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I caught up with one of the key members of East Of The Rock several months ago. I just posted up part one of a four part interview that explains a lot of the crews mysterious history, such as the multiple test pressing with no actual release. Plus reveals a beef with Chuck D?!? and other fun...

can't forget Fearless 4-It's Magic, one my all time favorites for sure!

this is my kind of world....some of these have already been metioned but here are some of my favs from '80-'87 with ill beats and rhymes: Trickeration-Western Gangster Town Ray Rock & KC-Incredible Ray b/w Freestyle (so hardcore!!) Ultimate III-What Are We Gonna Do About It Harmony-No Joke Co...

the drum programming on "I Got An Attitude" is as good as it gets. Pretty sure it's my favorite use of those drums. I'm Hurby fan for sure...not of everything but he definitely gets busy. Another great moment on a Hurby track, which I imagine he didn't do but maybe he was involved: Kid N...

Im a big Don fan, he is ill on the mic and beats. I meet him in '94 thru Kool Keith. I was working promotions for Wildpitch at the time and had met Keith while I was in the Wildpitch office before and we just stayed in touch. There were in town (Chicago) for a show with Jeru. Before the show...

there are instrumentals to "The Platform". I have the vinyl...

me too, because I used to play that 45 like crazy and then filed it away...just pulled it back out this weekend!

That's another thing that stands out about the T.O.P., compared to other funk bands - they could write songs, not just vamps. I mean, nothing wrong with chants over vamps, like War, Mandrill and all the rest, but I kinda like the fact that Tower of Power's funkiest stuff sounds a little more...

No, All Natural is from Chicago. I put a couple volumes of the rare CD stuff. There was: Time Travel Vaults (1-2) that had rare stuff and exclusives from a bunch of New York artists and some West Coast and Midwest too. Then There was Shoebox Classic (Vol 1-3) That was all rare chicago demos...

loose association at best. I worked promo for Select records when his record came out and then did stuff direct with his label as well. I remember I got him some promo dates in Chicago and addded to the bill for the Wu Tang concert at Operation Push. -lil trivial info for you: At that show...

yeah, I got mine cheap too. One like $3 and the other I "aquired"....

the Vanguard is the original in '84 w/two tracks + inst/dubs. The Hollywood Basic is just because they used that song on a soundtrack they did then, forgot which movie. I was lucky enough to scoop up doubles of the Spectrum City 12"...haven't seen it anywhere since, so don't think it's very easy...

So Diana Ross is better than Levi Stubbs?!? Well, think it through some more. Any group that had a singer who could beg and testify as good as Stubbs can hardly be considered a weak link. Matter of opinion and all that, but no one who can sing as good as the Tops should take a back seat to the...

i completely agree with "i can't help myself" and i cosign bernadette and standing in the shadows of motown, but i don't think i will ever get sick of reach out, baby i need your loving, and it's the same old song. i blame martin scorsese/deniro I was going to just mention "same old song" and...

I figured with it being the end of the year, over the next couple weeks I'll pay tribute to the artists we returned to the essence this year. off the top and courtesy wax poetics, I remember:ike turnerpimp cjoe zawinulwillie teddie fishebobby byrdAlice Coltrane????I know I'm probably missing...