^^
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
There's this weird doc streaming on Netflix right now called Ginger Baker in Africa.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
contains my three favourite fela albums - live with ginger baker, he miss road and na poi. i hope they release them separately too so i can get alagbon close.
i have the ginger baker in africa dvd. it's ok, if a little on the short side.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Confusion is such a monster
― rob, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
the Ginger Baker in Africa DVD is worthwhile for the Fela footage alone, but its the live snippet of Segun Bucknor's Sweet Things that makes the film for me... They must have shot loads more footage of those live performances - wonder what happened to it all...
― Talcum Mucker, Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Segun Bucknor is so under-rated...
yeah that doc is great. is that the one that has the cartoon bit of Ginger traipsing around the continent? very lol
and yeah Segun Bucknor sequence is o_0
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
segun bucknor is wonderful!
― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctyXw5qgNLo
― pfunky boyster (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 08:59 (ten years ago) link
first real pang of regret that I never ended up moving to Chicago...
― pfunky boyster (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 09:00 (ten years ago) link
So guess who's arrived on Bandcamp.
http://felakuti.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
This is absolutely awesome
― tsrobodo, Saturday, 25 January 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Otm!!!!!!!!
― stop ingesting (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 26 January 2014 09:29 (ten years ago) link
wow
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
Six individual vinyl LPs to be released on 1 September 2014
* Fela With Ginger Baker Live!* Confusion* Expensive Shit* He Miss Road* Sorrow Tears & Blood* Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:17 (nine years ago) link
not going to lie, would love to have live!, he miss road and expensive shit on vinyl...
― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGBu6F9UUAAA63Z.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 4 May 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
No be story o
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 4 May 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
E no be story?
At all, very very at all.
man fela gets me so amped up i feel like i can conquer the world when i listen to him
― marcos, Friday, 4 May 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
Kind of fell down a fela youtube/spotify hole last night after discovering this beautifully shot footage of Africa 70 live --there's not much of that out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz2jXHKa7TY
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 4 May 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
as posted by Ward Fowler on the King Sunny Adé thread:
Fela documentary on BBC2 today:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pr2n
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 21 November 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
(starts two hours from now)
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 21 November 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
That was a fine documentary. It is now on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbOXDCqbPZo
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 26 November 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
yesterday it still was, sorry.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 26 November 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
been starting to go through uh... possibly every fela record, we'll see. early verdict roforofo fight is one of the best albums i've ever heard
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
he has a lot of best albums ever
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am is the best song I've ever heard on the best album I've ever heard
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
Open and Close is still my favorite but there are so many good ones. Confusion/Gentleman definitely up there for me.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
I have discovered recently that "Expensive Shit" / "Water No Get Enemy" is great music for running... A side makes me go fast fast fast, B side nice and slow coming home
― daily growing, Friday, 11 June 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
In general I'm not a fan of super-long intros, but I make an exception for "Confusion"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 June 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
The Confusion/Gentleman twofer CD was my fave during my peak Fela obsession (I also enjoyed reading Michael Veal's book on him at that time), but everything named in the revive is great and Moodles is otm. I also loved "Lady" off of Shakara though, uh, I do not endorse the lyrics lol
― trap door to hell opens underneath (rob), Friday, 11 June 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
"Lady" is icky but also fantastic. At random I'll sing, to myself, "She waaaaant that piece of meat before anybody."
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Friday, 11 June 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
it also inspired a great Hugh Masekela track
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 June 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
This is cool for the tracks with Fela that I hadn't heard before, but would be 10000000000000x better with Tony Allen instead of Ginger Baker, obviously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37sDbvQOJ2I
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2023 22:11 (seven months ago) link
That's p much how I feel about the Ginger Baker / Fela album - it would be better without Ginger Baker and just Tony Allen
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:55 (seven months ago) link
Oh! forgot that I went to an artist talk last week with Lemi Ghariokwu, creator of all the iconic Fela album covers, and it was a night full of amazing anecdotes. Got to enjoy dinner with the man as well. A funny, brilliant human.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:30 (seven months ago) link
re Ginger Baker: (paraphrased) "Always passed out on a sofa with a big joint in one hand, a glass of wine in the other."
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:31 (seven months ago) link
i'm no Ginger Baker apologist but that album has one of my top 5 Fela tracks - Egbe Mi O. i guess it might have been right at the top if it was just Allen drumming.
― stirmonster, Friday, 10 November 2023 17:09 (seven months ago) link
Very cool JV!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:09 (seven months ago) link
Crazy.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/10/life-with-fela-kuti-dangerous-tour-roy-ayers-nigeria
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:26 (two months ago) link
Whoa
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:04 (two months ago) link
Bernard Purdie content alert!
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:18 (two months ago) link
Bernard is playing in Chicago this weekend and I don't think I can make it :(
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:19 (two months ago) link