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16May/120

I Got Spirit

Nice live War track with Eric Burdon, circa 1971.

Need I remind everyone that this was the last band Jimi Hendrix jammed with before his demise? Damn you pills taking Jimi away from us.

15May/120

Dayton’s On The Mothership

More classic Ohio funk for you, this time from Faze-O. Dayton & Cinci are really making their pitch as the home of funk and I like it. So many good funk bands and all kinds of killer players came out of those two towns. If you expand regionally to include places like Cleveland & Detroit you can develop a true sense for how important the upper midwest was to american music, particularly soul, rock and pop.

 

13May/120

We Miss Curtis

Excellence.

12May/120

A Fitting Tribute

11May/120

Tighten Up Your Stroke

Live Ohio funk on prime-time TV? Watch the set turn into a huge party a few minutes in. Oh the seventies, oh the seventies...

10May/120

Super Group Redux

Here's maybe the first super-super group, given that their bass player was in one of the worlds first super groups back in the 70's. Fear not rock is not dead!

9May/120

NEW ROAMING CRAZY!!

Awww Yeeeah!! The latest and greatest from Roaming Crazy is done and on its way to the epresses!

"Sing Too" is liable to cause spastic brain flams and incoherent fist swings. You will be able to own your own copy very soon but if you want to hear the track now, we gave Jango Radio the exclusive. Go there now and click play on the song to rock now. Don't forget to like it haha.

8May/120

Juice Juice

Encore for The Infesticons: Mike Ladd & Juice Aleem do the get down...

6May/120

Rare TV Funk

TV appearances by funk artists are usually stunted affairs of forced funk, easily mocked and pulled away from for commercial break. I had never seen this Sly performance from 1983, playing with Letterman's Paul Shaffer band. The tempo a bit fast in these 80's renditions but Sly is in good spirit and voice so it's all good.

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5May/120

RIP MCA

We've lost another pioneer to cancer. Adam "MCA" Yauch, the voice that helped transition the Beasties from goof rap to good rap, succumbed to cancer on May 5th, just a few days after his band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. You will be missed. In honor of MCA, everyone do a beastie boy "AW YEAH".

Here is an excellent obituary from Books Music on Yauch.

5May/120

Straight To Hell Boy

The last days of The Clash:

3May/120

The Ballade of Nikka and Prince

Nice live performance of Nikka's jam with a special guest on guitar...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjWAE1zEgYw