HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
What's in y'all's water over there?
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
"Although funk is traditionally American, they believe that their tastes are now ahead of the fans on the other side of the Atlantic."
DocMcCoy"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
The record store in Brixton tube station near the start of the film used to be a cool little spot. It was still there 11 years later, when I first moved to South London. The dude with the poodle cut had gone by then, but the little Jewish guy was still there. He really knew his shit, too.
"Although funk is traditionally American, they believe that their tastes are now ahead of the fans on the other side of the Atlantic."
Ha....this is a cool doc though.
Im trying to think around 1980 where Jazzy Funk (not Funky Jazz) was in the darkrooms.
Rise - Herb Alpert was 1980......Mid tempo Jazzy Disco......Herbie Hancock ..Disco Jazz......
Parliment/Funkadelic considered too "Pop/regular" Funk by those cats?
George Duke - I Want You For Myself.....Jazzy-esque Disco....
Jazz Funk - 78-81???????
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Raydio. Tom Browne. Skyy.
DocMcCoy"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
batmon said:
HarveyCanal said:
"Although funk is traditionally American, they believe that their tastes are now ahead of the fans on the other side of the Atlantic."
Ha....this is a cool doc though.
Im trying to think around 1980 where Jazzy Funk (not Funky Jazz) was in the darkrooms.
Rise - Herb Alpert was 1980......Mid tempo Jazzy Disco......Herbie Hancock ..Disco Jazz......
Parliment/Funkadelic considered too "Pop/regular" Funk by those cats?
George Duke - I Want You For Myself.....Jazzy-esque Disco....
Jazz Funk - 78-81???????
Yeah, all that is about right. Parliament/Funkadelic got plenty of love, though. Bootzilla, Tear The Roof Off and One Nation Under A Groove crossed over to the pop charts in the UK as a direct result of that scene. Same with Rise, I Thought It Was You, Let The Music Play by Charles Earland, You Know How To Love Me by Phyllis Hyman...
This was one of the first things I noticed. Shit's like an operating room.
Was that done for the benefit of filming, or did it really go down like that?
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
"We have our first naked bod-aye!"
...smh.
DocMcCoy"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
james said:
batmon said:
Turn the damn lights down.
This was one of the first things I noticed. Shit's like an operating room.
Was that done for the benefit of filming, or did it really go down like that?
I think it was done for the filming. The tech of the time couldn't adequately cope with the darkened corners of British ballrooms without harsh lighting. Quite a lot of the surviving footage of Wigan Casino and similar venues is lit in the same way.
While I have a very limited familiarity with that whole southern Caister Weekender scene, at all the corresponding events I frequented in the North and the Midlands around the same time, the lighting was pretty much as you'd expect.
"Although funk is traditionally American, they believe that their tastes are now ahead of the fans on the other side of the Atlantic."
Was hoping this would be the springboard for a Harvey reminisce through those heady days of youth, wherein he and moms would be strolling down Main Street and every grocery store be pumping out Places and Spaces, every deli blasting Cocoafunk.
B/w just finished the Danny Baker autobiog, this 20th Century Box creation of JSP was his first foray into presenting and he realised how fake it was without his own scripted blather. Also had a couple of beers with the lad last autumn in the Watling, he was in fine fettle and as sharp as a tack.
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Ha....this is a cool doc though.
Im trying to think around 1980 where Jazzy Funk (not Funky Jazz) was in the darkrooms.
Rise - Herb Alpert was 1980......Mid tempo Jazzy Disco......Herbie Hancock ..Disco Jazz......
Parliment/Funkadelic considered too "Pop/regular" Funk by those cats?
George Duke - I Want You For Myself.....Jazzy-esque Disco....
Jazz Funk - 78-81???????
Yeah, all that is about right. Parliament/Funkadelic got plenty of love, though. Bootzilla, Tear The Roof Off and One Nation Under A Groove crossed over to the pop charts in the UK as a direct result of that scene. Same with Rise, I Thought It Was You, Let The Music Play by Charles Earland, You Know How To Love Me by Phyllis Hyman...
Yeah, all that shit has gone now. Some other things have pretty much stayed the same though.
Brass Construction....Mass Production......???
That sounds like something an after school program counselor would say.
Was that done for the benefit of filming, or did it really go down like that?
...smh.
I think it was done for the filming. The tech of the time couldn't adequately cope with the darkened corners of British ballrooms without harsh lighting. Quite a lot of the surviving footage of Wigan Casino and similar venues is lit in the same way.
While I have a very limited familiarity with that whole southern Caister Weekender scene, at all the corresponding events I frequented in the North and the Midlands around the same time, the lighting was pretty much as you'd expect.
Was hoping this would be the springboard for a Harvey reminisce through those heady days of youth, wherein he and moms would be strolling down Main Street and every grocery store be pumping out Places and Spaces, every deli blasting Cocoafunk.
B/w just finished the Danny Baker autobiog, this 20th Century Box creation of JSP was his first foray into presenting and he realised how fake it was without his own scripted blather. Also had a couple of beers with the lad last autumn in the Watling, he was in fine fettle and as sharp as a tack.