Mel Hardin and Tim McPherson Two cousins from Holly Springs, Mississippi, began by proxy all their hopes in the gospel with Welcome Travelers before being lured by the sirens of R & B. Taken contracted in 1969 by Gene Chandler, soulman emeritus of Chicago and has just set up the Bamboo brand, Mel & Tim successful a master stroke as their first single Backfield in Motion , sold over a million copies and ranked in the Top 10 R & B and Pop 1969. Confirmed in early 1970 by the honorable achievement Good Guys Win in the Movies , this bestseller is not sufficient to resolve the financial difficulties of Bamboo and the duo expects to be relieved of its contractual obligations to try his luck in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios where Barry Beckett - a former pianist Sam McClain, with whom he discovered Muscle Shoals - and drummer Roger Hawkins entrust them with a composition of the singer "Prince" Phillip Mitchell as Sam & Dave had save nearly four years earlier. Taken licensed by Stax where we still do not grieve the creators of Soul Man , Starting All Over Again (It all starts) appears to bode well for Mel & Tim who see their career start on a new footing, their name moved into the Top 20 Pop and fourth place rankings Soul during the summer of 1972, a preview of the album Starting All Over Again . Their next single, I May Not Be What You Want , no lack of energy, but he reminds too Backfield Motion to keep the duo in the heights of the charts. Until the company closed its doors in Memphis in late 1975, Mel & Tim also remain faithful to their record company and their producers to Muscle Shoals, without finding a way to success reacquainted.
Well, should not cloud the issue: the black flag flies over the pot. Global stock markets are the trunk, the dollar is in full bechamel, Greeks and the Irish have been extremely puncture of the IMF, growth decreases, the boxes are downsizing, job recruiting and Paula Arab on the corner does more credit .
The cowardly assassination of our nest egg is set. But what is the dirty culprit, the awful murderer lurking in the shadows, ready to strangle us, we siphon to the bank account?
to believe the newspapers and the so-called social networks, where thousands of Nobel economics pontificate in a very entertaining ego, the culprit has a name: the speculator. And faces: Madoff, and other Machiavellian kerviel of high finance.
Question mentality, Madoff was a real lame, Acc. Jerôme Kerviel and was suffering from delusions of grandeur hardly compatible with the peaceful life of our society in general. But as the general of an army of occupation, their faces concealed those millions of soldiers from the shadows. And who are these unknown soldiers of the speculation? You, yes you, dear friends. Often unknowingly, moreover, irresponsible but not guilty! And why? Quite simply by placing your meager wages and your little savings in interest-bearing accounts and other mutual funds that are safe to give a good god no sin of usury and no religion.
So obviously, you have nothing to do with large predators like Madoff. Certainly, unless you are millions of small streams "small wins", and that ultimately, the river swells dangerously speculative, out of bed and eats all grown small squirrels away like common tassels.
And to illustrate my brilliant way, I want to exhume the relentless demonstration here of Marcel and Botafoin Volfoni the remarkable Professor, Graduate University of Montlucon and Chantal Nobel prize in economics.
The action takes place at the bar that holds Ginette St-Jean de Boiseau near the garage Rochard regretted. To increase its sales in economic doldrums, she decides to extend credit to its loyal customers, almost all long-term unemployed. Because she sells on credit, Ms. Ginette see its progress and attendance, in addition, may slightly increase the cost base of the girl Muscadet and red balloon.
The young and dynamic "kerviel" from the local bank looking for growth opportunities. He turns to the mainstays of bistro, arguing that the "slate" of troquet are, after all, the assets recoverable, and begins to give credit to Ms. Ginette, with steep debts of good guys from Saint John of Boiseau as collateral.
At the headquarters of the bank, traders turn these assets recoverable CDO, CMO, SICAV, UAS, UFO, SOS and other financial acronyms that no one is able to understand. These financial instruments are then used as leverage to market and drive shareholder, the Stock Exchange on Wall Street, the City of London and Frankfurt stock exchanges of Paris, etc.., Short for derivatives transactions which are guaranteed totally unknown all (ie, slates of drunks Ginette).
These "derivatives" are then traded for years as if they were very solid and serious securities in financial markets worldwide. Until someone realizes that the good guys troquet of St. John of Boiseau not a round to pay their debts. The refreshment of Mrs. Ginette went bankrupt and the slump is quickly contagious.
Well, you say, with bad faith that characterizes you, everyone is a customer of Ginette and lady does not drink a drop too much after yet another letter from Ms. Paule job informing you of your rights continue to point with goofs off. Nevertheless, you was just as guilty as the pillars of troquet with your mutual funds (six wine?) Revolvers and other credits, history of buying the latest plasma screen instead of going to give blood, band of selfish !
So what?
But just convince skulls the Bercy egg leaving the euro and to adopt an ancient coin, the farthing.
Professor Volfoni alerted the government of an imminent bankruptcy if it stays in Euroland. "These are no longer lean that I see coming is a flight of black crows! The Germans overworked, they can not cope, he said the sad lords of Bercy. And yet, I will only speak about the bankruptcy of the country. In our beautiful provinces, not better. Each local baron marched printing money. Compared to the state of their finances, the bottomless pit is Byzantium, an investment of a good father. "
The hardest part will paradoxically to choose the name of the future currency of France. No return to the franc, it would be a little looser side vintage kind René Coty makes its umpteenth devaluation.
"No, claims Professor Volfoni. We need to openly side with us Greeks, those who prefer to eat olives taking a drink instead of beer burp her before Derrick! . And our brilliant economist suggest the penny. Beyond the joke side of the name, especially for those who have in hand, he must know that the penny is not only the medieval currency "of little value, but it was also the currency of ancient Greece. We will thus pay tribute to the Greek management, far more entertaining than the Teutonic thoroughness or madness speculative Anglo-Saxon.
decided that it will be worth Obole a frank and six cents, or 0.156 euros.
A ticket will be issued. This will cut farthing ...
I do not know if I'm really ashamed to have or be a little proud, but I wrote this poem for Codex Poeticus when they call for texts "Vogon poetry" (one thing is certain, I had a lot of fun). The poem was not selected because he had not been unanimous committee. But perhaps it will appeal to some visitors of this blog ...
HALT
Thus, again driven by your foolish whims, In the noise away without slapping your back, Do can we ever squatted in space Shouting "foo" one day? O chief! the army just behind his preparation, And if it was near the latrine again, Look! we hurt, perched on this rock Where you stay we did! You stumble again, furious gripe, again you vomit on our flanks atrophied Even your flowers will spread wind-wave On our feet puffy. Before, you remember it? we need to defecate; For we hear in the distance the force of your brave, strong The flatulence of our loyalty Our consonant sounds. Hear our request made in quadruplicate Whether your beautiful eyes bleary, like a burning bush; Lise diligently, and let your voice Herdsperson Forget the words "Vogon! Coward tone pet, all you skull militia! Cast your stinking gas: Free promptly refuse In these ferocious booing your breast! "Enough can not compisser brave, nor shit blessed; Pour nimbly assembled in this place; Your berlingots nodosum. "Hurry up, hurry up, we leave soon Demolish and strike! The Vogon not expected, as the rapid rot;
No other possible title for this post. Let me explain. I on fire the synopsis of the challenge 2011, during which I planned to try my hand at first novel ( Here and There , the fantasy). I side of a new SF that I intend to finish a day (word swaldis). And what I find something better to do? Start a new narrative. The white. And without a net. Just two male characters that I want to live. The first scene is in the box (head), being written, the second is emerging with increasing clarity. And then I end the scene. Between, nothing. I set ... uh ... if I can find between a quarter of an hour and a half hour a day I consider myself happy.
Letter to Georges Freche and statues he forgot to erect
From here, Georges Freche, with your procession of statues, pots and excesses of all kinds. Died tragically at the end a long and painful Septimanie the toni-gangster mayor of Montpellier has been unfairly sidelined by his evil socialist comrades. And yet, what builder! What a visionary!
Well, in defense of the elephants of Solferino, we must recognize that Georges Freche had the strange habit, particularly towards the end, to compete with Le Pen and Mélenchon with the little people. Never late for a good joke on the Harkis footballers or blue "too black" for his taste. Good, but can we really blame a man who said that Laurent Fabius was not a "face very Catholic" and Nicolas Sarkozy "great mamamouchi heels (talent?) compensated." I ask you, indeed!
But all this is frothy lapping days and vulgar. SEPTIMANIE I will anyway in history thanks to his carefully erected statues before disappearing.
What a splendid idea that, unfortunately fallen into disuse, to brighten our provinces consisting of statues allowing our beautiful youth to learn history first hand rather than in buttock of a goat.
few days before moving from life to death, Georges Freche unveiled the bronze figures of Jaures, De Gaulle, Roosevelt, Churchill and Lenin. So many choices, but great figures are missing from the pantheon outdoors. Starting
course by Paul Deschanel, which is hopelessly impossible to find a statue, a square, a square or a small street on the outskirts of an ordinary sad garrison town. No, really, short memories and ingratitude are too often both breasts of France!
And yet, what a great man this Deschanel ... A powerful sword, not least for his work in favor of wearing pajamas and car beds.
A mind awake and bright too. Fierce opponent of the reactionary autocrats such contemptuous of universal suffrage, those mystics who believe that disaster, which could emerge a new world, Paul Deschanel is foremost man of great sentences, the oratorical talent, far from pathetic soundbites punctuating the early morning radio and the appointment of little interest cathode Sunday evening.
"France is a democracy in his soul and his body in a monarchy. The Revolution was a desire to escape his body . Who wrote these lines of light? Victor Hugo? Clemenceau? François Mitterrand? Micheline Dax? Lady gaga? Nay! They are signed Paul Deschanel, the President alone to worship French Buster Keaton.
But the powers of money and ragoteurs have been there, plotting a heinous attack against our great man, going up to drop a train. Rescued by a lifeguard from the shadows, almost anonymous but probably notorious alcoholic, saddled with the name of Raft (Bombard was not free), Paul Deschanel has owed its salvation to the presence of mind of Mrs. Raft . In Seeing the "feet so clean" of his host for the evening, she helped the highest authorities to trace the tenant of the Elysee.
man of peace and culture, he was the victim of the hawks, not to mention true. It is high time to report, finally, a fitting tribute and to erect a statue in the pantheon frêchien.
With him, France has to repair a serious omission. Instead of folding the ears with the letter, certainly sympathetic and moving, Guy Mocquet all uncultivated and Stalinists were decked out as the subject of resisting, let us instead of Guy Mollet.
This man had, as the egg of the same name, a singular and original political destiny: either overcooked or too raw, not fried or hard, just soft! Guy Mollet curiously dies of cardiac arrest at the beginnings of the creation of the PS in 1969. As Grossouvre later, Guy Mollet discovers signs of friendship unique to Francois Mitterrand. And with him died any hope of social democracy to the French.
third and final personality that urgently need to erect a statue septimaniale: Marguerite Duras How this woman, who collected lovers like good vintages, perhaps, it also deprived of representation in bronze. That leaves the marble, no?
Long before Eric Zemmour, Marguerite Duras, aka Marguerite Donnadieu Germaine, projections were very divisive. She said so in 1940 it was the duty "of superior races to civilize the inferior races." Sincerely
alcoholic, always an alcoholic, Marguerite Mitterrand joined the network in the resistance. Suddenly, she is experimenting with pipes before thinking: she attends and the Sonderführer Gerhard Heller, minister of culture in Lacombe Lucien. It quenches his thirst for knowledge new experiences to "attend" Charles Delval, an active member of the French branch of the Gestapo, who stopped her husband Robert Antelme.
Drunken rage, Marguerite joined the Communist Party at 44. Drunk by his strange habit of making sentences, our friends have excluded the Stalinists in 1947. EC, which earned him a long friendship with a certain Morland, which we lose track of it 42 in a spa town in the Allier. He veni, vici not he, but he Vichy! Tired
by alcohol, Marguerite Duras began a rehab in May 68, leading him to support the protesters at the time, football commentators now on Canal +
Revenue to alcohol and lucidity, Margaret bought a turtleneck in 1975. Sublime necessarily sublime.
For her, like Paul Deschanel and Guy Mollet, plead my friends so that their statues swiftly join the great men of Georges Freche. There will be time to think of other notable absentees: Hervé Vilard, whose statue adorns the port of Gijon already, Father Rochard, garage eponymous Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, champion of victims of Alcatel, Marcel Chopin, a musician and builder of a stadium foutballe Nantes, Micheline Dax, Jean Lefebvre Of course Jean-Baptiste Carrier, creator of Estuary 1793 which the maxim does not leave us: "No one is supposed to ignore the Loire."
A little note to say I'm happy. I just received an acknowledgment for the submission of two new ("The Game" and "A world without wonder"). happy because the two new question are too long to be placed in most publications (more than 30000 cec). Contente because the journal to which I propose is Canadian (Solaris), and I was not sure that the peer accepts the texts of authors of France. The answer is at least 90 days but it does not matter. The important thing is that the news is read somewhere. They live their lives ...
In the previous post, I indicated that beta-reading received by frogs Cocyclics have indirectly increased the difficulties I encountered in writing this news.
Indeed. The four
advice I received on the first version of the new converged all in the same direction: "Where is the end?" And "What does the character main? "
In this first version, in fact, the epilogue did not exist. The player was ignorant of why Leonard went after Alex and what fate was finally dedicated to Kamal.
Actually, this I know by writing the first version, but I had refused to talk.
I do not want my character dies. I had attached to him, of course, and then he played a kind of innocence. Declare the death was somehow eliminate all hope, affirming that his fight was futile, encourage resignation. Impossible. I wanted to leave the reader guessing.
Answer question the motivations of Leonardo fell within the same difficulty. What words could account for his wickedness? What explanation to give? By choosing not to say anything, I wanted a nastiness, the most violent, the most atrocious. An evil against which I was taking distances, I wanted to believe me stranger.
And yet, as I wrote the first version of the story, I was fully aware that it constituted a tragic structure, a structure which, inevitably, leads the character to death .
Beta-readings received So I was invited to say what I was silent, to go after my text. Since I have all the cards to finish the story, writing the epilogue was pretty fast.
I still have to admit that in the second version, only Kamal was exiled out of the dome ... It's in the third and final version of its fate was sealed.
In the final version of the story, so all hope rests on the character of Lilha, since we know whether or not she had time to receive images transferred by Kamal. For my part, I hope ...
In less than ten years of activity, Daptone, New York independent label, has become the leader of a return to soul and funk: you can even consider it was the major label of the 2000s for African-American popular music, and is still developing.
Beyond the real commercial success of the label, around artists like Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings , Lee Fields, The Budos Band and some others, and his critical reputation The organic sound that is his trademark was an unexpected extension to the general public, producers and artists, Lily Allen Al Green via the rapper Nas, trying to capture their advantage some of the magic potion popularized - in every sense of the term - By Amy Winehouse and producer Mark Ronson.
Daptone's story begins in February 1965, in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the studios of the country music legend Arthur Smith, the day when James Brown recorded it with his band Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, inaugural act of the invention of funk, whose impact is felt throughout the soul scene and beyond, even giving birth, a few generations later, what has been called the "deep funk" mode of revivalist Back to the roots of funk in response to the late 80's, sounding more and more synthetic that may be adopted groups like Cameo.
A source ... saxophonist and co-founder of Daptone, Neal Sugarman highlights the impact of Brown's music: " There's really nothing comparable to the unique arrangements and muscular grooves that created James Brown and his orchestra. " Gabriel Roth and Homer Steinwess Binky Griptite confirm any fundamental influence in their personal history, records of Brown. For Binky Griptite, " James Brown's music is like air: it has always been there! I was 6 years old in 1972, so it is not oldies for me, but pop! During my childhood in the ghetto, there were only soul on the radio, and everyone knows that James Brown is the Godfather. "
Daptone's story also begins in the early '90s, when a young student at the University of New York named Gabriel Roth spends most of his free time to listen and listen to the work of James Brown discovered a few years earlier: "I've always liked his music, but I think I've become fanatical about the age of my 16 years. I went to see my sister in New York and a friend made me a tape of Brown's productions, as well as some Tapes of the first records of Meters. I spent the next year with these tapes in my walkman loop. "
Daptone's story also begins in Paris in the late 80s, when Philip Lehman, a collector of rare funk and graffiti artist known as the Bando, founded with a friend Pure Music label to compile some some of his singles. Installed in 1995 in New York, he met Gabriel Roth, and together they founded the label Desco, inaugurated in 1996 by a sublime single from Lee Fields. If history runs short after a few years - and the publication of 16 singles and 6 albums - It allows Gabriel Roth to meet artists who will play a role in the history of Daptone, such as Sharon Jones - discovered as a chorister at a session of Lee Fields - and saxophonist Neal Sugarman. Philip Lehman, himself, continues his career in the music world by founding the label Soul Fire.
Daptone's story is finally starting in 2002 after a brief and unsatisfying detour on the side of a major label, Sony is with saxophonist Neal Sugarman, author of two albums on Desco with Sugarman Three, Gabriel Roth decided to go back into the adventure of a independent label, it wouthit match a personal fantasy " it is not my chosen career. I always wanted to be math teachers. I started producing records for fun and one thing led to another. In fact, I continue to make records for fun. We've always done it ourselves in order to achieve exactly what we wanted, ironically, this may be my lack of desire to belong to the music industry that has made me the leader of a label. "For Sugarman is as much the will get involved in the music business as the need explaining his involvement in the birth of Daptone "When Desco ended, I had already recorded the third album Sugarman Three and the first disc of Sharon Jones. No label will allow us to have the same conditions as Desco, so we decided to start our own label. "
Daptone Sound ... Consistent with the course of its founders, it is a funk-oriented records, signed Sharon Jones, Lee Fields and The Sugarman Three, that Daptone is first noticed. The musical direction soon to be open to other styles, be it the soul, afro-beat and gospel, as Gabriel Roth says: "We just records that we like. There really is no conscious decision to move from one sound to another. Over the years, we looked at different types of discs. In the future, we loved producing a good blues record! "
When asked to define the sound from his studio, House of Soul, which won a Grammy for the album Amy Winehouse, is a spin he replied: "Mad Dog, woof! "And he must therefore look to the label's founder, Neal Sugarman to get a tentative answer is that in three ideas:" Raw, soulful and honest. " Steinwess for Homer, the sound is Daptone " to the old, but so refreshing: the former because it has that classic analog sound hot, but so refreshing because it is a sound we hear more. It takes a good team of musicians, producers, songwriters and engineers to achieve this, and Daptone has . As an engineer Sound and producer, the goal of Roth, who often acts under his alias Bosco Mann, is simple: "Make a disk that is actually pleasant to listen. "Far sometimes obsessive fetish of the deep funk scene, and even if he does not neglect the use of equipment" vintage ", it stresses the lack of superiority of analogue material compared to historical contemporary digital techniques: " These are musicians who make music. People attach importance to the equipment. "As the Binky Griptite," sound Daptone's only natural and unadorned. Until something sounds good on record, it has to sound good in the room where we play! We listen to all the classics of the 50s and beyond, so we want our records sound good compared to them! . concrete method of recording artists varies Roth: "It's always different . I love to record everything live, but often we deal first with the rhythm section, sometimes with horns or singing in another room or even in the same room. Strings and orchestral elements are usually recorded separately, and the chorus. The disc Naomi Shelton and all of those in the Budos Band, were recorded completely live. " The registration process remains separate from the stage to Roth:" There are many things that work in concert but not in the studio, and vice versa. The tempos tend to be faster, the ensemble has in general more energy, more dynamic and there are more "tricks" such as transitions and the like, the staging. In the studio, on the contrary, we enter a more subtle and have more complex arrangements. " The tours and concerts, however, play a fundamental role in the life of the label: many European fans whose first contact with music label occurred during a show intense Lee Fields with Sugarman Three or Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, even before his first album to be distributed here. As Neal Sugarman said, " some groups do not rotate, but for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, the scene is very important: I think the first impression that the show is Sharon Jones leaves marks! "We can also expect to see published one day a DVD devoted to artists from the label, guitarist Binky Griptite working there ... especially
like home ... If Gabriel Roth refuses to enter into debate with those who describe his work as a retro or nostalgic approach ("I'm just hard), he does not hide his love for vinyl records, he'd much rather the CD or downloading: "I love clutch discs and the idea of a sequence with two faces. The vinyl feel good. Oh and also, ironically, they jump less than CD! I think being able to hold a disc in my hands a lot. And as they say, impossible to roll a joint on an mp3! " Daptone also gives great importance to the packing of his music, often developed in partnership with designer David Serre. " Some groups participating in the realization of their coverage. We try to ensure that the pouches are consistent with the music and the concept of each album , "says Roth. Sugarman emphasized that Daptone apart from other labels: "Everything Daptone releases is integrally made at home, since the registration is done on the first floor of our house to the packaging disks is done on the second floor. We are in the line of labels like Stax, Motown, and I do not think any other label has this approach today, "what Gabriel Roth complete stating:" We do not wear pants as often as other labels! " Beyond musical differences, it is a special atmosphere that characterizes the screw Daptone:" There is clearly a Daptone family, "said Gabriel Roth, like all families, we have brothers and sisters, but also a larger family, with cousins and cousins. Naturally, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are a family, as Naomi Shelton, Cliff Driver and team, the Budos Band and his entourage, Charles Bradley (...), Lee Fields ... Antibalas is part of the extended family. There are also people who work for the label and management: Nydia Davila, Mikey Post, Wane Gordon, David Serre, Cathy Bauer, Alex Kadvan Marc Deneree and women, girlfriends and children across the world ... The list is long ! But we really are a united family, we try to pay attention to each other and treat us well. " Neal Sugarman sees it this way:" Since we are at the base of musicians, we try to be honest with artists and offer them the best contracts possible so that everyone is decently paid. "Homer Steinwess drummer recurring production houses, Sharon Jones Lee Fields, to Amy Winehouse, says:" People listen to their label's artists and respect them in a unique way: I do not the impression of working for a record company, but to be part of a musical family. "We also regularly crosses the same artists, labels on products in neighboring countries such as Truth & Soul, officials from the latest album from Lee Fields," Desco, Soul Fire, Daptone Truth & Soul and today is the same family ... "Asked what he plays now is Myron and E, a group published by the Finnish label Timmion, spirit close to that of Daptone, we also directs Gabriel Roth.
Daptone Planet ... Access to the Daptone family is wide open, whether beginners or historical artists' We record artists that we like, regardless of their age and experience. I wrote a few songs for Barbara Lynn, but she did not like, and we ended up putting them on the disk Sharon Jones. I would still like to do something with it. We recorded Syl Johnson, Ricky Booby Cailoway and Matos, but nothing has been published. " The process is identical for some editions, whether of soul, funk and afro-beat, released by the label" should be whether something particularly compelling: not just a disk rare or sought, but something that we think deserves to be heard by more people solely on grounds of musical quality. " It will, however, a little patience to see the arrival of reissues of recordings released under the label Desco, unavailable since the end of the label: " Maybe in a few years. It is too early to start looking back: we're just telling us warm! "As majors historic soul, whether it's Atlantic, Stax or Motown, Daptone has succeeded in creating a community around the label of fans who regularly follow and buy its spontaneously publications, regardless of the artist concerned. When the studio located in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, was robbed in 2008, Gabriel Roth was able to measure the commitment of the public: " The burglary was not so serious: they took a few microphones, a few amps, my guitar, some other stuff ... But the most remarkable was the movement that has attracted support: we have received letters, emails, phone calls from people around the world who wanted to help us. Some people have even loaned or donated equipment. Ultimately, this story has probably made them stronger: we can not stop us! "Unlike that one might imagine, the success of artists outside the label via the expertise of the team Daptone has not changed much in daily life: "The difference between our artists and those of outside is that we pay our artists to make records while we pay foreign artists to make records. Of course, the album Amy Winehouse has allowed us to get a little more mainstream press. However, I do think that many listeners have made the connection with the Dap-Kings only from his record. "This album of Sharon Jones "100 Days, 100 Nights" is now the biggest commercial success of Daptone, with 150,000 copies sold worldwide. Singles side, it also Jones who won the greatest success, three of her singles (I Just Dropped in to See What condition my condition is in., What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes? And remixed version of How Long by Ticklah do I Have to Wait For You?) among the best sales of the label, alongside more unexpected Make the Road by Walking Menahan Street Band's. Despite the temptation, the label focuses on a limited number of trips each year: "We prefer out some very good records rather than a large number of disk resources, which seems to be the trap of many labels today, "says Neal Sugarman. Homer Steinwess agrees: "People Daptone records do not leave to earn money, they publish the music they believe in, so they always have good products! " Fans of Afro-American popular music can only wish them to continue for very long ...
Interviews by Frederic Adrian in February 2010, appeared in Soul Bag No. 198
few comments about the news I just finished for the call launched by the publishing texts Voy'el: "Under the eye of the cameras."
As usual, I wrote very slowly. But this new point, I also encountered a big problem being drafted. A problem that blocked me several days. How about a violent society when it has under the eyes?
Yes, because the text depicts for students and staff of Justice (a special kind of police) and that when I was writing, students and police clashed really .
In my original idea it was to show that justice can not be "mechanical", that is to say we can not leave the responsibility to judge the technology.
Because this ruling so-called objective of the machine, in reality, only works on parameters provided to it by man.
My main character, Kamal, was to be faced with this pseudo-justice supposedly infallible but actually blind, and try to hear his testimony.
And being written protests were held on high school girls, especially violent in Lyon, where I live, involving a reading of the text that I had not anticipated: Kamal could be seen as a high school student who takes the police provocations , penned and filmed under the dome as were hundreds of protesters on the Place Bellecour October 21.
I must confess that I could continue writing this text as a subterfuge of Last minute. Officers of Justice, which initially were men, are then became droids. This diminishing the possible comparison with the contemporary law enforcement. I could continue to write without feeling call to violence.
Anyway, this new-there was painful to write. If I had not chosen a peaceful revolt Kamal, I do not know if I would come to end.
Moreover, beta-reading I received on Cocyclics noted other points in connection with this pain. I will come back probably in another post ...
Ronnie Caldwell (keyboards) / Ben Cauley (trumpet, born 1947) / Jimmy King (guitar, born 1947) / Carl Cunningham (drums, born 1949) / Phalon Jones (sax, born 1949) / James Alexander (bass)
native of Memphis, the Bar-Kays formed in the mid 60s then was quickly taken by Al Jackson, drummer for Booker T. & The MG's, they are fervent admirers.
The Bar-Kays signed with Volt, a Stax label in '67, and recorded their first single, "Soul Finger", released in March 1967 and amounts to third place in the R & B charts
same time, they become the "alternate" team "house," the Mar-Keys. As such, they are required to accompany Sam & Dave, Otis Redding and many other Stax artists.
same year (1967), the latter chosen to accompany him on his summer tour.
December 10, 67, tragically disappear with the singer, when the private plane carrying them, crashed on Lake Monono, near Madison, Wisconsin. The only ones to escape are Ben Cauley who miraculously survived the accident and escaped drowning, and James Alexander, who missed the departure of the aircraft.
The two survivors re-formed the group in 69, surrounding Harvey Henderson (sax), Ronnie Gordon (keyboards), Michael Toles (guitar) and drummer Willie Hall and Roy Cunningham. The new training will resume its role of "Team B" at Stax, where they continue to support, among others, Rufus Thomas, Albert King and the Staple Singers. These are also the ones who instill this dynamic funky on the albums "Hot Buttered Soul," "Black Moses" and "Shaft" by Isaac Hayes. Next this, they continue to release their own records, but failed to match the success of their debut "Soul Finger."
After personnel changes (including the departure of Cauley and Toles) and producer, the group gradually engulfed in the same movement as Sly & the Family Stone and Funkadelic, but their albums are met with little success.
After Stax closed in 75, the band signed with Mercury and is still experiencing some internal changes, before finally finding its balance. The new formations, which will record their first album "Too Hot to Stop" at Mercury 76, will remain the same over a decade. Between 1967 and 1987, the golden age of Bar-Kays. They are és 23 times in the R & B charts and becoming one of the leading bands of the current funk.
The group then goes through a difficult period, following the death of their producer and mentor, Allen A. Jones 87. They resurface gradually until the release of the album "48 Hours" that gives a little back on track.
With their 18 albums, 40 singles, the Bar-Kays have strongly influenced and guided a generation of funk.
Bibliographie :
1967 Soul Finger 01. Soul Finger 02. Knucklehead 03. With a Child's Heart 04. Bar-Kays Boogaloo 05. Theme from Hell's Angels 06. You Can't Sit Down 07. House Shoes 08. Pearl High 09. I Want Someone 10. Hole in the Wall 11. Don't Do That (l'album Soul Finger)
1969 Gotta Groove 01. Don't Stop Dancing (To the Music), Pt. 1 02. If This World Was Mine 03. In the Hole 04. Funky Thang 05. Jiving Round 06. Grab This Thing 07. Don't Stop Dancing (To the Music), Pt. 2 08. Street Walker 09. Yesterday 10. Humpin' 11. Hey Jude (l'album Gotta Groove)
1971 Black Rock 01. Baby I Love You 02. I've Been Trying 03. You Don't Know Like I Do 04. Dance to the Music 05. A Piece of Your Piece 06. Six O'Clock News Report 07. How Sweet It Would Be 08. Montego Bay (l'album Black Rock)
1972 Do You See What I See? 01. Do You See What I See? 02. God Is Watching 03. Be Yourself 04. You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me 05. You're Still My Brother 06. I Was Made to Love Her 07. Your Good Thing (Is About to End) 08. It Ain't Easy 09. Love Pollution 10. People, Unite to Save Humanity 11. In the Hole 12. Copycat 13. Memphis at Sunrise 14. Medley: Son of Shaft/Feel It 15. I Can't Turn You Loose (l'album Do You See What I See?)
1974 Cold Blooded 01. Cold Blooded 02. Harmony 03. In The Scheme Of Things 04. Waiting And Hating 05. Smiling, Styling, & Profiling 06. Frame Of Mind 07. (I've Got To) Use My Imagination 08. Fightin' Fire With Fire 09. Would I If I Could 10. Be Yourself (l'album Cold Blooded)
1976 Too Hot to Stop 01. Too Hot to Stop, Pt. 1 02. Cozy 03. Bang, Bang (Stick 'Em Up) 04. Spellbound 05. Shake Your Rump to the Funk 06. You're So Sexy 07. Summer of Our Love 08. Whitehouseorgy (l'album Too Hot to Stop)
1977 Flying High on Your Love 01. Shut the Funk Up 02. Standing on the Outside 03. Woman of the Night 04. Whatever It Is 05. Can't Keep My Hands off You 06. Let's Have Some Fun 07. Attitudes 08. You Can't Run Away 09. Flying High on Your Love (l'album Flying High on Your Love)
1978 Light of Life 01. Get up 'N Do It 02. Shine 03. I Lean on You 04. Give It Up 05. Love's What It's All About 06. I'll Dance 07. We're the Happiest People 08. Are You Being Real 09. Angel Eyes (l'album Light of Life)
1979 Injoy 01. More And More 02. Move Your Boogie Body 03. Running In And Out Of My Life 04. Girl I'm On Your Side 05. Loving You Is My Occupation 06. Today Is The Day 07. You've Been 08. Up In Here (l'album Injoy)
1980 As One 01. Boogie Body Land 02. Say It Through Love 03. Work It Out 04. Bodyfever 05. Take the Time to Love Somebody 06. Open Your Heart 07. Deliver Us 08. As One (l'album As One)
1981 Nightcruising 01. Nightcruising 02. Hit And Run 03. Feels Like I'm Falling In Love 04. Freaky Behavior 05. Touch Tone 06. Unforgettable Dream 07. Traffic Jammer 08. Backseat Driver (l'album Nightcruising)
1982 Propositions 01. Propositions 02. Tripping Out 03. Anticipation 04. Do It (Let Me See You Shake) 05. She Talks to Me With Her Body 06. I Can't Believe You're Leaving 07. You Made a Change in My Life (l'album Propositions)
1984 Dangerous 01. Dangerous 02. Dirty Dancer 03. Make Believe Lover 04. Dance, Party, etc. 05. Freakshow on the Dance Floor 06. Lovers Should Never Fall in Love 07. Loose Talk 08. Sexomatic (l'album Dangerous)
1985 Banging the Wall 01. Your Place or Mine 02. Banging the Walls 03. Paper Doll 04. Sex Driver 05. Dance Your Body, Desara 06. Love Don't Wait 07. Missiles on Target 08. Gina (l'album Banging the Wall)
1987 Contagious 01. Certified True 02. Don't Hang Up 03. Many Mistakes 04. Freak City U.S.A. 05. Contagious 06. Something In The Air 07. This Could Be The Night 08. Time Out 09. Touch (l'album Contagious)
1988 Animal 01. Animal 02. Struck By You 03. Stop! Look What You're Missing 04. Someone Else 05. Are U Available 06. Get Your Fingers Wet 07. Just Like A Teeter-Totter 08. I Adore You 09. Leaving You (l'album Animal)
1994 48 Hours 01. Introduction 02. She Can Get It 03. The Slide 04. If It Takes All Night 05. Irresistible 06. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to be Right 07. 48 Hours 08. Out of My Mind 09. X-N-Yo-Sex 10. Read Between the Lines 11. Mega Mix 12. Sequi 13. Master
