Music, dancing, swimming, writing and friends.
WYZ!!!!!
Wyzard, the badass bass playing member of Mothers Finest, has a new CD coming out very soon. I got just a little taste of it right here @Merch Mikes
It was yummy
ooooaaaaaah!!!! I found some Mothers' show videos from 2003, check it and dig. I hear they're back out on these old southern roads again :-) Don't miss the chance to experience this band live. Go right down there to my Friends List, click on their MySpace site, and get tour dates. Or go to
Mothers Finest OFFICIAL SITE right here
MF in 2003 and all Funked Up and the band members were then and are now:
JOYCE 'BABY JEAN' KENNEDY - vocals
GLENN MURDOCK - vocals
MOSES 'MO' - guitar
WYZARD - bass
JOHN HAYES - guitar
Kerry Denton- drummer
Alright, here we go
Funk Talk Theatre
By Skip your Funktologist
We all know that music can be a powerful influence! A case in point is what happened June 2 on the radio show “A Funk Above The Restâ€! (KUVO 89.3fm, 11pm-1am) Two associates of mine, LJ Harker and Big Charley heard me humming the lyrics to a particular song. Because of one of the phrases, they looked at me as if to say, “there’s no such lyricsâ€. I told them I will play the song Saturday night, just listen. At the predetermined time, I launched the track! It is from a Funk Rock Band out of Atlanta Ga, called Mothers Finest! As the chorus made its ascent, I could just picture in my minds eye the reaction of those who heard it! The chorus goes like this: “sometimes I find myself acting, just like a NEGRO! Its from a 1992 release titled “Black Radio Won’t Play This Recordâ€. Sure enough, the phone started ringing. The first caller said, “sometimes I find myself acting, just like a MEXICANâ€! The second caller, &l! dquo;sometimes I find myself acting just like a White Boyâ€! Third caller, “sometimes I find myself acting just like a WOMANâ€! And the last caller that I took said Skip, I’m going to say the N word… I paused for a moment, then he said - “sometimes I find myself acting, just like a NORWEGIANâ€! Well, I guess that just about covers everyone. Sometimes we find ourselves acting, JUST LIKE A HUMAN!
Sometimes I find myself actin like a Negro, its in the blood.
For The Gurlz
ATTITUDE every freakin bodys got one!
I don't know if ya'll can handle any more!!!! Ok, I'll break it up for just a minute, and you can catch your breath...here ya go, look at some pretty pictures.
I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage.
I'd like to meet:
.. /div
Who I'd love to meet:
Jesus,
Martin Luther King,
Ghandi,
Stevie Nicks,
Mothers Finest (again),All of my rokster friends from my Ebay cyber group "rokin w/ rok" ,
Sister Honey (((Janie))) Nancy (((Queenie))),
My Great Grand Mother and Great Grand Father, and all of my family before me.
AnnaBelle
We are odd indeed
To think that we alone
of all God's creatures are worthy of recognition
for I am certain beyond question
that when the last day arrives,
our company will swell with fox, raven, hare, and rat
and when we are finally admitted we will see
sharpening her nails upon His most resplendent throne,
God's favorite unrepentant calico cat.
Music:
Local Talent (to be continued)
The Carolinas have plenty of it
This band is relatively new on this scene and already there is buzz about it. They play with feeling, drawing from their spirituality, and what goes on in their world around them. The bands space is a work in progress, so please continue to check it out.
Visions At Midnight
Robin Rogers
I love this blues playin' woman's sound. If you have not heard her sing "Its A Blessing' off the Crazy Cryin' Blues album, get it!! You won't regret it. I'll play it for you when I get the CD in the mail..Heard that song on WSGE radio, and didn't waste time. I had to hear it again
The Marshall Tucker Band
The Spongetones
Chris Cook
His music is an eccletic blend of all the players that I love, formed to make an original.He's Pegs pride and joy, sings good, he's on My Space! And hes cute too!
Ok, this was suppose to be about the Players I love the most so here they are..a few of them ;-)
Fleetwood Mac (all of them), Mothers Finest (all of them too), Tom Petty, all kinds of "Stevies"...Stevie Nicks, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Winwood, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Eric Clapton, Alicia Keys, Gwen Steffani, all of Motown, and Visions At Midnight, Skynard, Allman Brothers, Little Feat, Blackfoot, Chaka, Aretha, Chicago, Earth Wind and Fire, Elvis, the Beatles, The Stones and all the great blues players........I could go on forever, I just love music makers. And most of them you can find right here, right now, so
CLICK THIS!!!
To view my tribute to Stevie Nicks CLICK THIS!!!!
To view my tribute to Mothers FinestCLICK *THIS*!
Joyce "Baby Jean"Kennedy is also doing 'her thang' on The Daughters Of Soul tour. CHECK THEM OUT!
I heard somebody say "if you don't feel something when this woman sings, check your pulse". And someone said "if you find someone at a Mothers Finest and they are not shakin sumthin, call 911".
This is a work in progress...Its all about the local talent that influenced my life...The great players that made me dance my a$$ off, and sing along... Alright, here we go. The Flares take the stage:
and props to the the "girl in the band" that was kind enuf to update me on some of the great players..She let me know Michael Keck is alive and rockin, doing theater and just any old thing he wants to do! (thank you Lord)....shes not local, but she might as well be...Brodie's Downhome Cookin' is up next:
My all time favorite local band. I have many, but these guys were just special.. They did everything right. They had the moves. And they went to the "Black" clubs to learn the new dances and so did I. In 1967, I remember Joe Dow (hes in rock and roll heaven), James Bates, and Sonny Smith up front with the moves and the harmony..They had rhythm and they had soul. I remember Bill Stewert, Ronnie Gittens, Ronnie Bailey, and Monk Ghant, Ransom...I know I am forgetting someone, this is a "to be continued kinda thang" so they will get their props...Some of them are still doing their thing today and doing it damn good too ;-) ~Sho bop sho bop Share My Name~ I found this site on the net. My sweetest and clearest memories are of "Joe Dow and The Spontanes" and from that an evolution took place........I lost count..Name changes, player changes...Harley Hogg and The Rockers...cool man, dig :-) and James Bates and Cracker...I don't know who is where now, but all I can say is "try to tie together some connections, gets some horns, picks and sticks, and get back out on the road again...We love you. The Spontanes
To be continued
This space is reserved for The Magnificents, The Counts, The JayDees and more..If anyone has info on these bands, let me know please..Brodie did her good deed for the day. Thank you so much!!! :-) Rock and Roll never forgets.
Movies:
The Rose, Gone With The Wind, The Color Purple, The Devils Advocate, Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil, The Ten Commandments, Lady Sings The Blues.
Television:
CSI Las Vegas, Lifetime movies, Discovery Channel, The News (not talking heads, just the factual news of the day) and anything about music or musicians. But I really don't do a lot of television.
Books:
Anything with big print.
Heads up on this book, this is a very good read. Taking you back to a time you can feel, a very emotional time and the winds of change were blowing in 1968. It could parallel these days in time. And I think its time for the winds of change to blow once more
Heroes:
I believe there is a hero in everyone.
I'd like to dedicate this little space for all the men and women who serve and protect and who have fought and died for our freedom. Be it in Iraq, Korea, Afghanistan, in New Orleans, Germany, the Coast Gaurd, the Policeman in your city, anyone who has ever come to your aide while you were in harms way or even when your heart was breaking. I'll try and change the pictures everyday, and I'd like to have the names of these heroes. You can mail me a picture of a hero if you'd like to see them honored here and I'll do my best to do just that.
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