“The Bridge”

CoLors*…

•OriginalNoise.Org
the players

 

 

An honest, musical telling of the African American fight for religious, financial, and racial justice for all.

dave.

Bringing America Together Again
Time Has Come

“THE WORLD IS A GHETTO”  is a recording of the first time Allan Harris* (vocal, guitar) and Doug Wimbish* (electric bass guitar) played together, along with a fast assembled band they called the “21st CENTURY FREEDOM RIDERS.” [Miami’s JESSIE JONES JR. (Saxophone) and Howie Schneider (Piano), and KEITH LeBLANC (Drums) HIP-HOP’s Original]

Allan and Doug were in Miami to play ART DECO WEEKEND, the Miami Design Preservation League’s annual festival on Ocean Drive.

THE LEAGUE’S CAUSE is to save (guide the renovation of) the Art Deco Hotels that, since the 1920s and ’30s, have defined Miami Beach’s always FASHIONABLE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE. [MIAMIBEACH]*

Allan and Doug’s first cause  was to play a good show, but recognizing that the festival coincidentally fell on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, they thought it an opportunity to make their first performance one to honor, and tell the story of the “FOREVER FIGHT” for Constitutional and CIVIL RIGHTS in America.

“THE WORLD IS A GHETTO” (((ABOVE))) was played on Ed Bell’s “Live Friday at Noon” program at the WLRN (PBS) RADIO studio in downtown Miami. Allan, the Nat King Cole-style crooner, always pleased, but this day’s small, appreciative audience was in for much more than they had imagined.

Song Of The Season …
“Summertime”
Allan Harris*  
Doug Wimbish*
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (2015)
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Dedication
Pompano Beach, Florida
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Art Deco Weekend by dave.
Billie Holiday b/ William P. Gottlieb

1934 — George Gershwin‘s “PORGY AND BESS” is an ARIA that tells the story of a crippled street-beggar struggling to survive on Catfish Row, a black tenement in 1920s Charleston, South Carolina. “Porgy and Bess” was based on real-life, Charleston resident, Samuel Smalls.

[THE GULLAH]

1939 — “Strange Fruit,” the song known for its horrific description of the Ku Klux Klan’s indiscriminate execution of innocent black men in America’s Deep South, was written by Abel Meeropol, a white Jewish school teacher who lived in the Bronx, New York.
Billie Holiday wept the first time she sang “Strange Fruit“ at Café Society in Greenwich Village, New York City’s first integrated nightclub. , as she did everytime after. She explained how moved she was by Meeropol’s words, that she cried everytime she sang the song, sometimes not able to finish.

The Cotton Club
Gainesville, Florida [ALLIGATOR*]   
CHITLIN’ CIRCUIT
Last of the Mississippi Jukes
B.B. King @ The Cotton Club — B.B. King frequented Gainesville in the late 1940s into the early 1950s. The Cotton Club, just outside of downtown, near Depot Avenue. The Club was a key stop for African American musicians before it closed in 1952. [WUFT] [WCJB].

“Strange Fruit”
Kristin Warren @ the Funky Dog Improv
Downtown Eau Gallie, Florida
((( VIDEO )))

“King of The Jungle”
1929 — Duke Ellington
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James Van Der Zee

“Duke Ellington“ (1931)
Duke Ellington portrait b/ Maurice Seymour (Studio) Chicago

“Ella Fitzgerald“ (1947)
b/ Herman Leonard
Ella Fitzgerald onstage in a New York City club with a visibly appreciative Duke Ellington sitting in the front row.

“Harlem Couple” (1932)
b/ James Van Der Zee

“Rhapsody In Blue”
1924 — Duke Ellington  
(((  NYC )))

NYC (FEB. 12, 1924)

Harlem Renaissance [PLAYLIST]

George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue debuted February 12, 1924, at Aeolian Hall in New York City. It was performed during a landmark concert titled “An Experiment in Modern Music,” led by bandleader Paul Whiteman. Gershwin himself played the piano, backed by Whiteman’s orchestra

“Echoes Of The Jungle”
1929 — Duke Ellington  
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Hindenburg (1936)
Duke Ellington by Herman Leonard (1947)
Prohibition (1920-1933)

1947 — Duke Ellington  (in Paris) 
b/ Herman Leonard
In the immediate years after WWII, Duke Ellington was among many American Jazz musicians who found a more accepting and appreciative audience in Europe.

The Black List
Bridge Builders Through Time
BIOGRAPHY.COM
HARLEM RENAISSANCE ARTISTS
CHITLIN’ CIRCUIT
THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN. [ BLUE.]

In Florida
1930s — Hollywood used the Central Florida jungle to make its movies set in Africa. Much of MGM’s “Tarzan” series was shot at Silver Springs and Weeki Wachee. Amelia Earhart departed Miami, embarking on the second leg of her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Days later, communication was lost, and Earhart was never seen again.
1930 —
1931 —
1932 —
1933 —
1934 —
1935 — Hurricane Monument (Marathon Key)
WPA
1936 — Robert Johnson*
LOVE IN VAIN*
CHITLIN’ CIRCUIT (BLACKS & BLUES)*

Speed Quest 
1936 — Ormond Beach, just north of Daytona was home to one of Henry Morrison Flagler’s legendary hotels. THE ORMOND was the Resort he took over and renovated in 1890, before building the Royal Poinciana on Palm Beach in 1894. Palm Beach was the barrier island on which Flagler chose to settle, after burning the natives out of their beach shacks, relocating them to the mainland (West Palm Beach), and then hiring (enslaving) them to build his Poinciana hotel immediately, followed by The Breakers in 1901, and his personal home (mansion), Whitehall, in 1902.

Before reaching Palm Beach, Flagler spent the longest time in Florida at the Ormond Beach Hotel, one of a string that ran down Florida’s East Coast, along with Flagler’s Railroad.  It was there, in the 1930s, where Flagler would entertain friends, drinking Old Fashioned on the veranda, and discussing business. Those friends included his Standard Oil partner, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and Thomas Edison. All of whom were keenly interested in the auto racing on Ormond’s, wide, hard-packed, smooth sand. It was ideal for those whose life-long quest was for speed.

 

yT.

1930s  (In Florida) — Hollywood used the Central Florida jungle to shoot many movies set in Africa, most noteably the “Tarzan” series of films, most shot at Weeki Wachee and Silver Springs. Amelia Earhart departs Miami on the second leg of her attempt to circumnavigate to globe, and is never seen again. (The Flying Feminist)
1937 — Amelia Earhart departed Miami (June 1)  on what would be her last flight. She and her navigator, Frank Noonan, disappeared somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean, near Japan.

Earnhart was in the middle of an ambitious and perilous attempt to circumnavigate the globe in her Lockheed 10-E Elektra. Throughout the flight, Earhart was not only the pilot, but also a journalist who sent regular dispatches to the Miami Herald for publication in its daily newspaper.

WWII
WAR OF THE WORLDS
(RADIO DAYS) EUROPE
BOMBS AND BIKINIS
(RADIO DAYS) PACIFIC

“Hard Times”
There’s No Place Like America Today 
DOUBLE STANDARDS
Curtis Mayfield (1975) 
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—yZ.

[FROM THE TOP]

RAISING THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA — The iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War. Taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945, the photograph was published in Sunday newspapers two days later and reprinted in thousands of publications. It won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography and has come to be regarded in the United States as one of the most recognizable images of World War II. Joe Rosenthal 

HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING — On assignment for Life magazine,  photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White took the picture of Louisville Flood refugees, waiting in line for  Red Cross relief in the aftermath of the Ohio River flood of 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky.  Behind the refugees, a billboard advertisement for the National Association of Manufacturers appears in the background reading, “World’s Highest Standard of Living: There’s No Way Like the American Way.”   

AMERICAN GOTHIC  —  Gordon Parks‘ iconic photograph of Ella Watson, a cleaning woman in Washington D.C., is titled American Gothic, making it a sharp, satirical parody of Grant Wood’s 1930 painting by the same name. Parks’ photograph became iconic in its exposing the reality of racism and inequality in 1942 America.

Saturday Night (& Day)
“Harlem Nocturne“ 
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Art Kane

Duke Ellington in Paris b/ Herman Leonard (1959)
New York at Night b/ Berenice Abbott (1936)
A Great Day In Harlem b/ Art Kane  (1958) Esquire 

Great Day In Harlem
One day in what’s called “The Golden Age Of Jazz,” a momentous gathering of musicians was preserved, and now stands as an important document in America’s musical history.

1958 — “A Great Day In Harlem“ or “Harlem 1958” is a black and white photograph of 57 Jazz musicians who had gathered at 17 East 126th Street (between Fifth and Madison) Uptown in Harlem (NYC). The picture was taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine, and was published in Esquire’s January 1959 issue.

“Harlem Nocturne,” written by Earle Hagen (music) and Dick Rogers (lyrics) for the Ray Noble Orchestra, of which they were members, is a song that became one of the most popular Jazz “standards,” covered by hundreds, if not thousands of bands, musicians, and any other purveyors of Jazz.

1958 — The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
On the Road
1959 — NASA / NASCAR / MINUTE MAID
1960 — To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
1961 — DESTINATION MOON (1961)
ALAN SHEPARD (STARRIDER)
JOHN GLENN (JUST SAY GO!)

“Come Fly With Me”
Frank Sinatra 
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dave.

ART DECO POSTER b/ ORIGINAL NOISE (2015)
Ziegfeld Girl (Alfred Cheney Johnston)

Art Deco Weekend (2012-2015) music poster for the Miami Design Preservation League’s annual festival. (w/ Steve Pynes, Doug Wimbish, and Allan Harris)

Lost In Space
Orange Matters
INDIAN RIVER LAGOON

1959 — NASA / NASCAR / MINUTE MAID
1960 — Where The Boys Are
1961 — Alan Shepard (2806)
1962 — Dr. No, Missiles in Cuba, John Glenn
1963 — Louis Armstrong
“What A Wonderful World”
JFK Assassination
1964 — “Fly Me To The Moon“
Frank Sinatra
“In Other Words” (1954)
b/ Kaye Ballard
Robert Rauschenberg
1965 — Gemini 4
Ed White
1966 — “Paint It Black” (Rolling Stones)
MUSIC ’66 — Good Vibrations, Strangers In The Night, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ Eleanor Rigby, Summer In The City, Reach Out I’ll Be There, When A Man Loves A Woman.
1967 — Summer of Love
1968 — “Earthrise” (Apollo 8)
1969 — War & Hope

Yardbirds
BRITISH RESURRECTION OF THE BLUES
“The Devil Is Singing Our Song”
The Beatles
“It’s Been A Hard Day’s Night“
Rolling Stones
“Paint It Black“
Miles Davis
HOLY TRINITY OF ROCK
HOLY TRINITY OF JAZZ

1970 — Bitches Brew
1971 —
1972 —

“A Taste Of Honey”
“Hard Day’s Night”
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— yZ.

space & time
ALAN SHEPARD (Starrider)
JOHN GLENN (Round and Round)
1961 —  ORIGINAL 7 ASTRONAUTS
TIME & SPACE
MERCURY (MESSAGE & MESSENGER)
GEMINI (IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO)
APOLLO (LURE OF THE MOON)
1969 — VOODOO, ASSASSINATION & HOPE
SPACE COAST (NASA) TIMELINE
1959 — NASA / NASCAR
DAYTONA 500
MINUTEMAID

1960 — Where The Boys Are
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Space & Time
NASA TIMELINE
1961 — Alan Shepard
MAY 5, 1961
FREEDOM 7 (FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE)
1962 — John Glenn
FEB 20, 1962
FRIENDSHIP 7 (FIRST AMERICAN TO ORBIT EARTH)
OCT 16-29, 1962
A CRISIS IN CUBA (KEY WEST)
THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION
Thirteen Days (2000) movie
Eve of Destruction (1965) song 
Matinee (1993) movie
THE STORY OF GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI
Produced by The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The laughs came because Dick Gregory was fearless in the delivery of his hard-truth, anti-racist message to a mostly white, TV-watching audience. Gregory’s popularity grew fast. His reputation was as one of the best stand up comedians working in the early 1960s, and even better when considering his seriously addressing the racial inequality he saw everywhere around him. Gregory was always funny, thoughtful, and true. When he met Medgar Evers in 1962, his anti-racism mission became absolute.

1963 —

“Long Walk To D.C.”
The Staple Singers
Soul Folk In Action

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

September 4, 1957 — Hazel Massery, unhappy with the decision to integrate Little Rock Central High School, shouts angrily at Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, as she walked to enter Little Rock Central High School for the first time.

Louis Armstrong was among a group of jazz musicians who benefitted from television and Hollywood, introducing themselves and their music to the mostly white, “Middle America” audience. Their notice and popularity far exceed that in the United States, and Armstrong and others became social activists and American Ambassadors to the World. A musical tradition that lives on today.
Harry Belafonte
Dick Gregory
Medgar Evers
Steven Van Zandt (1980)
Artists United Against Apartheid, (1984)
Tack>>Head (1989)

1964 — When Sam Cooke released his single “Change is Gonna Come,” he talked openly about the song being inspired by personal events, especially when he and his band were turned away from a “Whites Only” motel in Louisiana. Cooke said, after the event, he felt compelled to speak out in support of the Civil Rights Movement, and to protest against the hardships he and all African Americans still endured, one hundred years after the Civil War and their supposed emancipation.

“Happy Birthday to our first lady, Michelle Obama.”

“Change Is Gonna Come”

January 17, 1014 — Allan Harris, Doug Wimbish, and the 21st Century Freedom Riders, Miami @ WLRN (PBS) Studio, Ed Bell’s “Live at Noon” radio program. [ART DECO WEEKEND]
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dave.

Allan Harris* and Doug Wimbish* revisit Sam Cooke‘s “Change Is Gonna Come,” ending their performance at the WLRN (PBS Radio) studios in Miami with best, Happy 50th Birthday, wishes to First Lady Michelle Obama.

“Strange Fruit”
Kristin Warren @ the Funky Dog Improv
Downtown Eau Gallie, Florida
((( VIDEO )))

Martin Luther King Jr.
The Voice of Freedom and Justice FOR ALL.
May 4, 1961 — THE FIRST FREEDOM RIDE (BUS CARAVAN) LEAVES WASHINGTON, D.C., SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN NEW ORLEANS, MAY 17, 1961.

“Ride On”
Little Axe
1994 — The Road Is Long.
((( the end is far )))

Underwood Archives (Getty Images)

MAY 14, 1961 — Upon its arrival in Anniston, Alabama, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)-sponsored Greyhound bus was firebombed by a group of angry white men. They were angry at the blacks who were protesting (peacefully) the unlawful segregation of public transportation in the south, and angry at the whites (mostly from the north east) who were riding in support of the African American cause.

Freedom Riders — Black and White Civil Rights Activists rode interstate buses (Greyhound/Trailways) into the segregated south, protesting (peacefully) the Southern states that had ignored the United States Supreme Court decisions ruling the segregating of public transportation was unconstitutional.

Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960)
Southern states ignored the Supreme Court, and the federal government had done nothing to enforce laws against segregation.

Freedom Road — Groups made up of oppressed African American Activists and young whites (many Jewish) boarded Greyhound buses in New Jersey, and embarked on a dangerous journey, south, through Tennessee, Louisianna, Mississippi, Alabama, and east to Florida and back up the East Coast, through Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia, before ending in Washington D.C.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ARRESTED IN ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA.
Along the way, the Freedom Riders were often met by violent white segregationists, including local law enforcement, showing their defiance of recent Supreme Court rulings against segregated public transportation.

“A Dream Come True” (?)
Martin Luther King
The Funk Brothers (Motown)
((( >>> )))

James P. Blair

1963 — (August 28, 1963) Two years after the first Freedom Ride, and at the end of THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream“ speech, and called for voting rights, overall economic justice, and to end racism in the United States.
The Bomb Heard ’round the World
(Birmingham, Alabama) 
September 15, 1963 — A KKK bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama killed four young girls, and marked a turning point in the fight for civil rights. Paul McCartney has said the bombing in Birmingham, and racial tension in America was inspiration for his writing “Blackbird,” a song featured on The Beatles White Album.

“Johnny B. Goode”
Chuck Berry 
1958 — Single (45)
((( #1 )))

American Graffiti

[FROM THE TOP]

Johnny B. Goode (1958)

JOHN LEWIS (GOOD TROUBLE)
American Graffiti (Soundtrack)
Chuck Berry (1958)
Louis Armstrong (1966)
Herb Alpert (1965)
Whipped Cream & Other Delights
The Beatles (1966)
It’s A Hard Day’s Night
Gemini IV (1965)
Ed White First Man to Walk In Space
American Graffiti
American Graffiti (Soundtrack)

“What A Wonderful World”
Louis Armstrong
Ambassador of Jazz
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Norman Rockwell Museum

1964 — “The Problem We All Live With“
Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell’s painting of Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School (November 14, 1960)  in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Hearing the story of The Little Rock Nine (the nine African American children who faced anger, discrimination, and white nationalists, after enrolling in the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957, and later Ruby Bridges, Rockwell was inspired to make his artistic and political point about the the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. the Board of Education decision to desegregate America’s public schools. [PAUL McCARTNEY “BLACK BIRD”]

“Mississippi Goddamn”
Nina Simone
1964 — [JOHN LEWIS]*
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“Voodoo Child”  
Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland
1968 — Voodoo, Assassination, War & Hope.
((( >>> )))

“Earthrise” by Bill Anders (Apollo 8)

“That’s One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind.”

“Inner City Blues”
Marvin Gaye
((( >>> )))

Howard Miller

Hubert Sumlin  — Playing “lead” guitar for Howlin’ Wolf, Sumlin was the originator of what became Rock N Roll’s singer-guitarist tradition. nd Keith, Page and Plant, Gillan and Blackmore, Roth and Van Halen. Until Sumlin, most Blues singers played his or her own guitar, and wrote his or her own songs, as Robert Johnson did. [Vernon/Corey]

Apollo 8
Earthrise By Bill Anders
Christmas Eve 1968
Dark Side of The Moon

Summer ’69*

1970 — Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
The Creator
Essential Fusion
HOLY TRINITY OF ROCK
HOLY TRINITY OF JAZZ
THE ANTHEMS
RE.COLLECTIONS
1971 —
1972 —
1973 —

“Fuck Off!”
Howlin’ Wolf to Lowell George
1974 — Idol Worship
Little Feat @ The Santa Monica Civic Center
((( >>> ))) 

Tack>>Head @ Sweetwater Studios
Martin Scorsese (Blues)

[FROM THE TOP]

Howlin’ Wolf
Little Feat Lowell George Waiting for Columbus
Martin Scorsese “Blues” documentary
Tack>>Head
2023 — Keith LeBlanc’s New Moves record of remixed and reinterpreted Blues classics out of the Chess Records archive. Keith was a longtime friend of Marshall Chess, and had produced a similar record, Chess Moves, in 2012. Ten Years later, Keith called New Moves the best record he ever made. That might be true. Unfortunately it was his last.

Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett)
Lowell George —  While introducing “Apolitical Blues” in 1973 at the Santa Monica Civic Center, Lowell George told the story of his meeting his idol, Howlin’ Wolf. From the stage, he described a backstage jam session he was a part of at the Cafe A Go Go in New York City. In it, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and Elvin Bishop were playing, and as George says as a joke, but viciously, “AND STEPHEN STILLS WAS WATCHING.”
All told before the real punch line, Lowell reveals Wolf’s unexpected answer to his heartfelt request (autograph) of his idol.

2002 — Great Night In Harlem
Three Days In Manhattan

“Preachin’ Blues”
Living Colour*
Home In The Shade
2016 — Hartford, Connecticut
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Chess Moves Keith’s last word (v/ Bernard Fowler)
Tack>>Head @ Sweetwater Studios (2023)

[FROM THE TOP]

(((AUDIO))) “Preachin’ Blues” — Hartford, Connecticut @ Sully’s Pub/Lena’s Pizza [Wimbash 2016]
(((VIDEO)))  STEEL WHEELS TOUR 1989* — Kick Ass Rock N Roll
Rolling Stones @ The Orange Bowl (Little Havana, Miami)
Dire Straits w/ Sting
“I Want My MTV”
ROLLING STONES
Living Colour*
U2
Shuttle Landing
KODACHROME “COLUMBIA”
April 12, 1981 — Inaugural Space Shuttle (STS-1)

Keith LeBlanc
New Moves (2023) — A record of Keith’s remixed and reinterpreted Blues classics out of the Chess Records archive. Keith was a longtime friend of Marshall Chess, and had produced a similar record, Chess Moves, in 2012. Ten Years later, Keith called New Moves the best record he ever made, and that might be true. Unfortunately it was his last, before he died later that year.

(((VIDEO)))  TACK>>HEAD 
@ Sweetwater Studios

(((VIDEO))) “Station to Station” 
Earl Slick and Bernard Fowler (2016)
DAVID BOWIE (CELEBRATING)

“Politician”
Vernon Reid
2025 — Hoodoo Telemetry
((( Back to Where it Began )))

Portrait (guitar)
Bill Clark (CQ Roll Call)
ABC (Jimmy Kimmel)

“Up From The Skies”
Jimi Hendrix
Two days before Vernon Reid and Living Colour, at Jimmy Kimmel’s request, played “Cult of Personality” to close out his show that had included Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Allen White who played Bruce in Deliver Me From Nowhere, the film that had just been released. The show was just days after Kimmel’s return, after ABC had cancelled him, giving in to pressure exerted by Donald Trump, who whined that Kimmel was treating him “unfairly,” in his “unfunny” monologues.

[FROM THE TOP]

POLITICIAN — Reaching back to his playing guitar in Jack Bruce’s band, Spectrum Road, Vernon included the Cream classic on his second solo record, Hoodoo Telemetry.
VERNON REID 2025 — Portrait for his new Hoodoo Telemetry record.
*VERNON REID HOODOO TELEMETRY (INTERVIEW #1)
*VERNON REID HOODOO TELEMETRY (INTERVIEW #2)

“Should I Stay, Or Should I Go?” was the tune on Living Colour’s debut album, Vivid, where that paid tribute to where and from what it became. The Clash, the more sophisticated punks from London had played a legendary run at CBGB, the club Vernon Reid and his Living Colour mates called home.

SEPTEMBER 23 — A statue featuring President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein dancing, titled “In Honor of Friendship Month,” appeared on the east end of the National Mall in Washington on Tuesday morning, September 23, 2025.

The World According to Mick. After helping Living Colour secure the deal with Sony Records to make Vivid, The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger invited Vernon and the band to open for the Stones on its upcoming Steel Wheels 1989 North American Tour.

Jagger first saw Living Colour in its natural habitat, CBGB, the dirty, Downtown New York City bar, from which the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Television, King Missile, and the Talking Heads came from. A community that accepted all kinds of music, including Living Colour’s Fusion of Hard Rock, Metal, and Avant Punk.

Living Colour and Jimmy Kimmel, just days after the Donald Trump’s regime tried to have Kimmel removed, saying that his jokes were “not fair.” (ABC)

 

Paul Colin*

Josephine Baker*

 

CoLors*…
This is a Voyage into Sound.
inst. of change [THE ELECTRIC GUITAR]
the players
INSTRUMENTS OF NOISE.
take it to the bridge
The Original Color of Sin [BLUE]

1975 —
1976 — Wood Brass & Steel
Across the GW (George Washington Bridge), New Jersey into Manhattan, “Funkanova” found itself on almost every big-city Dj’s playlist. The Paradise Garage, The Roxy, David Mancuso’s Loft, and Steve Rubell’s notorious Studio 54.

1977 — Voyagers
Bernard Fowler’s Voyage Embarked From New York City
Saturday Night Fever
WKRP (“Animals” scene)
Pink Floyd (Tampa Stadium)

1978 — Rick James
CBGB (NYC)
Talking Heads
More Songs About Buildings and Food
Blondie
Ramones
Television
Patti Smith
Robert Mapplethorpe
Madonna
Rick James v. Ron Carter
(Super Freak v. The Distinuished Gentleman)
The Last Poets
Gil Scott-Heron

1979 — Hip-Hop Happens*
THE ORIGINAL SUGAR HILL RHYTHM SECTION
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald* (guitar)
Doug Wimbish* (bass)
Keith LeBlanc* (drums)
Living Colour*
Tack>>Head*
Little Axe* (Skip McDonald)
Bernard Fowler* (vocals)
Bernard Fowler (Interview)

NORTH FLORIDA (ALLIGATOR*) DIVERSION
1980 — INNOVATION, DISASTER, AND MURDER*
1981 — JUST SAY GO! (Again)*
The launch of MTV, and NASA’s long anticipated return to Space.
1982 — JUST SAY NO! (To Everything)*
Drugs, Nuclear Power, and Disco
NYC Central Park June 12, 1982
1983 — GOING BACK TO NEW YORK

1980 — Joe Satriani
COOL #9 (SAVE PLUTO)
NAKED LAUNCH (ALT.)

1980s  — Just Say No.
1980 — Ronald Reagan
1981 — Shuttle
1982 — No Nukes
NYC Central Park June 12, 1982
1983 — Malcolm X
Keith LeBlanc
No Sell Out (12″)
1984 — Keith LeBlanc
w/ Betty Shabazz vs. Sugar Hill Records
((( >>> )))

Keith LeBlanc

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 vs. Keith with Betty Shabazz).

Keith LeBlanc
Will the circle be unbroken? Malcolm X to Barack Obama, Keith LeBlanc, Hip-Hop’s original drummer sampled them both. “No Sell Out” (Malcolm X) 1984, and closing the circle (“Funky Obama”) 2009.

No Sell Out
Malcolm X
1984 — Keith Leblanc vs. Sugar Hill
((( original sample )))

Keith LeBlanc

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 vs. Keith with Betty Shabazz).

Lowball Express
1984 — Corey Glover
((( original sample )))

In his acceptance speech, Lee didn’t shy away from politics. “Let’s all mobilize. Let’s all be on the right side of history,” he said. “Make the moral choice between love versus hate. “Let’s do the right thing!”

The New York City filmmaker was previously nominated for two Oscars—Best Original Screenplay for Do the Right Thing and Best Documentary for 4 Little Girls. He was also nominated for Best Director.

 

“Everyone’s Gone to The Moon”
Nina Simone
1964 — Early Cry for Civil Rights
((( ? )))

 

 

black list
BENJAMIN BANNEKER (OBSEVER OF TIME & SPACE)
AN ABOLITIONIST DREAM (TO BE FREE)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (THE FIRST TO SPEAK FREE)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (THE FIRST SYMPATHIZER)
HARRIET TUBMAN (THE CONDUCTOR)
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (THE WAY OUT)

JACK JOHNSON
“The Great White Hope“
JESSE OWENS (THE OLYMPIAN)
JACKIE ROBINSON (THE PIONEER)
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (THE DREAMER)
MALCOLM X (NO SELL OUT)
BIG MAMA THORTON (THE REAL HOUND DOG)
ELVIS PRESLEY (THE WHITE WAY TO ROCK)
CHUCK BERRY (WHO’S YOUR DADDY?)
LITTLE RICHARD (I INVENTED ROCK N ROLL)
JERRY LEE LEWIS (KICK ASS PIANO)
JIMI HENDRIX (ELECTRIC FUTURE)
HARRY BELAFONTE (SONG FOR JUSTICE)
DICK GREGORY (STAND UP ACTIVIST)
THURGOOD MARSHALL (1967)
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM(1972)
COLIN POWELL(“THE LAST BLACK REPUBLICAN”)
JOHN LEWIS(“GOOD TROUBLE”)
BARACK OBAMA (“GREAT BLACK HOPE”)
KAMALA HARRIS (YOU CAN CALL HER DEVI)
STACEY ABRAMS (“VOICE OF THE NEW SOUTH”)
MAXWELL FROST(“YOUNG HOPE”)
ARETHA FRANKLIN (THE NATURAL)
NINA SIMONE(ANGRY BLACK WOMAN)
GIL SCOTT-HERON (GHETTO CONSCIENCE)
GARLAND JEFFREYS (“I WAS AFRAID OF MALCOM”)
SUMMER OF SOUL (HARLEM 1969)
WOODSTOCK (THREE DAYS SUMMER 1969)
BLACK PANTHERS (A PARTY WITH GUNS)
ANGELA DAVIS (COMMUNIST RAGE)
BOBBY SEALE (BLACK MILITANT POWER)
HUEY P. NEWTON
THE LAST POETS (FIRST RAP)
ISAAC HAYES
WATTSTAX(1972)
RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE (1974)
ZAIRE ’74
SOUL TRAIN (AFRICAN-AMERICA’S BANDSTAND)
RICHARD PRYOR (TRUIST OF THEM ALL)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
EDDIE MURPHY (PUTTING THE HOOD IN HOLLYWOOD)
CHRIS ROCK (NAT X)

IN LIVING COLOR (BLACK COMEDY)
The Grammy-winning band LIVING COLOUR* had released its successful debut album, Vivid, in 1988, and followed with the also critically acclaimed Time’s Up!, in 1990. Soon after Vernon Reid, Living Colour’s founder, sued the Fox News Network, claiming that its “In Living Color” TV show “stole the band’s name and logo,” causing public confusion and potentially diluting the band’s brand.

Fox argued that “in living color” was taken from when the expression was NBC’s popular line to promote its programing of the early era of color television.

The legal dispute was ultimately settled out of court. As part of the settlement, the TV show agreed to change its logo from an “exotic-looking” design that resembled the band’s, to a more standard, “plain-type” logo. 

MICHAEL JORDAN (THE VALUE OF SHOES)
JAY-Z (HIP-HOP MOGEL)
TUPAC SHAKUR (THOUGHTFUL THUG)
NOTORIOUS B.I.G.(BROOKLYN’S FINEST)
NWA (LA DREAMERS)
PUBLIC ENEMY (BACK TO NYC)
“Bring The Noise” (w/ANTHRAX)
ICE-T (STRAIGHT INTO TELEVISION)
MOS DEF (HIP-HOP, ROCK, AND HOLLYWOOD)
SPIKE LEE (WHITE LINES w/LAWRENCE FISHBURNE)
DAVE CHAPPELLE (AN OLD WISE MAN BEFORE HIS TIME)
THE RENAISSANCE (IT STARTED IN HARLEM)

Natchez Burning*
Greg Iles —
Set In Post-Katrina Mississippi (2004/2005)
With flashbacks to (1964-1968) Civil Rights Era.

 

Cross That River”
Alan Harris
1855— Allan Harris tells the story of Blue, an escaped slave who crossed the Red River into Texas, and found freedom as a cowboy, driving cattle on the Chisholm Trail. Blue, like many of the “Black Cowboys” settled at the end of the trail, in the cities where the cattle was slaughtered and packed. They created a thriving business community called the “Black West,” of which Tulsa, Oklahoma (Black Wall Street) became its center.

CROSS THAT RIVER (PLAYLIST)
MUSIC OF THE BRIDGE

“A Great Night In Harlem”  Wendy Oxenhorn
Jazz Foundation of America

MILES DAVIS (THE CREATOR)
JIMI HENDRIX (VOODOO’S CHILD)
PRINCE AMONG US (THE ARTIST)
ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER
UNDER A CRESCENT MOON
CHICAGO BOUND
TEXAS SWING
THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT
A RENAISSANCE IN HARLEM
SUMMER IN THE CITY

 

“Funky Obama”
January 20, 2009 — Less than two hours after Barack Obama’s first Inaugural Address, Keith LeBlanc had cut samples into Tack>>Head’s cover of James Brown’s “Funky President.”
((( Great Black Hope )))

dave hogerty

The morning Keith LeBlanc died, the after cloud of a rocket lingered next to a crescent moon, like a signature in the Cape Canaveral sky. Keith’s signature, after making Chess Moves, his last contribution to the history of music. A history he had been such an important character.

The Chess (Records) Project is an album of classics, revived and 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 …

Barack Obama
“HOPE”
Shepard Fairy (2008)

FM (Movie)
Linda Ronstadt
Jimmy Buffett
Tom Petty @ The O’Connell Center
Eagles w/ Jimmy Buffett @ Florida Field
Bruce Springsteen (returns)
The Police @ Disney World (Tomorrowland)
Dire Straits @ The Jacksonville Coliseum

 

Eyes On The Prize
Mavis Staples
We’ll Never Turn Back
((( onward)))

people (of the renaissance)
BLACK LIST

BENJAMIN BANNEKER (OBSEVER OF TIME & SPACE)
AN ABOLITIONIST DREAM (TO BE FREE)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (THE FIRST TO SPEAK FREE)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (THE FIRST SYMPATHIZER)
HARRIET TUBMAN (THE CONDUCTOR)
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (THE WAY OUT)
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (THE DREAMER)
MALCOLM X (NO SELL OUT)

HIDDEN FIGURES (BLACK WOMEN)
BIG MAMA THORTON (THE REAL HOUND DOG)
ELVIS PRESLEY (THE WHITE WAY TO ROCK)
CHUCK BERRY (WHO’S YOUR DADDY?)
LITTLE RICHARD (I INVENTED ROCK N ROLL)
JERRY LEE LEWIS (KICK ASS PIANO)
JIMI HENDRIX (ELECTRIC FUTURE)
HARRY BELAFONTE (SONG FOR JUSTICE)
DICK GREGORY (STAND UP ACTIVIST)
THURGOOD MARSHALL (1967)
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM(1972)
COLIN POWELL(“THE LAST BLACK REPUBLICAN”)
JOHN LEWIS(“GOOD TROUBLE”)
BARACK OBAMA (“GREAT BLACK HOPE”)
KAMALA HARRIS (YOU CAN CALL HER DEVI)
STACEY ABRAMS (“VOICE OF THE NEW SOUTH”)
MAXWELL FROST(“YOUNG HOPE”)
ARETHA FRANKLIN (THE NATURAL)
NINA SIMONE(ANGRY BLACK WOMAN)
GIL SCOTT-HERON (GHETTO CONSCIENCE)
GARLAND JEFFREYS (“I WAS AFRAID OF MALCOM”)
SUMMER OF SOUL (HARLEM 1969)
WOODSTOCK (THREE DAYS SUMMER 1969)
BLACK PANTHERS (A PARTY WITH GUNS)
ANGELA DAVIS (COMMUNIST RAGE)
BOBBY SEALE (BLACK MILITANT POWER)
HUEY P. NEWTON
THE LAST POETS (FIRST RAP)
ISAAC HAYES
WATTSTAX(1972)
RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE (1974)
ZAIRE ’74
SOUL TRAIN (AFRICAN AMERICAN BANDSTAND)
RICHARD PRYOR (TRUIST OF THEM ALL)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
EDDIE MURPHY (PUTTING THE HOOD IN HOLLYWOOD)
CHRIS ROCK (NAT X)
IN LIVING COLOR (BLACK COMEDY)
MICHAEL JORDAN (THE VALUE OF SHOES)
JAY-Z (HIP-HOP MOGEL)
TUPAC SHAKUR (THOUGHTFUL THUG)
NOTORIOUS B.I.G.(BROOKLYN’S FINEST)
NWA (LA DREAMERS)
PUBLIC ENEMY (BACK TO NYC)
“Bring The Noise” (w/ANTHRAX)
ICE-T (STRAIGHT INTO TELEVISION)
MOS DEF (HIP-HOP, ROCK, AND HOLLYWOOD)
SPIKE LEE (WHITE LINES w/LAWRENCE FISHBURNE)
DAVE CHAPPELLE (AN OLD WISE MAN BEFORE HIS TIME)
THE RENAISSANCE (IT STARTED IN HARLEM)

 

 

ABC

 

1966 — GEMINI 8 (It Takes Two To Rendezvous) 
1967 — SUMMER OF LOVE (San Francisco)
1968 — Apollo 8

“Abraham, Martin, and John”
Dion DiMucci
1968 — Marvin Gaye

((eulogy))

 

In the Beginning, God Created the Heavens and the Earth.”

— Genesis

1968 —When Paul McCartney heard the story of The Little Rock Nine, it inspired his writing the song “Blackbird,” that appeared on the Beatles White Album.  (The African American children who, after enrolling in the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957, faced the most ugly anger of the white nationalists who populated the area. The first, and most notable, segregation of a public school after the Supreme Court’s historic Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
1969 — Apollo 11, WOODSTOCK, VIETNAM
“One Small Step for Man, One Small Step for Mankind” 
Altamonte (The Dark Side)

1969 —Summer of Soul (Harlem Cultural Festival) “Black Woodstock”
Marvin Gaye
That’s The Way Love Is (1970)

1970s —
1970 — Miles Davis Bitches Brew
1971 —
1972 —
1973 —
1974 —
1975 —
1976 —

1976 — Alex Haley’s book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family., was adapted by ABC as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. (ancestory.com)
Haley’s first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X.

 

“My Fellow Astronauts”

Alex Skolnick
1997 —
((( ! )))

 

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