I'm about half Cherokee here so I am definitely Redbone..and proud of it :-) Always loved these guys and so sad that Lolly is not with us anymore. He was such a looker back in the day and so sweet!
You're an amazing talent and so was your brother. Fantastic group, everyone. Thank you so much for all the good times! Hope this message finds you well and happy.
When I was a kid, one of the first Midnight Specials I ever saw featured Redbone. Come and get your love was the very first song I ever sang all the way through. Loved it from the first time I heard it and I covered it who knows how many times. I lost count! The song and band are still an all time fave and always will be. RIP Lolly.
Looking at photo's of my glory days. I think I met you guys back in the late 1980's. The annual POW WOW was in dance mode on the REZ back then. I went to the annual Native American achievement awards in L.A. back in 2000. Unfortunately I missed your show. Your music is powerful and full of GOOD MEDICINE. That's what we need these days. Thank you. Oh, Pat..your still as cute as ever. That good medicine keeps you going!
Love the joy Pat puts into life. The recording back on Midnight Special of this song is spectacular. From Lolly's soulful and beautiful singing to Pat's sheer and expressive joy and smiles on stage made this great song even better. Loved Tony's inclusion of the Native American aura. It was beautiful. Thanks so very much for the music Redbone.
Redbone will always be with us, their people. They were kind enough to leave beautiful music for our ears and hearts. We will miss u , but some how I feel you here. All four of you. REDBONE!!!!!! Jan Chiodo Wilhelm six nation's NY
Aww. Way back in the day my friends and I followed Redbone all over Southern California when they were in town. The soundtrack of our happy youth. Broken hearted about Lilly's passing. Glad Pat is still with us. And PJ ? Carrying on. Thank you for your gifts.
Wow, what a super video. Love these guys and so sorry Lolly is now performing in spirit only. Hope Pat is still alive. Such stinking cute brothers with unique voices. Really liked the explanation of the name Redbone. We'll never forget you guys!
Always liked the vibe Redbone gave off, right from the first time I saw them on "Midnight Special". Would be so much fun to have them as neighbors - jamming together. Good people.
Recently I was in at a local record store and found a quadraphonic copy of Message From a Drum. I love this album, and play it all the time. Thanks for publishing this great interview.
@@pjoka2644 That is only one meaning. The term has other meanings, not just a means by which one can make a judgement as to whether one is enough of an ethnic group to qualify......
@@jacksnedden8161 You can use any word that you choose for anything...the original meaning of the word is ... a light skinned black woman. Now would you like to start calling Asians Yellowbone? that's what a very light skinned black woman was called. You think someone might take that as racist? I take GREAT insult to ever being called a "redbone" and any Native that actually knows the meaning would. We took the "N" word out of our vocabulary...want to say that word also has more than one meaning? I It's a slur to a NATIVE and you and all these dumbass "wanna be Natives" are too stupid to see it
@@pjoka2644 You don’t know me, nor do you know how deep my Native upbringing was. No need to get in a pissing contest over something so irrelevant. You seem to have a chip on your shoulder or you’re just a troll. Either way, have a nice life.....
I was a discjockey in 1974 and our station manager broke "Come and Get Your Love" because of that line sung twice in the song. If you had changed it, you'd have sold a lot more copies.
I am part Cherokee Mud Indian on my Mother's side and I am part Blackfoot on my Grandfather's side on my Father's side and on my Grandmother's side on my Father's side of the family I am Apache!
Makes me wonder why some native Americans don't like the Washington Redskins name. Native American and light skinned blacks have been called redbone, red and redskin for as long as I can remember and I'm 51 now.
They hate the depiction of Native Americans is the big point not so much the name due to the stereotypical nature of the picture and the fact that Native Americans used to have 100's of diverse tribes.
@@alanchung2843 really? funny, the coach of the first "red skins" was a Native. Only the "natives" who claim blood but in truth are not dislike the "red skins" other than the Natives who are just ignorant of the truth of the name. Now tell me, what is your native blood since you seem to be willing to speak for the rest of us?
Natives don't dislike it. Only those who are ignorant of why they were given that name take issue. When you explain the 'red skins" got their name from a Native coach, they then usually will see that is a credit to a great coach. The Navajo actually support keeping the name. Some people just want to start trouble where their is none. Unfortunately there are a lot of them who wish to use their race, religion, etc...to explain their own abilities.
Quite honestly, Redbone is NOT a word EVER used to describe a Native American. It is insulting to refer a Native as a "black light skinned woman". WE have been called Redskins but our skin is not red quite honestly. I have never heard an actual Native care about the name Washington Redskins...they were actually given the name by a Native American coach. Who raises hell about the Redskins name? Mostly NON-NATIVES who don't know crap about the Native Americans. Actually like most of the people on this thread.
not sure where they came up with a "redbone" has anything to do with Native Americans. It is a term used for a person of African decent with lighter skin, there is also a yellowbone which is an even lighter skinned person of African decent. Also I was under the impression that the members of the band were of Mexican decent, not Native American.
Redbone, also Blackfoot, are terms used in African-American culture going way back, whether the person knew their Native ancestors, or just "looked" like they might be. The actual Blackfoot Tribe is way up on Canada border. So, not many people mixed with them from down south. After Civil War, the Indian tribes that had enslaved Africans had to accept them as tribal members, the Freedmen, under Treaty of 1866. ( Chickasaw Tribe refused ). Then US Govt formed the All Black Cavalry known as Buffalo Soldiers. They worked in campaigns in tribal lands, and often had Indian wives. Pat & Lolly knew the small bars on Old Snake Road in West Fresno where many mixed Blacks played blues and other rythms.
Although Wiki states Lolly was "Yaqui, Shoshone & Mexican" he was named Candido Abelardo Vasquez-Vegas, born in Fresno, Patrick was born 7 years later in Coalinga, not far away. Natives in California lost a lot of their culture under Spanish missions, baptism with a Spanish name. Under rule of Mexico 1821 - 1846, they lost good lands to ranchers. Then Calif became US state 1850 and Natives were massacred, a bounty was paid for Native scalps by State of Calif. Many Natives escaped death by mixing in with Mexicans in towns. To be found in wilderness meant death, or enslavement. Yep, there was a slave auction in Los Angeles where both Whites and "Hispanics" could buy Indios Salvages caught in Calif hills. So much persecution & danger forced people to hide their Native ancestry. Even though Natives served with honor in WW1, WW2, Korean War, it was the 1960's ( Russel Means of AIM ) that brought Native Identity and Rights into a movement and political focus. People wanting to call Pat & Lolly "hispanics, latinos", Mexicans, etc often have no idea of the dark history of California, the genocide by govt and some whites, the cultural assimilation policies of church, govt, and dominant white society. People not raised on their tribal lands, without Elders, without Language, without Traditions have their ancestral roots erased. Adoption cases make tracing those roots impossible for many adoptees who I have met. I've met Pat, briefly. I tend not to hang all over people. I filmed his live singing a few years ago as more of a documentary style, for history. It's not What you claim, it's Who Claims You. Pat is at where he is in history by who he is.
"Redbone" was used Louisiana bayou country. On west side of Fresno, CA used to be Snake Road where some small informal clubs had booze and music by Black musicians, some from the bayou / cajun / creole /afro background. The Redbone Band song "Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Band" lyrics mention Snake Road: Down Louisiana, close to Mobile, Alabama Lies a swamp land territory You can ear the bullfrom run into the bog I got to pull you under my roof Saturday night, I've been feelin' alright I'm headed toward the Snake Road hut I got a little money, gonna spread some honey Gonna get it on all night Diggin' that crazy Cajun Cakewalk band Crazy Cajun Cakewalk band Rhythm is a' heavy as a ton o' lead Redbone, baby, is gonna do your head Go an' do it to it, let me see ya do it Let me see ya do the rawbone shake Poppa's got it goin', momma's got it goin' Baby sister's had it goin' for years Saturday night, I didn't feelin' alright Headed toward the Snake Road hut Got a little money, gonna spread some honey Gonna get it on all night Diggin' that crazy Cakewalk band Diggin' that crazy Cakewalk band Rhythm is a' heavy as a ton o' lead Redbone, momma, is gonna do your head
RIP Lolly Vegas. Thank You for the memories.
Redbone paved the way for native pride !
I'm about half Cherokee here so I am definitely Redbone..and proud of it :-) Always loved these guys and so sad that Lolly is not with us anymore. He was such a looker back in the day and so sweet!
And Lolly was so talented.
Yes I am really Pat Vegas
Met some of you guys mid 2000 at local favorite taco stand East LA i think
Kamiah Idaho , 70s , took you and tony to the indian party
I love the Pat & Lolly Vegas album
Hey, Pat...how are you doing?...I moved to San Diego.
You're an amazing talent and so was your brother. Fantastic group, everyone. Thank you so much for all the good times! Hope this message finds you well and happy.
Thank you so much everyone for the kind words, I love you too.Yatahay
+pat vegas
Are you really *_THE_* Pat Vegas?
I love you guys! My favorite song.
God Bless you , Brother. You were a hero in many diverse circles.
Loved that song thanks so much
Thank you for all the beautiful music you have given to us.
Lolly was such a gifted tenor. Ugh, that man could sing.
Lolly Vegas wrote such a wonderful song.....We miss Lolly and Tony Bellamy as well. Nice interview Pat.
When I was a kid, one of the first Midnight Specials I ever saw featured Redbone. Come and get your love was the very first song I ever sang all the way through. Loved it from the first time I heard it and I covered it who knows how many times. I lost count! The song and band are still an all time fave and always will be. RIP Lolly.
Looking at photo's of my glory days. I think I met you guys back in the late 1980's. The annual POW WOW was in dance mode on the REZ back then. I went to the annual Native American achievement awards in L.A. back in 2000. Unfortunately I missed your show. Your music is powerful and full of GOOD MEDICINE. That's what we need these days. Thank you. Oh, Pat..your still as cute as ever. That good medicine keeps you going!
It’s 2020, and I can unequivocally say that I love Redbone.
🌬🌧🌧⛈🌧🌦🌥🌥🌤💞 5 2021
Loved you guys back in the day,still love your music,it's timeless !
Pat a big Fan from down under loved Redbones music growing up, thank you.
Love the joy Pat puts into life. The recording back on Midnight Special of this song is spectacular. From Lolly's soulful and beautiful singing to Pat's sheer and expressive joy and smiles on stage made this great song even better. Loved Tony's inclusion of the Native American aura. It was beautiful. Thanks so very much for the music Redbone.
Redbone will always be with us, their people. They were kind enough to leave beautiful music for our ears and hearts. We will miss u , but some how I feel you here. All four of you. REDBONE!!!!!! Jan Chiodo Wilhelm six nation's NY
Aww. Way back in the day my friends and I followed Redbone all over Southern California when they were in town. The soundtrack of our happy youth. Broken hearted about Lilly's passing. Glad Pat is still with us. And PJ ? Carrying on. Thank you for your gifts.
Wow, what a super video. Love these guys and so sorry Lolly is now performing in spirit only. Hope Pat is still alive. Such stinking cute brothers with unique voices. Really liked the explanation of the name Redbone. We'll never forget you guys!
Always liked the vibe Redbone gave off, right from the first time I saw them on "Midnight Special". Would be so much fun to have them as neighbors - jamming together. Good people.
I love redbone thanks for the music!
Ahhh This song will always make me want to get up and dance !! Thank you, thank you !!
Fantastic guys Pat and lolly are my favourites Come and get yr love is amazing xxxxxLove and peace too yu all xxxxEmma xxx
What a God given unique voice...
Part Cherokee here! I am very proud of my native blood!
Recently I was in at a local record store and found a quadraphonic copy of Message From a Drum. I love this album, and play it all the time. Thanks for publishing this great interview.
Love you Red bone!!!💋💋💝💘❤❤💓💕💕💖💖💖
We are half Native American (MAMA), so we are Redbone. So proud.
why is that song so #$#@en good
LOVE this interview....but way too short! :-)
Love ya Pat... you're awesome. THEn & you STILL are !
Love Redbone!!
Cool the hear I am a "Redbone" Cherokee!! Thanks for entertaining us for all these years!!!
A Redbone is a lightskinned black woman. Must not be too Cherokee.
@@pjoka2644 That is only one meaning. The term has other meanings, not just a means by which one can make a judgement as to whether one is enough of an ethnic group to qualify......
@@jacksnedden8161 You can use any word that you choose for anything...the original meaning of the word is ... a light skinned black woman. Now would you like to start calling Asians Yellowbone? that's what a very light skinned black woman was called. You think someone might take that as racist? I take GREAT insult to ever being called a "redbone" and any Native that actually knows the meaning would. We took the "N" word out of our vocabulary...want to say that word also has more than one meaning? I It's a slur to a NATIVE and you and all these dumbass "wanna be Natives" are too stupid to see it
@@pjoka2644 You don’t know me, nor do you know how deep my Native upbringing was. No need to get in a pissing contest over something so irrelevant. You seem to have a chip on your shoulder or you’re just a troll. Either way, have a nice life.....
@@jacksnedden8161 What tribe are you from?
Redbone's among the best.Great start with you guys, special members, doesn't happen often and you still carry on.All the best from Idaho.
I am french and I know this group only 3 months ago. and I Like this group.
🎸🎶🎵🎵🎶🌬🌧⛈🌦🌥🌤🌤
Found out about Redbone so late...RIP Lolly.
I miss Lolly
🌬🌥🌤🌦⛈🌧⛈⛈🌦🌈💞💞
Love love love yall!
I love that song in Redbone I grew up with you guys I was in high school and that song came up sophomore God bless y’all amen❤️❤️❤️
Magical, I LOVE IT!!
ME ENCANTA REDBONE
Some years ago some of you played in a band called Bim Bam. I saw you at a bar in orange county, CA. On Monday nights at a little club. True
Always loved Pat and Lolly. The two most beautiful men on Earth ❤
Have this song on my playlist. Remember when it came out and it sounds as good today as it did back then.
So great.
RIP LOLLY
Still thumpin that bass with the thumb!!!
Redbone forever!!!!!
I was a discjockey in 1974 and our station manager broke "Come and Get Your Love" because of that line sung twice in the song. If you had changed it, you'd have sold a lot more copies.
Hey, which line was it?
I wanted to marry Pat, right after I divorced Paul McCartney! :)
🤗🤗🌬🌧⛈🌧🌦🌥🌤💞
Fantastic !
That's me singing in the background
🤗🌬🌬🌧⛈🌧🌦🌥🌤💞💞
Get this band together again. Please.
Lolly is greatly missed
🎸🎵🎶🎶🎵🌬🌧⛈🌦🌥🌤 2021
I am part Cherokee Mud Indian on my Mother's side and I am part Blackfoot on my Grandfather's side on my Father's side and on my Grandmother's side on my Father's side of the family I am Apache!
People like you really have no clue.
Nice, they use it in commercials a lot
They still sound good
Clasicas mexicanotas que se sienten gringas. 😊
I am not neutral I am mostly Indien and I love ❤️ you beautiful people 🎸🎼🎶🌏
Funny you don't look like a light skinned black woman or from India...hmmmm
Here is Pat speaking about his & Lolly's start in music:
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Muy bien camarada.
Amo vóces som manero BRASIL
💯♥️🎤🤗
Super chingón
always when i see a beautiful woman i have a redbone too..a Big bone!
Half Athabascan Indian ( Alaska) I'm a redbone
Love that beat...
Rip Rip Brasil Loly Vegas
and I heard a lolly was a painter I would love to see his paintings
There are some on various Pinterest boards! worth looking for.
great tune
I am also Redbone 🌹❤️🎼
funny you don't look like a light skinned black woman
REDBONE
You should write a book of your memoirs.
Tune!
Rip Lolly.
How did Lolly die? (What's the real spelling of his name? I've seen it as: Loli, Lolli, Lolly)
He died in his sleep in 2010 had a stroke 15 years earlier and lung cancer. Lolly
Makes me wonder why some native Americans don't like the Washington Redskins name. Native American and light skinned blacks have been called redbone, red and redskin for as long as I can remember and I'm 51 now.
They hate the depiction of Native Americans is the big point not so much the name due to the stereotypical nature of the picture and the fact that Native Americans used to have 100's of diverse tribes.
@@alanchung2843 really? funny, the coach of the first "red skins" was a Native. Only the "natives" who claim blood but in truth are not dislike the "red skins" other than the Natives who are just ignorant of the truth of the name. Now tell me, what is your native blood since you seem to be willing to speak for the rest of us?
Natives don't dislike it. Only those who are ignorant of why they were given that name take issue. When you explain the 'red skins" got their name from a Native coach, they then usually will see that is a credit to a great coach. The Navajo actually support keeping the name. Some people just want to start trouble where their is none. Unfortunately there are a lot of them who wish to use their race, religion, etc...to explain their own abilities.
Quite honestly, Redbone is NOT a word EVER used to describe a Native American. It is insulting to refer a Native as a "black light skinned woman". WE have been called Redskins but our skin is not red quite honestly. I have never heard an actual Native care about the name Washington Redskins...they were actually given the name by a Native American coach. Who raises hell about the Redskins name? Mostly NON-NATIVES who don't know crap about the Native Americans. Actually like most of the people on this thread.
@@alanchung2843 We do?
I guess I'ma redbone I know it's growing up I got called half-breed I hated that
I wouldn't fight u usexy thing u and Cher could be good friends. I 💘 indians
I know nothing of the indians but they aren't Native.
@@pjoka2644 Lolly and his brother Pat have Yaqui, Shoshone and Mexican heritage.
Dang, my fool blood "friend" always calls me a breed cuz I'm only half Cheyenne. god made me the way He made me. Don't dis!
I am a redbone a'ho
Why he changes de lyrics?
I think the Mexican woman is high.
How about Green Bone ? Jewish!
not sure where they came up with a "redbone" has anything to do with Native Americans. It is a term used for a person of African decent with lighter skin, there is also a yellowbone which is an even lighter skinned person of African decent. Also I was under the impression that the members of the band were of Mexican decent, not Native American.
Hmmm that's very interesting...
Redbone, also Blackfoot, are terms used in African-American culture going way back, whether the person knew their Native ancestors, or just "looked" like they might be. The actual Blackfoot Tribe is way up on Canada border. So, not many people mixed with them from down south. After Civil War, the Indian tribes that had enslaved Africans had to accept them as tribal members, the Freedmen, under Treaty of 1866. ( Chickasaw Tribe refused ). Then US Govt formed the All Black Cavalry known as Buffalo Soldiers. They worked in campaigns in tribal lands, and often had Indian wives.
Pat & Lolly knew the small bars on Old Snake Road in West Fresno where many mixed Blacks played blues and other rythms.
Although Wiki states Lolly was "Yaqui, Shoshone & Mexican" he was named Candido Abelardo Vasquez-Vegas, born in Fresno, Patrick was born 7 years later in Coalinga, not far away.
Natives in California lost a lot of their culture under Spanish missions, baptism with a Spanish name. Under rule of Mexico 1821 - 1846, they lost good lands to ranchers. Then Calif became US state 1850 and Natives were massacred, a bounty was paid for Native scalps by State of Calif. Many Natives escaped death by mixing in with Mexicans in towns. To be found in wilderness meant death, or enslavement. Yep, there was a slave auction in Los Angeles where both Whites and "Hispanics" could buy Indios Salvages caught in Calif hills.
So much persecution & danger forced people to hide their Native ancestry. Even though Natives served with honor in WW1, WW2, Korean War, it was the 1960's ( Russel Means of AIM ) that brought Native Identity and Rights into a movement and political focus.
People wanting to call Pat & Lolly "hispanics, latinos", Mexicans, etc often have no idea of the dark history of California, the genocide by govt and some whites, the cultural assimilation policies of church, govt, and dominant white society.
People not raised on their tribal lands, without Elders, without Language, without Traditions have their ancestral roots erased.
Adoption cases make tracing those roots impossible for many adoptees who I have met.
I've met Pat, briefly. I tend not to hang all over people. I filmed his live singing a few years ago as more of a documentary style, for history.
It's not What you claim, it's Who Claims You. Pat is at where he is in history by who he is.
@@AmigoKandu thank you. That was very informative
"Redbone" was used Louisiana bayou country. On west side of Fresno, CA used to be Snake Road where some small informal clubs had booze and music by Black musicians, some from the bayou / cajun / creole /afro background.
The Redbone Band song "Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Band" lyrics mention Snake Road:
Down Louisiana, close to Mobile, Alabama
Lies a swamp land territory
You can ear the bullfrom run into the bog
I got to pull you under my roof
Saturday night, I've been feelin' alright
I'm headed toward the Snake Road hut
I got a little money, gonna spread some honey
Gonna get it on all night
Diggin' that crazy Cajun Cakewalk band
Crazy Cajun Cakewalk band
Rhythm is a' heavy as a ton o' lead
Redbone, baby, is gonna do your head
Go an' do it to it, let me see ya do it
Let me see ya do the rawbone shake
Poppa's got it goin', momma's got it goin'
Baby sister's had it goin' for years
Saturday night, I didn't feelin' alright
Headed toward the Snake Road hut
Got a little money, gonna spread some honey
Gonna get it on all night
Diggin' that crazy Cakewalk band
Diggin' that crazy Cakewalk band
Rhythm is a' heavy as a ton o' lead
Redbone, momma, is gonna do your head