Your Musical Hero's, who are they?
Mangoman
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Musically we all have our hero???s, though our taste may change from time to time who would those hero???s be? Why? At this momment:Stevie WonderDorthy AshbyBuddy MontgomeryCommonDe La SouLOCEsther PhillipsSeekSophyHow bout U?
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stay away from them. they are evil.
ps...musicians are assholes.
disclaimer:
I'm a asshole musician so fuck off.
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I don't have any heros but the following is a list of people who's talent and productions I admire and am jealous of. Plus there are countless others, just too many to list.
In no particular order.
John Legend
Alicia Keys
Stevie Wonder
Ray Charles
Gil Scott Heron
Ray Baretto
Optical
Marcus Intallex & ST Files
High Contrast
Calibre
Dr. Dre
Timbaland
Chad Hugo & Pharrell Williams
Alchamist
Rich Harris
Kanye West (hate to say it but d0u3r got beatz)
EDIT: I forgot to mention BT. i am not into his hard trance house whatever style of music he produces but the guy is a genius when it comes to sound generation and manipulation.
John Lennon
Frank Zappa
Prince
Trevor Horn
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington
Charles Mingus
Pharoah Sanders
Herbie Hancock
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Gabby Pahinui
Robert & Roland Cazimero
Peter Moon
Ravi Shankar
Vilayat Khan
Eddie Bo
The Neville Brothers
Captain Beefheart
Grandmaster Caz
Grandmaster Flash
The Residents
Kirk Hammett
Scott Ian
Run-DMC
Public Enemy
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There are also a lot of people whom I consider contemporaries, be it in music or writing, so to mention some of you who regularly post or lurk would seem like I'm kissing ass. Not heroes, but to say "damn, you're doing your own thing, slow down so I can catch up for a moment".
I had a feeling you would say that, 100% cosign.
Ron Hardy
Larry Levan
Arthur Russell
Daniel Wang
Lee Perry
Joe Gibbs / Errol Thompson
Sly & Robbie
Martin Hannett
Mark E Smith
Kraftwerk
Faust
Can
Beefheart
John Paul George & Ringo
Brian Wilson / Beach Boys
Coney Plank
Peter Brown / Patrick Adams
Jay Dee (though i wish he'd make some uptempo house jams)
Neptunes
Prince
Serge Gainsbourg
Jorge Ben
Fela
Miles
Herbie
Neu!
Pretty Tony
Francois Kevorkian
Leroy Burgess
this list could go on and on and on
Allen Toussaint
Eddie Bo
James Brown
Beatles
Miles Davis
Ravi Shankar
Bob Marley
John Lee Hooker
Son House
Mississippi John Hurt
Django Reinhardt
Nino Rota
Eldridge Holmes
Richard Evans
Charlie Parker
Louis Armstrong
Doug Sahm
Arthur Lee
Nick Drake
Prince
Tommy Iommi
to name but a few....
Morton Feldman
and pretty much evrything else listed above.
Pianist, arranger and record producer born in Ottawa, Art (Arthur) Snider studied music with Benny Louis and Phillip Pololiak. He played piano in several dance groups, and in the late 1940s became the manager of numerous artists. He founded the record companies Chateau Records (1957-61) and Sound Canada (1967-81). In 1973, Sound Canada launched its Periwinkle label.
...and many more.
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Most people don't know him, most people that claims to know him really don't, most people that claim to have read his books really didn't, but it's the only valuable Historian that i can name, along with his "protege" Theophile Obenga (who became a politician in his ow country after Diop's death).
That's Alioune Diop besides him (for those who knows Senagal a bit)
He should't be my hero according to some extremist...not because he is Black and i'm White. But because he is the FIRST black African that PUT White People ashamed for the biggest lie of History. Average white man will not accept his works. He will always try to dodge the consequences of the Man's researches. But it's here, in the air, suspended in time. Y'all can read him, but PLEASE PLEASE, make sure you buy the "presence africaine" edition (African Presence). Other versions are wrongly translated from the French. He was writing in French but studied everywhere. He also embodied his own dialect, called Wolof (or valaf in ancient terms). A MUST HAVE on any decent book shelves. If you don't have it, then you can't be my friend.
That's the only hero i have so far...
After that, all the people that i wouold list are either musicians/composers that gives me HIGH AUDIO PLEASURE or people that gives me a reason to live. And i'm nt even sure i can list them in one shot. I would need a week or so.
prince paul
madlib
asian dub foundation (because they came out punk as phuck for brownies)
dj muggs in the soul assasins days
kurt cobain
zakir hussain for the beats
skatalites
rage against the machine
thel monk
Coltrane
Monk
Louis Armstrong
Billie Holiday
Duke Ellington
James Brown
Isaac Hayes
Curtis
Marvin
Bill Withers
Sly Stone
Jorge Ben
Jobim (& Bonfa, Gilberto, Powell)
Joe Bataan
Terry Callier
Eugene McDaniels
Can
Rza
Cobain
Josh
Kraftwerk
Kenny Burrel
Kenny Rankin
Lightning Hopkins
Big Youth
Dr Alimantado
Robert Nesta
Lee Scratch Perry
Muddy Waters
Nirvana
Pharcyde
Mantronix
Beastie Boys
Stan Getz
Lee Morgan
Stanley Turrentine
James Brown
Run DMC
PE
Nick Drake
Coldplay
Herbaliser
Outkast
De La
Donny Hathaway
Herbie Hancock
Miles
John Abercrombie
Bill Laswell
Marlena Shaw
Nina Simone
Isaac Hayes
Olatunji
Fela Kuti
Zakir Hussein
Nusrat fateh Ali Khan
Timothy Leary
Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
Sly and Robbie
Marvin Gaye
Sam Cooke