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Post by davey on Jan 29, 2024 15:14:59 GMT
I've been obsessed with this performance lately. The outro is almost prog! Crazy!
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Post by loveless on Jan 29, 2024 15:25:07 GMT
I've been obsessed with this performance lately. The outro is almost prog! Crazy! I mean, you can see in the full episode that one of the members is not even THERE (Papa Dee - his percussion rig is fully set up), and they are still kicking almighty ass.
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Post by davey on Feb 4, 2024 8:06:29 GMT
This band backing up Cosby is insane…
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Post by loveless on Feb 4, 2024 19:19:25 GMT
Yeah, so much so that I went looking for any and all relevant information I could find about the players.
Someone like CG Boyd could probably identify most of them on sight.
So...the song itself comes from the late 60s when he was more or less backed by Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Band (this is confusing enough, cause...though many notables passed through THAT group...people who went on to Bill Withers, Earth Wind and Fire, etc....there were multiple lineups, mutinies, etc.). He remakes it as a single in 1973 (no players are listed, but..surely this is the crew you see onscreen).
By this time, Cosby is between projects, as it were - there's a jazz/funk band, jazz/funk albums...Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band is the band billed both here and on record, now featuring Stu Gardner (he and Coz co-wrote and recorded a song around this time called "Kiss Me" - which becomes the theme to The Cosby Show...I'm pretty sure Gardner is singing here)...but...also on record...(again, at various times before and after this appearance, so...who are we actually getting here?)...Ray Parker Jr., Big Black, Willie Bobo, George Bohannon, and...so on (apparently, earlier accomplices Quincy Jones and Carol Kaye are long gone by now). I see that Dusty Groove reissued a lot of this stuff (a few crucial years BEFORE some events in Cosby's life came to light), and I'm guessing this is on the basis of the various players, rather than ol' Silver Throat. There's a Fat Albert LP around this time - also probably featuring a number of these musicians.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 5, 2024 12:03:25 GMT
I've been obsessed with this performance lately. I'm trying to think of other heavy funk/latin/soul bands that wrote songs that wouldn't be out of place on Marty Robbins' "Gunfighter Ballads" and coming up blank. I guess if they had been from the north-east they probably wouldn't have touched the subject matter, but this is great!
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Post by davey on Feb 6, 2024 19:08:22 GMT
Yeah, so much so that I went looking for any and all relevant information I could find about the players. Someone like CG Boyd could probably identify most of them on sight. So...the song itself comes from the late 60s when he was more or less backed by Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Band (this is confusing enough, cause...though many notables passed through THAT group...people who went on to Bill Withers, Earth Wind and Fire, etc....there were multiple lineups, mutinies, etc.). He remakes it as a single in 1973 (no players are listed, but..surely this is the crew you see onscreen). By this time, Cosby is between projects, as it were - there's a jazz/funk band, jazz/funk albums... Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band is the band billed both here and on record, now featuring Stu Gardner (he and Coz co-wrote and recorded a song around this time called "Kiss Me" - which becomes the theme to The Cosby Show...I'm pretty sure Gardner is singing here)...but...also on record...(again, at various times before and after this appearance, so...who are we actually getting here?)...Ray Parker Jr., Big Black, Willie Bobo, George Bohannon, and...so on (apparently, earlier accomplices Quincy Jones and Carol Kaye are long gone by now). I see that Dusty Groove reissued a lot of this stuff (a few crucial years BEFORE some events in Cosby's life came to light), and I'm guessing this is on the basis of the various players, rather than ol' Silver Throat. There's a Fat Albert LP around this time - also probably featuring a number of these musicians. The comments on the YouTube video have a lot of talk about who the players are…
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Post by davey on Feb 10, 2024 23:19:27 GMT
This is amusingly terrible…
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Post by loveless on Feb 11, 2024 4:49:52 GMT
I very much wanted him to do one of his patented "Say WHAT?" interpretations of Shave and a Haircut at the end.
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Post by loveless on Feb 11, 2024 11:10:38 GMT
Those who are into this sort of thing will have seen it on bootlegs over the years.
But...I love it to bits. Some of Bowie's last singing before the coke lowers his voice, Ronno's last gig, Garson, Aysnley Dunbar (while I can't deny that he is heavy handed, I love this band and their performances here), "Dodo"...
But, maybe even more thrilling in 2024 -
Reg Fucking Presley!
and the duet with Marianne Faithful (these are the lost years, yes?) is magnificent.
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