24-7 Spyz
hogginthefogg
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I was digging through a box of old CDs this weekend and found this:
I bought it when I came out and remember really liking it. It's held up fairly well, to me at least, but I suspect that much of that has to do with associating it with being 18 or 19. I always thought the unfavorable comparisons to Bad Brains were pretty weak (file under "Not all black dudes who play non-funk sound alike").Batmon, did they get any love in the South Bronx?
I bought it when I came out and remember really liking it. It's held up fairly well, to me at least, but I suspect that much of that has to do with associating it with being 18 or 19. I always thought the unfavorable comparisons to Bad Brains were pretty weak (file under "Not all black dudes who play non-funk sound alike").Batmon, did they get any love in the South Bronx?
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Only by me. My boys werent fuckin w/ Thrash-Funk the way i was.
I smoked a joint with the dude once...they opened up for the Butthole surfers...nice dude.
And I still ride for their first album.
Fuckin' sage, man.
not a bad album...real mellow but they were a little harder live
Bought the album back in the day, could never get into it.
Decent live act, I guess - they had alot of energy onstage.
Are they from Atlanta? Or am I thinking of Follow For Now?
Their debut on east west records This Is...24-7 Spyz! was very good.
I need to get that reissue cd with it and Strength In Numbers
I'm fiending to listen to This is... now but i dont have any functioning tapedecks.
Which part of that poast offended you?
Funny. I have that shit on tape too. I also think I found vinyl of it for a dollar somewhere and I copped. Couldn't tell you where in my house it is though.
The album with the crazy psychedelic cover is also ok, but there's one cut where the drummer raps on it, and that cut is
Wrong.
They were an electrician, a plumber, a carpenter and a TV repairman from the Bronx.
But did they or did they not play metal with Seinfeld bass?
Was Follow For Now from Atlanta, then?
Pardon my ignorance; I just wasn't raised like that.
Oh shit; I haven't heard that name for a minute.
Whatever happened to The Veldt?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I saw 24-7 Spyz open for The Godfathers in Clemson, SC back in the late 80s/early 90s. Peter Fluid (was that the dude's name?) jumped into the crowd and did some friendly slamming with my man Paul, who in turn got amped and tried to pass it on to a tall dude in a turban and one of those Jesus-in-the-crosshairs "Kill Your Idols" t-shirts. Tall dude wasn't having it, though, and taxed Paul with an elbow the back of the head, effectively ending Paul's evening early. I remember Peter Fluid sporting some Mars Blackmon-style frames and the Booby Brady horizontal-stripe mockneck. For all these reasons and more, it was a heck of a show.
And I'd say that "metal with Seinfeld bass," while it may be reductive, cannot really be said to be inaccurate.
This was choice. If only you could use your powers for good.
With great power comes great temptation.
Seinfeld Bass indeed.
True. But it was liquid steez thumbin'....
So true. They were a good live act(Saw 'em at the Cabooze in Minneapolis along with about 25 other patrons after reading a rave review in Spin), very Fishbone-esque, post-ska-era. Heavy on the Seinfeld-bass and the metal, which at the time, was technically PRE-Seinfeld, so Young Regatta is both right and sorta wrong.
I remember their follow up to the first LP being much more Hendrix-y, which seemed even more wanky than the first record, and they became sorta 'Living Colour-lite'.
A little 24-7 Spyz went a LONG way.
How?
Spyz was rappin for half the debut album.
Oh theyre both Black.
Yeah...while I like all the bands just fine, it kinda bothers me that a Fishbone post automatically causes a Living Colour thread and the re-up of an old 24-7 Spyz thread.
Can't Fishbone be discussed without bringing up the same damned usual suspects every damned time?
In some sort of bizarre moment, the bass player thought it was a great idea to drop his pants and flash the bird to the crowd. I remember thinking "dude.... not really any girls here, and something tells me you're not gay". Strange move, but it didn't stop the show from continuing. I will also take this moment to say no homo.
24-7 Spyz still have flavour in my books.
"Spyz is Living Colour Lite who is Bad Brains Lite......"
Whatever, foolio.... THEY ALL BOW AT THE ALTAR OF THE ALMIGHTY
SNOOZE...