greg tate

Seriously. It’s so rare to see critics talk about music with that level of knowledge and perceptiveness

Haven’t read any of his stuff in decades, kind of amazing how it holds up, how much I absorbed by osmosis the first time around or through the wider culture or something.

CULTURE
Greg Tate (1957–2021)
December 14, 2021
DAPHNE A. BROOKS, ROBERT CHRISTGAU, SASHA FRERE-JONES, AND CARL WILSON
https://www.bookforum.com/culture/greg-tate-1957-2021-24752
More by Xgau, w links to Sheffield:
https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/tate-21.php
Oh and I did get into Angels Over Oakanda more, duhhhh
(But also, don't sleep on Making Love To The Dark Ages and their "Splinter Cell" Rebellum's The Darkness--all three are in Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber's Bandcamp trove.)

My just posted piece for Washington City Paper on how Greg Tate’s life in DC impacted his future. I talked to a lot of people for the story. Original draft , later shortened by my editor for space reasons, had more from actor and former programmer of NY’s the Kitchen on seeing go-go with Tate and more on P-Funk. Still covers his roots and more I think.

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/544093/remembering-flyboy-greg-tate/

Nice!

Did not realize till someone told me, that actor Bob Wisdom (of the Wire fame and other shows and movies) was Tate's roommate for a bit in NYC and was a programmer at the Kitchen. He had lots of stories (several of which I wish I could have fit in the article). Wasn't able to speak with video artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa who was best friends with Tate from Howard U days on through to recent NY projects together

long Robin D. G. Kelley interview with Bongani Madondo about Tate: https://bostonreview.net/articles/the-invisible-hand-of-greg-tate/

Haven’t heard it yet but there’s an aquarium drunkard podcast interview with Tate now available ( recorded the day before he passed)

Also, Tate might be in November or December issue of UK magazine I-d , guest -edited by Arthur Jafa, video artist recently profiled in NY Times, who went to Howard with Tate, talked on panels with him, and was friends with Tate since college.

https://events.stanford.edu/event/greg_tate_virtual_symposium

Greg Tate free virtual symposium Wednesday June 1. Special Guest Panelists Include — DJ Lynnée Denise, Daniel Gray-Kontar, dream hampton, Mark Anthony Neal, Shelley Nicole and Dawn-Elissa Fischer.

seems to be no Greg Tate in the Irish library system which is a pain. Was looking for him last week after he was being talked about in something I was reading.

That’s not good.

Stanford panel still going right now. Inspiring ( but sad )

Dream Hampton talking about Tate was special (and emotional)

http://www.lincolncenter.org/series/summer-for-the-city/celebrating-greg-tate-more-than-posthuman-rise-of-the-burnt-sugar-arkestra-mojosexual-cotillion

https://cityparksfoundation.org/events/greg-tate-tribute/

Greg Tate tribute panel discussion stream @ 6:30 pm Mon June 13 via http://livestream dot com/schomburgcenter

damn, going to be somewhere else so is it going to be archived?

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pre-lit-fest-2022-celebrating-the-work-of-greg-tate-tickets-343229266977?fbclid=IwAR3r-02-mcuEh7YnHjFBTIxZ1r_vpG4H7VGCyQo4HgeGcubpXxslujYh31I

Maybe this has more info for the Monday June 13 6:30 pm to 9 pm eastern US time event

ok Eastern US is 5 hours later.

can't seem to get the livestream link to work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xG75ad7flc

https://www.gregtatewasloved.com/

A new posthumous piece from him now available, on the genius of A.R. Kane

https://www.luakabop.com/products/a-r-kane-americana

He went deep in that

huge wall mural portrait of tate in Brooklyn near BAM, can't seem to find any online pictures for some reason.

Per a tip via unperson's newsletter, a remarkable celebration of him by Vijay Iyer

https://www.movementsjournal.art/volumes/1-dissonance/fanfare-for-a-warrior

That is very nice .

Ah now this is phenomenal!

https://mreeves.substack.com/p/cutting-room-jams-greg-ironman-tate

Earlier this spring, I picked up a collection of back issues of Musician magazine from a person I found on Craigslist. Musician was a favorite of mine growing up and the person, who lived in San Rafael, gave them away for free. Most of the issues were published in the early 80s and included cover stories on Prince, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and others.

Fast forward to October 16, when I caught a post by Michael Gonzales on Twitter/X celebrating the late Greg Tate’s birthday.

When I responded to Gonzales’ post that I found a handful of Tate articles in Musician magazine that I couldn’t find online, he asked me to post them. I refuse to contribute original content to Twitter/X any longer for obvious reasons, so I have posted them here.

Cool, thanks.

Wow!

nice!

Thanks! I think I understand harmolodics slightly better now thanks to his intro in that Tacuma interview.

Does anyone know where Greg Tate's De La Soul piece "Yabba Dabba Doo-Wop" first appeared? I assumed it was in Village Voice, but it's not on their site.

(I know it's in Flyboy in the Buttermilk.)

Writer Michael Gonzales referenced the article in a piece he did, but he doesn’t link or cite specific place where he first read it. He just refers to Tate and the Village Voice

Thankscurmudgeon. All I needed to know was where it first appeared. Weird that it's not on the VV site!

Think it goes back further than the digitized (also the search function on current uh of that site is not always reliable)(which is why I made my own archive of my own VV offerings)

That is, *if* it was published in the Voice---would be 80s-to-early 90s, since Flyboy came out in '92.

Yeah, the Voice website is not 100% reliable (I sometimes find pieces I wrote but they're not archived under my byline) and doesn't contain everything.

I don't remember seeing anything on there from before, say, 1995.

Yeah. The De La review is 1989, so I would have expected to see it on the VV site since there are quite a few of his pieces from the period up there. But it's probably true that the site is not at all exhaustive.