FIRST BLACK BAND I EVER SEEN!! | Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (Official Video) REACTION
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@@dylanalvarado9995 very good
Rockin!!
@@faithjones881 yes
Three other great songs by them you should listen to are middle man, type,glamour boys😎
Lead singer is wearing a wetsuit from Body Glove. The song isn’t about racism, it’s about how people follow charismatic people without thinking about it.
Yep!! Exactly!!
They have other songs that delve in racism. But yes, this is not one of those cases. More about blind faith.
Charismatic, haha that's one way to say it. Good one!
Tom Cruise + Scientology = Cult Of Personality
Well they do refer (certainly in the video) to the death of Martin Luther King
Vernon Reid can shred with the best of them....dude is sick! 💯💯
Yes! Extremely underrated.
They do call him Burnin’ Vernon for a reason.
I know for a fact, he was heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix, as well as Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin ... cause when he shreds, you can clearly hear (AND feel) that similar style when listening to Jimi/Jimmy.
I had a badass poster of him on my wall. I miss that.
Vernon is an awesome guitarist
about politicians and celebrities and their cult like followers.
and 30+ years later, TRUMP and his Brown Shirts. I bought Living Colors CD back in 88. "I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be… "
@@onomehtenialb Liberals more so
@@onomehtenialb Can you stop with the fascist equivocations? Nothing Trump or his followers did is at all fascistic, I would know I lived under Franco in Spain. The real fascists would be the actual black shirts running around burning cities, beating minorities and trans people. The ones demanding 1/2 the US population be "reeducated" or killed.
@@VadulTharys Storming the Whitehouse on Jan 6th 2021 was an attempt to overthrow a LEGAL, FAIR election,
& a Democratically elected Government.
That right there is FASCISM, all orchestrated by Traitor 45 and executed by his minions.
@@onomehtenialb ROFLMAO you can not even get your facts right. First it was the capitol building, second there was no "Storming" the building, everyone was let in. The videos prove conclusively that the capitol police removed barricades and actually held the doors open.
Next the three people arrested for destruction of government property, and assaults that day were associated with either Antifa or BLM. Everyone else is being charged with trespassing, not violence.
Final your an idiot who has no idea what fascism is. You toss around that word because it is hurtful to others and makes them shut up. You are the fascist, you support a racist, sexist corrupt political party that uses violence, terror, and outright blatant vote rigging to achieve power. It was not republicans or Trump supporters who stormed the capitol in 2017, 2018, and 2019. It was not republicans who went on killing sprees at wal marts, olive festivals, INS detention facilities, CHOP, Portland, Dayton, and others in California. Each of those were committed by individuals who were either active members of Antifa or associates.
It was not republicans or Trump supporters who attacked trans activists in LA. It was not Trump supporters attacking orthodox Jews in Baltimore, NYC, Boston, and a dozen other cities. That would be again Antifa and BLM. It was not Trump or his supporters who censored the news that would be Democrats and their supporters. It was not Trump or his supporters who attacked anyone who simply wore a red hat even if it was for a sports team. It was not republicans or Trump supporters who attacked a Black woman simply for sitting down to eat in "their" restaurant.
The only people who are actively denying others votes, the only people silencing their opposition with violence are democrats and the left.
You are either intentionally ignorant, or a blind cult member filled with hate and a need to murder anyone who you think is less than human. In other words 1/2 the US population.
One final note, do you honestly believe that racist Joe Biden got more Black votes than Obama? Do you honestly believe the dead got up and voted in the hundreds of thousands? Because either we are in a zombie apocalypse or the election was fraudulent.
uh..the year was 1988. And the fashions were bright/neon bright colors. The singer, Corey Glover, is wearing a wetsuit. Like for surfing or snorkling or deep sea diving. 'Cause, you know, that was cool stuff ..especially in California.
agreed, and I would add,...... "And don't you forget it."
@@bryanmcknight4043 yes I put 1988 up there
@@bryanmcknight4043 oh, I actually had just Googled that before i put it down but i just knew it was 80's ; )
@@bryanmcknight4043 1988, the year I got engaged.
It was released in 1988 and peaked in May of 1989.
“You don’t have to follow me, only YOU, can set YOU free.”
Great song and very important and relevant message.
Vernon Reid is a master song writer. Greats will subtly change a phrase in the verses and if you aren't paying attention you will miss it. It's this subtle change that gives away the entire meaning.
2nd verse
You don't have to follow me.
Only you can set me free
4th verse
You don't have to follow me.
Only you can set you free.
One word change and if you blink you miss it.
Since you guys are surprised by a “ Black “ band you should check out Bad Brains for sure 🙌🏻❤️
and Kings X
Or even Fishbone
B9DY COUNT (Ice T's band)
You beat me to it. Bad Brains are a killer band.
That and Fishbone.
Look at these young people loving this song. And they don't make music like this anymore, insane!
Many black musician are college educated men. Regardless of rock, rap,or R&B.
Wasn’t Tupac too
True! Tom Morello went to HARVARD. He has been quoted as saying he was both the "only black guy and the only Metal Head" there.
Normal people know this. The white Liberals and media try and brain wash you.
@@machinayrequiem8596 Nice story- a lot of these college educate Black men are liberals.
@@rgdssd Yes, I know
The singer, Corey Glover, is also an actor. He was in the '80s movie, Platoon.
which guy? i love that movie. Not Jr lol
@@blacklight4075 Francis...we gon get high...😆 remember he said that at the end of the movie on the stretcher
Wow
He has also played Judas Icariot in a traveling stage production of “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
He shared a foxhole with Charlie Sheen in the last battle of the movie.
The members of the band are all college trained musicians. The guitarist (Vernon Reid) is an alumni of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. The musicians who have graduated there over the last 4 decades would blow your minds.
They wanted Randy Rhoads to teach there because he was such a great classically Train guitar player
Vernon never went to Berklee - He went to New York University. Will Calhoun went to Berklee, and I'm not sure about the other guys. But Vernon's REAL music school was the New York jazz scene of the early 1980's, and in particular his time with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society.
@@lightaces You are correct. I have about 200 Guitar World magazines and had to track down the right one for the article. I misread. He taught 3 seperate Masterclass Clinics at Berklee during the 90's. Thanks for the correction!
You guys are so funny! When this came out back in the day (1988) lots of my friends were so happy there was finally a rock band of color. I mean besides the R&B ones. This song kick everybody's ass. Love your reactions. Keep rockin' on.
Living Colour's "Open Letter to a Landlord" is another great song.
I second this! Great song, and even more relevant today, with so many people losing their homes due to greedy landlords evicting out long term renters so they can raise the rent.
Ah, the most popular song by Living Colour, "Cult of Personality" opens and closes with these famous quotes:
"And in the few moments we have left, we want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand." Which is Malcolm X, from his "Message To The Grass Roots" speech in 1963. The point of it was to unify African-Americans.
The ending quotes start with John F. Kennedy's famous "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." This is from his inaugural address in 1961.
The significance of the quotes is that both were from men who were assassinated. Most of the song seems to be denouncing idolatry, but there is the one stanza containing the line, "A leader speaks, a leader dies." They also seem to make no distinction between "good" and "evil," as each time they mention a "hero" they pair them with an "enemy" - Mussolini and Kennedy, and Stalin and Gandhi.
The final words are "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," a quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address on March 4, 1933. Roosevelt used the address to announce his "New Deal" program and encourage the citizens of the United States to overcome their economic problems as they emerged from the depression.
Awesome dissection of the lyrics 👍
To Dean Bros: But you were busy yawning, talking, and head banging to actually listen to the lyrics. Lyrics used to actually matter in music. You’re young. Hopefully you’ll get it some day.
The video came out in 1989 or 1990. Metal has several black front men Such as Sevendust, Thin Lizzy had a black front man in the early '70's.. and Kings X also in the '90's I know at one time Killswitch Engage had a great Front man also.
Killswitch Engage made a great remake of Holy Diver by Dio.
Slash.
The greatest guitarists jimmy hendricks
1988
Kings X! Love Doug Pinnick!
This song could have been written today. Yet, It's not about racism.
People are programmed to see racism in everything, everyday.
@@Justin-nq6kf NOW they are. MLK's "I have a dream" speech has been completely forgotten.
@@Justin-nq6kf Yep. 400 years of oppression tends to do that.
@@ffjsb You know nothing about MLK.
@@slappyslapstick4045 MLK would be disgusted with this generation.
Definitely check out “Sevendust”. Metal band with a black singer/song writer. They’re awesome
I agree 👍🤘
Start with their song Denial FOR SURE.
Anything live from them
LJ from Sevendust is so rad
Bitch by Sevendust!!!! Yes!!!!
It's about how people blindly follow popular opinion and mainstream media and never question their sources of information. It's just as true today as it was in the 80's
Here's a few more bands for you: Parliament Funkadelic, Sly and The Family Stone and Mint Condition!
Sly and the family stone is awesome 💗
Mother's Finest
earth wind and fire...
@@blacklight4075 most definitely!
@@chrischreative2245 most definitely. I love their songs The Blues, It Never Rains In Southern California, I've Been Thinking Of You, Anniversary, That's All I Ask Of You!
I'm a 31 year old white country boy and I LOVE THIS SONG...don't matter what color you are, you make great music the people will listen. ❤
So underrated it hurts. This is a message that needs to be spread today.
This song isn’t underrated
Your minds will be blown when you learn about the band DEATH. Now THAT is some damn good music history right there.
'Freakin' Out'
My default when I hear Death is a death metal band named Death. Googled the one you referenced. Gonna check them out now...
Inside crystal mountain 🤘🤘
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
White people marching does not mean racism guys. That looks like old footage from WWII (Germany). Oh, and not all white people are from Germany just like all black people are not from Africa. Also, there are other black rockers and metal groups but if all you listen to is rap, you would not know this. White people don't care if a guitarist or singer is black as long as they can rock. And to assume that they had to teach themselves just because they are black is such a racist thing to say. Come on kids! Do you know how many white rockers had to teach themselves? You need to get out of your racist bubble and see the world.
Its sad man everybody with a weak mind is brainwashed to see racism in EVERYTHING EVERYDAY. People have devolved.
Actually I diden't see any germans, but Italians, americans, asians ( Vietnamese?) British, and at least one georgian. But I could very well have missed them. ( one did look like the fuhrer ) Just because it looks like ww2 it dosen't have to be germans.
But yeah, guess all people see what they see according to their own image of how the world is.
@@hnorrstrom I agree with you. I was just trying to make a point because of comments these kids made. Clearly they don't teach history in school anymore.
@@dragonfire1842 I agree, schools sucks even more now then when I was a kid back in the 80's, but nowadays education is free over the internet for everyone, still people listen to influencers and friends for solid facts instead.
Amen. Preach Brother! They were so good The Rolling Stones invited them on their Steel Wheels World Tour. I saw them when they came here to Jacksonville, FL; Living Colour brought everyone on their feet. They were high energy and sounded fantastic. We all loved their performance. and yes, none of us gave a shit that they were black. They were a great American rock band that happened to be black.
I love watching young Black music fans listen to this song for the first time, and realizing how amazing Living Color was when they first came out, way back in 1989, and how groundbreaking. This song and others of theirs (especially "Open Letter to A Landlord") are just as relevant today.
Good call on OPEN LETTER!
This came out in 1988
There's a song that goes very well with this one lyrically.
Billy Joel" we didn't start the fire."
If you like black bands you should do Body count - there goes the neighborhood
It's hardcore metal
OH HELL YEAH!!&! BODY COUNT IS HARDCORE!!&!
This came out in 1988. I actually saw them open up for the Rolling Stones. I can’t speak for everyone or every place, but where I am from nobody really cares about race that much. They were just an awesome band. I would highly recommend you to check out the song “servitude” by Fishbone. Thanks for the great reaction, peace love and prosperity to both of you. ❤️ your channel!!!
Saw them open for Stones in September 89, Grant Field, Atlanta...great show
Yep. They definitely need to check out Fishbone!
Vernon is a hidden gem. He is incredible. I don’t understand why why everyone slept on them.
Agreed! I always thought they were underrated
Sadly they were stuck in the World when Glam Rock ruled.... I think if they had come out just a few years later they would have been even bigger
I always wondered the same thing. They appeared with The Stones at The Cotton Bowl in Dallas. I didn't go but I asked someone who did about the show. They said it was so loud you couldn't even distinguish the music. That may be one reason why they didn't catch on so much. Another reason would be that most people that like The Stones are really stuck on classic rock and nothing else is better to them.
@@stanflahaut1893 I went to that show and saw them.. Thought they were awesome, but the avg age of people there were much older than me at that time, so they probably thought it was too loud
Mick Jagger gave them their start!
They learned from where all of us musicians learn. Listening to music.
And teaching each other. I feel really bad actually that her life experience so far makes her think that white people wouldn't teach someone to play because of what they look like. Most people are good, don't let these times make you think like that. I'd teach you guys any day cuz you like music
@@huddleitupfilms Very true!
@@huddleitupfilms Seems people pigeonhole themselves. Sad.
Love this song.. Great chioce yall.
YES SIRRRRR IT WASSS
@@DeanBros now if you're ready for a more modern Black lead vocalist of metal .... react to Sevendust Denial, you will NOT be disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@choice12ozborne They also toured w/ the Rolling Stones. Saw them live together & it was AMAZING!
Give em time....
Saw these guys live 25 years ago at a WAAF outdoor festival. They were very good.
Check out Sevendust. And Wicked Wisdom. Also check out Body Count. :)
Wow!!, you're playing Living Colour, SO good. I bought their album Vivid in the 80s , and I have been playing it ever since. Great album. This track is on it. Another great song from a great black band is "Cuddly Toy" by Roachford.
I f'd with them hard back in the 80's when they started getting airtime. Got to see them live here in SW Florida about 2 years ago and these guys haven't lost anything. It was amazing. Ant he's wearing a "BodyGlove" wet suit for surfing. They were the Jordan's of the day if you were a beach head.
These guys are still kicking around. Their cover of Who Shot Ya gives me chills on my goosebumps.
Vernon Reid, the guitarist, is who put the band together. There have been many members. With this foursome I believe all of them went to some renowned music schools. Fantastic song, hard to believe it's over 30 years old.
Check out their other song “Glamour Boys”. Catchy melody and funny but true lyrics
I love that song too
Listen to Body Count, Ice T’s metal band.. 🤟🏿🤘
this was 1991....in the 80s and the whole 90s ...teens usually wanted to be in a band not become a rapper and alot of places showcased young bands coming up so alot of teens started teaching themselves guitar so yes MOST OF THE TEENS IN THE 60-90s era were all self taught.
Yeah you know that's what I heard and I am 19 but I watched a documentary on TH-cam .... The name of the documentary ....... Is... rock is dead..... I'm a hip hop head but I'd been going on this wide with a couple channels learning about this right music from back in the day . I dessay a straight of the tag and I'm happy they're learned a little bit about different kind of music
1988
@@choice12ozborne I'm just curious what bands have you been learning about ? I grew up on rock and ame a 90s kid so know most bands from back then just wondering what you are into from back then?
@@choice12ozborne released 1988. I thought it was on MTV about the time I met my wife.
@@jjamald1 👌
The lead singer, is Corey Glover, and is the newphew of actor, Danny Glover. Corey co-starred in the blockbuster movie, Platoon, as Francis...he's multi-talented. Vernon Reid is one of the greatest rock and roll guitarists of all time...
Another great song to react to would be “Terence Trent D’Arby Wishing Well” promise you’ll enjoy it
You 100% miss the message! And yawning throughout means that you are not listening to the true message😢😢
Yep you got it Eric!
To be fair, it's not a message that is easily received/understood without more context.
You guys are awesome, keep on keepin on👍
I discovered this band in high school over 30 years ago. They blew my mind and opened my eyes. To this day I still love this band and they remain a favorite.
This is WWE Wrestler CM Punk Ring Entrance Music
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies first black power trio band check out Machine Gun live Fillmore East 🔥🔥🔥
He's wearing a Body Glove! I had a BG one piece swimsuit in the 80s... when I had a hot bod to sport one. Not everybody wore a body glove well... lol
I'm liking and subbing for that in-sync intro alone.
Yeah most people who heard this band thought they were all white. Most likely due to rock being predominantly a white guy area of influence and culture, even to this day, though it originated in the 30s and 40s with jazz music. Also when they came on stage for their first major live performance at a festival after thing song release and began playing peope lost their minds not realizing they were the band. Music transcends everything, skin color included.
When they appeared on the arsenio hall show folks were shocked lol
Well technically rock was an amalgation of jazz and country. Everyone gives the jazz credit and omits the roll of country.
The band "Black veil brides". The song "In the end".
My young seekers 👍🏿✌🏿. Living Color represented a return to the orgin. Rock n Roll Is Black Music. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fat's Domino- the Father's- check for them. Funkadelic, Bad Brains and more. And then the 1- Jimi Hendrix 🎸I love the channel keep open, keep asking the right questions 🙏🏿✌🏿👍🏿✊🏿🎼
I love seeing young people discovering new music &.new artists from the past. It's like rediscovering it all again.
ask yalls parents... maybe grandparents about some “black bands” . i love these reaction videos. react to the culture.
Check out Eric Gales, Gary Clark Jr. and King's X
Hope you guys do more Living Colour reactions!!!!
Y'all are great!!
They came out in the 80's. More than a few musicians taught themselves. Color just doesn't matter in the music world as much as people have been lead to believe. Look at Slash. He is one of the most revered Guitarists out there (and my personal celebrity crush).
Was wondering how long it would take you.
I'm so glad you got to discover their music more so!
One of THE best live bands I've ever seen! I love the comments, honestly they make me glow inside! OMG Vernon Reid is up there with the best of them!! They were the first all black metal band I ever heard of. I was brought up on soul, folk, Lep Zep & Joe Cocker - RUSH changed my world and then I heard Da La Soul! My world went BOOM!! 🤯
Yeah they don't tell you this but black people invented rock and roll.
Everybody that wants to know knows lol.
@@rodneysteffan3073 I disagree sometimes you need a bit of info to get interested. Often times people have preconceived notions.
Aka blues, the frontier of rock.
1 Leadbelly album collection contains 50yrs of future rock and roll hits. True story.
@@rodneysteffan3073 I was about to say something to this effect. It's like anything else in life, if you search it out, you'll find it.
This band is so underrated. They should have had a long and successful career.
Living Colour legends! in the music/musician world they highly highly respected, they master musicians \m/ pbwu
Then you missed body count. Bad brains. Etc.
Hell, there's Terrance Hobbs (guitarist) and Mike Smith of Suffocation (brutal/technical death metal). Sadly, Smith is no longer with the band. He is an insane human drum machine (as most death/black metal drummers are). Terrance is a shredder too, much like Vernon.
"I exploit you, yet you love me.
I tell you one and one makes three!"
They predicted Trump decades ago.
True.
They predicted Democrats and Republicans decades ago. If you think I'm lying, then you probably think one and one makes three.
TDS alert.
All politicians from far left to far right are complacent in bullshit. They are playing everyone for their pleasure.
@@bethshadid2087 Right? I can't understand how people actually think their gov GAF about them.
So good to see young kids enjoying good music! Living colour is amazing! And I also see that Queen poster in the wall! Great taste for music
🎸 Vernon Reid was a founding father of the Black Rock Coaltion (1985). He went to "The Fame" School. HS of Performing Arts in Manhattan but graduated from Brooklyn Tech. Then on to NYU! Same time Rick Rubin was at NYU starting up what would become Def Jam Records. His classmate, Donald Dixon is my Bass Instructor.
Ramones & Punk were only getting booked. We were a bunch of black folk that sounded "just like them" so he grouped together all the bands & we started booking venues to hold BRC events. Back when Ceelo Green, Bruno Mars & Janelle Monae were our 1st featured bands at B.A.M for Afropunk Festivals when we partnered with the X-Games on ESPN.
We held BMX & Skateboard qualifying events they filmed. BRC bands are hard in Tony Hawks video games. He still comes to AfroPunk events with his kids. Hope this gives you a bit of the rich history of Black Rock. 🎸 We all wanted to play like Jimi! 🤘🏾🤘🏿🤘🏼🤘🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
I was a teenager when this came out. Where I grew up, we didnt care about race or color, we care about their music. This song was a huge hit and I still love it today (although it means more today to me then it did back then).
We had Prince and Hootie & the blowfish. Race/color didnt matter, not like it does today. Why is that? Well, divide and conquer. We are weaker and easier as a people to control if we are divided up and pitted against each other.
I love this band and both of you are too cute reacting to it….keep it up
This shows one great thing about music and that when you are good enough color truly means nothing. Music truly can be a uniting force. Say it with music!
The album came out in 1988, and all of them came up in the NYC "downtown scene" . Drummer Will Calhoun went to Berklee College of music, and Vernon Reid went to NYU. They all came up in the jaz and punk scenes in NYC and the sound reflects this. If you wikipedia the individual members, they pay on a bunch of other peoples albums (Public Enemy, Geri Allen, Seal, The Roots, etc)
Wow. The fact ya'll are jamming to this shit is crazy dope!
This came out, like 89, it was awesome on MTV, along with ICE ICE BABY and Paula Abdul. Same year as my daughter was born.
Should check out Bad Brains, a all black hardcore punk band, song I Against I. Also check out Hed Pe!! Their singer is black, they mix metal, punk with hip hop, songs Bartender, Ground, Represent uncensored video, Suffa, Renegade, Blackout or their new song/video First Blood.
Love your Queen poster there 💪💪
This singer is also an actor and has had a lot of good roles in major motion pictures. All of them are incredibly rounded people. Also extremely nice!!!
There's a new young black band out there called 'Unlocking the Truth'. Should check out one of their songs. First song off the chaos album, not sure what it's called.
Keep posting rock!
These guys really rock. They are some of my favorite musicians.
Hello from Australia, one of my favourite albums of the 90 ties, get into it, love from Australia xx
The lead singer was in the movie "Platoon" as a US Soldier.
THAT'S CRAZY! All the years I've loved this arrangement I never knew it was an all Black band and I'm 65, Wow guys, thanks for presenting this, what a treat to hear it today.
watch there live performance of this on the arsenio hall show its fantastic.
I'm so glad to have witnessed you guys seeing Living Colour for the first time! You are correct that song was originally released I believe in 1988 off of their debut album "Vivid". They are a New York based band and still are currently recording and touring. As far as being self-taught I would say that safe to assume but I will ask them next time I see them. I believe Corey has had some formal vocal training and Vernon Reid is influenced of course by the best making him in my opinion the third best guitarist probably in the world. They have toured internationally opening up for the Rolling Stones in stadiums when this album was first released. If you are curious about more as you put it "chocolate" rock bands, you should probably check out Fishbone, my favorite track by them is "Sunless Saturday". Spike Lee was the director on that particular song Fishbone is actually out of LA despite the video being filmed in New York. They also have a documentary that was released in theaters not too long ago you might want to check out but first things first check out this song...
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Oh and don't forget to check out Bad Brains too. Another delightful flavor of chocolate in rock bands if you will. Often these three bands will get booked together simply because of their as you said it chocolate flavor. I feel the three types of rock they are are vastly different from one another, Fishbone is obviously much more Ska, Living Colour is more straight ahead 80s hair metal Glam kind of feel rock and roll, and Bad Brains, well, old school raw punk. But please find out for yourselves and tell me what you think genre-wise. Enjoy!
Vernon Reid is an absolute legend!!! He was never a household name, but whenever a group of elite guitar players gathered, his name came up a *lot!!!* I have an old _Guitar Magazine_ with him on the cover and the guitar tabs for this song inside. 🤘😎🤘
This was released back in 1988, we were rocking out to this without even caring if they were black, white or whatever. Can't lie though, they are one of my favorites of all time.
The guitarist Vernon Reid was born to Jamaican parents in England they moved to New York he went to a prestigious Brooklyn High school and New York University. Where he worked on his music skills to become one of the top 100 guitarist. He is a very well taught and accomplished musician.
Living Colour is amazing🖤🔥💯😂 i love all their jams!
I saw these guys play live about ten years ago, and they still got it. You should check out "Open Letter (To a Landlord)" and "Desperate People" by them too.
If you're curious about black bands, try Death, the first black punk band. Unfortunately they didn't have a lot of output, but their kids are continuing the legacy.
Ice t also has a metal band called Body Count, there was a band from Chicago (I think) called Cyclone Temple, some of the members are now in a band called Rebels Without Applause
Yes ..it is much older..lol it came out in 1988❗❗❗😍💖i was 16..and it changed rock and funk music forever..they are one of the greatest underrated bands ever.
This song actually came out in 1989. It actually won a Grammy for Best HardRock/Metal Song which makes Living Color the first hard rock/heavy metal band to win that award.
Oh the young people of America lol. This song came out in 1988, long before TH-cam was even an idea lol. Almost 35 years later it rocks just as hard as it did then and will still rock 35 years from today!
This song came out in 1989. The guitarist, Vernon Reid went to Berklee College of Music.
Super badass band.
There aren't that many black hard rock bands, but Living Colour handles that shit all by themselves and raises the bar for everyone else.
Almost Everybody that first sees them the first time has a similar reaction, usually followed up by a slow but very strong, "COOL, Rock on!" Especially when you hear them play. Jimmi Hendrix was an outstanding guitat player. Vernon Reid is an AWesome guitar player that ofter gets overlooked. Yet when you hear him, you can understand he is GOOD.
If you see the concert people in the audience they were a mix of colors back in the 80s it was not racist back then. As some will make you think, this band was famous peace n love.
Broooooooo! I did not know this was an all black band and I've been listening to this song for years! :o
Corey Glover, the lead singer, was also in the 80's war movie Platoon.