Amused Musings On A Slightly Absurd World

I can’t wait for this flick to be released on dvd: Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker.  It’s a documentary about African-American rock musicians and their struggle to make it in a genre of music in which typically only white musicians obtain mainstream success.  In high school and college, I made it a point to obtain every album Living Colour put out.  Aside from Jimi Hendrix, Living Colour is probably one of the few black rock acts to achieve some modicum of mainstream success.  I was fortunate to see them perform in 1993, but have not since.  Although they broke up for awhile they are touring again.  Unfortunately, most of their current shows are in Europe.  Can they get any love stateside?  Corey Glover has one of the best  voices ever.  Check out this this live performance on You Tube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fee1UDqGRs 

Here are some present and past blackrockers who I have listened to and think deserve more love: Robert Johnson, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ike & Tina,  Bad Brains, Fishbone, Follow For Now, Res, Slash, Martin Luther, Ben Harper, Lenny Kravitz, Kenna, Cody Chestnutt, Darius Rucker, Gnarls Barkley, Daniela Cotton, N.E.R.D., Seal, Saul Williams, T.V. On The Radio.

Also some great resources are:

The Black Rock Coalition site at www.blackrockcoalition.org

The Bold as Love blog at http://www.boldaslove.us/ 

The article “Rock is the new black” at http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2008/05/25/2008-05-25_rock_is_the_new_black.html

Rock on ’cause Elvis is dead, bitches.