Prince is my favorite singer/musician of all time… when I first heard D’Angelo I could hear Prince all over him…one of the reasons I love him and how much Prince has influenced so many artists but he’s definitely one you can genuinely feel in his music ….I can’t believe he was able to sing that tribute when Prince passed it was so heartfelt 🥺
I love how calm he is, patient in responding, taking time to process the question and being honest and genuine- characteristics that are present in his music. Love it. Thank you 🙏
And shout out to Tavis Smiley! This is beautiful journalism!!!! I love the respect he has for the artist and the thought provoking questions. You can tell Tavis is a lover and appreciator of music ❤❤❤
Omg the James brown pay per view performance 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 I was a kid and couldn’t afford to buy pay per view! Thank you for uploading this ❤❤❤❤❤
This seems to have a longer take (?) of Tired Of Being Alone and if so for the Love of God, Orpheus - Dionysus SOMEONE PLEASE clean this tape UP!! The Philosopher - Novelist WLLIAM GASS said to me he "ONLY LISTENS TO CLASSICAL MUSIC" while visiting Cal State Long Beach in about 1992 and I probably ended right THEN a sublime friendship by saying "YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT TO HIGHER CIVILIZATION! YOU JUST CAN'T! No man capable of intense feeling dismisses Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Lady Day, Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones , The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Janis, Bird , Trane, McDowell, Beck..." I must have kept going for another minute . Gass was from of all places St. Louis. Gass repeatedly has invoked and condemned the concept of "The Philistines" & "Philistinery" ( my coinage) in his lectures and private conversations with the me, Dr. Tang, and others present including Matt Belland, the very energetic fellow who raised the money and made the arrangements that brought Gass to CSULB in the first place for a week of otherwise brilliant lectures; but Gass' brutalist dismissal of much of the greatest music ever created and performed Ipso Facto crowns him Philistine # 1, a man with the sensibility (in all senses) to know BETTER but gave into the darkest, dumbest prejudice conceivable. Gass rocketed to academic and cult fame for his innovative personal essay, basically an exercise in wild, vivid free associations which was to me bitterly ironic in title and subject matter: ON BEING BLUE. But for Mr Gass being blue cannot include a musical form giving birth to most forms of modern music, THE BLUES, an impossible and savage omission, an omission which its mainly white, middle class, college- educated audience just as impossibly overlooked or didn't value as necessary to the meaning of a stabbing depression which Son House has on film repeatedly claimed as the "cause of The Blues," and more specifically, romantic tragedy as first cause above all others. The infinitely erudite, classical music critic, fanatic, & KUSC disc jockey James Sveda also made the same intolerant and intolerable dismissal of modern music, from blues and jazz to rock n roll, maligning all music other than classical as "finger painting," and again this was someone in college in the 1960s, who had all evidence possible from Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman to Hendrix, Cream, The Allman Brothers to CSNY. "Fingerpainting ." Yeah right. And as if music must be complicated to be great, one of the greatest fallacies in Aesthetics ever made and proved thus fallacious nightly by all from Fred McDowell, Son House, Al Green and James Brown, to The Ramones and The Sex Pistols. Come on now.
