Two stories to explain, but actually to aggrandize Hilts and explain just how kool he is ... and to spread the knowledge to those young
One was repeated long before - punk rockers, university crackers, sitting in a university type boyapartment squatters type den down below (for it was 1207's dank basement w/ a giant sheet thrown over for a wall) , kids around, and amongst the thugs is Cult Woman And I. We real kool. We rock Zeppelin. We exchange superior glances when outside square (unaware that we were so hep that we were beyond hip) asks if we really liked that loud music presently being rocked. Smiles yes.
Second Story The son of an Irish bar owner on West 63d Street - epicenter of Irish drinking in the 70's and even early 80's (comments, BCD?) -was my first close friend until he moved away to the suburbs when he was 8 or 9. Yet we maintained contact till about 1988. I remember his quote about "we missed the best music -if only we were alive in the sixties..." I remember when I first became into music as a defining thing about me, and feeling the same - shit, when would the Stones put out another Aftermath type LP?. However, by the time the bar owners son hd uttered these words, i knew them to be laughably false - he was just laughably underexposed to good shit.
So - well - whatever - one of my favourite times in all of music history is all of music history. And my favourite time in all of music history rite now is that wonderful period of high disco culture of the early 1990's. Partly hip hop, partly danse, this period - yesyesyesyesyesyes - also coincided w/ a wonderful era of going out and dansing - so, ys, there s a bit of .......
Anyway, here 'tis - try not to get too sick of all this stuff this week ...
"Bust a Move"
What a great great great song - and what a perfect live version of it. Stated before, I've always loved when artists go on shows like this - the great Arsenio Hall show - because usu sally the sound system and all else production wise is top gear. here - Young M.C.'s "Bust a Move" - couldn't be presented better. As a stage performer myself I appreciate the staging of this song for the crowd/tv viewers. it's all so good: the handshake @ the beginning, the little skip jumps as he prepares to addres the audience, the synced danse moves of the backup singers (i mean , they look ridicilous - those danse moves? punk rock in whatever form it takes, sometimes), "dressed in yellow/she says hello", and the cleanness of the sound - it's all canned music, of course, but the riffs shine out and always that lovely scattering drums and bass, tite as hell ... and Young MC, again, delivering a perfect rap (one fault) that also includes a great bonus: on the released single, "Bust A Move" has a kool instrumental break - but in thislive version, Young MC just raps over it.
I've always loved this song. Even more so, this version of the song. Great live complement. Love the sound. And as , well, a choreographer, when some does the wondrous - I notice and see where i can steal.....err, be inspired. My mind works always on "How could I present this song on stage if it started to play now and i was on stage and there was an audience in front of me - and do it in the stupidest way possible?".
So, from Hilts the stage person to Young MC the stage person: Bust It!
Here 'tis:
One was repeated long before - punk rockers, university crackers, sitting in a university type boyapartment squatters type den down below (for it was 1207's dank basement w/ a giant sheet thrown over for a wall) , kids around, and amongst the thugs is Cult Woman And I. We real kool. We rock Zeppelin. We exchange superior glances when outside square (unaware that we were so hep that we were beyond hip) asks if we really liked that loud music presently being rocked. Smiles yes.
Second Story The son of an Irish bar owner on West 63d Street - epicenter of Irish drinking in the 70's and even early 80's (comments, BCD?) -was my first close friend until he moved away to the suburbs when he was 8 or 9. Yet we maintained contact till about 1988. I remember his quote about "we missed the best music -if only we were alive in the sixties..." I remember when I first became into music as a defining thing about me, and feeling the same - shit, when would the Stones put out another Aftermath type LP?. However, by the time the bar owners son hd uttered these words, i knew them to be laughably false - he was just laughably underexposed to good shit.
So - well - whatever - one of my favourite times in all of music history is all of music history. And my favourite time in all of music history rite now is that wonderful period of high disco culture of the early 1990's. Partly hip hop, partly danse, this period - yesyesyesyesyesyes - also coincided w/ a wonderful era of going out and dansing - so, ys, there s a bit of .......
Anyway, here 'tis - try not to get too sick of all this stuff this week ...
"Bust a Move"
What a great great great song - and what a perfect live version of it. Stated before, I've always loved when artists go on shows like this - the great Arsenio Hall show - because usu sally the sound system and all else production wise is top gear. here - Young M.C.'s "Bust a Move" - couldn't be presented better. As a stage performer myself I appreciate the staging of this song for the crowd/tv viewers. it's all so good: the handshake @ the beginning, the little skip jumps as he prepares to addres the audience, the synced danse moves of the backup singers (i mean , they look ridicilous - those danse moves? punk rock in whatever form it takes, sometimes), "dressed in yellow/she says hello", and the cleanness of the sound - it's all canned music, of course, but the riffs shine out and always that lovely scattering drums and bass, tite as hell ... and Young MC, again, delivering a perfect rap (one fault) that also includes a great bonus: on the released single, "Bust A Move" has a kool instrumental break - but in thislive version, Young MC just raps over it.
I've always loved this song. Even more so, this version of the song. Great live complement. Love the sound. And as , well, a choreographer, when some does the wondrous - I notice and see where i can steal.....err, be inspired. My mind works always on "How could I present this song on stage if it started to play now and i was on stage and there was an audience in front of me - and do it in the stupidest way possible?".
So, from Hilts the stage person to Young MC the stage person: Bust It!
Here 'tis:
and the original video : Stop!
tomorrow:the middle/the middle
tomorrow:the middle/the middle
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