SCNDLS said:

dJJ said:

True. and many thanx for bringing me back to that weekend by means of your thread.

So, just for keeping the peace here, what about both of us going to NSJF Rotterdam & Curacao?

Sounds like a good idea, huh?!

Sounds like a plan! I'm definitely going back next year for the festival and may even switch my 40th bday party from Vegas to Curacao. The people and the resort were beautiful!

thats what friends always tell me that curacao is beautiful. never went myself though.

Awesome pics. A lifetime of memories.

nd33 said:

NDRU said:

Sorry if you explained this, but what does it mean to be "Ray Charles'd?"

Inquiring minds want to know

Word. The internet doesn't even know

It's something Ray Charles would do to judge if a woman was attractive or not. He would take their hand during a handshake and feel up and down their wrist and the upper part of the arm.

In the movie Ray, they showed him doing this to several women and then he felt a heavy set woman's wrist and got all frowny faced

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PurpleRighteous1 said:

nd33 said:

Word. The internet doesn't even know

It's something Ray Charles would do to judge if a woman was attractive or not. He would take their hand during a handshake and feel up and down their wrist and the upper part of the arm.

In the movie Ray, they showed him doing this to several women and then he felt a heavy set woman's wrist and got all frowny faced

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Right! now I remember. I was thinkning of all kind of other squeezes

PurpleRighteous1 said:

nd33 said:

Word. The internet doesn't even know

It's something Ray Charles would do to judge if a woman was attractive or not. He would take their hand during a handshake and feel up and down their wrist and the upper part of the arm.

In the movie Ray, they showed him doing this to several women and then he felt a heavy set woman's wrist and got all frowny faced

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I was just talking about this scene with my friend Nishaad the other day.

Because he had a similar reaction after seeing a lady. All I could do was :smh:

Beautiful!

Here's Bran doing my fave song with Sting. I think it's been over 10 years since they've performed together

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SCNDLS said:

So after the awesome show experience my girl and I are just shaking our heads in utter disbelief at what went down. It was a completely amazing experience that capped off an amazing weekend of amazing music and even more amazing new friends. There's absolutely NO way this night could get ANY better, right? WRONG mon frere.

So after the show, our pal tells us he put us on the list for Stevie's after-party. By this time it's 2 am and we left the hotel at 5 pm, so our wagon is draggin fa sho. But our friend BEGS us to come thru to what I'm thinking is a party for a bunch of folks at some hotel.

I shoulda known that when no one we asked had ever heard of the spot, this wasn't going to be your typical afterparty. After we finally found a cab driver who'd heard of this place, we arrived at an ultra-exclusive boutique hotel of private villas directly on the beach around 3 am. Turns out this is where Stevie stayed. The only bad thing is that it was dark so I couldn't see all of the splendor but what I could see was gorgeous.

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There was an open bar and delicious food including the best shrimp and lamb chops I've ever come across

We were chatting, drinking and taking pics with all of the band members. Here's my girl with one Stevie's back up singers.

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And then after awhile they brought Stevie out to one of the covered palapas to chill, which he did until about 6 am. My friend got up the nerve to ask his asst if we could get a pic. I normally frown on this but other people were taking pics so we figured it would be okay. My friend took hers then it was my turn. I introduced myself, he put his arm around me, we took the pic, I thanked him and as I was walking away Stevie TOTALLY Ray Charles'd me.

This is my friend with Stevie and no I'm not posting my pic.

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YOUR FRIEND TOOK A PICTURE WITH STEVIE WONDER

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

edited when I realized it was your friend that's in the picture!!!

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Here are some other performances

Juan Luis Guerra: I was standing directly in front of the stage against the railing for this one

Here's EWF, I was standing backstage during this one

Here's Philip on stage with Stevie. It sounded kinda bad cuz he chose a song that Philip doesn't do lead on and they had trouble finding the right key.

Here's Stevie bringing Dionne out. She was sitting next to me and was genuinely surprised when he called her out and didn't really wanna go.

And here's the amazing Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

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Nice to see your pics.

Looks like a lot of fun. Great location and niiiiiice line up of artists.

Terence Blanchard created most of my favorite film scores but I didn't realize how extensive the man's resume is.

He's also featured in Spike's When the Levees Broke returning to his mother's house after Katrina to survey the damage. In Curacao he told me a hilarious story of his mom cussing him out for letting her choose a countertop she now hates. According to Terence Spike left out quite a bit of stuff cuz his mom was clowning him about redecorating and the crew was laughing too hard.

Terence also performed trumpet for the Denzel Washington character in Mo' Better Blues and for the Val Kilmer character in The Salton Sea. As well as the piano for the Samuel L. Jackson character in "The Caveman's Valentine." I still can't believe I got to listen to music with this dude. Surprisingly, T said that metal is currently his fave genre and really digs the band Disturbed. Didn't see that coming.

1991 Jungle Fever

1992 Malcolm X*

1994 Sugar Hill*

1994 Trial By Jury

1994 The Inkwell

1994 Crooklyn

1995 Clockers*

1996 Get on the Bus

1996 Primal Fear (film)*

1997 Eve's Bayou*

1997 'Til There Was You

1997 4 Little Girls

1998 Gia

1999 Summer of Sam

2000 Love & Basketball

2000 Next Friday

2000 Bamboozled

2001 The Caveman's Valentine*

2001 Original Sin*

2001 Glitter

2002 Barbershop

2002 Dark Blue

2002 25th Hour*

2002 People I Know*

2003 "Unchained Memories"*

2004 She Hate Me*

2006 Inside Man*

2006 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

2007 Talk to Me

2008 Miracle at St. Anna*

2008 Cadillac Records

2010 Bunraku

[Edited 9/6/11 17:04pm]

SCNDLS said:

Terence Blanchard created most of my favorite film scores but I didn't realize how extensive the man's resume is.

He's also featured in Spike's When the Levees Broke returning to his mother's house after Katrina to survey the damage. In Curacao he told me a hilarious story of his mom cussing him out for letting her choose a countertop she now hates. According to Terence Spike left out quite a bit of stuff cuz his mom was clowning him about redecorating and the crew was laughing too hard.

Terence also performed trumpet for the Denzel Washington character in Mo' Better Blues and for the Val Kilmer character in The Salton Sea. As well as the piano for the Samuel L. Jackson character in "The Caveman's Valentine." I still can't believe I got to listen to music with this dude. Surprisingly, T said that metal is currently his fave genre and really digs the band Disturbed. Didn't see that coming.

1991 Jungle Fever

1992 Malcolm X*

1994 Sugar Hill*

1994 Trial By Jury

1994 The Inkwell

1994 Crooklyn

1995 Clockers*

1996 Get on the Bus

1996 Primal Fear (film)*

1997 Eve's Bayou*

1997 'Til There Was You

1997 4 Little Girls

1998 Gia

1999 Summer of Sam

2000 Love & Basketball

2000 Next Friday

2000 Bamboozled

2001 The Caveman's Valentine*

2001 Original Sin*

2001 Glitter

2002 Barbershop

2002 Dark Blue

2002 25th Hour*

2002 People I Know*

2003 "Unchained Memories"*

2004 She Hate Me*

2006 Inside Man*

2006 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

2007 Talk to Me

2008 Miracle at St. Anna*

2008 Cadillac Records

2010 Bunraku

[Edited 9/6/11 17:04pm]

Terence is my boy. The suite he created for X alone made him one of my heroes. "When the Levees Broke..." contains some of the finest jazz I've ever heard.

Thanks for letting us have a few glimmers of reflected sunlight, Sandals.

SCNDLS said:

Terence Blanchard created most of my favorite film scores but I didn't realize how extensive the man's resume is.

He's also featured in Spike's When the Levees Broke returning to his mother's house after Katrina to survey the damage. In Curacao he told me a hilarious story of his mom cussing him out for letting her choose a countertop she now hates. According to Terence Spike left out quite a bit of stuff cuz his mom was clowning him about redecorating and the crew was laughing too hard.

Terence also performed trumpet for the Denzel Washington character in Mo' Better Blues and for the Val Kilmer character in The Salton Sea. As well as the piano for the Samuel L. Jackson character in "The Caveman's Valentine." I still can't believe I got to listen to music with this dude. Surprisingly, T said that metal is currently his fave genre and really digs the band Disturbed. Didn't see that coming.

1991 Jungle Fever

1992 Malcolm X*

1994 Sugar Hill*

1994 Trial By Jury

1994 The Inkwell

1994 Crooklyn

1995 Clockers*

1996 Get on the Bus

1996 Primal Fear (film)*

1997 Eve's Bayou*

1997 'Til There Was You

1997 4 Little Girls

1998 Gia

1999 Summer of Sam

2000 Love & Basketball

2000 Next Friday

2000 Bamboozled

2001 The Caveman's Valentine*

2001 Original Sin*

2001 Glitter

2002 Barbershop

2002 Dark Blue

2002 25th Hour*

2002 People I Know*

2003 "Unchained Memories"*

2004 She Hate Me*

2006 Inside Man*

2006 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

2007 Talk to Me

2008 Miracle at St. Anna*

2008 Cadillac Records

2010 Bunraku

[Edited 9/6/11 17:04pm]

We family but I'm gonna footsweep you just once out of jealousy

ThreadBare said:

SCNDLS said:

Terence Blanchard created most of my favorite film scores but I didn't realize how extensive the man's resume is.

He's also featured in Spike's When the Levees Broke returning to his mother's house after Katrina to survey the damage. In Curacao he told me a hilarious story of his mom cussing him out for letting her choose a countertop she now hates. According to Terence Spike left out quite a bit of stuff cuz his mom was clowning him about redecorating and the crew was laughing too hard.

Terence also performed trumpet for the Denzel Washington character in Mo' Better Blues and for the Val Kilmer character in The Salton Sea. As well as the piano for the Samuel L. Jackson character in "The Caveman's Valentine." I still can't believe I got to listen to music with this dude. Surprisingly, T said that metal is currently his fave genre and really digs the band Disturbed. Didn't see that coming.

1991 Jungle Fever

1992 Malcolm X*

1994 Sugar Hill*

1994 Trial By Jury

1994 The Inkwell

1994 Crooklyn

1995 Clockers*

1996 Get on the Bus

1996 Primal Fear (film)*

1997 Eve's Bayou*

1997 'Til There Was You

1997 4 Little Girls

1998 Gia

1999 Summer of Sam

2000 Love & Basketball

2000 Next Friday

2000 Bamboozled

2001 The Caveman's Valentine*

2001 Original Sin*

2001 Glitter

2002 Barbershop

2002 Dark Blue

2002 25th Hour*

2002 People I Know*

2003 "Unchained Memories"*

2004 She Hate Me*

2006 Inside Man*

2006 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

2007 Talk to Me

2008 Miracle at St. Anna*

2008 Cadillac Records

2010 Bunraku

[Edited 9/6/11 17:04pm]

Terence is my boy. The suite he created for X alone made him one of my heroes. "When the Levees Broke..." contains some of the finest jazz I've ever heard.

Thanks for letting us have a few glimmers of reflected sunlight, Sandals.

No doubt. A Spike Joint ain't a Spike Joint without Terence. They really collaborate beautifully.

bboy87 said:

SCNDLS said:

Terence Blanchard created most of my favorite film scores but I didn't realize how extensive the man's resume is.

He's also featured in Spike's When the Levees Broke returning to his mother's house after Katrina to survey the damage. In Curacao he told me a hilarious story of his mom cussing him out for letting her choose a countertop she now hates. According to Terence Spike left out quite a bit of stuff cuz his mom was clowning him about redecorating and the crew was laughing too hard.

Terence also performed trumpet for the Denzel Washington character in Mo' Better Blues and for the Val Kilmer character in The Salton Sea. As well as the piano for the Samuel L. Jackson character in "The Caveman's Valentine." I still can't believe I got to listen to music with this dude. Surprisingly, T said that metal is currently his fave genre and really digs the band Disturbed. Didn't see that coming.

1991 Jungle Fever

1992 Malcolm X*

1994 Sugar Hill*

1994 Trial By Jury

1994 The Inkwell

1994 Crooklyn

1995 Clockers*

1996 Get on the Bus

1996 Primal Fear (film)*

1997 Eve's Bayou*

1997 'Til There Was You

1997 4 Little Girls

1998 Gia

1999 Summer of Sam

2000 Love & Basketball

2000 Next Friday

2000 Bamboozled

2001 The Caveman's Valentine*

2001 Original Sin*

2001 Glitter

2002 Barbershop

2002 Dark Blue

2002 25th Hour*

2002 People I Know*

2003 "Unchained Memories"*

2004 She Hate Me*

2006 Inside Man*

2006 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

2007 Talk to Me

2008 Miracle at St. Anna*

2008 Cadillac Records

2010 Bunraku

[Edited 9/6/11 17:04pm]

We family but I'm gonna footsweep you just once out of jealousy

Boy don't make me go to the vintage move

Here's some video I took of the Branford Marsalis Quartet featuring Terence Blanchard.

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Wow...what a paartay!

Go 'head gurl!

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:flower:

SCNDLS said:

Hershe said:

SCNDLS said:

Here's Bran doing my fave song with Sting. I think it's been over 10 years since they've performed together

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Thanks Cynda!

You're welcome

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Here's more video of Branford's quartet. His drummer, Justin, is off the chain and only 20. Bran found him at the age of 16, and he's been playing in the quartet for 2.5 years.

SCNDLS said:

Here's more video of Branford's quartet. His drummer, Justin, is off the chain and only 20. Bran found him at the age of 16, and he's been playing in the quartet for 2.5 years.

Great musicianship!!!!

KidaDynamite said:

So, you were backstage watching these artists perform, you got felt up by Stevie AND got to take a picture with him?!?! I want to be like you when I grow up. I think I can get felt up by musicians but I can't fly around the world and see awesome shit whenever I want to....yet! Great stuff SCNDLS!

KidaDynamite said:

So, you were backstage watching these artists perform, you got felt up by Stevie AND got to take a picture with him?!?! I want to be like you when I grow up. I think I can get felt up by musicians but I can't fly around the world and see awesome shit whenever I want to....yet! Great stuff SCNDLS!

You can do it!

Looks like u had a great time. I'm so happy 4 u. I can't wait to get home to see the pics. My job has the photo site you used blocked.

Nice pics Scndls;glad you could share. Looks like you had a great time.

2elijah said:

Nice pics Scndls;glad you could share. Looks like you had a great time.

Thanks ma'am. It was definitely memorable.