deej requests that Duke Bootee be mentioned itt.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP Duke Bootee
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/duke-bootee-dead-1115217/
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 January 2021 04:24 (three years ago) link
Pretty interesting and somewhat contemporary piece on Bootee in the NY Times in 1984.https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/04/arts/the-pop-life-043552.html
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 17 January 2021 05:14 (three years ago) link
RIP. I spoke to him in the 80s sometime for a now out of print article I wrote for Option Magazine. Duke Bootee aka Ed Fletcher had lots of plans and dreams then that did not all quite end up happening, but "The Message" and some of his Sugarhill studio work remains as fitting legacy.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
This is the first I've heard of this, but holy shit, Kidd Creole stabbed and killed a homeless man???
― birdistheword, Friday, 8 April 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
Well someone has been watching American Psycho
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 April 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
A DMX drum machine, Duke Bootee on Prophet 5 synthesizer and percussion and Skip Mcdonald on guitar.
― xzanfar, Friday, 8 April 2022 12:46 (two years ago) link