Heltah Skeltah

One of my all time favorites,
here they go over the Tru Master
instrumental on Stretch & Bobbito's
XL Show, 1998.












Heltah Skeltah XL Show 1998

Tribute to Jimi

It's surprising how much material
he released for the amount of time he was recording, Jimi Hendrix was indeed prolific as well as insanely talented, taking his music to different places, playing around with all musical genres, blues, funk, rock. You've probably heard how great Jimi Hendrix is, but the guy was seriously such a creative genious. I remember reading a biography of Jimi Hendrix, I forget the title and author, but Early in his career he played back up guitar for a touring Isley Brothers, Little Richard and King Curtis. Anyway, I have pretty good knowledge of his catalouge, and today I'm gonna hit you with some slept on Hendrix..



This is one of my favorite Jimi Hendrix songs, 'Red House', the Electric Church version from the Jimi Hendrix 'Blues' album...


You cats that dig out there might know about Hendrix's 'Little Miss Lover', a song with a nice 2 bar open drum intro that was used on ATCQ's 'Scenario'. Check this live studio version (from the BBC Sessions CD1). This version has a few extra kicks added to the drum intro and a different feel from LP version...


This is a rare jam session recording of
Jimi Hendrix on guitar and Stevie Wonder on drums! sick...



And finally we have 'Got to have it', a Jimi Hendrix song you may recognize sampled on a few tracks. One of his lesser known albums made in Germany, a bootleg recording from one of his live performances, pre-experience days. There's no linear notes or date on this one so there's no telling exactly what year it was made.






Peep Jimi rockin the 12 string
acoustic for 'Hear my Train a Comin'





Check out this rare audio (30 minutes) from an interview conducted in 1970

Can we get a witness?

Those of you who live in the Chicago area are some lucky bastards this week. My boy S-One just sent me the link to this Pitchfork Music Festival and I am really frustrated I won't be able to attend. If I had an extra $600 I would most definitely fly out to Chicago just to see this show...

Public Enemy will be performing their classic LP 'It takes a nation of millions to hold us back' in its entirety on Friday, July 18th. What? Are u serious? The whole album front to back? For some reason this is only being done for this festival, this is not a worldwide tour. You would think they would take this kind of thing to New York, at least Strong Island (where they got em whylin'). Not only this but the day before the performance Harry Allen and the Bomb Squad will lead 'an in-depth discussion of PE's seminal 1988 LP and how the Squad created the record's world of sound'. Check the link above for more details. Someone out there please attend and record this thing, although I'm sure they will probably make a DVD out of the event, they better.

45's

I might start a new section highlighting some good 45's,
that is if I remember. Here are two of my favorites..






This is the Coasters with 'Down Home Girl' as sampled by one of my favorite Pete Rock tracks, 'Skins', and this was also sampled by The Trackmasters for Chubb Rock's 'Yabba Dabba Doo' featuring Red Hot Lover Tone.












This is a nice little cover version of the Isley Brother's 'It's your thing' by Senor Soul.

Grand Wizard Theodore

Here's a short but sweet mix from inventor of the scratch Grand Wizard Theodore live on Bobbito's CM Fam-a-Lam radio show, October 2000.

Nine

Remember Nine? He was signed to profile and put out the LP 'Nine Lives' in 1995 with the 12's 'Whutcha Want' and 'Lying King'. This takes me back to rolling around in Sidekicks with funkmaster flex cutting 'whutcha want' to death, that was a pretty big record that year. Here he is interviewed and asked about the origins of his name and why his voice is so rugged. I don't remember his follow up LP although I see he has one in 1996. This is another one from my old VHS tapes I sent over to JC @ Meaning of Dope...

A to the G I

I know a lot of you peoples read blogs while you are looking to kill time at your jobs, so if you're looking to kill a couple a minutes, check out this old magazine interview with AG from 1995 when 'GoodFellas' was dropping. This is from a free magazine called Flavor that I most likely picked up record shopping back in the day. For those interested, I updated the Group Home post to include an interview with them (also from the same Flavor magazine). Click on the picture to enlarge, and adjust to whatever size. More music on the way soon...

Mobb Deep Interview 1995

I know a lot of you out there read blogs while you are at your boring office jobs looking to pass some time so I scanned this old Mobb Interview from April 1995. It was featured in a free magazine called OneNut. The article was written when the Infamous LP just came out. Much of the interview is the guy talking about trekking through Queens and waiting for them to show up, but it's still a decent interview. Click on the pictures to enlarge and read, Enjoy...

Resurrection

Just sent this over to my boy JC over at The Meaning of Dope.
He's got a lot of great old footage from various interviews and performances
along with a bunch of other treats. This is a Common interview (when he was still Common Sense) from Yo MTV raps hosted by Fab 5 Freddy from sometime in 1995.