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Come on folks,I'm nosey. What are YOU listening to ? This album is bloody brilliant.

This band are a bit of a cross between Hendrix and Sly. Never made it but they are known for being the first all black rock group. This album is outakes and demos but still very good. Compliments their first two original albums from the early 70s nicely. https://youtu.be/lsBDjNEQcdU

Talking of Trump..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-49837511

I'm ashamed to say I have not read any of the autobiographies by Douglass but I hope to remedy this in the very near future.

The only High St bookshop in the UK is now just Waterstones. I don't shop there as I think that they are pretty expensive. I occasionally like browsing in there as I like to see what's new. Maybe I just like to be surrounded by books. Book shops of the past that are now gone include Books etc, Claude Gill and Ottakers. So that just leaves Waterstones. Of course we can buy online but we don't have much choice there. The same goes for music. Just HMV are left. Virgin and Our Price no longer exist.. But there are some cracking record shops around though most of these tend to specialise in particular genres. As for e- books. No thankyou. Yes, they are handy and you can store scores and scores of books on them but they're not for me. Actually, though I no longer purchase any reading material from Amazon I still have a music wish list on there. Perhaps I should consider not buying from them full stop. The last albums I bought were on EBay anyway.

Hmmm, I'll give it another listen. But after this......

Really dig Funkadelics first three albums in particular. Baby Huey off key ? Shurely not,Troy.

This is one hell of an album.

Just for a bit of fun, what are you or was digging ? Just finished listening to my own made up musical sounds on Spotify. Kind of usual suspects , Curtis Mayfield, Undisputed Truth, Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, Jr Walker,Edwin Starr,Issac Hayes and many more.

How long ago was you working at the shipyard ? And it must've been really strange seeing those signs,that's for sure. Hopefully, I'll get time to watch Marshall today.

I hope she does roast his ars. And he SHOULD be sacked with immediate effect. Now.

The talk show host has been fined but surely he should've been sacked. Surely. https://www.shape.com/celebrities/news/serena-williams-racism-romanian-tv

If you don't already know of this channel, please check it out and maybe subscribe. Heres a kind of intro to the man,Michael.

Ok, not a book but Hendrix died today ,1970. Bless him. Ok, not a book but Hendrix died today ,1970. Bless him. THIS is interesting

@Kareem, oh I get ya.

Only found out about this lovely sounding place recently. Can't seem to get their web site up,at least on my device, but here's a YT clip. Hope to visit NYC next year and I'm coming here along with the Peacefood cafe in the Village. https://youtu.be/sgR0NfoN-EM

Same here 👍

Another film on Netflix. Haven't seen it yet.

I think you apply online to join Netflix. Pretty sure.

This is a ReelBlack vid. Pretty good.

Only found about this Netflix documentary. Watching it right now. Saw the trailer first on You Tube and read some fairly strong comments there amongst others.

Talking of You Tube, there's a pretty good channel on there that yourself and others here might not be aware of. Reel Black is the channels name. Get you regarding your YT stuff. Probably better on here.

Kareem, oh yes, I'm well aware of the NAACP. They are mentioned a lot in the current book I'm reading. The British Empire is a very very bad blot on the UKs history,that's for sure. As for Thatcher, ugh. I never myself thought she looked good on paper. What a horrible right wing pain in the ars she turned out to be. She was hell bent on keeping the working class in their place and virtually declared war on the miners during their strike and in fact ,all unions. And there was the Falklands war to boot. Not many tears were shed when she died.

@ Kareem Of course I don't have any proof or evidence as such but i just get an overall impression that the gay community, and I'm talking about the UK now, do not align there selves with the likes of any political party that's right wing ie the Conservatives and especially with ANY far right who are anti immigration and anti gay. In fact they seem to be anti anyone who isn't a WASP. Anyway, I look forward to the article.

Watched this on your You Tube channel. IT wasn't until quite recently that I actually found out your channel existed. Keep them coming. Actually the Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka video was also very interesting.