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It’s time to Put Respect on the Fifth Dimension’s name 👊🏿 Age Of Aquarius is Prog Soul Prime

When I think of tunes that defined Black Rock for me? Fencewalk featuring Omar Mesa on guitar was definitive . Prog Soul & Black Rock as terminologies have quite a bit of overlap. Prog Soul allows for music that doesn’t necessarily foreground “Rock”elements like aggressive guitar

💯. Also? His cover of The In Crowd back in the 60’s. Maurice White was once the drummer in Ramsey Lewis’s trio back in the Chicagoland days

That under examination is not accidental in spite of commercial success bands like WAR, Funkadelic, EWF, & Isley Bros were given NO SERIOUS EXAMINATION OR CRITICAL CONSIDERATION by The Rock Establishment like Rolling Stone In the 70’s at the height of their creative output.

Produced by Charles Stepney of EWF fame.

His album Inspiration Information is a prime source document of Prog Soul. It’s literally the context for tracks like XI-30, Not Available, & Miss Pretty. Snuggie was fully a decade before Prince.

Dismissive was the default stance of writers like Dave Marsh to Black Music that didn’t CONFORM to the suffocatingly rigid predetermined ideas of what the limits of Black expressions should be. WAR was considered Eric Burdon’s backup band for YEARS after transcending that role.

Jann Wenner

Ohio Players released Concept Albums - Pain. Pleasure. Ecstacy. Angel. Fire 🔥. They were given NO SERIOUS CRITICAL ANALYSIS of their Aesthetic. Their photographic imagery stands up to ANY OF THEIR PEERS IN ROCK. It was determined at some level that they were NOT TO BE SEEN.

Those Ohio Players album covers, & tunes contained within , spoke to a sexual sub-culture that no one, critically, was prepared to take on (certainly NOT Jet Magazine)-yet we got teams of dialogue about how transgressive the Velvet Underground was (no shade to Moe Tucker & crew)

& David Fricke - who has fought consistently for inclusion in Rolling Stone

How I feel about the result of the NBA finals from my NYC/East coast perch

Or put another way

Pre, and post Dark Side Pink Floyd was the inspiration for George Clinton to create Funkadelic. That’s directly from George to me in conversation. He has also said this on the record.

Jeff Beck played like a careless, curious GOD, in this way; he couldn’t care less about what other guitarists were doing, or what you thought about what he was doing. He had a boundless curiosity that kept him ever fabulously evolving. HBD 🥳 to the 🎸 GOAT 🐐 ♥️🌹

It’s the look of love. Like when you realize that someone you care about (friend, fam, significant other) is really, really, good at something - so good in fact, that you’re in awe of it. That look on Robert’s face has nothing to do with them both being Rock Stars. Nothing at all

WOW 🚀 🎁 🥳 🎂

Thank you! 🙏🏿 We enjoyed our NPR Music #TinyDesk experience.

Gil Scott-Heron - Black Wax youtu.be/gkKZlCjf6tw?si… via YouTube First time hearing this! From the text it seems that this song is about the first time Gil encountered Reggae music. This is the most I’ve ever seen Gil Scott-Heron smile on stage.

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