Zaire 74' Music Festival
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/movies/05pare.html?8dpc I'm excited to see some clips from this. Amazing line up for sure.
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The Bill Withers and Ray Barretto parts sound particularly amazing..
I read Brown and Withers had a fight... reportedly the first telling to the second "you ain't shit and you can't sing shit"
amir
The entire documentary never leaves 1974 (ie no modern shots, no narration).
Very entertaining, very interesting.
if this does exist, it wasnt in the film. Bonus features perhaps?
It was shot by the same team that did the original Zaire footage of "When We Where Kings". I remember something like "Soul Power" was made by the guy who edited "When We Were...".
My favorite scenes where when all the musicians were together on the plane getting high and the Fania All-Stars were jamming. Good Vibrations.
Also Manu Dibango playing sax in the street communicating musically with a bunch of streetkids.
If you have the chance to see this on the big screen - don't miss it.
I read it on here :
peace, stein. . .
amir
New Yorkers, this is playing at Lincoln Square till Thursday...
another cool clip:
Yea! Given all the things that didn't make the final cut, I can't wait to see the extras.
I'll probably cop the DVD regardless, but I would love to spring for a deluxe multi-disc set of the complete run.
One more thing, anyone remember the name of the African performer, the dude who had the two dancers with him. Don't really know how else to describe it, pretty sure it was after Miriam, and it was real funky..
Hope this builds up some steam, the 7:45 Saturday screening I went to was almost sold out.
amir
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