Anyone who thinks they have all the Answers before they've even heard the Question - is Dangerously Deluded! Real Truth Requires Vigilance, Perseverance and Courage, regardless of Party and who wields Power. Left, Right, Center, Corporations, Government, Unions, Criminals or the Indifferent.
Long before Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park or Kid Rock there was yet another predominantly BLACK Rocking Rap band, besides Proper Grounds or Urban Dance Squad, coming out of Nashville Tennessee they were called - The Hard Corps! Their first CD "Def Before Dishonor" was released in 1991 by Interscope Records.
Live version of "Back In Black"
Essentially the Hard Corps was an all Black Rap Group, with an all White Rock Band Backing them up with 3-members of each. Put together and supported by the late Jam Master Jay of Run DMC this group was essentially a full-time version of what Anthrax and Public Enemy did *once* - and only *ONCE* - with their track "Bring the Noise" (Which came out the same year). The group went on to produce two more indie CD's "Hard Corps" and "Metal and Flesh".
I gotta say it, but what has happened with 24-7 SPyz is a Fucking Crime! I would be the first to agree that some of their albums over their almost 30 year career have been uneven, but man some of the high points are such pure unmitigated GOLD and it's hard to believe they couldn't possibly have scored at least one break through hit.
But then again, that's exactly what is it to live in Electric Purgatory.
In the early 90's their original singer was replaced by far more smooth and "mainstream" vocalist Jeff Broadnax and the group released two major label Cd's ("This is...24- Spyz" and "Strength in Numbers" which included the song "Crime Story". (This was from the Last show by that lineup in 1993 - the bit where the argue to let the stage-diving kid stay in the club is classic!)
Spyz on Beavis and Butthead w/Stuntman - Did I mention this Kicks Butt?
Spyz started out in 1986 in Brooklyn (Yes, BEFORE Living Colour) with their original lineup featuring P Fluid on vocals showing much more of a Fishbone/Bad Brains influence such as this cover of Kool and the Gang's "Jungle Boogie" from 1989.
After Broadnax left they recorded one more CD with Fluid "Temporarily Disconnected" but he eventually left the group again and for awhile became the vocalist for Bad Brains until they reunited with H.R., from that point on guitarist Jimi Hazel took over lead vocals. Although they've also gone through a number of different drummers they always retained both Jimi and bassist Rick Skatore.
Room #9 and Tick Tick Tick
Earth and Sky (Jimi Hazel on lead vocals)
As a power trio and released what may have been some of their best songs on the CD's "Heavy Metal Soul By the Pound". Here's one track from that CD.
Yeah x 3 (also Featuring dUg Pinnick of King's X)
As of now 24-7 has yet another new release called "Face the Day" and it's just plain mind-blowingly badass - but typically is going completely and totally ignored. The song "Soulsucker" just Fucking Floors me. Wanna know where Sevendust got half their shit? Open your Damn EARS people.
In response to the release of the Horrifically Fake version of the Obama's "Kenyan" Birth Certificate David Shuster and Tamaron Hall invited Orly Taitz on MSNBC to discuss the issue.
It wasn't long before logic, reason and decorum went flying out the window.
This is the current "Leader" of the Birther Movement? THIS!?
There's just so much wrong here it's hard to keep track. Her first false claim is that one of Obama relatives placed the birth Anouncment in the papers, based on a certificate that was created by simply filling out a form.
Except that some member of the Family didn't place the announcments, the State authorities in Hawaii did.
We have one more thing. We talked to reporter Will Hoover, who wrote a well-researched story for the Honolulu Advertiser on Nov. 9, 2008, about Obama's childhood years in the the Aloha State. It ran under the headline "Obama Slept Here."
In researching the story, he went to the microfilm archives and found the birth announcement for Obama. Actually, he found two of them, one in his Honululu Advertiser on Aug. 13 , 1961, and in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin the next day . They both said the same thing: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4."
But here's the thing. Newspaper officials he checked with confirmed those notices came from the state Department of Health.
"That's not the kind of stuff a family member calls in and says, 'Hey, can you put this in?'" Hoover explained.
So that theory is Bunk
Then in the midst of spouting jibberish and whining that Tamaron and David keep asking her follow-up question in the midst of her projectile bile spew - she claims that Obama can't be a natural-born citizen unless Both of his parents were Americans.
Huh?!!
This is something she repeated on the Colbert Report.
Colbert: What would he have to do to satisfy you and those in your movement? Taitz: In order to be president and commander in chief, he has to be a natural born citizen. So even if he were born in Hawaii, he cannot be the president and commander in chief specifically because of his multiple citizenship. Colbert: So there’s absolutely nothing he can do to satisfy you? Taitz: Unless he can bring his father out of the grave and make him a citizen post-mortem.
That's just flat-out Wrong.
Anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. Citizen and the one thing NONE of the Birthers have successfully provided any evidence that Stanley Ann Dunham ever left U.s. Soil in order to give birth to Barack Hussein Obama Jr on foreign soil.
That's because IT DIDN'T FRACKIN HAPPEN!
As noted by SkeeterVT when discussing the Orly supplied "Kenyan" document.
An examination of the photos reveal several inconsistencies in the alleged Kenyan birth certificate. They do not show the signatures of either the president's white, Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham or of his black, Kenyan-born father, Barack Obama, Sr. Nor do they show any signatures by the registrar or by the attending physicians. Kenya was under British rule in 1961. Under British law, birth certificates are not legally valid without such signatures.
Other discrepancies in the alleged Kenyan birth certificate include listing Obama's mother under his father's surname -- when, in fact, Dunham legally kept her maiden name throughout her marriage. And it lists Dunham's age as 16, when, in fact, she was 18 when she gave birth to the future president.
The lower-left-hand corner of the alleged document refers to the "Republic of Kenya." But Kenya did not gain its independence from Britain until 1963 -- when the young Barack was two years old.
Most importantly, Dunham never set foot on Kenyan soil -- In fact, the president's mother did not leave the United States until 1967, when she moved to Indonesia to live with her second husband, Lolo Seotoro (She divorced the senior Obama in 1964 after she learned that he was married to another woman in Kenya).
Then there's the fact that she has the unmitigated GALL to accuse people who support Obama as being equivilent to Street Thugs who supported the Nazi's - while she's sitting in Tel Aviv. Simply Stunning.
This is what happens when the Overton Window pulls you completely over the cliff. Radical far out of the mainstream views have become the Republican Stock-in-trade, people like Ann Coulter have specifically and deliberatly cultivated the Super-Crazy as part of reasonable discourse, to them Liberals are "Traitors" and "God Less" - and they've managed to succeed far beyond even their own wildest dreams when people can so easily believe that the Health Care Plan will "Kill the Elderly". How much further is it to go to "Obama is an Illegal Alien" as G. Gordan Liddy did on Hardball? As has been shown by the recent DKOS poll (Birther Mostly Southern, Overwhelmingly Republican), this isn't just the "fringe" of the Republican Party - it's their Lunatic Base!
If this is the way the the Grand Ole' Party finally shuffles off the mortal coil to join the Bull Moose and Whig party, all I can say is that it frankly can't happen soon enough.
Besides putting together The Time, Dez Dickerson and the Modernaires, The Family (featuring his ex-girl friend), Vanity 6, Apollonia 6 and fostering the solo musical careers of both Sheila E. and Carmen Electra - during his prime heyday during the 80's Prince also helped put together, with a healthy dose of support from his own Bassist Brown Mark, a Glam-Funk-Rock band called Mazarati.
"Player's Ball"
Unfortunately the group only release one album and broke up not long afterward, even though they were on Prince's own Paisley Park label.
Pedal Steel/Guitar Virtuoso Robert Randolph has set some parts of the world on Fire with his band "The Family". Learning to play from watching others in his Pentacostal Church in Orange NJ outside Newark, Robert was eventually "discovered" in Florida and has so far released three records and toured with blues giants such as Eric Clapton.
Here's a song I probably only heard once - from the multi-racial group Maggie's Dream featuring former Menudu member Rob (Draco) Rosa on vocals. Trust me, it rocks a lot more than Ricky Martin.
First single - "Love and Fears" (1991)
A short documentary on the band.
"It's a Sin"
In the mid-90's former members of the band joined with Dan Reed to form the group Adrenaline Sky. Rob Rosa continues to release albums in English and Spanish as a solo artist with a sound still similar to Maggie's.
Discovered by ex-patriot American Terence Trent D'arby, Andrew Roachford became a huge star in his native England, but barely managed to make a dent on U.S. shores with his 1988 self-titled debut CD. (Other than it's first single reaching #25 of the U.S. Top 100 Singles Chart) But like a lot of other artists in Electric Purgatory, that didn't stop him for a second.
Ever since bulldozing his way onto the scene with unforgettable tracks like 'Cuddly Toy' and 'Family Man' in the late 80s, Andrew Roachford's maverick take on music has spread far and wide. As the first artist to sign a staggering seven-album deal with Columbia Records, it heralded the beginning of something big. "Getting signed and being a black British artist gave me a sense of pride" enthuses Andrew.
Andrew's R&B inflected Rock has gained a ton of followers in England over the last decade and he has managed to release all 7 of those albums.
What happens when you slam the Sex Pistols Head First into Bob Marley?
Bad Brains is what happens.
"Rise" from 1993.
Formed in 1979 by former jazz guitarist Dr Know along with vocalist H.R. (born Paul D. Hudson), bassist Darryl Aaron Jenifer, and drummer Earl Hudson put together a sound in Washington D.C. that nobody - and I do mean NOBODY had heard before. A sound that inspired groups as diverse as 24-7 Spyz, Living Colour, Fugazi and Janes Addiction.
"I Against I" released by SST in 1986
In the early 90's originally vocalist H.R. left the group and was replaced by Israel Joseph-I for their first major label release "Rise" but the change was too much for old fans, and not enough to attract new ones (although it remains one of my own favorite records) eventually HR returned for 1995's "God of Love" for Maverick Records , but sales still lagged and they were almost as quickly dropped.
Sailing on Live (1979)
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In 2006, Bad Brains reunited for a few shows at CBGB's, which quickly sold out. With a resurging interest in the band, in early 2007, Megaforce announced that they had signed them to their roster. Under Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's studio supervision, the original band went back to the studio for the first time in over a decade and recorded Build a Nation,
Essentially the Hard Corps was an all Black Rap Group, with an all White Rock Band Backing them up with 3-members of each. Put together and supported by the late Jam Master Jay of Run DMC this group was essentially a full-time version of what Anthrax and Public Enemy did *once* - and only *ONCE* - with their track "Bring the Noise" (Which came out the same year). The group went on to produce two more indie CD's "Hard Corps" and "Metal and Flesh".
