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waxpoetics #38 - The Film/Hustler Issue Features 2 split cover possibilities...
 
OR   It’s been a long time coming. In fact, for the past eight years and thirty-seven issues, we’ve wanted to do a Curtis Mayfield cover. It finally worked out for our unofficial Film/Hustler Issue, in which we take a look at Mayfield’s epic soundtrack recording Super Fly. New York writer Michael Gonzales pulls from his own 1996 Curtis Mayfield interview as well as tapping Curtis associates, guitarists Craig McMullen and Phil Upchurch and composer/arranger Johnny Pate, to tell the story of the finest blaxploitation score of the 1970s. Once again, we’ve created a split cover–with Curtis on front both times and the back shared by two classic films: Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (Radio Raheem in full effect) and Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin (a Wax Poetics favorite). Besides speaking with both of these groundbreaking filmmakers, we also take a look at the new film Black Dynamite (Wax Poetics Records released the score and soundtrack), and music supervisor David Hollander reveals the fundamental facts of once-mysterious library music. Last but not least, we finally unveil the Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim story by longtime contributer Mark McCord (aka Mark Skillz). As the greatest hustler of all time, Beck finally gets his due. Featured Articles: Curtis Mayfield “I don’t see why people are complaining about the subject of these films,” Curtis told Jet magazine in October 1972 in a statement that foreshadows the words of modern-day rappers. “The way you clean up the films is by cleaning up the streets. The music and movies of today are the conditions that exist.” Spike Lee What gets me mad about Bamboozled is that the New York Times refused to run the ad with Tommy Davidson and Savion Glover in blackface. The whole thing about the film was to show that there is a history behind this imagery. Ralph Bakshi When I was doing Mighty Mouse and The Mighty Heroes, I didn’t like what I was doing. That wasn’t the raw edge of life I grew up with. Bob Dylan was singing, the freedom marches were happening, Miles Davis was blowin’, and the stuff Coltrane was doing was brand new. So doing this stupid, old bullshit wasn’t good enough. http://www.waxpoetics.com...-issue-38/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Looks like another goodie on the way. 
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Coonskin is one of my favorite's of the era, thanks for posting I need to grab a copy of this. | |
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Waxpoetics does not get enough credit for the care the writers and editors put into each issue, I swear "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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bboy87 said: Waxpoetics does not get enough credit for the care the writers and editors put into each issue, I swear
I agree. | |
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paligap said: ...
Kool, I'm on it!!!!
... The only downside to a subscription is having to wait on the mail... 
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Meloh9 said: Coonskin is one of my favorite's of the era, thanks for posting I need to grab a copy of this.
My pleasure. Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Disorder
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I need to get one of these, I've never purchases them. They're not in stores, corrwct? PRINCE: Always and Forever
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LittleBLUECorvette said: I need to get one of these, I've never purchases them. They're not in stores, corrwct?
Depends on your location, here's a listing of retailers and locations. http://www.waxpoetics.com/retailers/   National Funk League✮✮ | |
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LittleBLUECorvette said: I need to get one of these, I've never purchases them. They're not in stores, corrwct?
Check Barnes and Noble "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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bboy87 said: Waxpoetics does not get enough credit for the care the writers and editors put into each issue, I swear
They certainly do amongst the readership. Imo, they'll never be a very popular magazine amongst the masses who are not intersted in the depth and detail of the articles they do on the type of artists they feature. Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Disorder
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bboy87 said: LittleBLUECorvette said: I need to get one of these, I've never purchases them. They're not in stores, corrwct?
Check Barnes and Noble or Borders | |
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This edition finally arrived. I got the "Radio Raheem" version
Another benefit of a subscription are the occasional goodies included. The last few issues have arrived with a free 45. Adrian Younge... 
...Rafelli Chase (b/w High Diver - Brian Bennett/Alan Hawkshaw) Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Records"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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I did my usual freeloader thing of standing in Borders in front of the magazine rack and reading almost the whole thing.
Takes a while. You'd think I'd get a real life but I like it; s'kinda a meditation ritual for me with each new issue. You got a 45? That's cool. I did notice that within the first few pages there was a notice that you could go to a website and listen to some of the music written about in the ish. Has that always been a feature or have I just never noticed before? | |
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DakutiusMaximus said: Has that always been a feature or have I just never noticed before?
This issue and the prior one have come with 45s. The "listening" feature on the website has been there for a while. Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Records"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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