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Hi, all,
RUTH COPELAND was an early driving force in Parliament-Funkadelic, a funk-rock siren now getting her just due.
FACEBOOK has a new fan page for her: just go to Facebook, search for Ruth Copeland (singer/musician), and click 'Like' on her page to show your love!
-Funk'n'Roll
(2 days ago)
SEE THE SEQUEL VIDEO TO BETTY DAVIS' "F.U.N.K.": "YVONNE FAIR- FUNKY MUSIC SHO' NUFF TURNS ME ON (1975)" on my channel!
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SEE THE SEQUEL VIDEO TO BETTY DAVIS' "F.U.N.K.": "YVONNE FAIR- FUNKY MUSIC SHO' NUFF TURNS ME ON (1975)" on my channel!
(1972) Ruth Copeland is an important missing chapter in the history of Parliament-Funkadelic. In the early 70's she co-wrote, sang, recorded, and performed with them. Such staples as "Come In Out of the Rain" and "The Breakdown" came from her pen. Also, many of the support vocals on the first Parliament album, "Osmium" (1970), are Ruth's.
From the moment Sly & the Family Stone got their hands on James' groove, Funk was an inclusive party. George Clinton founded P-Funk on that core truth and has never lost sight of it. The British soul waif Ruth Copeland became part of the new funk mob by '70. She made two albums of her own, backed by the Funkadelic band (technically at this point, Parliament was considered the singers upfront.) The LPs are pounding out FunkRock years ahead of Betty Davis; but also, with her poetic neo-folk dramas, Ruth predates the innovations of Kate Bush. By 1972, there was a rift in which the classic Funkadelic band left Clinton and toured with Ruth for long stretches. She opened for Sly & the Family Stone for much of them. Then, after an RCA album in'76, she disappeared. Both of the early LPs are available on the "Gimme Shelter: The Invictus Sessions " CD (1998). This includes her two epic Stones covers, "Gimme Shelter" and "Play With Fire".
The classic Funkadelic band are:
Eddie Hazel, lead guitar
Bernie Worrell, keyboards
Billy "Bass" Nelson, bass
Tawl Ross rhythm guitar
Tiki Fulwood, drums
http://www.answers.com/topic/ruth-cop...
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/m...
For more of the "Herstory of Rock" in each decade, check out the Playlists at my Channel!
Tym Stevens
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Check out the new album, ROME, by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi.
This homage to the 60's and 70's Italian soundtracks reunites the actual musicians, including Alessandroni and his Canto Moderni choir, and ethereal singer Edda Dell'Orso!
Also along are Jack White (The White Stripes) and Norah Jones. Show your love for Morricone, Umiliani, and company by checking out this great album.
-Funk'n'Roll
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It's with great sadness that we lament the loss of POLY STYRENE.
The mother of all Riot Grrrls. The maelstrom who created one of Punk's most essential albums, "Germ Free Adolescents". Here is my tribute video to Poly and all of the 70's Punk women who reinvented the future for us.
Total respect.
(2 weeks ago)
The Women of 1970's Punk!
(See also Part 1 prequel video, "THE RUNAWAYS -QUEENS OF NOISE (1977)", and the Part 3 sequel: "LiLiPUT -EI...
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The Women of 1970's Punk!
(See also Part 1 prequel video, "THE RUNAWAYS -QUEENS OF NOISE (1977)", and the Part 3 sequel: "LiLiPUT -EISIGER WIND (1981)")
Idealism collapsed into anger by the mid-70's. With the wrenching backlash of Punk Rock and the empowerment of feminism, the modern Rock'n'Roll woman was forged and set loose. Every girl now walking with a fierce heart and strong stride is their heir. Let's give it up for the mothers of the revolution.
The accused: The RUNAWAYS, teen maelstorm from California who forecast every Punk and Metal grrrl to come; TINA WEYMOUTH, bassist for the Talking Heads and leader of the Tom Tom Club; her comrades from CBGB's -the New York club where Punk was born- were DEBBY HARRY of Blondie, and PATTI SMITH; Somali/Brit POLY STYRENE piledrived with the X-RAY SPEX; and her sax player, LARA LOGIC, started the postpunk band Essential Logic; Joan Jett was so enamored of Punk that she had to forge a new future beyond the Runaways; her near-twin, bassist GAYE ADVERT, sparked the UK band The Adverts; one of the first groups on the heels of the Sex Pistols was SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, paving postpunk and goth: from Detroit, NIKKI & THE CORVETTES were the Ramones' sisters in spirit; San Francisco brought the rage with PENELOPE HOUSTON inciting The AVENGERS; the English PENETRATION was spearheaded by PAULINE MURRAY; poet/artist/proactivist LYDIA LUNCH fronted many New York projects, including the wonderfully named No Wave band, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks; her compatriots JUDY NYLON and PATTI PALLADIN grabbed attention with SNATCH; the Los Angeles scene crested with folks like EXENE CERVANKA of X, PAT and ALICE BAG (no relation) of The BAGS, and DIANNE CHAI of the ALLEY CATS; wielding her axe like Lizzy Borden is the eternal POISON IVY of the garage psychobillies, The CRAMPS; political firebrand VI SUBVERSA flicked 'mother wit' like a whip with the POISON GIRLS; HAZEL O'CONNOR broke through scoring and starring in the undersung Punk film, "Breaking Glass" (and inspiring Pris from "Blade Runner"); from the ashes of junkiedom, MARIANNE FAITHFULL made an arresting comeback in ravaged granduer; from Georgia, KATE PIERSON and CINDY WILSON brought the mod past into the eerie future with the B-52's; CHRISSIE HYNDE left Ohio, worked in McClaren's and Westwood's SEX boutique, and formed the PRETENDERS; starting as erratic punks, no one could predict that THE SLITS would shortly flip the script into postpunk; the DELTA 5 did the original "Mind Your Own Business" covered by Chicks On Speed; from San Francisco, domme JENNIFER MIRO leads the perverse band The NUNS to this day; the feminist fist of LESLEY WOOD surged the AU PAIRS to glory with wit and intensity; starting as Kleenex, the German group LiLiPUT cut an astounding swath of postpunk brilliance; ...as did Englands' THE RAINCOATS...; and Germany's MALARIA, whose "Kaltes Clares Wasser" was also covered by Chicks On Speed; the United Expirements of America, or U.X.A., were conducted by DE DE TROIT from San Fran to L.A.; performance artist and sex activist COSI FANNI TUTTI confounded boundaries with the proto-Industrial band, THROBBING GRISTLE, and later Chris & Cosey: PEARL HARBOUR torpedoed stereotypes such as with her twist on "Fujiyama Mama"; and Punk couldn't be more personified than in the hellacious free-for-all that was WENDY O'WILLIAMS of The PLASMATICS.
About X-RAY SPEX: They made one album but it is one of the five best Punk albums of all time. "Germ Free Adolescents" is wall-to-wall perfection, skewering consumer culture with barbed lines and serrated guitar and sax. The eye of this storm was the unlikely Poly Styrene. Small, eccentric, mercurial, brilliant. Seemingly erratic and perhaps hallucinatory, Poly had unerring instincts for making off-kilter things work completely. She unnerved even Johnny Rotten, who later deemed her band "superb". It's often said that the Riot Grrrl movement and Bikini Kill wouldn't have existed without her. And the moment you hear her, you know it's true.
-the opening cartoon is by Jerome Gaynor.
-the Lesley Woods photo is by Philippe Carly; buy great punk shots at:
newwavephotos.com
-Alice Bag of The BAGS has a terrific site honoring the Women of L.A. Punk:
http://www.alicebag.com/mainindex.html
-also check out:
http://punkturns30.blogspot.com/
http://www.mindspring.com/~acheslow/A...
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Goregir...
http://www.comnet.ca/~rina/index.html
(All rights reserved to the copyright owners. Fan-made video to promote awareness of the creators.)
http://www.youtube.com/funknroll
Tym Stevens
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For DR. KING, my hero!
(3 months ago)
'Wrestling for the soul of America.'
I grew up in the South and Midwest during the civil rights years and their aftermath. It challenged everything ...
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'Wrestling for the soul of America.'
I grew up in the South and Midwest during the civil rights years and their aftermath. It challenged everything about my world and changed my perception of life. Not a single day passes where the lessons learned are not effecting my perceptions, my outlook, or my aspirations. What is right now comes from their paths, what is wrong is from where any of us have lost the way. It's on each of us to make it better for each other. Selflessness brings us into the better angels of our nature. This is my psalm of love to my heroes, the bravest of the brave.
The PBS series, EYES ON THE PRIZE, has become available again. To me, it is the single greatest and most relevent thing ever shown on television. Check it out and be heartened by the bittersweet struggle for the very soul of America.
Peace.
EYES ON THE PRIZE dvd:
http://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Prize-Amer...
See the alternate video:
THE STAPLE SINGERS -"Freedom Highway" (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_b_j...
(All rights reserved by the copyright owners. Fan-made nonprofit video solely to promote the artists and the history.)
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TWIN PEAKS fans!:
Check out my new blog to hear five music players with songs TWIN PEAKS was inspired by or that it inspired!
What are the hidden connections between TWIN PEAKS and FRINGE, Interpol, LOST, David Bowie, Ennio Morricone, and DJ Shadow?
Just click the 'blogspot' link on the left side of my channel's page!
-Funk'n'Roll
(4 months ago)
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peace.