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Interesting notice about early upcoming hiphop/rap,by drummer Keith LeBlanc (Tackhead/SugarHill band/Wood,Brass & Steel) 
"...When we toured with Sugar Hill, I got to play with all the great R&B bands like Faze-O, Rick James, Skyy, Cameo – all the bands in that period we played on stage with, so I was influenced by that as well. In D.C. they had EU (Experience Unlimited) and Trouble Funk, and those boys kicked ass! I remember Trouble Funks drummer had like a million drums and he was hittin’ all of em!! That sound was indigenous to D.C., and everybody who played D.C. got thrashed. When we went back I said "what do we have that sounds remotely Go Go"!! The only group who escaped unscathed was Parliament. Even Cameo got their asses kicked, and they were the top group at the time. But we used to wear the crowd out, having such a big hit, and it was rap with crowd participation. There was a lot of envy from other groups, and they would turn the house lights down on us and sabotage our set. The Sugar Hill Gang didn’t have that many songs, so we would play for like 40 minutes before the Gang came out. We were playin' bits of Wood, Brass & Steel stuff. The only group the respected us back then was P Funk. They invited us to open up for them on the Knee Deep tour. But the first time that we saw Flash & The Furious 5 at a high school in New York, we knew that bands were about to be over. Flash was playin’ the beat box and spinnin’ records and I remember askin’ Doug (Wimbish) did he miss the band and he said no. I didn’t either..." http://www.thafoundation....lblanc.htm [Edited 5/31/09 19:25pm] | |
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