My grandmother said success was waking up every morning to the first minute of a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift and a blessing the lord has bestrode on us.
Gil and Brian - the dynamic duo that made immortal music. i will always be grateful for what they gave. Gil keeps on giving his gifts; i miss him so. I wish he could have kept on making poems and music to age 100.
I saw Gil and Brian in Seattle at the Bank. 7 nights 2 sets per= 14 sets in 1week. They came out walking thru the club playing percussion instruments. Love the message and so much soul and talent. Changed my life, just got back from Vietnam Nam and was moved in the direction of love and peace for my sisters and brothers. Always will be relevant. Love you both. Bobbi O.
New Beginnings are never late unless when you hold on to old endings. Your new beginning is right on time. I wish you blessed and greater success for your next phase of life
I'm a child of Hip-Hop and know where my taste in music is rooted thanks to my mother playing music like this around the house. Even more grateful that I was fortunate to see GSH perform live. A truly remarkable artist who's words are so harmonious. My 7 year old son is already familiar with his music.
Rap and hip-hop do more damage to the Black Culture than anything we need to go on that ignorance but it seems like Satan has Satan has us or at least your generation bound to it
From South Africa to South Carolina... in the wake of the shootings in Charleston, I find this album title and this song to be so fitting... We know what life brings Still we can find a way From dues we've got to pay We hope we'll somehow say That we're alive
+rnbno1fan Love all Gil"s music and this song most of all has always been close to my heart....always was and always will be...Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quite voice at the end of the day saying "I will try again tomorrow the first minute of a new day"...Life lesson from Gil that will stay in my heart until it stops beating.
I listen to this song on the eve of my 53rd bday and I think about new beginnings..but there is so much yet unfinished...is freedom truly free? Then again, free from what?
Conceived in 69 raised in the seventies and this music of them two era was the best that we ever produce rest easy brother Gil peace be with you and the ancestors✊🏿❤️🖤💚✊🏿
C'mon ppl this is the godfather of spoken word, wrap, rap, and hip-hop. This man should have 2 plus million views. He even perform on Saturday Nite Live back in the day.
If we were to really calculate how many views GSH should have it would even surpass that number, but I think Clive Davis spoke to that when he stated Gil was not going mainstream. He was a poet, musician, and extremely insightful, but his lyrics like Whitey on the Moon, We Beg Your Pardon America, etc., guaranteed his message would not resonate with mainstream America...and for that We Still Beg Your Pardon America because our brother spoke truth.
I hear you The Words Project. Yet at his live performances white folks came out in droves, I would be proudly standing in line looking and wondering where were the brothers and sisters. I also know that made Gil feel bad (about the lack of support from Black folks), because I once spoke with him about it. We let each other down each and every time.
When Gil Scott Heron was on Saturday Night Live he did a lively rendition of Johannesburg. Nothing that awesome is featured, or rather, not allowed on Network TV today. Gil was also doing rap back in the 70's. Hip Hop wouldn't be where it is today without the inspiration from Gil Scott Heron.
You are speaking truth, GSH was threatening even back in the day. All prophets , are rejected or dismissed in there in lands. Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson are the prophets of my lifetime whom we heard. Felipe Luciano , Last Poets , Nikki Giovanni also..... Peace.
@@kennethj.benton8641 that’s a reach, there’s 100% your fair share of phenomenal rappers with extremely meaningful lyrics that is simply their form of poetry. I agree the mainstream garbage you hear has no meaning to it but that’s everything mainstream now a days haha. Cheers
Gil Scott's music has gotten me through some of my lowest points. Very uplifting and inspirational for myself. Thank you Gil Scott you are a gift to us from the Spirits, yes the Spirits of the Most High.
We were in Virginia working on the Reflections album (1981), my second album with Gil. We were getting ready to record this harmonica solo for this song we did called "Storm Music". I got a phone call, this young lady who I was involved with at the time was giving birth to my first child, my daughter. Gil called me into the other room, and he said "Look, you know something? it's the spirits because through your daughter, this is how you will live on, because you will pass on your genes and some of your life force onto her." Mid 2000 is when I ran into Gil again, us meeting at 144th and Broadway, me walking up Broadway, him walking down Broadway, I turned and said "Is that Gil?" so I said "Gil!", he turned around and the first thing off of his lips was "Spirits".
