GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION TRIBUTE THREAD
pickwick33
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...because right now I'm listening to the Now Do U Wanta Dance album and I am floored! Unusually great record, featuring the funk-metal classic "Earthquake" and the doo-wop throwback "Stomped, Beat-Up & Whooped," which almost sounds like some Louisiana swamp-pop song. Too bad Larry Graham started doing all those limp ballads in the eighties, 'cause with GCS he had it going on for damn sure.
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Earthquake is My Shit!!!!!
I usta follow that up w/ Doin' The EarthQuake Shake from Undisputed Truth.
I ride for the ENTIRE CGS catalog.
They covered all the bases.
Pimp Funk/Cosmic Funk Rock/Ballads/Str8 Jams/Beatbox Funk/Slippery Country Funk.
They have a great stew that was took Sly's shit to the next level.
Dont get me started.
Coke Funk
the s/t is mt shit
Entroe is my shit! Party Jam and a half, and with 3 breaks on one track...F*ck yeah!
Plus iI used to think it was cool, and the chicks dug it, when I'd rack up lines on the Mirror cover.... hehehe
Maybe it's because the band was led by the guy who invented it, so he knows when to use it??
Lead guitar, David Dynamite, Scorpio.
Release Yourself[/b] is my album, celebrates its 35th anniversary this year.
He has been hanging w/ Prince for the last couple of years. I think he got Prince on some Jehovah's Witness steez.
I read an article where they have been uncovering ways to reverse aging via The Bible, on some next level shit.
I always wondered what woulda happened if Sly had his mind right, The Family Stone stayed together, and let Larry Graham have a larger contribution to the band.
As much as I love Stand and them, I listen to GCS way more than S&TFS. Not to turn this into a vs thread.
1973 - Graham Central Station, Warner Bros.
1974 - Release Yourself, Warner Bros.
1975 - Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It, Warner Bros.
1976 - Mirror, Warner Bros.
1977 - Now Do U Wanna Dance, Warner Bros.
1978 - My Radio Sure Sounds Good to Me, WEA
--------------------------------------------------cutoff point
1979 - Star Walk, Warner Bros. - has some stuff but overall ehh
1998 - GCS 2000, NPG - produced with Prince
Graham's Bass play w/ Sly changed the game. Paradigm Shift.
Rest in peace, bro...(I just learned last night, while surfing the Net, that David "Dynamite" Vega passed away some years ago.)
Stuff like "Why?" and "We Be's Getting Down" from the first LP with Patryce Banks on lead vocals.
Reminds me of the best Sly Stone songs from around the same time.