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How We Used To Live

DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 Posts
edited February 2014 in Strut Central
I know some of you are going to have a lot of fun with this. Features a scarily young-looking Danny Baker with his geezer setting on "stun".



Enjoy.

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  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Turn the damn lights down.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    What's in y'all's water over there?
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "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."
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 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.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    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???????
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Raydio. Tom Browne. Skyy.
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 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...
  • tabiratabira 856 Posts
    This reminds me just how tribal youth culture was then. Jazz funkers dissing disco. Who here today doesn't dig both?
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 Posts
    tabira said:
    This reminds me just how tribal youth culture was then. Jazz funkers dissing disco. Who here today doesn't dig both?

    Yeah, all that shit has gone now. Some other things have pretty much stayed the same though.
  • HollafameHollafame 844 Posts
    Who remembers that eBay listing years back that was essentially a long diatribe about an ex-boyfriend being a "jazz funker"?
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    whats that joint at 14:27?

    Brass Construction....Mass Production......???
  • JectWonJectWon (@_@) 1,654 Posts
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    Im trying to think around 1980 where Jazzy Funk (not Funky Jazz) was in the darkrooms.

    That sounds like something an after school program counselor would say.
  • FlomotionFlomotion 2,390 Posts
    That Light of the World clip was ace but f*** me, three days of holiday camp style larks with Chris Hill on the mic sounds worse than Guantanamo.
  • mickalphabetmickalphabet deep inna majestic segue 374 Posts
    that is amazing, great find.
  • jamesjames chicago 1,863 Posts
    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?
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    "We have our first naked bod-aye!"

    ...smh.
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 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.
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    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."

    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.
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    Cool watch. Thanks for poasting

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    Im trying to think around 1980 where Jazzy Funk (not Funky Jazz) was in the darkrooms.

    That sounds like something an after school program counselor would say.

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