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nofi

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Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« on: March 12, 2016, 07:55:02 AM »
if you think that you don't belong here. if not please post more videos.



this record came out in 1971 i believe. so after 45 years here they are again.





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"life is a blur of republicans and meat"- zippy the pinhead

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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2016, 08:14:54 AM »
There was this other guy...


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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2016, 08:26:01 AM »
yeah, hendrix was obvious . i was looking for lesser knowns. but i suppose he will do. ;D
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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2016, 08:42:57 AM »


can't have enough MF.
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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2016, 09:12:34 AM »
Yeah we need more Mother's Finest.
They got big in Europe after this show on Rockpalast:



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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2016, 09:14:15 AM »
Eric Gales Band surely rocked, way back in the early nineties


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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2016, 09:25:44 AM »
Dug Pinnick with Kings X




or more recently with KXM


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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2016, 10:13:10 AM »
I always kinda liked this guy...


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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2016, 11:08:51 AM »
Yeah!  :toast:


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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2016, 11:20:42 AM »
This lot occasionally fit the bill...



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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2016, 12:28:29 PM »
Can't get more rockin' than this. And all three are still with us.






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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2016, 01:31:45 PM »
... a soul legend rocking out...



I've been criticised for horn sections before but I perceive this to be a pretty cool version...

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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2016, 02:02:18 PM »




https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=o-8P0uQrqvw




And  about half of the first Stones record is covers of black dudes.  My favorite:


And just to be a tit:

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page (drummer and bassist of Deep Purple, Jake!)

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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
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Re: Waddaya' mean black folks can't rock.
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2016, 12:02:34 AM »
I know no harm was intended but let's not use any terms that we know are considered disparaging, even in jest. We do have at least a few black members here, and even if we didn't let's not do it.