"IT'S
TIME
TO
GET
EVEN
MORE
"BRUTAL"
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"!YES.
THIS
IS "EXTRA-HARD WORK". BUT IT'S !FUN THOUGH." IT IS WITH:
THE
"MUSIC":
AND EVEN MORE "FUN" WITH
"MUSIC". !YES. MYSELF
LIKING VARIOUS FORMS OF "MUSIC". HOUSE MUSIC, DANCE MUSIC, AND
LATIN-DANCE MUSIC. BUT ALSO; JAZZ, SOUL, SOUL-VOCAL, URBAN-SOUL, FUNK,
ELECTRIC-FUNK, RAP-HOUSE, SOUL-HOUSE, OLD-SCHOOL RAP (PRE 90'S AND
EARLY-MID 90'S RAP ONLY), DISCO (OLD-SCHOOL70'S DISCO. 80'S AND 90'S
DISCO ALSO.) RAVE, TECHNO, TECHNO-RAVE, TECHNO-FUNK, ACID-HOUSE,
TECHNO-HOUSE, CLUB-FUNK, CLUB, ELECTRONICA, AND PROGRESSIVE-HOUSE
MUSIC. DUB-STEP, RAP-STEP, JAZZ-STEP, FUTURE-HOUSE. ETC... THERE BEING
TOO MANY DAMN MUSIC GENRES THESE DAYS. I WHO
LIKE GOOD OLE MUSIC IN GENERAL. MYSELF BEING MULTI-VERSED IN MUSIC AS
YOU CAN SEE. I WHO ALSO USE TO SING CLASSICAL MUSIC AND OPERA IN HIGH
SCHOOL. ON THE "REAL" HERE. I "DID". I WHO ALSO USE TO OWN OVER "800"
OLD-SCHOOL L.P.'S (ALBUMS). AND OVER 1000 CASSETTE TAPES (WHICH I STILL
DO TODAY). C.D.'S, ETC...
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NOW IN THE 80'S I
LIKED
"PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC" AND "TROUBLE FUNK". I LIKED;
THE "COMMODORES", "RON BANKS AND THE DRAMATICS", THE "TEMPTATIONS",
"NEW BIRTH", "EARTH WIND AND FIRE", "KOOL AND THE GANG", THE "JACKSON
5", THE "ISLEY BROTHERS", "LOU RAWLS", "JAMES BROWN", "SLY AND THE
FAMILY STONE", THE "BROTHERS JOHNSON", THE "DAZZ BAND", "RAMSEY LEWIS",
"ROY AYERS", "GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION", "THE BAR-KAYS", "BRICK",
"SLAVE", "CHIC", "CON FUNK SHUN", "GEORGE DUKE".
AND !MANY !MANY OTHERS. IN THE 70'S.
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IN MY YOUNGER
YEARS IN THE MID 60'S (WHICH WAS MY VERY FIRST EXPERIENCE LIKING
MUSIC THEN). I LIKED "ALL" OF THE OLD HITS BY "CHUCK BERRY" THEN. BACK
THEN THEY
WERE STILL PLAYING "STRONG". AND SOME OF HIS NEW HITS THEN ALSO. AND SO
WERE
HIS VIDEOS. THE MAN WAS SIMPLY "BAD ASS". HIM "JAMMING" ON HIS GUITAR
AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS "GETTING-DOWN" ON THE DANCE FLOOR. !HE OF WHO
WAS
LATER COPIED BY "MANY". INCLUDING THE "BEACH BOYS" AND "ELVIS". !YEP.
"CHUCK BERRY" !HE WAS TRULY THE "KING OF ROCK-AND-ROLL". !NO DOUBT. AND
HIM BEING MY FIRST LOVED MUSIC ARTIST. AND SO. THE FIRST MUSIC I LIKED
WAS ACTUALLY "ROCK-AND-ROLL" THEN. !AH.
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IN MY YOUNGER YEARS IN THE LATER
60'S (WHEN IT WAS JUST 6 TO 10 YEARS OF AGE). ALL I HEARD THROUGHOUT MY
PARENTS HOUSEHOLD THEN. WAS "BLUES". "LOU RAWLS".
AND
THAT BAD ASS "JAMES BROWN" THEN. !YEP. MY FATHER THAT LOVED "LOU
RAWLS". AND
"EVERYBODY ELSE" THAT LOVED "JAMES BROWN". !OF COURSE. "JAMES
BROWN"
LIKE
"CHUCK BERRY". WERE "MEGA MUSIC STARS" IN THEIR !LONG !LONG YEARS ON
"TOP" THEN. THEN IN THE EARLY 70'S. IT WAS THOSE
BAD ASS "ISLEY BROTHERS" AND THE "JACKSON 5" ON TOP. IN "1974" I HAD
BEGUN RECORDING MY OWN MUSIC THEN (ON "8 TRACKS"). WHICH WAS ALL OF THE
ABOVE MUSIC THEN. !AFTER THAT (FROM 1974 ON). I GREW A LOVE FOR THE NEW
"DISCO GENRE" THEN.
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WITH THE MID TO LATE 70'S DISCO
"BLOWING-UP" THEN-AFTER. AND I DO INDEED MEAN "BLOWING-UP" THEN. WITH
ARTIST AND/OR GROUPS LIKE; "THE 5TH DIMENSION", "A TASTE OF HONEY", "AMII STEWART", "BT EXPRESS", "CHAKA
KHAN", "CHIC", "CROWN HEIGHT AFFAIR", "DONNA SUMMER", "EVELYN CHAMPAGNE
KING", "FOXY", "GQ", "GARY'S GANG", "GENE CHANDLER", "GLORIA GAYNOR",
"GRACE JONES", "GWEN MCCRAY", "BOHANNON", "HEATWAVE", "INSTANT FUNK",
"KAREN YOUNG", "KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND", "LIPPS INC", "LOVE
UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA", "THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER", "MCFADDEN &
WHITEHEAD", "MISIQUE", "ODYSSEY", "PATRICK HERNANDEZ", "PEACHES &
HERB", "PETER BROWN", THE "POINTER SISTERS", "THE RITCHIE FAMILY",
"ROSE ROYCE", "SHAMPOO", "SHIRLEY & COMPANY", "SISTER SLEDGE",
"S.O.S. BAND", "THE SYLVERS", "SYLVESTER", "T-CONNECTION", "VAN
MCCOY", "VILLAGE PEOPLE". WITH SO MANY MORE GOOD DISCO ARTIST AND/OR
GROUPS THEN. !BECAUSE "EVERYONE" HAD MADE SOME SORT OF A "DISCO
SONG" THEN. JUST TO MAKE THE "HOT"
"HOT" DISCO CHARTS THEN.
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!YEP. AND IF YOU "WEREN'T" IN THE TIMES OF "DISCO" MUSIC? THEN YOU
HAD
"MISSED-OUT" ON SOMETHING !VERY !VERY "FUN". AND ON
SOMETHING !VERY !VERY "SPECIAL" THEN. AS THE DISCO CLUBS
HAD "EXPLODED"
ACROSS THE NATION THEN. AS THE "OLD-SCHOOLED BARS" BEGAN "CONVERTING"
INTO "DISCOTHEQUE'S" THEN. FROM THE EARLY 70'S ON. ALONG WITH THE
"ALL-NEW" CONSTRUCTION OF THE MASSIVE NEW
"DISCOTHEQUE'S" THEN. !THAT OF WHICH OF COURSE LEAD TO TODAY'S "MASSIVE
DANCE CLUBS". !OF COURSE IT DID. DISCO MUSIC DURING IT'S
INFANCY. !THAT WHICH I WITTINESSED IN THE EARLY 70'S. AS STATED BY
OTHER MUSIC HISTORIANS:
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"Disco Acts (Music
Groups) charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's
popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It (Disco Music) had its roots
in Clubs that
catered to African American's, Gay's, Psychedelic's (Hippies and Go Go
Dancers). As well as Other Communities in New York City and
Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco also was a
reaction by New York City's Gay, African American, and Latino Communities
against both the domination of White Rock Music."
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I WHO HEARD ALL SORTS OF "WHITE PEOPLE" BAD-MOUTHING
DISCO MUSIC BACK
THEN. NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN "TODAY". THEY ACT LIKE THEY INVENTED IT THEN?
THEY WHO HAVE EVEN PRODUCED SHOWS LIKE "THAT 70'S SHOW" WHICH MAKES THE
APPEARANCE THAT ALL "WHITE
PEOPLES" LOVED DISCO MUSIC THEN. WHEN IN
REALITY THEY "HATED" IT THEN. AND THEY HAD "CURSED" IT BACK IN A DAY. "WHITE MEN"
CURSED IT THEN. WHILST "WHITE
WOMEN" EMBRACED IT LATER IN THE LATE 70'S.
I KNOW, BECAUSE I WAS THERE IN THOSE TIMES. "WHITE MEN"
WHO ALSO HAD MANY
MANY ANTI-DISCO DEMONSTRATIONS THEN. !WHY? BECAUSE DISCO MUSIC WASN'T
WHITE CREATED AND WHITE CONTROLLED THEN. IT BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN AND
LATIN CONTROLLED INSTEAD THEN. !YET HERE THEY ARE NOW ATTEMPTING TO
STEAL IT AS IF IT WAS THEIR OWN CREATION.
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!DISCO MUSIC BACK THEN THAT WAS "BESTING" THE "ROCK MUSIC" THEN. !YES
IT
DID
THEN.
AND DISCO MUSIC THAT HAD
"ATTRACTED" A HUGE
MAJORITY OF WOMEN THEN. !INCLUDING "WHITE WOMEN". !THEY OF WHOM
THEN
BEGAN TO "ABANDON" THE "ROCK-AND-ROLL" BARS AND CLUBS. !THEM THEN
COMING TO THE "DISCOTHEQUE'S". AND BACK THEN.
MOST OF THE "WHITE GUYS"
HAD
"HATED"
THAT
!FACT.
THAT
"DISCO
MUSIC"
WAS
THAT
POPULAR.
!IT
BRINGING
PEOPLES
TOGETHER
FROM
ALL
WALKS-OF-LIFE
THEN.
AND
FROM
ALL
RACES.
AND
THE
"DISCOTHEQUE'S" THAT
BECAME "MELTING-POTS" THEN. PLACES WHERE LOTS AND LOTS OF "WHITE WOMEN"
THEN. BECAME "SOCIALLY" WITH "OTHER" NON-WHITE MEN. !AH. AND !NOW YOU
SEE THAT "HATRED" THAT MOST "WHITE
MEN" HAD AGAINST "DISCO MUSIC" THEN.
I
KNOW. BECAUSE I HAD "LIVED" THOSE TIMES.
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BACK THEN. "FUNK MUSIC"
THAT HELD-IT-OWN THOUGH. WITH FUNK GROUPS LIKE "SLY AND THE FAMILY
STONE"
THAT WERE STILL "GOING-STRONG" THEN. BUT. GROUPS LIKE "EARTH WIND AND
FIRE" WAS
THE
"BEST" THEN THOUGH IN MY EYES THEN. DURING THE EARLY DISCO/POP MUSIC
YEARS (IN THE EARLY 70'S). !YES. AS THE "POP (POPULAR) MUSIC"
GENRE WAS ALSO BORN THEN. "EARTH WIND AND FIRE" BEING LIKE
A POP MUSIC BAND OR GROUP THEN. BECAUSE THEY HAD "CROSSED" GENDER AND
RACIAL
LINES AS FAR AS THEIR "POPULARITY" WAS CONCERNED THEN. AND "WHITE",
"BLACK", AND "HISPANIC" PEOPLES LIKED THEM ALIKE THEN. MAKING
THEM
"POPULAR"
THEN.
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THEN IN THE LATER 70'S ALSO.
PARLIAMENT AND
THE FUNKADELIC'S. "BLEW THE ROOF OFF THE MOTHER SUCKER". ALONG WITH
"BOOTSY COLLINS". BUT SO DID "AFRIKA BAMBAATAA". AND "GRANDMASTER
FLASH". "KURTIS BLOW". AND !MANY !MANY OTHERS. WHO WERE ALL OF MY
FAVORITES THEN.
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"TECHNO-FUNK MUSIC" WAS BORN IN THE
LATER 70'S THEN-ALSO. VIA THE MERGER OF "FUNK" AND THE
"TECHNO-SPACE-SOUNDS"
OF THE PARLIAMENT AND THE FUNKADELIC'S. WITH "RAW
TECHNO/ELECTRONIC MUSIC" ALSO
BEING BORN THEN IN THE LATER 70'S. WITH THE WHITE GERMAN GROUP
"KRAFTWERK".
WHO I ALSO LIKED THEN. BUT THE "TECHNO MUSIC" GENRE THAT GOT IT'S
"OFFICIAL" START IN MY HOME TOWN OF "DETROIT" IN THE EARLY 80'S. !YEP.
"TECHNO" MUSIC BEING A PRODUCT CREATED IN "BERLIN GERMANY", AND IN
"DETROIT MICHIGAN". BUT SO WAS "HOUSE MUSIC". !IT ALSO BEING
A
PRODUCT
CREATED
IN
"BERLIN
GERMANY",
AND
IN
"DETROIT
MICHIGAN".
BUT
WITH
IT'S
"ORIGINAL
BIRTH"
IN
"CHICAGO"
THOUGH.
!YEP. AND NOTE THAT ALL OTHER MUSIC TODAY (A 1000 DAMN
UNNECESSARY GENRE'S) IS MERELY A
"COPY" OF THE ABOVE
"PIONEERED"
MUSIC. !YEP.
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MYSELF
LIKING VARIOUS FORMS OF MUSIC AS I SAID. I WHO ALSO LIKE VARIOUS FORMS
OF LATIN MUSIC. LIKE SALSA MUSIC (WHICH HELP START DISCO MUSIC). ON THE
"REAL" AGAIN HERE. I WHO HAD LOTS OF HISPANIC FRIENDS IN THE LATE
"70'S" AND EARLY "80'S" (WHO WERE MOSTLY PUERTO RICAN'S AND AFRO-RICAN'S) BECAUSE OF IT. AND
MYSELF "LOVING"; THE "HOUSE", THE "DANCE" ("CLUB DANCE"), AND THE
"TECHNO/TECNO" MUSIC THE MOST. "RFUNK" (RAP-FUNK & ROCK-FUNK). SOME
LATIN/LATINO CLUB DANCE MUSIC. AND SOME GOOD OLD "VOCAL MUSIC". I WHO
USE TO BE A REAL D.J. "PART TIME" IN THE 90'S (ON AN "AIR FORCE BASE").
AND
HERE NOW BEING MY
LATEST MIX'S AND CUTS: