Maceo and the band referenced signature vocal hooks from these classic jams throughout an original composition to give the feeling of a story being told. The start of a never ending journey.
From the 50s to the 90s he drove a power funk rhythm right through Jim Crow to Black Power and out the end and released some of the greatest dance music of all time. “Please Please Please”, “Sex Machine”, “Cold Sweat”, he ran roughshod over some of the greatest musicians of all time, and planted himself at the center of American pop to this day. Hip Hop owes Brown everything.
Swift Technique really put on a show, they dance, they talk, they lay on the floor with their feet in the air, and they take it all the way.
The revellers were boogieing hard all night long and the instrumentals never wandered from that syncopated rhythm at the heart of funk, invented by the likes of the Meters and alive and sizzling in the capable hands of the Metermen
this signature mix of ska, punk, rock and funk
the greatest bass player ever
it was really very good
TV on the Radio lovers, Amoeba music has a pretty good deal
there isn’t a song I AT LEAST LIKE A LOT
