Showing posts with label T.R.O.Y.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T.R.O.Y.. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Monday, December 23, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
They Reminisce Over You... Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013
R.I.P.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
They Reminisce Over You... Bobby "Blue" Bland
Robert Calvin "Bobby" Bland
January 27, 1930 - June 23, 2013
R.I.P.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
They Reminisce Over You... Bobby "Blue" Bland
November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013
R.I.P.
A few years ago, I put together a video for Jay-Z and Kanye's "N****s in Paris" using some obscure footage. The source material? Les Blank's first student film, Running Around Like a Chicken With Its Head Cut Off (released in 1960). Why? No idea. (Also: Why not!?) So to me, Les Blank and The Throne will forever be inseparable because of that. Rest In Power!
Monday, December 24, 2012
They Reminisce Over You... Jack Klugman
"The bugle and me, 'til death do us part."
- Jack Klugman as Joey Crown (The Twilight Zone)
R.I.P.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
They Reminisce Over You... Gore Vidal
"It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever."
- Gore Vidal #HHIR
Monday, January 16, 2012
Fathers of Rap, Volume Five: Jimmy Castor
Jimmy Castor passed away earlier today, leaving behind a musical legacy as immense as an iceberg. As Dr. King once said: "Seeing is not always believing." You've gotta dig deep to appreciate the magnitude of "It's Just Begun", an audible treat from 1972 that finds the funk/disco saxophonist letting loose with one of the illest horn riffs of all time. Numerous DJs and producers have sampled portions of this track, not to mention other Castor records like the easily-quotable vocal intro on "Troglodyte (Cave Man)". And we can even get a bit more technical, noting that Jimmy Castor produced tracks for other artists, say for instance Gary Byrd, on his jazzy gem "Soul Travelin' Pt. I (The G.B.E.)" - which was sampled on Nas' "Halftime" and Big L's "8 Iz Enuff", just to name a couple of classics. But for this entry in my Fathers of Rap series, I wanted to take the time to value that one track, "It's Just Begun", to highlight how far one short little series of horn notes can play in the makeup of musical history. So without further adieu: What we gonna do right here is go back... To the man. Jimmy Castor. It's just begun...
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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