SoulAlive said:

This Friday,the Isley Brothers are releasing a 2-LP vinyl album,Groove With You...Live that was recorded in 1980 but never released.Note that this is the same album that's featured in the box set,but this version has the audience sounds,making it a real "live" album.

Just went on Ebay and purchased a copy of this It's a Christmas gift to myself,lol

There are more copies available.

what's the set list??

Downloaded the digital version from iTunes. Gotta say, the Jimi Hendrix songs are oustanding

HuMpThAnG said:

SoulAlive said:

Just went on Ebay and purchased a copy of this It's a Christmas gift to myself,lol

There are more copies available.

what's the set list??

THE ISLEY BROTHERS Groove With You… LIVE vinyl
TRACKLIST:

SIDE 1---

“Introduction”
“That Lady”
"Here We Go Again”,
“Don’t Say Goodnight (It’s Time For Love)

“Say You Will”
“Voyage To Atlantis”
“It’s a Disco Night (Rock Don’t Stop)”
“Livin’ in the Life / Go for Your Guns”

I am so pissed that this live album wasn't released in 1980 as planned They completed and submitted it,but the label wanted a new studio album instead.What's frustrating is that,this 2-LP album could have been released in late 1980 (just in time for the Christmas shopping season) and the next studio album,Grand Slam could have still been released in the spring/summer of 1981.

Oh well....better late than never,huh?

My Boys!

Gotta Cop it! Tonight!

SoulAlive said:

HuMpThAnG said:

what's the set list??

THE ISLEY BROTHERS Groove With You… LIVE vinyl
TRACKLIST:

SIDE 1---

“Introduction”
“That Lady”
"Here We Go Again”,
“Don’t Say Goodnight (It’s Time For Love)

SIDE 2---

“Medley: Hello, It’s Me/Footsteps In The Dark/For The Love OF You”
“Take Me To The Next Phase”

SIDE 3---

“Fight The Power”
“Groove With You”
“Summer Breeze”

SIDE 4---

“Say You Will”
“Voyage To Atlantis”
“It’s a Disco Night (Rock Don’t Stop)”
“Livin’ in the Life / Go for Your Guns”

"Harvest For The World" (1976)

SoulAlive said:

phunkdaddy said:

phunkdaddy said:

phunkdaddy said:

I might get this just to hear the live version of Say You Will. A friend of mine told me he saw them on the Go All The Way tour and the Isleys killed this song. It's probably my favorite from them along with Who Loves You Better.

I wonder if it's in stores.

You may find it at your local independent record store.There are many copies available on eBay.

as mentioned earlier in this thread,their 1981 single "Hurry Up And Wait" is a jam!

I keep forgetting how much of a beast Ernie Isley on the axe

Hamad said:

I keep forgetting how much of a beast Ernie Isley on the axe

Marvin is underrated as well

HuMpThAnG said:

Hamad said:

I keep forgetting how much of a beast Ernie Isley on the axe

Marvin is underrated as well

Yeah Marvin kills it on side 2 of the Grand Slam album

Love these cats.

They are in my top 10 groups of all time.

speaking of these MASTERS of funk/r&b..

WHO did the "spoken parts" on the following songs??

+ "we want- we want you to feel the [inaudible??]"

at the beginning of "take me to the next phase" (baby!)

+ "did you like that baby?"

"who said they see where? I ain't never been in there"

& other verbal "improvs" at the end of "who said"

+ "let's get all the way down"

in the eternally classic "between the sheets"

I've always wondered who did those vocal parts - does anyone know???

these brothers are BAD!!! my favorites:

Harvest for the World

Make Me Say it Again Girl

Hello

Work To Do

Fight The Power

Summer Breeze

Voyage To Atlantis

For The Love Of You

The Isleys are easily among my favorite 10 bands or so, funky. rocking and soulful, equally adept at hard jams, midtempo tunes or intense bedroom ballads, with great singing, guitar and bass - they actually share many of the same virtues of Prince. I have been a huge fan since day 1.

I think Ernie Isley is one of black music's (maybe all of popular music's) greatest unsung heroes. He is not only an amazing guitar player (one of my personal favs of all-time) but he also plays drums on all those great Isley songs! If you have not checked out his 1990 solo album High Wire, do it now. The best album with an Isley name on it since the group's 1970s heyday IMO. He even sings on that one too.

Go for Your Guns is not only my fav album of theirs but also one of my all-time fav albums. It showcases all they were great at and there is not a weak track on it. Few have ever rocked funk harder than they do on the Pride-Climbing Up the Ladder-Living in the Life trifecta on that album. Runner-up for me is Showdown (just a year after Go for Your Guns!). Also, Fight the Power is one of the greatest funk jams ever; I never get tired of hearing it. How can you not move to that shit?! I could go on as I love so much of their stuff.

I did see them live in the 1979-80 timeframe at the L.A. Forum and was disappointed. There were too many opening acts and by the time they finally came on the crowd was not that into it and neither did it seem the Isleys were. So I can't say they were that awesome of a live act but they killed it in the studio.

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Don't ever recall hearing Prince with all his covers in concert busting out an Isleys nugget. Wouldn't it be cool to hear him rip into some of those funk-rock jams or makeout grinders? Better option than some of the covers he has chosen through the years.

From the 1970s through "The Real Deal" in 1982, they were hot as fire. Also, the group Sunrize, which they produced, had a hot one called "Who's Stickin' It" in 1982. "Between The Sheets" was pretty good too but not near as good as the previous stuff. After that, Isley Jasper Isley was decent but it wasn't the same. And after that, they fell off big time. From the 1990s up to the present, Ronald Isley's music makes me taste vomit in my throat because it's just a damn shame that someone that came from such a hard funk group like that would sell out so big time and become an inspiration for other older artists to sell out too.

In general, I've noticed that the Twist And Shout & Motown eras are hardly mentioned or played on the radio. Maybe Shout is still widely known, probably because of the movie Animal House. But that version is not the Isleys.

vainandy said:

From the 1970s through "The Real Deal" in 1982, they were hot as fire. Also, the group Sunrize, which they produced, had a hot one called "Who's Stickin' It" in 1982. "Between The Sheets" was pretty good too but not near as good as the previous stuff. After that, Isley Jasper Isley was decent but it wasn't the same. And after that, they fell off big time. From the 1990s up to the present, Ronald Isley's music makes me taste vomit in my throat because it's just a damn shame that someone that came from such a hard funk group like that would sell out so big time and become an inspiration for other older artists to sell out too.

Aside from Ernie Isley's High Wire in 1990 totally agree with this. Imagine how good High Wire would have been with Ronald handling the vocals. I thought their decline began with Inside You but then they came back so hard with The Real Deal only to begin the permanent fade.

Bet somebody wont rank their 69-83 albums. I bet!

MickyDolenz said:

In general, I've noticed that the Twist And Shout & Motown eras are hardly mentioned or played on the radio. Maybe Shout is still widely known, probably because of the movie Animal House. But that version is not the Isleys.

THis Old Heart of Mine gets play a lot.

Andy's Podcast

Checkout all of VainAndy's Podcast. But make sho' you checkout the Isely Brothers Mix.

I'm not a fan -as many of you know- of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The Isely's should have been among the 1st class of R&R Hall inductees. Those men were very much apart of post-war music that would emerge from the Black community and spread across the US and others parts of the World.

Your quintessntial "classically trained" (via the black church/bluse/gospel) band who took elements from Doo-wop, Gospel, R&B, Rock to create their own sound. I can't recall another band, group, or singer who's sound was a steady, progressive, evolutionary process. Even so...

The Isely's were in top form at every interval: The Isely's weren't searching for their sound or throwing off others influences per say, they were building upon a sound that addressed where they were musically and where the country was socially. Here's a group that masterd the slow seductive jam, could get your ass on the dance floor in a NY sec, but could go hard at commenting on political / social issues. Isely are a very underrated group. If it wasn't for the b.s. in the US, they would have been apprecaited and celebrated more. ( IMHO)

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TD3 said:

I'm not a fan -as many of you know- of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The Isely's should have been amonst 1st class of R&R Hall inductees.

100% agree.

HardcoreJollies said:

Don't ever recall hearing Prince with all his covers in concert busting out an Isleys nugget. Wouldn't it be cool to hear him rip into some of those funk-rock jams or makeout grinders? Better option than some of the covers he has chosen through the years.

Prince isn't going to try it--he can't, because the Isleys are the truth. He needs to go on in his own direction, while remembering those brothas for some down-to-real-life inspiration. Maybe throw in a few notes or a lyric for reference.

Graycap23 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Graycap23 said:

100% agree.

Man, I'm a huge Isley's fan but then getting in when they did I'm fine with that. Those first two classes are untouchable. Hell PFunk didn't get in until 97 and I think they noth releases debut single the same time.

This is why I don't like these types of Hall. In many instances I think most of the folks who do the choosing... don't know and/or haven't listen to a lot of music.

This isn't a question of timing...

The issue for me, who did what and what did a person or group contribution to music. If you listen to the Isley brothers, those men were right there did in the middle for ever shift in genres. They were right there, with Chuck Berry and Little Richard, among others. Isley were many thing Funk being just one of the genres they contributed to and mastered.