Gil Scott-Heron Is Back!

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nooooo it’s the Heron! Gil Scott-Heron that is!

The man that had been long thought dead has arisen and is back with a new album that has only been whispered about as legend in smoky after hour joints for years.

He’s come out of the shadows to grace the stage and preach once again.

Gil Scott-Heron, in case you’re not familiar as you should be, set the stage for hip-hop. The poetry and verse that he’s given us, like “The Revolution Won’t Be Televized”, gave Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five their Message.

Heron was one of the first to lay the truth on track and pave the way for the beginning of the rap game.

[Frank]

Thank God!

[_Clyde_]

I love his music.

In the bottle is on of my favorite songs.

[Frank]

_Clyde_ wrote:

I love his music.
In the bottle is on of my favorite songs.

Yeah, that song was GREAT!

[Dude]

'Your Daddy Loves You' & 'I Think I'll Call It Morning' are two of my most favorites by him. I like 'The Bottle' too. Many of his songs are very creative and consciousness.

[Mr Big]

yes in deed...

[Pere du Champ]

He called Gerald Ford "Oatmeal Man" LOL!

[NotSoDivineMsM]

WRONG.....Heron patterned his style after the LAST POETS, who were the first to use the phrase the 'Revolution Won't Be Televised'....

'With their politically charged raps, taut rhythms, and dedication to raising African-American consciousness, the Last Poets almost single-handedly laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop.'

http://music.aol.com/artist/The%20Last%20Poet...

When the Revolution Comes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[Nippy]

NotSoDivineMsM wrote:

WRONG.....Heron patterned his style after the LAST POETS, who were the first to use the phrase the 'Revolution Won't Be Televised'....
'With their politically charged raps, taut rhythms, and dedication to raising African-American consciousness, the Last Poets almost single-handedly laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop.'
http://music.aol.com/artist/The%20Last%20Poet...
When the Revolution Comes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Go head Girl, PREACH! I have been trying for years to find the Last Poets Album and also an album Nikki Giovanni did with James Cleveland.

They we're bad! Real intelligence. Thought provoking poetry, not this rap trash we hear today.

[untouchable_cat]

NotSoDivineMsM wrote:

WRONG.....Heron patterned his style after the LAST POETS, who were the first to use the phrase the 'Revolution Won't Be Televised'....
'With their politically charged raps, taut rhythms, and dedication to raising African-American consciousness, the Last Poets almost single-handedly laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop.'
http://music.aol.com/artist/The%20Last%20Poet...
When the Revolution Comes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Well.. damn!

Your posts are ALWAYS good!

[39ehonor]

well, whoever started rap crap or hippity-hop "music" should be burned alive lol--you blacks need to stick to R & B--that's where your real talent lies--The mid-90's was one of the greatest times ever for top ten music, and it was all soul and R & B, especially the black women singers--SWV,Adina Howard, TLC,Kut Klose,Desiree,En Vogue, etc.

[39ehonor]

Diana King's reggae-inspired Shy Guy--Sweet Sable's Old Times Sake--the mid-90's, those were The days when music was actually good

[NotSoDivineMsM]

39ehonor wrote:

well, whoever started rap crap or hippity-hop "music" should be burned alive lol--you blacks need to stick to R & B--that's where your real talent lies--The mid-90's was one of the greatest times ever for top ten music, and it was all soul and R & B, especially the black women singers--SWV,Adina Howard, TLC,Kut Klose,Desiree,En Vogue, etc.

Some of us have been around long enough to remember the struggles that inspired the Last Poets and similar groups. The 60's (particularly the year '68) were full of the struggles that paved the way for the things a lot of mainstream America takes for granted now.....Just sayin'.....

[NotSoDivineMsM]

Nippy wrote:

<quoted text>Go head Girl, PREACH! I have been trying for years to find the Last Poets Album and also an album Nikki Giovanni did with James Cleveland.
They we're bad! Real intelligence. Thought provoking poetry, not this rap trash we hear today.

Just keeping it 'real', sis....I thought I had sent you the link to that CD with Nikki and James Cleveland....I will resend it to you as that CD is still available.....Talk soon!!!!

[NotSoDivineMsM]

untouchable_cat wrote:

<quoted text>
Well.. damn!
Your posts are ALWAYS good!

Thank you....It's always nice to be able to pass on information especially when I was a big fan of the Last Poets....one of the founding members, Felipe Luciano was (or may still be) a newscaster in NYC....

http://www.dvrepublic.com/view.php... (Luciano bio)

[_Clyde_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

In the Bottle

[Nippy]

NotSoDivineMsM wrote:

<quoted text>
Just keeping it 'real', sis....I thought I had sent you the link to that CD with Nikki and James Cleveland....I will resend it to you as that CD is still available.....Talk soon!!!!

We're playing telephone tag. I owe you a phone call. Been a little busy but will call you this weekend for updates.

Hope all is well with you. GIRL, YOU ARE BAD AND YOU KNOW YOUR STUFF!

[39ehonor]

actually, Miles Davis' album from way back called BITCHES BREW(1969) paved the way for the great Jazz-Fusion years of the 1970's and 1980's--Herbie Hancock, Grover Washington Jr, Quincy Jones' SOUNDS...and STUFF LIKE THAT album, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays,The Crusaders with Joe Sample,Maynard Ferguson,Roy Ayers, Brian Auger, Hubert Laws, Ronnie Laws, Jean-Luc Ponty, etc

[39ehonor]

Stanley Clarke, one of the best bass players ever, Tom Scott, Flora Purim, Al Jarreu, George Benson,etc

[NotSoDivineMsM]

39ehonor wrote:

Stanley Clarke, one of the best bass players ever, Tom Scott, Flora Purim, Al Jarreu, George Benson,etc

Love the jazz artists too and Miles was a pioneer!!....Stanley Clarke is another favourite especially his work with Return to Forever (Chick Corea, Al DiMeola, Lenny White)......

http://www.return2forever.com/

[39ehonor]

A LOVE OF YOUR OWN(1976) by the Average White Band, sung by the black guy in the band--One of the best R & B songs of the decade!