Tom Tom Club-Wordy rappinghood

Julian Marszalek asked Chris Frantz , the drummer of Tom Tom Club and Talking heads, how the band felt about being the first white band playing on the legendary Funk/soul Tv program Soul Train:

Here is the answer.unbelievable...

"We were asked to do Soul Train in LA when we were out there shooting Stop Making Sense. That was quite a big day; we got up and did Soul Train and then that night shot Stop Making Sense. Yeah, that was a super big day! But it felt like a wonderful crossover. Here we are on this really cool TV show called Soul Train and that must mean we've got soul! That's what we wanted – to have soul."
you can check out the whole interview on the quietus.com here ...

Viva youtube!!!
Here are the performance recorded on the same day!!!

1-An afternoon of December 1983@Soul Train:





2-An evening of December 1983@ the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles shoot ing the "STOP MAKING SENSE" movie...



If you want a lot of info on the 'wordy rappinghood' album:
http://www.tomtomclub.net/discography/albums/7-1981-tom-tom-club
If you want to buy the album, well you know what to do...
A reissue is available with a lot previously unreleased material ...
http://www.tomtomclub.net/store/

Casual-FEAR ITSELF

01 Intro
02 You Flunked
03 Me-O-Mi-O
04 Get Off It
05 That's How It Is
06 That Bulls**t
07 Follow The Funk
08 Who's It On
09 I Didn't Mean To
10 We Got It Like That
11 Little Something, A
12 This Is How We Rip S**t
13 Lose In The End
14 Thoughts Of The Thoughtful
15 Chained Minds
16 Be Thousand

• mixing – Casual, Chris Trevett
• production – Casual, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Domino, Jay Biz
• scratching – Touré
• vocals – A+, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Extra Prolific, Pep Love, Phesto, Souls of Mischief, Tajai

Chris Witt of Allmusic said about the album:
"The production doesn't differ much from the organic funk on the other Hieroglyphics albums of the same period (No Need for Alarm and 93 'Til Infinity), except perhaps that the aggressiveness is turned up a notch.
The deep-voiced MC produces an unending and seemingly unstoppable flow of boasts and taunts, mercilessly skewering the wack rappers and fools he sees about him. The simplicity of his message belies the complexity of his vicious wordplay."

Here is his music video of "me-o-mi-o"


Steal O's and 1's
BoooOOoooM!

Ps:
What Casual was digging in the dusty crates of Oakland California around 1993:

The track "I Didn't Mean To" contains a sample from Kool and the Gang "Blowin' in the Wind" on the album Music is the Message: (De-Lite 1971)

"Me-O-Mi-O" contains a sample by John Hammond called 'Big sur suite' on Higher Ground: (Kudu 1974) . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDWvqx-pSYQ

That track has also been sampled by the Beastie Boys on 'Pass the mic'
Here is the other sample used in that track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMMBAXhnPCQ&feature=av2e

Scott, Tom
Rural Still Life: (Impulse 1968)
* "Rural Still Life #26"
The time signature is different making it a bit harder to nod your head to the beat!!!
Check it out!!!