/video), and did a one off show at the Highline Ballroom in New York City, Bernard’s hometown.
“Midnight Dream”
Little Axe (Skip McDonald)
2007 — Also with Doug Wimbish and Keith LeBlanc, his Sugar Hill Rhythm Section mates. Bad Dog, with Bernard Fowler, making it a continuation of a renewed Tack>>Head.
((( the dark side )))
C Brandon/Redferns (Getty Images)
Little Axe
2017 — Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald
at KOKO, London, England.
Skip McDonald is often ignored when journalists, scholars, and movie makers discuss the long history of the Blues. That’s because few know that McDonald is one of Hip-Hop’s founding fathers, a guitarist (singer/ songwriter) who’s taken the Blues farther than anyone.
A Flower Bloomed In Hell.
“Deep River”
Little Axe
w/ Adrian Sherwood
On-U Sound Live @ The Jazz Cafe
London, England
2017 —
((( blues & hip-hop )))
“Great Heroes”
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald
London Blues
2017 — “The American Negro, who for so long has been a second-class citizen.
((( always active )))
Little Axe
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald (guitar/voice)
Doug Wimbish (bass guitar)
Keith Leblanc (drums)
Bernard Fowler (voice)
Sas Bell (voice)
Kevin Gibbs (voice)
“Are You Glad To Be In America?”
James Blood Ulmer
Are You Glad To Be In America (?)
1980 — As Hip-Hop called out to New York City’s Five Boroughs, Downtown legend Blood Ulmer reminds the B-Boys from where they came.
((( red white & blue)))
UnKnown
Pinocchio Parade (c.1949) — The anonymous photograph that James “Blood” Ulmer chose as the cover for his 7″ (vinyl) single, “Are You Glad To Be In America?.” (1980)
“Goin’ To New York”
James Blood Ulmer
No Escape From The Blues
2003 — After 9-11, Vernon Reid takes Blood Ulmer back to New York City, and Jimi Hendrix Midtown studio.
((( big city blues)))
((( video )))
“Spoonful”
James “Blood” Ulmer w/ Vernon Reid
Live In Paris
2006 — The Vernon Reid/Blood Ulmer collaboration came to the attention of Martin Scorsese, and he made them part of The Blues, his seven-part documentary for PBS.
“ObliGhetto”
A Tribe Called Quest
Inside Out
2021 —
(((long ago)))
“We’re Playing Basketball“
Kurtis Blow
1984 — Beat Street
Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section — Like Motown’s Funk Brothers before them, The New York Times called Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, and Keith LeBlanc (Sugar Hill House Band) the “world’s finest rhythm section,” and no one knew their names.
Before the emergence of Hip-Hop, Skip had played and toured with a number of bands and musicians, including The Entertainers, James Brown, Al Green, The Ohio Players, and Musique, before getting together with Harold Sargent, his old drummer friend from Dayton, and putting their own band (Wood, Brass, & Steel) together.
As far as the road has taken him away from his Gospel and Blues roots, Skip has never lost touch with his roots, from which The Blues grew.
No matter the time or place, Skip’s thoughtful and experimental soul guides him to explore the experimental future of musical sound.
Always knowing how well grounded his is on Earth.
Muddy Watersw/The Rolling Stones
@ The Checkerboard Lounge (Chicago)
November 22, 1981 — In the middle of their American Tour, The Rolling Stones arrived three days early and did a three-night stand at Chicago’s Rosemont Horizon Hotel, before the scheduled show that weekend.
1972 — The Checkerboard Lounge was a Blues Club on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, established in 1972 at 423 E. 43rd St. by L.C. Thurman and Buddy Guy.
1985 — Guy left the partnership and later established Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood.
The Rolling Stones video and live album Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 included the Rolling Stones performing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and members of Muddy Waters’ band.
Long influenced by the Blues in Chicago, the Rolling Stones paid a visit to Buddy Guy’s club, the Checkerboard Lounge, to see Muddy Waters perform. It didn’t take long before Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Ian Stewart were on stage sitting in. Later, the jam was joined by Chicago favorites, Buddy Guy and Lefty Dizz.
It was an impromptu performance that was fortunately captured on film.
Now, restored from the original footage and with sound mixed and mastered by Bob Clearmountain, this amazing Blues night is being made available in an official release for the first time.
JAZZIZ — (Photographs of the Blues Clubs on Chicago’s Southside, including Lefty Dizz.)
(Miami) “Vice”
Melle Mel
w/ The Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section
Miami Vice Soundtrack
1984 —
(((hip-hop in paradise)))
— yT.
Kick Ass Rock N Roll
@ The Orange Bowl
Nov.16, 1989 — Parked on the street in Little Havana. Two second row tickets for the Rolling Stones in the Orange Bowl, where the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami Hurricanes play. Meet at the inflated “Bud” can. Passed out under the Visa banner. $300 Leather Jackets, rather than T-Shirts. Coffee-table, hard-cover, photography books, rather than a paper poster or ad-filled program. Entering the stadium, and looking down toward the mammoth stage in the opposite end zone, we saw Living Colour in the middle of “Cult of Personality,” the last tune in their set. Chuck Leavell, wish it was Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Yes, but it was Chuck taking a solo in …
“That’s Alice to You.” — Alicia
(Young woman at Enriqueta’s coffee window. Little Haiti (Biscayne Blvd. & 36th Street, west one block to 2nd Avenue). New Times new building [Arquitectonica], in Little Haiti, from downtown.
In The Alley(Miami, Florida) — Biscayne Blvd. & 35th St. west to 2nd Ave. COUPLE SHOOTING HEROIN WITH INFANT IN GROCERY CART.
New Times In Miami — Bayfront Park, Freedom Tower, I-95 entanglement, 5th Street Causeway, Sears Building, Miami Herald, Arscht, Hamilton, Al Di Meola, Al’s Dad, Lee Ritenour, Bacardi Tile, Will Calhoun, Robert Redford, Young Arts. Miami Beach Fashion. Boutique. Gay guy, SOBE babe, $50,000, heavy black beads, short, tiny, “cocktail” dress. Soundscape Park, Underground. Design District / Lincoln Road / Miami Light Project … Lincoln Road, Colony Theater, Van Dyke Cafe, Jackie Gleason Theater, Books & Books, Mitch Kaplan, Barbara Kapitman, Herman Leonard, Lenny Kravitz, Laura Kelly, Nancy & Steve (architects), Art Deco Weekend, Candy Kokuris, Century Hotel, Beach Side cut-coral patio, noisy palms, blustery night, Candy with Red Bee Hive Hairdo, Poodle Skirt, Saddle Shoes (50s) Blues singer. Don’t know if its Candy’s “everyday” look. Ron, Mike Seemuth, JP Faber, Andrew and Gail, Deb (photographer with Eastern Airline pilot husband), Pier, Vincent, Dee Dee, Michael & Elaine (surfer and dancer), Miami Light Project, Karen Rabino, Jeannine?, Peter Rabino, Hunter Reno, Cigar & Cocktail, Brian Smith, Easter Meeting, Dan’t Bird Of Paradise, Peter Rabino’s birthday, same as girlfriend, friendly PHISH vs. SOUL ASYLUM argument.
— Miami, Florida
— Rolling Stones
Bernard Fowler had been a Rolling Stone since the “Steel Wheels” tour in 1989, and since then he has been around the world many times, playing in front of hundreds of thousands. The difference in 2016 was the 500,000 Cubans had never seen such a show in Havana. … what was different in 2018, was the 200,000 people he was looking out on, were standing in the middle of Havana, Cuba.
“Little Red Rooster” / “Satisfaction”
THE STONES WERE ALWAYS BLUE
The Rolling Stones
Sympathy for the Devil, and a Lifelong Love of the Blues.
& The Wonderful World of Living Colour
Bernard Fowlerw/ The Rolling Stones
1985— She’s the Boss (Mick Jagger)
1987— Primitive Cool (Mick Jagger)
1989— Steel Wheels (Rolling Stones)
Mick Jagger’s Eye For (American) Talent
“I’m A King Bee”
Bernard Fowler
Tack>>Head
For The Love Of Money
2014 —
((( song)))
2009—Tack>>Head
NEW YORK TIME
Friends With Privileges
@ The Highline Ballroom (NYC)
Bernard Fowlerw/ The Rolling Stones …
1990 —
1991 — Flashpoint (Rolling Stones)
1992 — Tribute to Charlie Parker with Strings (Charlie Watts)
1992 — Slide on This (Ronnie Wood)
1992 — Main Offender (Keith Richards)
1993 — Wandering Spirit (Mick Jagger)
1993 — Warm and Tender (Charlie Watts)
1993 — Slide on Live: Plugged in and Standing (Ronnie Wood)
1993 — Jump Back (Rolling Stones)
1994 — Voodoo Lounge (Rolling Stones)
1995 — Stripped (Rolling Stones)
1996 — Long Ago and Far Away (Charlie Watts)
1997 — Bridges to Babylon (Rolling Stones)
1998 — No Security (Rolling Stones)
1999 —
2000 — Live and Eclectic (Ronnie Wood)
2001 —
2002 — Forty Licks (Rolling Stones)
2003 —
2004 — Live Licks (Rolling Stones)
2004 —Tack>>Head Reunion
Back In The U.S.A.
Bernard Fowler (vocals)
Doug Wimbish (bass guitar)
Skip McDonald (guitar)
Keith Leblanc (drums)
Adrian Sherwood (mix)
Asylum Street Rehearsals
@ Sully’s Pub & Tiki Bar (Hartford, Connecticut)
Bernard Fowler (discography)
Tack>>Head (discography)
Living Colour(discography)
Little Axe (discography)
2005 — A Bigger Bang
2005 — Rarities 1971–2003
2006 —
2007 —
2008 — Shine a Light
2009 — w/Tack>>Head.
2010 — I Feel Like Playing (Ronnie Wood)
2011 —
2012 — Light the Fuse
2012 — GRRR! (Rolling Stones) compilation
2013 — Hyde Park Live
2014 —
2015 — Live at the Tokyo Dome
2015 — Sticky Fingers Live
2015 — Hyde Park Live
2015 — Crosseyed Heart (Keith Richards)
2016 — Totally Stripped
2016 — Havana Moon
2017 — Sticky Fingers – Live At The Fonda Theatre
2018 — San Jose ’99
2018 — Voodoo Lounge Uncut
2019 — Bridges to Bremen
2019 — HONK (Rolling Stones) compilation
2019 — Bridges to Buenos Aires
2020 — Steel Wheels Live
2021 — A Bigger Bang Live (10″ Vinyl, 2 track)
2021 — A Bigger Bang: Live on Copacabana Beach
•The Wonderful World Of Living Colour
Corey Glover (vocals)
“The glamorous life of a Rock N Roll star.”
— Corey Glover (Living Colour), bending over to grab his laundry out of the tour bus cargo hold.
— dave.
“Hi. I’m Slick,” were Earl Slick’s first words as he appeared from the sliding curtain between the front of the bus and his bunk in the back, from where he had just arisen. “You know, I’m the oldest guy on this tour … and God knows I feel it.”
Earl was 67 (“too-old-for-this-shit”) years old, and nearing the end of a three-month tour of 2017’s Celebrating David Bowie Tour.
In addition to having played in David Bowie’s band, Slick was also close friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and played guitar on their Double Fantasy album — Lennon’s last, released less than a year before his assassination (1980).
Rock N Roll Family affair. Slick’s kids and grandkids. His 23-year-old daughter was singing backup, and her boyfriend was the drummer. And in Ponte Vedra, Slick’s 9-year-old son was there, involved, and the subject of, much of the band’s backstage banter … everyone enjoying having a kid around. The boy had come over from Gainesville, 35 miles inland (home of the University of Florida) where he lived with his mom, Slick’s ex-wife.
Also, an old friend, recognized as the noticeably physical percussionist playing behind Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. Now living 15 miles north, on A1A, in Jacksonville Beach.
David Bowie – vocals, chamberlin
Adrian Belew – lead guitar, backing vocals
Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, music director
George Murray – bass guitar, backing vocals
Dennis Davis – drums, percussion
Roger Powell – keyboards, Moog Taurus bass pedals, synthesizer, backing vocals (except 11–14 November 1978)
Dennis Garcia – keyboards, synthesizer (11–14 November 1978 only)
Sean Mayes – piano, string ensemble, backing vocals
Simon House – electric violin
Vernon Reid
“A Liar’s Shade Of Blue”
This Little Room
2011
((( after show)))
dave.
((( video)))
Vernon Reid, Doug Wimbish, Keith LeBlanc (2007) in Hartford, Connecticut at Sully’s Pub, after Living Colour’s Wimbash performance in the small bar’s parking lot.
Planetary Slalom — Voyager’s Return
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Wish You Were Here (1975)
Animals (1977)
The Wall (1979)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)
musical film based on the album.
Time Magazine, Over 40 All Stars, Montreal, Ken Regan (Camera 5), Brussel Sprouts with Howard Cosell, Iran/Iraq, Arnold Drapkin, Cryogenic Hall with Michelle Stevenson, Rick Booth, Anne Stovel, Roller Skating at Club Roxy. Crossing Over (Step, don’t shuffle)
Pink Floyd Tampa Stadium
WKRP “Animals”
PLANETARY SLALOM
Pluto
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Moon
Earth
Venus
Mercury
SOLAR SYSTEM (POWER OF THE SUN)
Save Pluto
“E.T.“
1982 — Time’s Square, New York City, Summer School (beat-the-heat) Movie. Mysterious (“spacy”) promotion, Steven Spielberg.
Planetary Slalom — Voyager’s Return
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Wish You Were Here (1975)
Animals (1977)
The Wall (1979)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)
musical film based on the album.
Time Magazine, Over 40 All Stars, Montreal, Ken Regan (Camera 5), Brussel Sprouts with Howard Cosell, Iran/Iraq, Arnold Drapkin, Cryogenic Hall with Michelle Stevenson, Rick Booth, Anne Stovel, Roller Skating at Club Roxy. Crossing Over (Step, don’t shuffle)
Pink Floyd Tampa Stadium
WKRP “Animals”
PLANETARY SLALOM
Pluto
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Moon
Earth
Venus
Mercury
SOLAR SYSTEM (POWER OF THE SUN)
Save Pluto
“E.T.“
1982 — Time’s Square, New York City, Summer School (beat-the-heat) Movie. Mysterious (“spacy”) promotion, Steven Spielberg.
“The Devil’s Wife” (video)
“I Am King”
Ladell McLin
((( audio)))
— dave.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Live at Alligator Alley
Ladell McLin played in the Checkerboard Lounge House Band, toured with KoKo Taylor, Chi-Lite uncle. French documentary Back To Mississippi, Chicago to New Orleans.
Running With The Devil
2000 — Scott Putesky (Daisy Berkowitz)
After creating Marilyn Manson with high school mate Brian Warner, Scott Putesky learned and important lesson.
(((no friend of the devil )))
Running With The Devil(Marilyn Manson)
Scott Putesky (Daisy Berkowitz) @ Churchill’s Pub)
“Go to Hell”
Alice Cooper
1976 — Go To Hell
((( dictatorial )))
Adam Falcon
((( video ))) “Woke Up Crying”
((( audio ))) “Like A Soldier”
Bohemian 959
(((traditional today)))
((( video )))
“Woke Up Crying”
Suffern, New York
“Colored Man Singin’ The Blues”
Adam Falcon (Demo) 2014
(((family man)))
“The Devil Went Down to Georgia“
1979 — Charlie Daniels
(((southland)))
“Devil Dead”
1987 — Lee “Scratch” Perry
Time Boom X De Devil Dead
((( jamaican dub )))
When discussing the long history of the Blues, many, if not most, scholars, writers, and know-it-alls, overlook, or don’t know to mention, Skip McDonald. Skip was the original Sugar Hill house band guitarist, and is called one of Hip-Hop’s founding fathers. He and his Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section bandmates, Doug Wimbish (bass) and Keith LeBlanc (drums) laid the foundation of what has become Hip-Hop’s dominate force in society. Today, Sugar Hill’s “Rapper’s Delight,” “The Message,” and “White Lines” have become anthems in the industry. The songs, beats, raps, or whatever you call the musical graffiti that rose out of the ghetto, and staked it’s original claim in the open-air parks, basketball courts, and abandoned buildings in and around all five New York City Boroughs.
“No Sell Out”
“Artists United Against Apartheid”
“Miami Vice”
vs. Joe Robinson
After running for their lives, from Sugar Hill Records owner Joe Robinson, the boys split for a short while. Skip and Doug moved to Philadelphia to play with Musique, and Keith joined Adrian Sherwood (ON-U SOUND) in London.
Tack>>Head — A more experimental, electronic, industrial, rock n roll, and funk band. No matter how high and far Skip flew, he never lost sight of his past, and the music he wrote, whether it be Pop, Rock, Funk, Ambient, or Dub, was (and is) always firmly planted on Earth. Rooted in the Blues and Gospel he played with his mother and father, at church in Dayton, Ohio.
A strict, conservative upbringing, but always with a mind open enough to see the road before him, and take the path that most intensified a desire to explore, discover, and create the future of sound.
