[kj] KJ perform "Rapper's Delight" from 1980: Um. Wow.

[sade1]

Look up the interview of Nile Rodgers on Tavis Smiley to flesh out your flashback of the times. 
Vivid, and I think Niles' memoir was praised recently.
 

Blessed are the Cracked for 
  they let in the Light,
    others all are just a..
      'nother brick in the Wall


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 From: "Devacor at aol.com" <Devacor at aol.com>
To: gathering at misera.net 
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] KJ perform "Rapper's Delight" from 1980: Um. Wow.
 

ha- I think it just depends on ones frame of reference--
 It made me think of that time period here in the states- 
I just remember how that song (and others that followed) changed the 
landscape. 
 I was 11-12 at the time and remember showing up to play a basketball 
game and see this one team in matching track suits (which the coach bought out 
of his own $) and a big boombox in the middle of the court warming up to Rappers 
Delight (the style of the track suits (shiny/tacky) being influenced by the 
song)- but the kicker being half the team was white country kids. 
 Was such a scene- So hearing KJ do that just reminded me how people 
got so caught up into it at the time. I didn't nec mean "awesome" like that 
really was/sounded awesome, they should have done it live. 
 My best friend at the time was black and lived in a small house with 
his older cousins- they were totally in on funk, disco, soul, rap and (D.C.) Go 
Go and it was going there all the time - and I loved it all- not in a 
white kid wanting to be black sort of way, but I just liked it all 
as much as I do now. 
So when rappers delight came out, I actually had it in the frame of 
reference of being soul/funk and not just being some new goofy trend. 
 
Adam
  
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/5/2012 3:05:24 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
jonniespatula at hotmail.co.uk writes:
I've  heard them play alot worse in a soundcheck,awesome it is 
not. 

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