Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages

Thanks for posting that BB interview!

Could have sworn there was a thread about Sonny Sharrock and The Savages---anyway some Sonny thread where there was a query and we agreed that it was the Black Woman/WKCR line-up---however, the knowledgeable Mike Rubin, who once ran worthy printzine Motorbooty, thinks otherwise, as he says in the xpost amazing Linda update:

Released on the Vortex subsidiary of Atlantic Records, the trailblazing “Black Woman” failed to find a larger audience. A few years later, the couple put together the Savages, a working band that could play out regularly. The group included steel drums and Latin percussion and gigged at downtown venues like the Tin Palace and lofts like Studio Rivbea, said Abe Speller, the band’s drummer. The Savages recorded a soundtrack to Sedat Pakay’s 1973 short documentary “James Baldwin: From Another Place” and performed a live set in 1974 on WKCR, which are the only surviving souvenirs of their existence. Speller recalled the band holing up to rehearse before entering a studio in December 1977 to record a four-song demo tape, but the group failed to score a label deal and eventually fizzled out.