And I and my family still go out to Grey Lynn for church sometimes and we still live here in the area; well, now called Clover Park 🫥 used to be called East Tamaki / Otara / Wiri? Well for the area I’m in 🥴. Sometimes I wonder about why my parents would never leave South Auckland 😴 oh well ♥️
But that just shows you that the record companies don’t know nothing. You heard this song and fell in love with it from the very beginning because you know hits, and thank goodness that the man, Mr. Roger Troutman, one of the baddest man to every his own sound asked you to jump on that song and you jumped on it and wrote it all the way to a great hit God bless you, Charlie Wilson. I hope I get a chance to work with you one day.🫡🙏🏽🏁🔥
Jesse Johnson also had the star quality "IT" factor. The unfortunately came along when Rap had begun to dominating the air waves and flipping popular culture into violent chaos.
why has doesnt changed? Thank you Rawiri for being truth in 1970's .. humans may grow up and be wiser? To be honest.. I walk your path shaking our head. No Rawiri.. humans are not that wise. They keep excusing themselves... God is made in the image of a human. .. the 2 legged species are ordinary and slow. Thank you Rawiri for your fight un heard . Can only wish them all the best for the next 1000yrs or whenever
Wow this was 40 years ago, the Maori and Pacific Islanders are confident and articulate about their future. I hope Otara is still strong and thriving . There is such a strong community spirit among the children of Maui here.
Check out Southside rising and Stormtroopers NZ for some real history of Otara, insight into how and why Stormtroopers helped S/A evolve and give its locals some mana
Yeah sure was one of the first Ghettos but as you see here, it didnt start that way and i always felt at home in Bolton pl, our street of owner occupied families mostly, yeah the Islanders moved in and took over, by share numbers and the rest left on their way to a better life, we had poms and dutch as well as Kiwi neighbours, always remember the Islanders choir singing and the volleyball at Hillroad park next door, they demolished our fence helping themselves to our orchard , but that was the way it was , i left and came back many times , the missionaries , be it the Otara Convent and church helped educate us( the lucky ? few thousand )and later De La Salle(boys) and McCauley (girls) Also 99% islanders by 1980, so we were not all illiterate, having spent a year at Hillary( most students had no real teachers and were not interested , just waiting for factory job, my mate a pom was just intent on causing mischief and we would scab money for lunch usually or go home as i did and watch tv with mum who was on DPB on account my dad was in and out of work as he was diagnosed as schitzo as youth and had lots of shock treatment throughout his life and liked to drink , but they did their best and we had a home. Later on, after leaving area, things got worse with kids street gangs and my brothers dog was killed because the youth gangs liked to cut through our property i think , anyway cops were there one night with guns im told ,to stop the youth gangs being violent Funny too , our quiet street became Notorious overnight when a neighbours youngest son , who i knew , that had a troublesome life , with gangs , alcohol and drugs ended up killing his dead Dads Tai second wife and her brothers life was in balance because he felt house should have been left to his Family!( used a maori club(stick) or similar and was probably under influence Also talking about Notorious , The guy who ended up in prison for most of his life probably, was at one stage sent to the Maori ? run Military School up Preston rd way, for wayward youths and i think he learnt how to use War club(stick) there and im sure if someone did research they would find the worst offenders including rapists and violent offenders were there too , which probably had a bad effect on the Neighbour in Question( i have a feeling the Mangere rapist? was one of them or maybe the Parnell Panther ? but i read it somewhere or saw documentary, Anyways was probably not a good idea to chuck all the bad eggs in one basket (isnt that what they do in prison) and thats why the gangs run it, maybe thats what happened later on in Otara, or was The Otara Chopping mall named after the axing of a gang member during a brawl in 70s when i was kid and i didnt realise how cheap life was in South Auckland , i suppose being bottled and going to Otahuhu Police to make complaint and being told to go away , wasting their time ! Shows how inadequate the system is and was, now the police presence in South Auckland is huge compared to any other area aside from maybe West Auckland and i dont know if thats a good thing as a lot of new migrants choose better areas to live now and the Police presence in better areas is spread pretty thin, as rich people as we know? dont commit violent crime , just fraud and paedophilia?
Thanks for sharing your experience brother from that era. We always knew that that there were our white brothers & sisters that were there before us in Otara. I think it’s important to acknowledge that because we never got to experience that ourselves of my generation.
You can’t have a discussion about funk and not mention the time. I mean you can but that convo wouldn’t be truthful. Not at all. Finest baggies that money can buy ! Zip snap and drop baby
From 9yrs old I grew up in Otara, lived in Clayton Ave. Flatbush Primary school, Hillary College. we're one the first pupils going to these. schools, whoo 2023 and im watchin this David. Rita. Francis. Gavin whoo 😢 all good friends, Stormtroppers I think Ken was the leader, Mr Johnson, and Mr Hammer 😅 old now forgot his real name. He would hav been called Hulk. if Hulk was out then lol congratulations to yous 👏 ❤so proud of yous all...we all around 70yrs old now thanku for these memories , I ended up buying a home in Wiri but now I live in Melbourne, Australia Bessie Hohepa our other mate lived her too, (that's Ken with helmet on ) , Ben Dalton ,is he Micheals brother ❤️ my brother still lives in Otara on Harwood Cres. and all my nieces and nephews still go to school there and play league for Otara..so proud ❤xx
Ok ok I know prince did the nuts and bolts ..... But this band really tore it up .... Hence they got kicked off the tour with Prince .... Sometimes you can be too good and too sexy 😂😂😂😂
Yea Prince wrote and produced a lot of their songs and performed them. They had to learn to play it and the did great. Prince shredded the guitar like no other, killed the bass, and drums on the album.
OMG the memories!! I was 6 years old listening to this and the album is sitting on my turntable right now. Jellybean on that hi-hat, Jessie on that guitar. Phew!
I really don't know what would have happened to me and my life if Prince and the Minneapolis sound hadn't come to detroit michigan...I WANT ALL OF DETROIT CITY STAND UP CLAP YA HANDS🕴
I still listen to yesterday's music right to this day and it sounds just as good now than it did back then I can't adapt to this garbage today that they call music it's a whole new genre I call it garbage can r&b.
Now this is what a black band look like, we had many awesome black bands like Morris Day and the Time back in the day now you can count on one hand the black bands today.
