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What’s Your Favorite Color?
Living Colour [PT.1]
2009 — Hartford, Connecticut
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Time Tunnel was a Living Colour documentary film, made mostly while the band was on the Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels Tour.
A Band Grows In Brooklyn
Chair In The Doorway (2009)
Vivid (1988)
Time’s Up (1990)
Stain (1992)
“Up On The Roof“
The Drifters
Under The Boardwalk
1964 — Single (45)
Gerry Goffin and Carole King
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We started the show with our man, and we’re gonna end the show with our man.”
— Vernon Reid
Announcing “Crosstown Traffic,” the encore of a show that opened with another Jimi Hendrix (Band of Gypsys) classic, “The Power Of Soul.”
2OO1 — December 27, 2001. Living Colour ended many of its post 9-11 shows with Jimi Hendrix’ “Crosstown Traffic.” They did at Disney’s House Of Blues in Orlando, Florida, the last show the band played, before returning to New York City to play the 2001 Reunion tour’s final show, New Year’s Eve at CBGB, where it all began.
Living Colour*
THE MOUNTAINS WE CLIMB
A BAND GROWS IN BROOKLYN [PT1]
THE WALLS BETWEEN US [PT2]
TRUTH BE TOLD [PT3]
VIVID IMAGINATION
LOLLAPALOOZA ’91
APOCALYPTIC COLOUR
LIVING COLOUR ( 1.)
LIVING COLOUR ( 2.)
CBGB 2000
LIVING COLOUR ( 3.)
Preachin’ Blues
Living Colour
2016 — Hartford, Connecticut
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STEEL WHEELS TOUR 1989
1989 — Kick Ass Rock N Roll
@ The Orange Bowl (Little Havana, Miami)
(VIDEO)
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)
1980 — Downtown NYC
Vernon Reid — As a member of Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society, and playing and recording with DEFUNKT, Vernon Reid’s star first rose in New York City’s Downtown, Free Jazz, Avant Funk movement of the early 1980s.
The Knitting Factory, Iridium, CBGB, offering stages for a collection of innovated instrumentalists who were shaping the future of music. Jazz Rock, Electric Jazz, or dare we call it, “Fusion.”
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF LIVING COLOUR
FLY ME TO THE MTV MOON
1981 — THE LAUNCH OF MTV (1:11)
When MTV introduced its new way of “presenting” music on television, Vernon Reid was living “underground,” in the darker, more experimental, Downtown New York City neighborhood, but a dramatic change was gonna come.
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Kick Ass Rock N Roll
November 16, 1989 @ The Orange Bowl — Steel Wheels Tour in Miami (Jon Stoll Fantasma Productions). 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
“I Was Afraid of Malcolm”
Garland Jeffreys
Don’t Call Me Buckweat
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May 3, 1988 — With help from the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger, Living Colour signed with Epic Records and released its debut Vivid. The band’s rise was immediate, as it’s first single “Cult Of Personality” was a regular in MTV’s primetime rotation, and Vivid rose to #6 on the U.S. Billboard chart.
April 1, 1989 — appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live was an important, high-profile presentation of Living Colour’s psychedelic, day-glo packaged, hard funk, metal attack.
“Lollapalooza”
1991 — The Principal Players, including Vernon Reid, discuss the pomp, circumstance, and drama surrounding the first Lollapalooza.
“Love & Happiness”
Living Colour
Biscuits
1991 — Gulf War
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“Time Tunnel” (1990) Documentary Film
I want a closet big enough to live in. A closet big enough for the world to live in.
1993 — Never reluctant to express an opinion, Living Colour played “Bi,” a song about bisexuality, on NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
December 14, 1989 — Vernon Reid, wearing a “Burn Baby Burn” (American Flag) T-shirt, and the rest of Living Colour, after nearly a year on the road, joined the Rolling Stones onstage in Montreal, at Olympic Stadium, for an end-of-Steel Wheels tour, “It’s Only Rock N Roll” jam.
Later that year, Living Colour was asked to open for the Rolling Stones on its Steel Wheels World Tour, for which the band received critical acclaim and enhanced it’s reputation notably. Also in 1989, Living Colour was named “Best New Artist” at the MTV Video Music Awards, and “Cult Of Personality” won a Grammy Award for “Best Hard Rock Performance.”
Judgement Night (1993)
“Me, Myself, & My Microphone”
Run DMC
Living Colour,
Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Faith No More, Fatal, Helmet, House of Pain, Andy MacPherson, J Mascis, Mudhoney, DJ Muggs, Pearl Jam, Rick Rubin, Run-D.M.C., Sir Mix-a-Lot, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Therapy?
(No) Dread (1993)
The Rock N Roll rocket ship, launched into the outer limits of musical space.
“Surfing With The Alien”
Joe Satriani
Surfing With The Alien
1987 —
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Jimmy Rip
Joe Satriani
Surfing With the Alien (1987)
Guns N Roses
Appetite for Destruction (1987)
1985 — The World According To Mick
Bernard Fowler
Second Coming
1986 — Not of this Earth
Joe Satriani
“Big Bad Moon”
Brothers of Sodom
A group of Young Americans, taking Mick Jagger for a ride.
1987 — Appetite For Destruction
Guns N’ Roses
“Rocket Queen”
1988 — Vivid
Living Colour
“Cult Of Personality”
1988 — A Vivid Good Year
Mick Jagger knows a good band when he sees one.
Like some sort of Rock N Roll God, Mick Jagger, in 1988, anointed a new generation of musicians talented and eclectic enough to remind us that there was more to Rock N Roll than anger, volume, and speed.
1989 — Black & White
International Music Award for “Best New Artist” (1989)
Eric Clapton
Why not a Little Jimi? (Acceptance Speech)
Chuck Berry
“Johnny B. Goode” — Living Colour (International Music Awards Performance)
“Elvis Is Dead”
Jethro Tull vs. Metallica
Steel Wheels (1989)
Living Colour
MTV
Grammy Awards
International Rock Awards (1989)
Tiny E Statues / Eric Clapton
(EC Was Here)
Johnny B. Goode (video)
Tiny Elvis? Could have been a Little Jimi.
Stone Free: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (1993)
“Crosstown Traffic”
Steel Wheels North American Tour
1990 — Time’s Up
1991 — Biscuits is a collection of energetic live recordings and previously unreleased outtakes and B-sides recorded between 1989 and 1991, the Muzz Skillings years.
1993 — Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix (“Crosstown Traffic”)
1993 — Judgement Night (“Me, Myself, And My Microphone”) w/ Run DMC
1994 — True Lies Soundtrack (“Sunshine Of Your Love”)
1995 — Pride
Back To Earth
After Living Colour’s dissolution, each member went on to work on solo projects, reunite with old bandmates, and join other bands, both in the studio and on the road.
Vernon — Mistaken Identity (1996)
with Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society
Defunkt
Guitar Oblique with David Torn and Elliott Sharp
Magic Science, Gil Evans’ arrangements of Jimi Hendrix
songs with Medeski, Martin & Wood, and the Gil Evans Orchestra
Salif Keita
James “Blood” Ulmer
Free Form Funky Freqs
Masque
Global Noize with Jason Miles
Earth Driver
Lenny White (Miles Davis)
Corey Glover — Hymns (1998)
As Reverend Daddy Love, formed a band called Vice with guitarist Mike Ciro
Sonic Adventure Remix (1998)
Live at CBGB’s
Live at The Wetlands (1999)
w/ Galactic
w/ Jane Getter
w/ OZ NOY
Will Calhoun —
Housework (1995)
Drumwave (1997)
Herb Alpert Colors (1999)
The Will Calhoun Quintet: Live at the Blue Note (2000)
Dhafer Youssef Electric Sufi (2001)
Native Lands (2011)
Life in This World (2015)
Celebrating Elvin Jones (2016)
2000 – with Bobby Watson (alto saxophone), John Benitez (bass), Orrin Evans (piano), and Terell Stafford (trumpet) Head>>Fake (drum/bass) with Doug Wimbish
Jungle Funk (1999)
Doug Wimbish — Trippy Notes for Bass (2000)
CinemaSonics (2008)
Cyberpunk Billy Idol (1993)
Don’t Look Back Al Green (1993)
Wandering Spirit Mick Jagger (1993)
Time Machine Joe Satriani (1993)
Never Turn Back (1993)
The Wolf That House Built (1994)
Slow Fuse (1995)
Medusa Annie Lennox
Letters Never Sent (1994)
Carly Simon: Live at Grand Central Station (1995)
12 Hits and a Bump (1996) w/Bernard
Mas Feedback (1997) w/Bernard
Miracles Bim Sherman (1997)
Ultra Depeche Mode (1997)
Bridges To Babylon Rolling Stones (1997)
Michael Hutchence (1999)
Jungle Funk (1999) with Will Calhoun and Vinx
Herb Alpert Colors (1999) with Will Calhoun
Dhafer Youssef Electric Sufi (2001) with Will Calhoun