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afternoon

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happy to be here

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today i was supposed to come in like

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three years ago to film for uh shirley

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murdoch's unsung episode

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yeah and

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my flight got canceled because it was

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storming here and in chicago at the same

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time so it was impossible to make it

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every time you come today

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right yeah but i'm finally here

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all right

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so

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i was born in 1973.

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now i always say now you do an

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internship before you get a job

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i just kind of thought maybe i did an

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internship before i actually

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started living for real because i have a

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lot of memories of songs and records

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that were out before i was even born

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or when i was one or two years old

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because in the 70s

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i was a very observant kid and music was

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all around me my entire family was into

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music everybody had records i was in the

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room with the radio by myself i mean all

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this type of stuff but one thing

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i noticed that a lot of times i would

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see music

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before i would hear it

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sometimes i would hear it and then i

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would see it and i would recognize like

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oh yeah i know that because album cover

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art was very important at that time

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uh these days you know with streaming

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you know some people put out albums they

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don't have any artwork at all

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you know but in the 70s that wasn't the

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case and so as a person who started

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collecting records when i was like five

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years old

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and have been collecting since then

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i noticed that there were certain themes

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that bands tended to explore with the

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type of artwork they did in their albums

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and

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because i noticed that i really wanted

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to present that today so

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one thing that i noticed is

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banned branding

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most bands back in there had a logo

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and their albums typically had that same

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logo but certain bands took it beyond

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that

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so let me see if

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this one up here

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so

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one of my favorite bands and one of the

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earliest images i ever saw

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was this bt express app

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do it till you're satisfied this is the

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exact copy my parents had at home

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and the thing about this when you hear

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the name bt express yeah they had the

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logo they really wanted to emphasize the

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the train aspect of it

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so they're waiting at the train station

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and to this day if i ever take public

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transportation i always kind of think of

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this record because i'm looking to see

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if it's coming just like they are on the

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iron cover

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and one thing about it

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i noticed that there's a i don't know if

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you can see it on this picture let me go

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to a different image here

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there's a jacket hanging up

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in there in the corner here

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and when you open the gate fold up

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there's the jacket again

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on the back you see the train leaving so

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i always wondered as a kid they did

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remember to get the jacket

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i always wondered that

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not sure if they did or not

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but the train aspect

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they kept that going

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for the next album as well

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so this time instead of them just simply

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waiting for the train they actually go

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to

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the more traditional train

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you know older trains where they're

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actually on the train tracks

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and you get with the non-stop you get

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the green light you get the red light so

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they really on this train thing and then

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on the back they're walking on the train

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tracks and everything so they really

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utilize that to emphasize

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who they were as bt express

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now another band that was tied into them

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they had the same producer

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and were also from brooklyn new york

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was brass construction

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another one of my favorite bands

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their very first album

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what did they do to show they were brass

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construction when they went to a

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construction site

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you know i mean you can't mistake that

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and on the back

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you see them all on the construction

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site they got their own pictures and

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the second album they just emphasized

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the logo however

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with their third release

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creatively entitled brass construction

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i mean hey they kept it simple two three

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i mean you can't mistake anything but

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what did they do

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they use the construction hat

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all right and on the back of it they

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actually have smaller images of the band

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members

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playing around on this hat so you know

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that brass construction there's no

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mistake in that

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all right another band

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who did something similar with their

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name

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was the band brick

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however there are

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conflicting stories about how they got

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their name

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one story says that they were originally

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called acapulco brick

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and this album cover kind of confirms

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that

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i was fortunate enough to get this one

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autographed by jimmy brown who used to

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picture it on here and reggie ready hard

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is argus the guitar player just recently

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passed away but if you look at this you

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see the the cannabis signs on the brick

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he's got the brick he looks like he's

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high

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you know and then on the back

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he's like floating up in the air and the

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band rivers are looking up at them so

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it's a good high all right

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there's a conflicting story the other

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story though

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is that they got their name from

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a

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pile of bricks

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that was in one of the band members

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backyard

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and this particular image from their

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second album classic out by the way

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shows that that's what maybe that's

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where they got the name from they're

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standing up against the brick wall they

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just kept it simple and it's entitled

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brick and as great as this album is they

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didn't need anything else

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all right

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another artist who

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kind of utilized the

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his name and image for an album is

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bootsy collins boopsies rubber band one

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of the great bands all right when you

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think of bootsy collins

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what do you tend to think of image-wise

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what's the first thing that comes to

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star glasses

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yeah there we go star glasses

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with bootsy's third album

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they utilize the star glasses to market

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him

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and

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you see the glasses

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right there but not only

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did you get to see the glass on the

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outside anybody who bought this record

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what do you remember most about it from

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the cover

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anybody remember

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well when you open it up you got to get

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your own set of boots and glasses

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yeah see i kept these in the cover

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and fortunately for me i've been able to

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meet most of these guys so i have seven

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of the 10 original band members

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autographs on this album along with

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george clinton

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all right

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now another theme that i noticed in funk

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album covers is what i call funk is fun

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all right george clinton describes funk

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fun with the k and there were certain

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album covers

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that kind of typified

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what that is

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and one of them

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is rufus featuring chaka khan

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their third album

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roofer sized

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if you look at the image

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does it look like they had a good time

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having a good time yeah they're smiling

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they're laughing you know

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this is a great example of that so and

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on the back you see they had a whole

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photo shoot going

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on so

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not only do you get the wonder and then

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when you open it up you see shaka by

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herself what is she doing she's smiling

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laughing and having a good time so it

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gives it gave the impression that this

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is fun music that you should have all

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another one of my favorite funky spun

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comes from 1977.

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this is one that i saw a lot when i was

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a kid both of my some of my cousins had

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this album

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it's the bar case

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flying high on your love

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now if you look at that cover

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you see not only does it look like they

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having fun it's like it's almost like

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they're talking to you they said like

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yeah yeah oh this you know you want to

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get this record this is man you know

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they they ah they going to pose this

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everybody's mouth is over like ah so

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when i saw this as a kid i'm like this

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must be a really good record and i and

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it is it turned out it worked because

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this was the first gold album they ever

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had

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and it's one of the best the best

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required i'm concerned

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and again i was fortunate enough to get

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this autographed by james alexander the

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bass player and leader and larry dotson

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the lead singer

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now two years later

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the barques they were on mercury and

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one of their

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label mates in

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somewhat rivals

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was another band

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and just like how the barcanes that fly

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down your love might have been their

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best album

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confunction's best album

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might have been

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candy from 1979.

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the candy image was just there and it

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disappeared

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so

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like the barricades again

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look at the expressions on these guys

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faces

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they're like yeah they got their hands

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ah yeah you got to get this record this

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is bad you know and

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when you opened it up the cake folk you

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got to see the lady with the candy

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and who doesn't like candy i mean unless

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you disappointed just can't have too

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many sweets but aside from that you like

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candy so this also gave the impression

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that funk is fun and it's something you

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want to be a part of and you want to get

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this record and this is another one i

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got i was fortunate to get autographed

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by felton pilot michael cooper and carl

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fuller who is in the lower right hand

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who if you look at any can function out

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carl always had the coolest pose he's

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like

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yeah you know

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so another funk is fun out all right

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now another thing that i noticed

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is what i call space is the place

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as you all know in the 70s

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you had star wars you had all of this

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stuff going on so

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the space theme was pretty common

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in the late 70s in particular

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so there are several album covers that i

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noticed

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uh

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explore that theme

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and one of the first one we're going to

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look at

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is from the new orleans funk band

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chocolate milk they're one of the more

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underrated bands

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okay so you see

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this is actually their fifth album so

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they had been around for a few years by

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the time they got to this and they did

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milky way and you have the lady in space

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she's like an astronaut

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the fact that she's topless we won't

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focus on that but in the 70s that was

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you know not outrageous

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but again it explores the space theme

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they got the chocolate milk spelled out

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like it's you know kind of spacey you

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got the rocket ships the planets so

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space is the place was something that

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was explored in that

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another band who explored something

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similar to that

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right here in dayton

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the band

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phase oh

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and their first hour

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riding high

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now with riding high

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you don't have a whole lot going on on

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the album cover but it obviously has the

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space thing you got

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the planet the saturn for the old you

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know you got the black background the

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logo is kind of seems like it's a

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spaceship almost as rioting so riding

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high explosive state as well

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another band here from dayton who

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used a similar kind of space image

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is the band sun

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now sun for this particular album they

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actually use the same

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graphic artists or illustrator that

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earthwood and fire used for a lot of

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their albums japanese gentlemen uh shuzi

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nagaoki

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but he did earthquake fires all in all i

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am raised several of the albums well uh

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he did a lot of other albums covers as

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well for people like electric light

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orchestra he did our parlet was a

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spin-off group for parliament for the

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deli and for sun he did this particular

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album they were coming off their biggest

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album which was sunburn that had gone

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gold so they may have been given a

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little bit more of a budget for this

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particular album and they used it to get

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a space themed album cover you have a

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spaceship you can see the different crew

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people on there they're really small but

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you look at the album cover you see that

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they are part of this whole space

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movement and then with their next album

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they took it a little bit further

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the album sun over the universe

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and for this one

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i believe this image is actually taken

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from like

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one of the spacecrafts at the time

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and they you they were able to use it

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for the cover but clearly this is a

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space image

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for sun you see the planets in the sun

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and all that in the background

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now the thing about it though is you

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don't have to be

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in the darkness if you're out of space

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you can still be up in the air but maybe

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it's during the daytime so there's

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another thing that i call

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uh what was the name i called it

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um high in the sky

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okay not getting high but just looking

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like you're up in the sky and you got

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you know the the daytime elements it so

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one of the first album covers that

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explores that

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is

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earth wind fires open our eyes

401
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now

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what's interesting about this one

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is that the story goes they actually you

404
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know they were recording in colorado

405
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up in the cariboo mountains and they

406
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went outside and took this album cover

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picture and according to verdeen white

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you may not notice it but he says they

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were freezing to death when they took

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this picture he said their noses were

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running because they got these little

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these are the outfits they were on stage

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you know

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these aren't outfits that you wear when

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it's you know 20 30 degrees outside but

416
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apparently that's what they did they

417
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were freezing to death but it works

418
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because it ties into their whole imagery

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that they were kind of forming at that

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time and you see them outside high in

421
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the sky

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all right

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another image

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this is one that i really remember as a

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kid

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that ties into the high in the sky

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is the brothers johnson debut album

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look out for number one

429
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so again you have

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the brothers

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and one of the things that i remember

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about this album cover is the

433
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expressions on their faces that really

434
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caught me you got the brother with the

435
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big afros george johnson

436
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and he got lewis and he's like

437
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you know so as a kid

438
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it actually the original version says

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quincy jones presents at the top let me

440
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see if i can get the image with that one

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and you can't really see it that good

442
00:17:25,679 --> 00:17:29,120
but it says quincy jones presents right

443
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over where it says the brothers johnson

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look out for number one now as a little

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kid

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i didn't know who quincy jones was

447
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but i knew whoever he was he must have

448
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been bad to present these guys because

449
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they look like they were bad

450
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okay in a good way and i remember

451
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looking at the out cover and be reading

452
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the the titles and uh i'll be good to

453
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you yeah okay get the [ __ ] out of my

454
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face yeah i know that song yeah so i was

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excited to see this and this has always

456
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been one of my favorites and got to get

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it autographed by

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george johnson a few years back

459
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another

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high in the sky image

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is the commodores

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from the following year 1977.

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now some people will argue that this is

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their best album

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i say it's the one before that but

466
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either way you have the commodore's logo

467
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just kind of flying high in the sky you

468
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know and then on the back

469
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you see them doing the same thing with

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the background image

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and then my favorite

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and i think one of the more creative

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ones along this thing

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is a band out of virginia called mass

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production

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they're best known for the hit

477
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firecracker in 1979

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but the album they did before that may

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be their best one

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and

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that's not what i wanted

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the album is called three miles high now

483
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what's interesting about this i'm going

484
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to show you this is what you're seeing

485
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up there is the front cover but this is

486
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the back cover it's just the plain

487
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clouds and the sky but on the front you

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see their image but they incorporated

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they use an effect to

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put the clouds on their bodies instead

491
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of seeing their clothes and you see it

492
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kind of in the background of the logo as

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well

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so

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they're showing you that they're in the

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sky and they're going to put it actually

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on their body so they're taking it to a

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whole nother level right there

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all right

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now another theme that i found in album

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covers is what i call cartoon

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fantasies and as a kid i always loved

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when album covers had cartoons on them

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because it kind of tied into you know

505
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the type of stuff you would see

506
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as a little kid so

507
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one of my all-time favorite albums

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is the rick james album busting out of

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l7

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it was his second release

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and in terms of an image

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to me this was his best album cover

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so you see the image of rickman john

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he's like superhero he's got his guitar

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up in the air almost like superman or

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something he's got the girls chasing him

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you know and i happen to meet rick james

518
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and tina marie the night uh holly

519
00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:27,200
halloween night of 2003

520
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and one of the interesting things that

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tina marie told me is that the girl

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who's on the far left

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she said that she used to tell people

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that that was supposed to be her

525
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,159
even though it really wasn't but she

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said that's what she told people and

527
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everybody believed it so she signed that

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part of the album cover and rick signed

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it as well all right

530
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:51,440
another interesting cartoon this one

531
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kind of combines cartoon imagery and

532
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real

533
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imagery

534
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it's the second album from cameo

535
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we all know who we are

536
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:05,840
so what they did with this one

537
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is on the front cover you see them and

538
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they have these animal heads

539
00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:13,120
these are the animal hands are drawings

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so

541
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you see them and you're like okay who

542
00:21:14,799 --> 00:21:20,240
are these cats but then when you turn it

543
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:22,480
over you see the actual picture of the

544
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,679
band members so one of the fun things

545
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,280
with this one is you can kind of keep

546
00:21:23,679 --> 00:21:27,360
flipping it back and forth and trying to

547
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:30,080
figure out who's who okay who's the

548
00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:32,159
zebra okay okay that's the zebra who's

549
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,760
the lion okay there's the light you know

550
00:21:32,159 --> 00:21:35,679
you can kind of have fun with this and

551
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,880
as a kid you know you can't miss with

552
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that

553
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another cartoon image

554
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:44,080
that was really big when i saw this as a

555
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kid was another band based right here in

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dayton

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heat wave

558
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:52,080
and their debut album

559
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too hot to handle

560
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,760
now it's interesting they had a

561
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:58,400
different cover for this

562
00:21:55,760 --> 00:22:00,720
for the british release but the one that

563
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,960
was released here in america

564
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,799
looked like this

565
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,120
and i remember seeing this record over

566
00:22:04,799 --> 00:22:10,080
my cousin's house i'm thinking wow it

567
00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:13,520
must really be hot out there

568
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:15,520
the record is melting the fire hydrant

569
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,880
is melting i mean i don't want to be out

570
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,559
there you know get me somewhere with

571
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,640
some air conditioning or something but

572
00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:23,760
this was a great example of using

573
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:25,520
cartoon imagery to emphasize the band

574
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,120
it's heat wave it's too hot to handle

575
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,120
and you can visually see that with the

576
00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:31,440
cover

577
00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:33,760
the band who probably took it to the

578
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,520
highest level in terms of using cartoon

579
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:39,600
image imagery

580
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:42,240
is another band straight out of dayton

581
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:44,000
lakeside

582
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,080
now lakeside

583
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,760
their first time the first album cover

584
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:51,679
was pretty basic

585
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:54,480
on abc records but once they went to

586
00:22:51,679 --> 00:22:56,159
solar he got with dick griffey they came

587
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,440
up with the whole image

588
00:22:56,159 --> 00:22:59,120
of

589
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,640
having different cartoons and having

590
00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,440
them be different characters and i

591
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,200
remember

592
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,039
their unsung episode was actually the

593
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,440
very first one that i appeared in in

594
00:23:05,039 --> 00:23:08,480
2015 which i thought was fitting the

595
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,880
first

596
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:13,280
episode i'd be in would be a funk man

597
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:15,280
so one of the comments i remember steve

598
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,600
shockley making was that dick griffey

599
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:20,080
the head of the label told them said

600
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:22,960
don't nobody care about nine fools

601
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:25,840
standing on some stairs he said you got

602
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:27,440
to make nine fools look interesting so

603
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,280
they came up with

604
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,360
the shot of love album cover where

605
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:33,200
they're all in this robin hood kind of

606
00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:35,520
gear and you know they got the beard you

607
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,679
got the dogs on the back just shooting

608
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:40,159
arrows that the indian ladies and you

609
00:23:37,679 --> 00:23:41,279
know so they they did a good job with

610
00:23:40,159 --> 00:23:42,960
this but

611
00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:45,760
they didn't stop there they kind of

612
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:48,320
turned that into a whole theme where

613
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:51,279
every album cover

614
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:52,880
did something like that so their second

615
00:23:51,279 --> 00:23:56,080
album

616
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:58,480
rough writers instead of them being

617
00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:02,159
robin hood merry men

618
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,159
they become cowboys

619
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,600
all right

620
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,080
so

621
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:10,000
right here they're cowboys and the cool

622
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,760
thing about this is with this particular

623
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,640
album they got a gatefold cover so you

624
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,799
can open it up and see the whole band

625
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,559
instead of just with this image you see

626
00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:19,760
half the band with this one you see

627
00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:21,840
everybody

628
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,679
and then when you open it up you also

629
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,600
see them dressed

630
00:24:23,679 --> 00:24:28,000
as cowboys

631
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,520
so you get the drawing and you get them

632
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,520
and they said they had a lot of fun with

633
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,600
this you know that particular day going

634
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,559
to this photo shoot and doing all of

635
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,279
this

636
00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:39,760
and the most famous one they did

637
00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:41,760
their biggest album came next and this

638
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,720
is the one that i remember the most as a

639
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:47,440
kid

640
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:49,679
was fantastic voyage

641
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:52,240
and of course with this one they were

642
00:24:49,679 --> 00:24:53,200
pirates

643
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,000
so

644
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:58,480
you get the pirate imagery

645
00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,559
on the outside and again if you open the

646
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,000
whole album up you see a whole band you

647
00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:04,799
see a captain

648
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:07,039
they got dogs on there you know they got

649
00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:08,799
you know cats swinging off ropes i mean

650
00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:11,039
they just having a good time with this

651
00:25:08,799 --> 00:25:12,840
but then also

652
00:25:11,039 --> 00:25:15,279
you see on the

653
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:18,960
inside where

654
00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:21,360
the whole band is dressed up as pirates

655
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:23,200
so you get the this was like double fun

656
00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:25,919
as a kid you get the cartoon and you get

657
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:28,480
the real guys dressed up like pirates it

658
00:25:25,919 --> 00:25:30,480
didn't get any better

659
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:33,200
now

660
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,799
apparently the the funk hall of fame is

661
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,279
inducting

662
00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:40,480
three major artists first

663
00:25:37,279 --> 00:25:44,320
and one of them of course is

664
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:46,400
the godfather of soul james brown

665
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,400
now

666
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,799
james brown obviously had a very long

667
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,720
career so if you look at his albums he

668
00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:55,360
did like one hour in the 50s he did a

669
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:57,840
lot out a lot hours in the 60s

670
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:59,520
most of those outcomes are pretty basic

671
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,080
you know it's just pictures of james

672
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:04,400
singing on stage performing what have

673
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:07,039
you but when you got to the 70s his

674
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:09,360
album covers started to take on some

675
00:26:07,039 --> 00:26:11,039
political themes so

676
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:13,440
one of the albums

677
00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:14,880
is from 1972

678
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,880
there it is

679
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,240
now the front cover

680
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,679
is just

681
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,520
james brown

682
00:26:19,679 --> 00:26:23,120
a drawing that's pretty basic nothing

683
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,720
special about that

684
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:27,520
but

685
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:30,640
on the back of the album cover

686
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,640
see if they got an image of it

687
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:40,000
okay ah there it

688
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:43,120
on the back of the album cover

689
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,760
he tackles the heroin problem that was

690
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:49,360
plaguing america in the early 70s so

691
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:51,760
he's got the white horse with the needle

692
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:53,919
you see the people on the united states

693
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,000
map they're kind of looking like zombies

694
00:26:53,919 --> 00:26:59,679
the white horse is dropping the heroin

695
00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:01,919
packets and he's observing this you know

696
00:26:59,679 --> 00:27:03,840
so he's and this is the album that had

697
00:27:01,919 --> 00:27:05,600
the song king heroin

698
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,840
and he did a song called public enemy

699
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,960
number one uh he didn't write king

700
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,200
heroin

701
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,919
a guy who was actually in prison wrote

702
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:16,159
those lyrics but he did public enemy

703
00:27:13,919 --> 00:27:18,320
number one as his own personal response

704
00:27:16,159 --> 00:27:19,919
and it was such a big thing for him he

705
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,360
actually had to split it up into two

706
00:27:19,919 --> 00:27:22,159
parts that are both

707
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:24,480
like

708
00:27:22,159 --> 00:27:26,880
over five minutes long so he really

709
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,880
cared about this particular

710
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,080
problem that was plaguing the country at

711
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,480
that time

712
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,600
another issue that he tackled

713
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,080
is something that people have been

714
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,960
talking about a lot recently in recent

715
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,240
years

716
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:42,159
is the theme of reparations

717
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,840
and he explores that in a couple of

718
00:27:42,159 --> 00:27:44,720
album covers

719
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,200
so

720
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:50,320
the first one where he tackles it

721
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:52,880
is the classic the payback

722
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,919
so in this payback image

723
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,360
right here

724
00:27:53,919 --> 00:27:59,039
you see the big drawing of him but you

725
00:27:55,360 --> 00:28:00,240
also see the hands exchanging money

726
00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:02,640
okay

727
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:05,760
and on the inside

728
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,919
there's a picture of a farmer on the

729
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,080
farm and they talk about the whole 40

730
00:28:07,919 --> 00:28:12,559
acres in a mule thing

731
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,880
so he goes into this a little bit with

732
00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:16,880
his album covers during the same

733
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,640
sessions where they were recording that

734
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,360
payback album

735
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,399
fred wesley and the jb's were doing the

736
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,919
album

737
00:28:22,399 --> 00:28:29,120
damn right on somebody

738
00:28:25,919 --> 00:28:32,480
and it explores that same thing kind of

739
00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:32,480
from a different angle

740
00:28:35,039 --> 00:28:37,279
here

741
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,960
so this particular cover

742
00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:49,679
goes into it a little bit differently

743
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:52,640
he's got kind of the slavery images he's

744
00:28:49,679 --> 00:28:55,360
got chains breaking you know again

745
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:58,399
people on the farm working he's got the

746
00:28:55,360 --> 00:29:00,640
devil exorcist which perhaps leads

747
00:28:58,399 --> 00:29:02,880
towards exercising these particular

748
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,120
demons because on the back of the cover

749
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,960
it says positive thinking

750
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,120
think that you are somebody you'll be

751
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,840
somebody there's no illustration but he

752
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,520
has that on here constantly but with the

753
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,440
imagery it kind of ties into the

754
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,559
previous hour and this is when i was

755
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:21,360
fortunate to meet fred wesley macio

756
00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:23,200
and fred thomas the bass player yeah

757
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,320
listen to doing it to death where he

758
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,360
says

759
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:29,039
lee and fred thomas brother

760
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,200
i met fred thomas i was like yeah that's

761
00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:32,720
brad thomas

762
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,840
i love meeting those kind of guys you

763
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,360
know

764
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,679
now another

765
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,600
album cover he did right after that same

766
00:29:37,679 --> 00:29:41,520
year

767
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,279
some problems that were taking place at

768
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:47,120
the time

769
00:29:43,279 --> 00:29:47,120
and that's the album hell

770
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,159
so this is an album

771
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,480
where if you look at the cover there are

772
00:29:52,159 --> 00:29:55,279
a lot of different things going on here

773
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,080
okay

774
00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:58,240
so

775
00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,320
he's got uh the guy

776
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,960
right underneath hell you see the guy

777
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,320
has a gun to his head that's actually

778
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,279
from a scene

779
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,880
a scene from the movie shad's big score

780
00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:10,960
the second shaft

781
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,880
there's a guy who's a numbers runner and

782
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,799
he's going to these apartments and shaft

783
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,799
stops and points the gun in his head and

784
00:30:14,799 --> 00:30:19,760
i noticed that because i'm a black movie

785
00:30:16,799 --> 00:30:22,159
aficionado for 70 so i caught that but

786
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:24,480
you see he's got the watergate tapes

787
00:30:22,159 --> 00:30:26,240
it's got the gas shortage that was going

788
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:29,200
on at that time

789
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:31,840
uh you got people homeless you got the

790
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:34,720
needles so all of this is happening at

791
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:37,039
the time and the vietnam veteran was

792
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:39,120
probably worried from vietnam all of

793
00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:40,559
that's happening in this particular

794
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,480
album cover

795
00:30:40,559 --> 00:30:46,480
and then he kind of does something

796
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:47,760
slightly similar with the next one

797
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,440
which was

798
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:52,080
uh reality

799
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:54,559
this was actually the first album

800
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,880
where he's his hit streak kind of died

801
00:30:54,559 --> 00:30:59,360
out it has funky president which was a

802
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,799
big record but that was really the last

803
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,799
big album yeah but if you look at the

804
00:31:00,799 --> 00:31:04,799
cover it kind of has it's a similar

805
00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:06,559
thing you got a big picture of him but

806
00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:08,080
then you have the bus representing

807
00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:10,080
school bussing

808
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,919
you have uh in the lower right hand

809
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,120
corner left hand corner there's somebody

810
00:31:11,919 --> 00:31:17,200
with a gun you got rats you know fires

811
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:19,120
so all of this turmoil that's happening

812
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,360
at the time and then on the back they

813
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:24,559
actually have an image of i believe that

814
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:26,240
was the memphis garbage strike

815
00:31:24,559 --> 00:31:28,480
that happened where dr king ended up

816
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,840
going down there so they tackle all of

817
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,720
these different things in the outcome

818
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:35,200
now

819
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,799
i have a particular theory when it comes

820
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,840
to meeting men

821
00:31:36,799 --> 00:31:43,519
i've always said this for many years

822
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:46,559
never ever trust any man

823
00:31:43,519 --> 00:31:48,559
who says he does not like the ohio

824
00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:50,159
players

825
00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:53,200
you know

826
00:31:50,159 --> 00:31:56,159
anytime somebody tell you i'm like

827
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:58,320
they had the great songs

828
00:31:56,159 --> 00:32:01,600
they had the coolest nickname it's the

829
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:03,039
coolest bad ever okay the nicknames

830
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,480
sugarfoot

831
00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:06,159
sash

832
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,320
damn

833
00:32:06,159 --> 00:32:10,240
i mean they were just cool

834
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:13,039
but one of the things i noticed is that

835
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:15,120
in their album covers they tended to

836
00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:17,039
show you what the album was about by the

837
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:19,200
image so the title

838
00:32:17,039 --> 00:32:19,919
tied in with it okay

839
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,120
so

840
00:32:19,919 --> 00:32:23,919
the first

841
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:26,240
ohio players i'm that people really know

842
00:32:23,919 --> 00:32:27,120
is pain

843
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,200
and

844
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,039
there's the image of the ball here lady

845
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,440
with the whip that i had

846
00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:35,440
but if you expand the album i always

847
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,840
love just how you expand you get another

848
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:40,320
image so you got the guy and he looks

849
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,679
like he's in some kind of bank

850
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,440
okay

851
00:32:41,679 --> 00:32:45,679
inside they got the whip so they letting

852
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,919
you know all right

853
00:32:45,679 --> 00:32:50,159
then the next album they did was

854
00:32:47,919 --> 00:32:51,039
pleasure

855
00:32:50,159 --> 00:32:53,039
all right

856
00:32:51,039 --> 00:32:54,960
you look at pleasure you get the same

857
00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:57,440
lady

858
00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:00,000
and this time she's got she's in the

859
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,000
chains

860
00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:10,279
there we go

861
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,679
so you see her you don't really see

862
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,120
what's going on when you just look at

863
00:33:13,679 --> 00:33:17,600
the front cover

864
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,840
but then when you expand it

865
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,799
now you got some extra going on all

866
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,720
right

867
00:33:20,799 --> 00:33:24,720
and then of course they took it to the

868
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,240
next step

869
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,919
he went from pain

870
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,799
to pleasure

871
00:33:27,919 --> 00:33:31,200
to

872
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:33,279
ecstasy

873
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:35,519
and the fun thing about this particular

874
00:33:33,279 --> 00:33:36,960
image again you don't really know what's

875
00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:40,000
happening right away it just looks

876
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:41,919
normal you got a guy and a lady

877
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,440
then all of a sudden

878
00:33:41,919 --> 00:33:45,600
wait a minute where'd this other guy

879
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,360
come from and it kind of looks similar

880
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,840
so it's like is that his brother i mean

881
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,880
like you don't know what's going on here

882
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,960
all right

883
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,080
but here's an interesting thing here

884
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,799
perhaps

885
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:59,039
this story can be confirmed it has not

886
00:33:56,799 --> 00:34:00,799
been but the rumor is

887
00:33:59,039 --> 00:34:02,799
that when the ohio players left

888
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:05,760
westbound

889
00:34:02,799 --> 00:34:07,120
westbound was not very happy about it

890
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,919
and they put

891
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,760
this particular album together

892
00:34:09,919 --> 00:34:14,000
climax which again

893
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:16,240
looks like just a regular man and woman

894
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,480
together but then when you expand it you

895
00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:20,960
see the woman is stabbing the guy in the

896
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:23,280
back with the knife

897
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,879
and the rumor is that that was the

898
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,200
record company's way

899
00:34:24,879 --> 00:34:28,800
of calling the band backstabbers for

900
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,399
leaving them is that

901
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,639
true we got diamond right here he's

902
00:34:30,399 --> 00:34:34,720
shaking his head saying yeah okay

903
00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:35,919
that confirms it

904
00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:38,560
but

905
00:34:35,919 --> 00:34:39,839
obviously when they went to mercury

906
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,679
then

907
00:34:39,839 --> 00:34:43,760
the images changed a little bit so they

908
00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:45,200
did skin tight had a lady with some

909
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,760
boots

910
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:49,760
but then when it did fire

911
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,639
look at the image of this

912
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,639
and you see the lady with the fire hose

913
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:56,159
she's got the number one i went to

914
00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:58,160
number one so

915
00:34:56,159 --> 00:35:00,079
that's perfect on time you don't really

916
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:02,640
get a surprise when you open it up but

917
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:04,480
it's just more of the same lady you know

918
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,560
and then on the inside you actually get

919
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,480
to see your face and you see the bad

920
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,160
members and all the cool poses and you

921
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,599
see their nicknames

922
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:14,079
and of course

923
00:35:11,599 --> 00:35:15,680
perhaps the greatest album cover of all

924
00:35:14,079 --> 00:35:18,640
time

925
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,599
definitely gets my vote

926
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,760
is

927
00:35:19,599 --> 00:35:25,040
honey

928
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:28,640
now as a kid i had never seen a naked

929
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:32,240
woman before it's an album

930
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:34,320
but once i saw this

931
00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:35,839
i was like wow and i remember being

932
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,000
really proud because i heard the song

933
00:35:35,839 --> 00:35:41,040
sweet sticky thing when i saw this album

934
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,040
at my time i automatically knew

935
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,960
that was on this album

936
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,599
you know and then of course you open it

937
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,720
up and then we all know the legendary

938
00:35:47,599 --> 00:35:51,440
image

939
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:53,440
of the lady on the inside with the honey

940
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,599
on her all right

941
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,720
so and that's why i say you can't trust

942
00:35:55,599 --> 00:35:58,400
the man who doesn't like the ohio

943
00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:59,760
players because i mean what is there to

944
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,640
not like

945
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,720
all right

946
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,079
so finally we're going to wrap up with

947
00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:06,079
the band

948
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:07,680
who kind of embodied a lot of these

949
00:36:06,079 --> 00:36:11,680
different things

950
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:13,280
and that's parliament funkadelic now

951
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:17,200
they

952
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:20,079
did some political images early on

953
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:22,800
one of them is the album america eats

954
00:36:20,079 --> 00:36:22,800
its young

955
00:36:25,359 --> 00:36:30,320
so they have this image

956
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,440
of this dollar bill

957
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,119
and

958
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,280
they have the statue of liberty now when

959
00:36:33,119 --> 00:36:37,359
you open it up you get the whole image

960
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,839
there the whole dollar bill this is

961
00:36:37,359 --> 00:36:41,200
probably the scariest album they did as

962
00:36:39,839 --> 00:36:42,960
far as i'm concerned a lot of people say

963
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,560
it's maggie brain nah this is scary

964
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,400
because they got some loud stuff going

965
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:49,040
on this record but on the image you see

966
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:51,440
the statue of liberty eating the baby

967
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,760
she's got the red demonic eyes it's like

968
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,280
wow you know instead of holding the the

969
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,240
things she's normally as she's got the

970
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,200
kids

971
00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:01,920
so this is really a commentary on what

972
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,200
was happening at the time from funkadeli

973
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,839
all right

974
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:10,720
another political theme they

975
00:37:06,839 --> 00:37:13,200
used is a better known album one nation

976
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:16,079
under a groove

977
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:19,200
now if you were to google what happened

978
00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:19,200
in fact i'll do it real quick

979
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,800
if you google

980
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,160
iwo jima

981
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,520
you see

982
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,000
this image

983
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,119
where the soldier's posting up the flag

984
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,800
all right

985
00:37:31,119 --> 00:37:37,440
well funkadelic used that similar image

986
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:40,000
for the album cover for one nation under

987
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,520
a group see the drawing

988
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,040
they got instead of the united states

989
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,720
flag they got army they got these kind

990
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,800
of funked out guys with the guitar you

991
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:48,880
got the lady and they're doing a similar

992
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:52,400
thing and they have their flag at the

993
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:54,480
bottom so they used politics on that

994
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,079
another famous image

995
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,240
is the

996
00:37:56,079 --> 00:38:01,599
huey p newton

997
00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:01,599
black panther party

998
00:38:02,839 --> 00:38:09,839
poster all right you see

999
00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:12,079
huey newton sitting in the chair

1000
00:38:09,839 --> 00:38:14,880
there he is he's got the

1001
00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:19,760
gun and the spear and all of this

1002
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:23,119
so george clinton adapted that image

1003
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:25,280
for their album cover uncle jam wants

1004
00:38:23,119 --> 00:38:25,280
you

1005
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,119
so you see

1006
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,640
you see george sitting in the chair

1007
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,480
instead of the

1008
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:39,119
traditional gun

1009
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:42,560
he's got his bot gun

1010
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:45,040
and flashlight from parliament

1011
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:47,520
to represent the same thing so instead

1012
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,200
of you know the black panther party had

1013
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,760
more you know different type it was

1014
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:54,240
george kind of uses that to show that

1015
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:56,800
they were rescuing dance music from the

1016
00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:58,720
blind sort of a war on disco

1017
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,440
marcus i hate to interrupt you this is

1018
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:03,359
so interesting and entertaining too but

1019
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,920
we've got to wrap up because i've got

1020
00:39:03,359 --> 00:39:08,720
people in line on online

1021
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,680
waiting to start okay well can i do one

1022
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:10,800
more

1023
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,240
sure

1024
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,000
i have to say while you're getting it

1025
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,920
out that tonight at the concert you'll

1026
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,599
find out that i was in backup orchestra

1027
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,000
for um

1028
00:39:17,599 --> 00:39:22,720
for um

1029
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,480
help me out here

1030
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:26,800
if that's the case thank you in the in

1031
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,400
their early 70s

1032
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:31,520
when they hired string players and

1033
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,320
woodwind players to back up his band

1034
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,560
and the bald-headed lady was always

1035
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,880
there oh yeah yeah yeah with the

1036
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:42,119
spotlight on her head okay okay and

1037
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,119
other things

1038
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:49,040
all right so on the flip side of

1039
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,040
funkadelic we had parliament

1040
00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:55,119
and of course the ultimate space image

1041
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:57,280
is one you all are very familiar with

1042
00:39:55,119 --> 00:39:59,200
mothership connection so this is the one

1043
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,560
that kind of starts the whole space

1044
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,680
imagery thing

1045
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:05,280
in album covers

1046
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,119
classic mothership connection right

1047
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,200
there but as a kid i was always more

1048
00:40:07,119 --> 00:40:11,920
interested in the back cover

1049
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,440
because he landed somewhere

1050
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,640
where did he land

1051
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,000
otherwise

1052
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,440
where is this supposed is it if y'all

1053
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,599
remember looking at oh see i see a

1054
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:22,319
california maybe he's in california i

1055
00:40:19,599 --> 00:40:24,480
don't know but the fact that he landed

1056
00:40:22,319 --> 00:40:26,079
and he he's got this look on his face

1057
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,160
like yeah

1058
00:40:26,079 --> 00:40:29,839
but you know this is an album that you

1059
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,800
want to have all right

1060
00:40:29,839 --> 00:40:34,880
and the final album out show

1061
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,960
is also

1062
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:40,319
my all-time favorite album so i can't

1063
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,319
just not show this one

1064
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:47,040
it's parliament's

1065
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,040
1978 effort

1066
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:54,079
and it's best known for

1067
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:54,079
the song aqua boogie

1068
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,880
and this one features drawings by

1069
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,960
overton lloyd now

1070
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:02,960
this is a basic image you got sir knows

1071
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,520
who was introduced on the previous album

1072
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:07,440
you got the bird from aqua

1073
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,720
on the back

1074
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:11,520
you get to see

1075
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:13,520
the girls going to

1076
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:15,359
this festival

1077
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:18,000
you know i never paid attention to

1078
00:41:15,359 --> 00:41:20,000
women's bodies until i really saw this

1079
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,680
as a little kid

1080
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,040
but the interesting thing when you open

1081
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,119
it up

1082
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:27,599
you got this you got this whole scene

1083
00:41:25,119 --> 00:41:30,480
going on at this underwater party you

1084
00:41:27,599 --> 00:41:33,119
got this pop-up atlantis they even gave

1085
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,720
you like extra little characters in the

1086
00:41:33,119 --> 00:41:36,960
album

1087
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:38,480
you know you got these and i actually

1088
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,079
tried when i was a kid i actually popped

1089
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,079
these out and tried to play with them in

1090
00:41:40,079 --> 00:41:44,960
the bathtub and ruined them because i'm

1091
00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:44,960
supposed to be underwater

1092
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:48,319
but

1093
00:41:46,319 --> 00:41:50,240
the fact that overton lloyd was able to

1094
00:41:48,319 --> 00:41:52,400
do this and have all of these different

1095
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:55,200
drawings and then on the next time he

1096
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:58,480
actually turned the whole cover into a

1097
00:41:55,200 --> 00:42:00,640
comic book so not only do you open it up

1098
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,880
one time you got a whole nother panel

1099
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:05,359
and i spent hours looking at these

1100
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:07,280
things and drawing these things myself

1101
00:42:05,359 --> 00:42:09,680
and they have an egg on the back and

1102
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:11,440
actually took an egg out of my mom's

1103
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,720
out of the refrigerator and rolled on it

1104
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,920
and threw it on the ground to try to

1105
00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:15,920
make it look like parliament

1106
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:26,090
[Applause]

1107
00:42:29,119 --> 00:42:33,920
duff from nyu

1108
00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:33,920
you need some help

1109
00:42:35,359 --> 00:42:38,880
he told me he didn't have clothes in his

1110
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,440
suitcase he was right

1111
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,440
i closed it

1112
00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:47,079
specially

1113
00:42:43,359 --> 00:42:47,079
specifically for ourselves