They did one performance in the UK with the "Defenition Of A Band"-Tour which i unfortunately missed to see .
Whoa ! , the jazz they mix in that first intro . Hands down !

Change Your Mind + Raise Up

http://youtube.com/watch?...0condition




Sometimes + Hurt No More

http://youtube.com/watch?...0condition




What Kind Of Man Would I Be (clip)

http://youtube.com/watch?...0condition

A glaring example of the general public's indifference to good music.

100 MPH, I'm seriously diggin' ur taste, man!

They were not good enuf 4 Prince, huh?!

HrdwcH said:

ride on bro !

HrdwcH said:

Who knows , maybe in the future they could hook up .
The link with Jam & Lewis is already there .
At least for a start , guitarist O'Dell is jammin' along with The Truth in MNPLS .

the brothas of the mint factory will someday be a hidden gem like WAR, Mandrill, Pleasure, Azteca, Los Lobos, Los Lonley Boys and Robert Randolph & The Family Band....

Love it. I've NEVER seen this one.
How do u download this clip?
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I'm doing EVERTHING that I can 2 make sure they are KNOWN right now.....in their PRIME.
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Graycap23 said:

There is a way to do it , but i'm clueless right now .
And i don't have the ability myself , since surfing in an internet-cafe .
Maybe there's some info on google

More people should know about Mint. I've been pushing these cats 2 anyone who will listen from day 1.

diamondpearl1 said:

co-sign, especially WAR, Mandrill and Los Lonely Boys. Mint doesn't get the props they deserve.

Definition of a Band is a classic album to me. I have all of Mint's stuff including the best of that came out a few years ago.

They are soooo cold.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fJFlVzjPyME

Adisa said:

Mint would rip the Time a new one. And this is coming from a Time fan. Stokley is in my opinion a far better vocalist than Morris or even Prince for that matter and the musical arrangements on Mint's records are what the Time would probably sound like if they "grew up". Now O'Dell can't touch Jesse but outside of that, they are the evolution of the Time in a sense. Grown folks' musicians. Mint's biggest drawback is their stage show. They are less exciting to look at and more exciting to listen to. Just my opinion.

Just to clarify before anyone asks, what I mean by "grew up" is that The Time is and has been essentially an 80s band. No offense but they never grew beyond their Princely limitations despite the fact that they are all world class musicians. To be honest, they've been a cover band of themselves for years now and unlike Mint, you don't hear as much growth and evolution from album to album; partially because Prince played such a major part in that.

BlaqueKnight said:

Good take.

I think they could have "matured musically" if Jimmy & Terry had remained a part of the group (writing, production, etc.).


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431
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Adisa said:

I Like both equally !



My personal experience is that although The Time is currently doing the walk mainly on memorylane , i thought they did some great new thangz like Blondie and Skillet on Pandemonium .
It's where the rock-segment came more into the daylight and gave Jesse some more acces to cut 'm axxes .
Along with a 1984-track like My Drawers , that would have been a cool direction for them head to ... the rock-funk thang .



As for Mint Condition their growth , is that they never started their career with a mentor as The Time did , and scored with their own written material , while The Time has builded up their career on hits which came from Prince his catalogue . So Mint has never been bound to the fact that they have to perform certain tracks . If you watched their latest DVD , i could could the classics on one hand ( Pretty Brown Eyes , and maybe some more ) .
It's a difficult situation , especially in today's music-business .
Mint is still on some major Label . I don't know which label Morris his latest one is ( title : It's About Time on which i heard some solid work ) but from what i see now is that they focuss on their live-gigs which i think is a good thing too . Live-performing is one of the best ways to upgrade your skills . We've all seen Prince do it countlees times .


I must say that my last fave record from Mint was Life's Aquarium .
It included more uptempo-tracks than their latest project .
And that rock-element they play live in Raise Up is something that is miss a little too lately .
Meant To Be Mint was released during the newjack-swing-era , but had some tracks like Harmony and bunch of others ( apart from the newjack-tracks ) that would still bump live today .
This album , togeteher with Defenition Of A Band and Life's Aquarium have the the solid joints (imo )
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I'm probably the biggest Mint backer of them all.
I really wish they would get more pub because it would mean more music for us.
They were talking about releasing a new cd before the end of the year. I hope that this is true. It took them 6 years between albums last time.

Graycap23 said:

That's another matter i wondered about .
With such a unique project as The Truth doing monthly MNPLS-gigs in the future , how is the current situation of US-venues booking contemporary Urban bands ?
A sort of crisis as a few years back happened also during the early-mid-80's and even during the early-90's ( during Desert Storm ) .
I've read 80's-interviews from funk & soul-artists who complained that venues stopped to book big bands . Is that situation an issue today ?
With rock-bands it still seems to be very active and alive .

BlaqueKnight said:

Oh, I agree with you 100%. I just wanted to post that link.
Jesse was so cool and reserved, with an attitude like, "Yeah, I know I'm bad. Here's a little taste."

Adisa said:

Thasss cussss he wusssss

BlaqueKnight said:

Co-sign...Stokley blows both of them out of the water vocally...It kills me that people complain about not hearing good music anymore when these guys constantly kick out nice CDs but get slept on....their main problem now is that they are so tight live...nobody wants to tour with them...Prince would not want to have these guys open for him...they would smoke!

Graycap23 said:

Same here...the most slept on great band out there.