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Gil Scott-Heron And His Amnesia Express Live in London
Three Miles Down http://www.youtube.com/wa...tt%20heron We Almost Lost Detroit http://www.youtube.com/wa...tt%20heron Winter in America http://www.youtube.com/wa...tt%20heron Bonus: BBC TV Interview Take time & check out this interview Very profound http://www.youtube.com/wa...tt%20heron | |
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Thanks!!!I have started in on Gil a little more lately. Great stuff!!So far I have about 5 cd's All so incredibly rich!!Very soulful jazz and r&b. Everybody should be listening to Gil's music. "I'm a pig..so,magic elixir I swill" | |
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rockwilder said: Thanks!!!I have started in on Gil a little more lately. Great stuff!!So far I have about 5 cd's All so incredibly rich!!Very soulful jazz and r&b. Everybody should be listening to Gil's music.
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funkpill said: BBC TV Interview
Take time & check out this interview Very profound "I like to write poetry that both my mother and my daughter can listen to." 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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funkpill said: Why does he look like Damon Wayans as Anton Jackson in this picture? The Normal Whores Club | |
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Did anyone hear about this. Sad news indeed.
http://washingtontimes.co...-2654r.htm Hip Hop founder gets prison time Jul. 6, 2006 at 1:05PM 1970s black consciousness activist, Gil Scott Heron, was sentenced to two to four years in Queens Supreme Court for violating a plea deal on a drug charge. Heron violated the deal by leaving the drug treatment center he was placed in, the New York Post reported Thursday. The 56-year-old musician, poet and singer, regarded as a founding father of Hip Hop, stirred the political pot with his 1970s hit songs "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," "Johannesburg," about apartheid in South Africa, and "The Bottle." Heron said the in-patient rehab clinic stopped giving him his HIV medication and since Heron is HIV positive, he left. The prosecution noted Heron once left treatment for an appearance with singer Alicia Keys. | |
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IF TRUE...
The story of Gil contracting HIV is a deeply saddening development. M.2.K
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papaa said: IF TRUE...
The story of Gil contracting HIV is a deeply saddening development. Didn't know that... | |
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I gotta do some research on this man more.I love his music.I wonder if he started doing heroin or whatever after years of preaching against the ills of mankind like this after he just got tired. I wonder if he fought so hard to better us and we didn't really do our part that he just gave up and thought the only way to ease the pain was to stone out. I saw that MLK Boondocks episode and I think that's not far from what may have happened if he could come back today.He'd see what a disgrace things have become.Maybe,he would have just given up,too.Maybe Gil always had this monkey on his back and he kept getting heavier until he couldn't walk upright anymore. "I'm a pig..so,magic elixir I swill" | |
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mdn7 said: Did anyone hear about this. Sad news indeed.
http://washingtontimes.co...-2654r.htm Hip Hop founder gets prison time Jul. 6, 2006 at 1:05PM 1970s black consciousness activist, Gil Scott Heron, was sentenced to two to four years in Queens Supreme Court for violating a plea deal on a drug charge. Heron violated the deal by leaving the drug treatment center he was placed in, the New York Post reported Thursday. The 56-year-old musician, poet and singer, regarded as a founding father of Hip Hop, stirred the political pot with his 1970s hit songs "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," "Johannesburg," about apartheid in South Africa, and "The Bottle." Heron said the in-patient rehab clinic stopped giving him his HIV medication and since Heron is HIV positive, he left. The prosecution noted Heron once left treatment for an appearance with singer Alicia Keys. Well, how could you blame someone for leaving a place that denies you your HIV medication? Sounds crazy. And sad, indeed. | |
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BTW, Hip Hop founder? | |
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This guy is pure genius and it saddens me to hear about his HIV.
I heard "The Bottle" and "The revolution will be televised" and needed more. I picked up record of him just doing his poetry and I think people will be still taking his stuff in for years to come. | |
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FunkMistress said: funkpill said: Why does he look like Damon Wayans as Anton Jackson in this picture? Just like him. | |
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