Gil Scott-Heron: Billy Green Is DeadFrom Free Will (RCA, 1972)So for all intents and purposes, the general election is set. As I was driving in the car last week listening to some GSH on the Cupertino Classic, this song really spoke to me. Thirty-six years after its release, it sounds as if it was recited on the street corner just last week and resonates just as much.Sounding like a conversatio...
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I have nothing to say but, listen. You'll understand.Enjoy! That's 10 right. I mean 10 words, Right?
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My earlier call for New Year's resolutions elicited some interesting responses, but there are a few more days left until 2007.Gil Scott-Heron wanted us to change the world for the better. Not a bad idea. What about the rest of you? Are you gonna change the world? Are you gonna change your socks? Is there a band or musician or type of music that you're curious about or that you've previously avo...
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...hey there MOG-a-licious, what up? Me, I've been doing my thing but still keeping my ear to the ground and "election day's coming" says the hoofbeats of the breathless media masses that I hear far off in the distance...I don't know about the rest of you all but all of these debates, saber rattling and gnashing of teeth by the over-eager lot trying to justify why they should keep their cushy j...
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I knew Gil Scott-Heron's message would be lost amidst the masses' general confusion when, in the nineties, his epic statement "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was restated (by KRS-One, of all people) in a Nike commercial. Perhaps the only positive from that travesty was Scott-Heron received a well-deserved royalty check.Something about my last post really struck a chord with me, as did th...
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I feel like posting some Gil Scott-Heron. The obvious one would be "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", but if you've heqard anything by the man you've heard that, and it's been milked and beat to death by everybody with an agenda and everyone trying to make themselves look like part of the counterculture for many years, so maybe you'd like to hear something else. I thought "Johannesburg" fi...
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*I am* here:I am recycling this track. And in light of the posts made today, I feel moved to share with you.I may go off on to a far out tangent here, but stick with me. Hopefully everything will work out in the end .... hopefully.I saw Chris (Jesus, It is always weird saying that, for a few reasons, only more so now.) as a puzzle. When I would put together a jigsaw puzzle, one of the most trie...
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Although I always think of Dilla with this one. Beautiful One.
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When your hard drive crashes (Dale's the lucky one) and you've got to make musical ends meet ...I feel blessed to be in a locale where a viable free musical resource (read radio show) exists that will sustain me.Meet the World Famous Lessons In Jazz Series. This show began on the campus of Hampton University in 1997, hit the airwaves in 2001 and has been a fixture of my being since. Check the ...
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Gil Scott-Heron is an American poet and musician well known for his music in the 70's. "The revolution will not be televised" was his most successful song, but he does have a huge catalog that is worth checking out.I found this video on You Tube the other day and thought it was worth posting.
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One of the greatest soul/jazz singers around. Kind of off the radar lately. A bit of trouble with the law. Man, his voice was so good...I wish he could resurrect his musical career...Totally a conscious artist.
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The legendary Gil-Scott Heron, the black radical poet, musician, composer, author, purveyor of spoken word and singer (whom many refer to lovingly with titles like “the black Bob Dylan” and “the godfather of rap”), has been long presumed dead due to his conspicuous absence from music. Though kept alive through retrospectives and reverential referencing [...]
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NYC, this Wednesday you have a chance to experience the magic of Gil Scott-Heron LIVE at B.B. Kings. You already know, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Come see Gil Scott-Heron, produced by Jill Newman Productions, Nov. 4th at 8pm. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Click here for tix.
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