Probably my favorite B. Davis joint here:



I'm actually playing the song on my stereo RIGHT FUCKIN' NOW!

Note: if you can't watch it just in case embedding is disabled, just click right and hit "Watch on YouTube". Case settled.
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I don't care if you don't reply, I'm gonna keep on bumping this for listening value. You know I could just change the title for ya...

Kinda has the "Superstitious", Stevie vibe to it....I likes!!

shorttrini said:

It does, I just love her "dontgiveafuckness" about it.

Timmy84 said:

I like that about it also. I have never heard this before!!

shorttrini said:

You should hear her joints "Anti Love Song" and "Nasty Gal". I swear she was Rick James before Rick even knew what the fuck he WAS musically. I'm listening to her debut album from '73 right now.
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This was supposedly about Jimi:

i love love love betty

Anxiety said:

Me too, you, DirtyChris (and some other folks I forget) turned me on to her.

Love this cut... her growling voice is fierce

Timmy84 said:

It WAS about Jimi. Don't worry about folks posting..I did a few threads on her a few years back. I have all of her shit. Vastly and criminally underrated. Queen of Ms. Funk/Rock, no doubt.

blackguitaristz said:

Word!

blackguitaristz said:

she has denied in interviews that it's about jimi, but she did some fancy footwork in her denials which made it seem even more obvious...it's about jimi.

Damn she's freaky as hell! Betty's got a Tina Turner feel to her. Tina was another one who had a "I don't give a fuck" attitude as well.

Chic35 said:

betty's music has it all - funk, soul, hard rock, glam...she was the real deal.

Anxiety said:

For real, plus she wrote her own shit.

Timmy84 said:

A similar observation from someone who sometimes speaks in pyscho-spiritual gobble-de-gook (I know he means well) a few cogent comments from Carlos Santana.

“She was the first Madonna, but Madonna is more like Marie Osmond compared to Betty Davis.
Betty was a real ferocious Black Panther woman. You couldn’t tame Betty Davis.”

...They Say I'm Different (liner notes)


One of Betty’s close friends, Devon Wilson, was dating Jimi Hendrix, and it is believed that Hendrix’s jazz-rock fusions opened Miles’ eyes to new musical styles. Hence, the album Bitches Brew is unofficially dedicated to Betty and her “cosmic ladies” friends.

Carlos Santana, in his essay “Remembering Miles,” says, “You could see how these ladies were affecting Miles. They changed the way he dressed, the places he went, and the music he listened to. … I have always thought that Bitches Brew was, in its own way, a tribute to Miles’ language to those women who opened his eyes to a whole new world, and who encouraged and prodded him to take that next step.” Miles may have already been a living legend by the late ’60s, but he knew that Betty was no starry-eyed groupie.

...https://venuszine.com/art...etty_davis

I tend to lean toward her first album and this particular track...



...Game Is My Middle Name.

Her performance and the groove is just so right.
I'm sure the players didn't hurt (Larry Graham, Neal Schon, Gregg Errico, Doug Rauch, etc)


tA

Tribal Disorder

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

theAudience said:

I guess I shouldn't be too shocked, but I didn't realize he did session work.

theAudience said:

That debut is something HEAVY! Gregg Errico and Larry Graham were all on that album.

RipHer2Shreds said:

He done quite few things outside of Santana/Journey.
Even playing on Michael Bolton's (one of the singers hipsters-love-to-hate) Dock of the Bay track.

Supposedly there is/was a band, Black Soup Cracker with him, Rosie Gaines & Michael Bland.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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

I'd light a tree and bump this music!

theAudience said:

To me, Miles's "Bitches Brew" & "Agharta" simply would have NOT existed in THAT form if it wasn't for Hendrix. Devon was no joke. Actually being the inspiration of a Hendrix song "Dolly Dagger". A dig at her and Mick Jagger since she (for the lack of a better word) "dated" both Hendrix and Mick. And no, having one of my all time fave bassists (Graham) and one of my all time fave guitarists (Schon) on that album CERTAINLY doesn't hurt anybody.
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Timmy84 said:

Yeah, just you're average-everyday rhythm section.


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Tribal Disorder

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

blackguitaristz said:

If things were a bit different Miles & Jimi could've/should've played together.

I get the impression that Devon, among other things, was also functioning as Jimi's "anchor to Blackness".


tA

Tribal Disorder

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

theAudience said:

let's not forget that none other than the fabulous SYLVESTER was among the backing vocalists on that first album. i can NOT imagine what it possibly could have been like to be in the same room with sylvester and betty davis.

Anxiety said:

Throw in a couple of Pointer Sisters and you've got some serious party potential.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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

theAudience said:

Which ones? I'm assuming JUNE was one of them. Wasn't the Pointers on They Say I'm Different?

Timmy84 said:

I'll have to check the liner notes when I get home but I believe a couple of them were credited individually on first album.
Not sure about They Say I'm Different.


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

theAudience said:

I ask because it sounds like June on "Get In There" with Betty and Sylvester...

Timmy84 said:

i gotta have my liner notes in front of me as well, but i think you're probably right...