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Reid. 

“Voodoo Pimp Stroll”

Vernon Reid & Masque
Known Unknown
2004
((( song )))

(((*VERNON-ONSTAGE-STUDIO-wTYPEVernon Reid

The Idea of Living Colour
Vernon Reid put the first Living Colour configuration together in 1983, and after a number of trial and error attempts, in 1985 he met Corey Glover at a mutual friend’s birthday party, and Living Colour’s history was about to begin.

LIVING COLOUR
Vernon Cont’d

1980 — DOWNTOWN NYC
Ronald Shannon Jackson and The Decoding Society
1980Eye On You
1981Nasty
1982Thermonuclear Sweat (w/Defunkt)
1982Mandance (Antilles)

1982 — On Defunkt’s Thermonuclear Sweat, Vernon was more rhythm, melodic, and beat driven … a sort of Funk-infused, Hard Rock sound, reminiscent of EDDIE HAZEL and early (70s) FUNKADELIC.
1983Barbeque Dog (Antilles)
1983Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival (Knit Classics)
1983Street Priest
1984Smash & Scatteration (w/
Bill Frisell)
1985Decode Yourself (Island)

“Cp Time”
Vernon Reid
Mistaken Identity
2004
((( song )))

VERNON-PANEL#1-SML— dave.

Vernon Reid‘s musical career started in Downtown New York City’s darker, Lower East Side. The Bowery, CBGB … 

He started with Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society, the young guitarist in the drummer’s band. Vernon was in a space where, in the early 1980s, the more open-minded, free-thinking, improvisational musicians were creating a sound they called “FREE JAZZ.”
Movement elders included: RONALD SHANNON JACKSON,  JAMES “BLOOD” ULMER (w/Vernon), CECIL TAYLOR, PHAROAH SANDERS, and ORNETTE COLEMAN (w/Will)  

For Vernon, it was a fine education, and fortunately for all who appreciate Living Colour, one of his best lessons was meeting DEFUNKT in a small basement club called THE KNITTING FACTORY.

A band at home [DOWNTOWN], but a band whose sound was more accessible, more musical, LESS FREE?
Some called it “AVANT-FUNK,” and it was a sound that more accurately represented where Vernon’s sonic journey was headed.

1985 BLACK ROCK COALITION
1986 — 
1987 — 

First, playing clubs in the city’s five boroughs (Beastie Boys), and Manhattan,
notably at CBGB. Downtown, in the Bowery, also home of
Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads, The Ramones …

CBGB (2013) FILM

1988Vivid
1989 — Rolling Stones “Steel Wheels” North American Tour

1989 — Saturday Night Live
1990Time’s Up
1991 — Lollapalooza Festival (Inaugural)
1991Eye & i (w/Melvin Gibbs, DK Dyson, Bernie Worrell)

1992
1993Stain
“Crosstown Traffic”  (Stone Free: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix)

1994No Dread (Live Recordings from 1993 World Tour)
“Sunsine Of Your Love” (True Lies)  w/ Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton
1995Pride (New/Old)

“Who Are You Today?”
Vernon Reid
Mistaken Identity
1996 — Prince Glam Slam (Miami Beach)
((( song )))

MistakenIdentity-Collage-1-SML

— yZ.

solo
1996Mistaken Identity (Solo)
1997 — Naked Launch (Hubble Telescope)
1998GTR OBLQ (Guitar Oblique)
w/Elliott Sharp and David Torn

1999Prince’s Purple Party
2000 — Living Colour Reunion @ CBGB (Y2K)
2001 — Living Colour Reunion Tour

“Terrorism” ((( video )))

911 —  Beginning Of The End
POST APOCALYPTIC RESURRECTION

 

 — video by Larry Blumenstein Video Productions

2002Yohimbe Brothers

Yohimbe Brothers
@ The Bowery Ballroom
New York City (2002)
After the dissolution of Living Colour (1994), Vernon’s solo material was often described as “avant,” a return to the New York City Underground, where his career started in the early 1980s.

Although reminiscent of his beginning with Ronald Shannon Jackson and The Decoding Society, the addition of 21st Century mixer Dj Logic, Vernon left no doubt that as always, he was looking toward the future.

2003CollideOscope
2004 — 
2005 — 
2006 — 
2007 — Wimbash / Brazil
2008 — 
2009Chair In The Doorway
2010 — 
2011 — 
2012 — Spectrum Road. w/
2013 — VIVID 25th ANNIVERSARY
2014 — 
2015“Who Shot Ya?” Violent Summer In The City
2016 — Get On The Boat (Rock N Roll Cruise Ship Elders)
2017 —  SHADE
2018“Machine Gun”  b/ Band of Gypsys (Re-Visited)
2019 — Covid Goes Viral
Blues Cruise out of New Orleans followed (without a break) by a Rock N Roll Carribean Cruise that left Fort Lauderdale, the week we learned of the presence of COVID-19.
2020 — VIRUS, VACCINE, AND WAR
Give The Drummer Some w/ Cindy Blackman, Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin, Kirk Hammett
2021 — Hope Springs Temporarily / Summerland Tour

 

Everclear

2022 — Interrupted Again (Second Apocalypse)
2023 — 

VERNON REID
In The Past

w/ …
Mick Jagger

Jack Bruce
David Torn
Elliott Sharp
Prince
B.B. King
Bernie Worrell
Terry Bozzio
Carlos Santana
Public Enemy
Rollins Band
Janet Jackson
Mariah Carey
Tracy Chapman
Don Byron
Roy Hargrove
DJ Spooky
The Roots
Eye & I
Ambitious Lovers
Spearhead
Black Sugar Transmission
(Reid solos on the title track of 2009’s USE IT EP)
MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Madeleine Peyroux
Meridiem
Lenny White (Bitches Brew 50 Anniversary Project)

 

— Living Colour w/ The Last Poets

“TONGUES ON FIRE”
BLACK PANTHERS TRIBUTE
Paris, France (2/6/10)
written b/ David Murray
art b/ Emory Douglas
musical interpretation b/ Living Colour

Living Colour
Vernon Reid (guitar)
Corey Glover (vocals)
Will Calhoun (drums)
Doug Wimbish (bass guitar)

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