Thursday, February 18, 2010
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Message
It was the strangest thing: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five playing before U2 and the then headliner, Todd Rundgren: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 1983. GF and TFF were excellent, riding a wave on their powerful early (and deliberately paced) hip-hop song, "The Message" (1982). There are many remixes, but it's hard to beat the original.
Today's Rune: Fertility.
p.s. One man pushed over the edge did a Kamikaze dive today into a federal building in Austin, Texas. My motto is, better to enjoy a Kamikaze drink with friends than to commit a crazy Kamikaze act alone. More, no doubt, will be revealed. My sympathies to the workers.
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That was a pretty cool funk jam, where have I been the past few decades.
The Austin paper reposted the guy's "manifesto" more of the same where a fool is so easily willing to cause harm for troubles he brought on himself when his "protests" fell on deaf ears.
Erik, I remember that tune as the first rap song I ever really liked. The DJ played the hell out of it at Alpena's only disco. It probably still gets lotsa play there..
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