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Happy Birthday CURTIS MAYFIELD Curtis' birthday was on yesterday.
Truely a genius. 
Impressions Jerry Butler Gene Chandler Major Lance Barbara Mason Five Stairsteps PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Love these few photos of Curtis Mayfield with his axe...
 
...Because of his voice and songwriting skills, many folks forget what a tremendous influence he had on R&B/Soul guitar playing. tA  Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I had no idea yesterday was Mr. Mayfields birthday.
I was listening to the Impressions and Gene Chandler & Major Lance (2 of his friends from Chi-Town he worked with) PRINCE: Always and Forever
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I sure miss Curtis Mayfield. I was listening to Check Out Your Mind, Move On Up and I'm So Proud. Superfly is still my all-time favorite movie soundtrack. Great music by a musical genius. | |
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 I guess i will play "There's No Place Like America Today" "Back To The World" LP's.  National Funk League✮✮ | |
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I love him. | |
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One of thee most beautiful tunes he's ever written
GOD BLESS Curtis Mayfield 
We Are The People Who Are Darker Than Blue 
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funkpill said: One of thee most beautiful tunes he's ever written
GOD BLESS Curtis Mayfield
We Are The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
http://www.youtube.com/wa...rOrV7C7vuU the song Darker than Blue was deep. It touched upon the internal colour prejudice within the black community. | |
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whatsgoingon said: the song Darker than Blue was deep. It touched upon the internal colour prejudice within the black community.
Indeed. The song was so deep and well-written that when I was a teenager I felt like I was being discriminated by the white majority in the States (and mind you, I am a white person living in Northern Europe).  | |
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novabrkr said: whatsgoingon said: the song Darker than Blue was deep. It touched upon the internal colour prejudice within the black community.
Indeed. The song was so deep and well-written that when I was a teenager I felt like I was being discriminated by the white majority in the States (and mind you, I am a white person living in Northern Europe). wow... now that's heavy | |
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theAudience said: ...Because of his voice and songwriting skills, many folks forget what a tremendous influence he had on R&B/Soul guitar playing.
tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 Agreed. We only have to listen to 'Electric Ladyland' (the song) to hear how influential Curtis was as guitar player and singer on our man Jimi for starters. On certain recordings, I can hear Curtis' influence on Prince's guitar playing too. Curtis is also one of my favourate song-writers. | |
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one of my all time favorite musicians
I think I will play The Makings Of You to celebrate! | |
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novabrkr said: The song was so deep and well-written that when I was a teenager I felt like I was being discriminated by the white majority in the States (and mind you, I am a white person living in Northern Europe).
Solidarity brother... 
...Another example of The Power of Music! tA Tribal Disorder
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"a choice of colors" "gypsy woman" "we're a winner" he also produced an excellent funk album for Baby Huey and the babysitters. Curtis Mayfield was a gift. | |
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babybrutha said: "a choice of colors" "gypsy woman" "we're a winner" he also produced an excellent funk album for Baby Huey and the babysitters. Curtis Mayfield was a gift.
Tight-tuh !! National Funk League✮✮ | |
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Time to whip out my "Superfly" CD. My favorite movie soundtrack of all time(even better than "Purple Rain"). | |
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theAudience said: Love these few photos of Curtis Mayfield with his axe...
...Because of his voice and songwriting skills, many folks forget what a tremendous influence he had on R&B/Soul guitar playing. tA Ndeed!!!! 
It's funny that you mention this, I was just thinking about that quote about Hendrix laughing about how he wanted to burn Clapton to death because Clapton couldn't play rhythm. Although Clapton certainly did play a type of rhythm, it was more than standard rock/ blues type---Hendrix was referring to that soulful Gospel/blues- Church influenced R&B type of rhythm, the Kind that players like Curtis helped to bring forth. It comes from being an accompanist... In Charles Shaar Murray's "Crosstown Traffic", he noted Frank Marino's ( Mahogany Rush) comments about the older R&B/Soul/gospel guitar players. Frank noted that if you amped them up, and added some feedback, they'd sound much more like Hendrix than he did... and obviously Curtis was one of Hendrix's big influences, (check "Little Wing", "Axis", etc.)....Hendrix himself remarked of Curtis and the Impressions, "That's a group that really, really needs to be respected...." ... [Edited 6/5/07 15:26pm] " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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uPtoWnNY said: Time to whip out my "Superfly" CD. My favorite movie soundtrack of all time(even better than "Purple Rain").
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It's his voice that does it for me. Especially on the Makings of You, People Get Ready & I'm So Proud. The latter two, I have on his Live at Ronnie Scott's in London, CD. It's a shame he died when he did. He appeared to be such a down to earth person, despite the tragedy that happened to him.
Don't forget that Bob Marley's One Love is a re-working of People Get Ready. I had to listen closely before I realised. | |
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paligap said: theAudience said: Love these few photos of Curtis Mayfield with his axe...
...Because of his voice and songwriting skills, many folks forget what a tremendous influence he had on R&B/Soul guitar playing. tA Ndeed!!!!
It's funny that you mention this, I was just thinking about that quote about Hendrix laughing about how he wanted to burn Clapton to death because Clapton couldn't play rhythm. Although Clapton certainly did play a type of rhythm, it was more than standard rock/ blues type---Hendrix was referring to that soulful Gospel/blues- Church influenced R&B type of rhythm, the Kind that players like Curtis helped to bring forth. It comes from being an accompanist... In Charles Shaar Murray's "Crosstown Traffic", he noted Frank Marino's ( Mahogany Rush) comments about the older R&B/Soul/gospel guitar players. Frank noted that if you amped them up, and added some feedback, they'd sound much more like Hendrix than he did... and obviously Curtis was one of Hendrix's big influences, (check "Little Wing", "Axis", etc.)....Hendrix himself remarked of Curtis and the Impressions, "That's a group that really, really needs to be respected...." ... Exactly. You can really hear this influence clearly on the outro of 
...Electric Ladyland - Classic Albums DVD. It's a portion of the solo'd rhythm track to the title tune. This 1 minute 32 second gem also appears on the... 
...Loose Ends CD. Another great example of this Mayfield/R&B/Soul rhythm style is his version of Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone from the Monterey Pop Festival performance. tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: novabrkr said: The song was so deep and well-written that when I was a teenager I felt like I was being discriminated by the white majority in the States (and mind you, I am a white person living in Northern Europe).
Solidarity brother...
...Another example of The Power of Music! tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 I've always felt the same way. Black & Proud (even though I'm not  ) | |
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funkpill said: uPtoWnNY said: Time to whip out my "Superfly" CD. My favorite movie soundtrack of all time(even better than "Purple Rain").
I'm so glad I got my own So glad that I can see My life's a natural high The man can't put No thing on me I LOVE that song! Just as relevant now as it was back in the 70s. | |
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