Ice-T got a metal band full of Black dudes called Bodycount and they wrote a song about Black dudes in Rock bands called “There Goes the Neighborhood”. Like Gangsta Rap over Slayer style guitar.
The band hails from New York City and consists of members: Cory Glover: lead vocals, Vernon Reid: guitar, Will Calhoun: drums, and Muz Skillings(in the video) bass( he was later replaced by current bassist Doug Wimbish). This song is from their debut album VIVID released in 1988 which they won a grammy for in 1989 for Best New Artists. Cory is also an actor who starred in war movie, Platoon alongside Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, and an unknown Johnny Depp in 1986. He was also in the commercial for the Children's Aid Society (on drums) which is also on TH-cam.
Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City. It was made in 1984. Their music is a fusion of heavy metal, funk, jazz, hip hop and alternative rock. The band's current members are guitarist Vernon Reid, lead singer Corey Glover, drummer Will Calhoun and bassist Doug Wimbish.
Around the same time Fishbone was another black heavy rock band. So underrated. Their cover of Soul legend Curtis Mayfield "Freddie 's dead" is worth a reaction.
This song came out in 1988. I loved it then and I love it now! I got so excited when I saw you were about to react to this. I knew you'd love it too!! They're from New York I think. I really enjoy watching you!❤
Have you gotten into Jimi Hendrix yet? He's not the first Black rocker but he changed guitar in the 60s, it's never been the same. 'Voodoo Child', 'All Along the Watchtower', 'Purple Haze'...the list goes on and on and on. He didn't make a bad song. Unfortunately we lost him too young, but he left behind life changing music.
The opening was from Malcom X's speech "Message to the Grass Roots". The title was penned by Nikita Khrushchev in response to Joseph Stalin "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences". Other historical figures seen and heard in this video include JFK, FDR, MLK, Benito Mussolini, and Mahatma Gandhi. According to Vernon Reid, "a famous German" was originally also in the lyrics but was pulled due to fear that referring to him would be misconstrued and too controversial. I do know of history teachers who have used this song in class. This song was released in 1988 but could have been written today. For another song with tons of messaging try Living Colour - Open Letter To A Landlord.
Want to blow your mind try Fishbone - Sunless Saturday and Bad Brains - I Against I; both great bands. Bad Brains is a black punk band, they are pillars in the punk community... period. Enjoy
Rock n roll started as a genre of music by African Americans heavily influenced by the blues. A quick list of great black rock artists: Fats Domino - Ain’t that a Shame (1956) Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (Live 1958) Little Richard - Lucille Bo Diddly - “Bo Diddly” Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe Live at the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967 4K Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday people Thin Lizzy - whiskey in the jar Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, beautiful people Peter Tosh - African Funkadelic - one nation under a groove Bad Brains - i against i Robert Cray - Smoking Gun
💙 The lead singers of Sevendust, Bad Wolves and the singer of Alice in Chains that replaced the legendary Layne Staley after he passed are all black men. I recommend checking them all out!
Prince - who also played guitar on other Rockers songs also and his own. On youtube is a video of him playing the guitar solo on an all-star version of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood. He sort of blew the others away. The video comes from the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, where the song’s writer, George Harrison, was inducted, along with PRINCE, ZZ Top, Bob Seger, Jackson Browne, Traffic and Fifties doo-wop group the Dells on that day.
I opened for these guys a few summers ago. I got to meet Vernon and Corey back stage. Super, super great guys. Finally some of my hero's that I actually didn't regret meeting. Lol. And they were as good as ever on stage.
Yep. I saw them open for The Rolling Stones in Atlanta. Amazing show. Used this song teaching high school history - much better explanation of the cult of personality than the textbook. Also major cool points when the students realized I owned the album and saw them live. 😎
I loved them so much and remember as a kid staying up on Friday night to watch them on Friday Night Videos. The 80’s were a weird good time. Back then we were all a melting pot. 80’s & 90’s were so chill, it just mattered if you were a solid human, but the powers that be couldn’t have us all getting along and vibing, so we are where we are now.
Living Colour are all from New York, except guitarist Vernon Reid who was born in London, UK and moved to the USA. Vernon formed the band but retained the UK spelling of Colour instead of Color. Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, was a big fan who endorsed them and got them signed up to Epic Records. Singer Corey Glover was also an actor but is not related to Danny Glover.
Skindred gets very little love but deserve a lot. Talk about black singers in heavy music, I once saw a concert with Skindred as the opener, second was Nonpoint and the headliner was Sevendust.
These guys rock..the lead singer corey lives in my hometown and I see him in the stores and he's sooo down to earth..he's a great person..the entire band is...he lives 2 houses away from my brother....what up Corey
This version of the band is Vernon Reid on Guitar, Corey Glover on Vocals, Wil Calhoun on Drums and Muzz Skillings on Bass - the first 3 are still in the band, but they have a different bass player now.
Check out Bad Brains. I would recommend a back-to-back since their songs so short. One studio and one live to see how insane these guys were live. One of the most influential hardcore/punk groups of all time. Their influence in the punk scene was massive!
Check out "Denial" by Sevendust, "Nobody" by Skindred and "What you do to me" by Straight Line Stitch for some more artists of color... oh and my personal favorite: "Renegade" by (hed) PE.
If you were a guitar player back in the late 80’s/early 90’s and you followed guitar magazines, this band was definitely on the radar. At the time I owned less than a dozen CDs and this was one.
Black people played in Rock bands since the beginning of the genre. Also, Rap wasn't as big as it is now, and Rock was almost monolithic until the industry crash in the 00's when streaming got big. If you had a rock band and made decent music, you were almost guaranteed radio play. This song was pretty big for a time.
24-7 Spyz are contemporaries of Living Colour from the New York rock scene, so you should check them out. Ice T and Body Count is another obvious band to look at. King's X Has dUg Pinnick on Bass and amazing lead vocals. Bad Brains are some of the forefathers of Hardcore. There have always been black people in rock, and more show up every day, Which is fantastic!
If you want to hear an all black metal band that pre-dates Living Colour, check out the band Sound Barrier...Conquer the World and Born to be Wild (a remake) both rock hard as hell.
I'm a black songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist and I played in rock bands back in the 80's into the 90's and there weren't many of us in rock music. I only knew of one other black guy playing in a rock band at that time and he was a bass guitar player. I remember playing in rock bands in the 80's in packed clubs and I would sometimes be the only black person in the entire club, and I was in the band. It's something that you didn't see much of. So, I remember when this song came out in 1988. However, you saw more of it after that song collaboration with the rock band Aerosmith and the rap band Run DMC doing the Aerosmith song "Walk This Way" which they did in 1986. That's what kinda changed everything. That exposed more black people to rock music and more white people to rap music.
For some strange reason ill never understand black youth culture kind of abandoned rock n roll in the early 1980's onward...but, if u trace back the history & origins of shred guitar, to me, Buddy Guy & Jimi Hendrix come to mind, so, it shouldnt be too, too surprising....anyway, when i was 12 years old in 1988 & living in the southern united states this song was a PHENOMENALLY giant hit (as it obviously was all over the coutry & the world), these guys were legends overnight....they still rock out as far as i know, i follow them on facebook, but i havent seen them post in a while....its been a weird few years for the world tho.
Imguess tne movement of many black people going into funk in the 1970's, instead of prog rock like all the white boys did, may be part of the equation...both were ripping solos and stuff tho...idk, the american musical tapestry is amazing.
If you’ve seen the movie Platoon from 1986, the singer here, Corey Glover, was the actor who played Francis. “We two timers, I’ll see you in the hospital, we gonna get high high…”
This came out in 1988?!?! I am so old! I am so sad to see that this message is just as important today as it was back then! Progress is slow on those issues that shouldn't exist in the first place.
Vernon Reid (the dude in my avatar pic) was in a jazz fusion band for a while. He also played with some funk artists. One of his major influences was the all Black band, Bad Brains. They pioneered a fast, hardcore punk rock style with some reggae mixed in. Vernon Reid's rapid fire guitar playing has some similarities to the guitarist Dr. Know from Bad Brains.
Living Colour is from New York City. If you want to check out some other stuff by them, I'd recommend "Type" "Ignorance is Bliss" "Flying" "Leave it Alone" and "Wall". Another band you need to listen to is Fever 333 out of Los Angeles.
This song is full of truth and a cautionary tale for today..don't blindly follow anyone. Every time I hear this song I can't help but think of CM Punk. Great reaction.
Came out in late 80's and was a big hit. It was number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. I was about 20 yrs old when this Came out and everybody I knew loved it!!!
Like others have said, the lead vocalist is Cory Glover which also starred in Platoon as the character "Francis" But for some reason, I always get him mixed up with the actor Courtney B Vance who starred in Hamburger Hill (another Vietnam War film) and Hunt for Red October. He played "Doc" in Hamburger Hill. He was also the Sonar operator on the USS Dallas in Red October.
They are from NYC. They were influenced by Bad Brains. Bad Brains were one of the most influential punk rock bands of all time. They pioneered hardcore punk rock. They’re all black, too. There are so many current all black artist metal and punk rock bands in the underground scene. If you throw in the bands that are mixed… I can’t even name them all there are so many. The difference is that none of them are as popular or sound as good as “Living Color.” If you want to go down the rabbit hole check out “Bad Brains - Attitude.” Some of my current favorite all black artist metal/punk rock bands are “Zulu” “Knife Wound” “Negro Terror” but they are all pretty heavy stuff, so it might not be your cup of tea. Of course, this is just mentioning the heavier bands. If you want to get into jazz and blues, that’s a whole other list. Always remember jazz, blues, rock n roll, and funk are all black music genres. In fact, there isn’t any music in the U.S. that isn’t of black origin, except country…. But, country music has a banjo, which is a black instrument, and a lot of it is influenced by blues. So, there you go…
Vernon Reid is possibility the most underrated guitarists of all time! As many people have said Body Count is something you should check out! Ice-T formed the bamd because he felt his friend wasn't getting enough attention for his talent because he was a black guitarist.
Tony Thompson was the drummer in Chic snd Power Station, Average White Band and Doobie Brothers also have black members. Have you checked out anything from Jimi Hendrix?
They are from NYC and many of them are from jazz. Radio and music segregation in general is a bummer. There is an organization called the Black Rock Coalition (BRC) which started in the mid-80's and supports/highlights many artists. Another noteworthy group would be Fishbone and for an earlier band check out Death (yeah, that's their name) from Detroit. Bob Khaleel from Super 8 is also an amazing singer worth a listen.
I can assure you that every white fan of hard rock on the planet absolutely loves Living Colour & this song in particular I mean, going back to Jimi Hendrix (& Chuck Berry before him), a few super talented black musicians took a liking to hard rock & just decided to apply their skills toward expanding the genre with their own inspirations & audiences loved it. I mean, Jimi's background was basically R & B, but when he tackled the rock genre during the psychedelic era, he became recognized as a kind of Guitar God
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Check out Skindred, a Welsh metal band with an awesome black frontman.
Song - Rat race 🤘
It's all good
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
Vernon Reid is an absolute beast! Criminally underrated guitarist.
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Ice-T got a metal band full of Black dudes called Bodycount and they wrote a song about Black dudes in Rock bands called “There Goes the Neighborhood”. Like Gangsta Rap over Slayer style guitar.
Yup. Body count don't mess around. ERNIE C!
The Winner loses is a good joint as well... has a good message and the solo goes hard.🤘🏽😎
As a teenager, I listened to Bodycount. They had some good stuff.
I’ve still got the cassette tape
Love bodycount
The band hails from New York City and consists of members: Cory Glover: lead vocals, Vernon Reid: guitar, Will Calhoun: drums, and Muz Skillings(in the video) bass( he was later replaced by current bassist Doug Wimbish). This song is from their debut album VIVID released in 1988 which they won a grammy for in 1989 for Best New Artists. Cory is also an actor who starred in war movie, Platoon alongside Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, and an unknown Johnny Depp in 1986. He was also in the commercial for the Children's Aid Society (on drums) which is also on TH-cam.
1980s Hard Rock! Vernon Reid is a guitar shredding monster!!
Vernon Reid on guitar, is bad ass. The lead singer Corey Glover is also an actor and was in the the 1986 movie " Platoon".
No Shit?!
Vernon shreds a mean guitar, and Corey's vocals are insane. ❤
Without Vernon Reid, there is no Tom Morello. Hugely influential guitarist.
Corey Glover is actor Danny Glover's nephew.
Living Colour Is One of The Best Hard Rock Bands Ever!!!
Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City. It was made in 1984. Their music is a fusion of heavy metal, funk, jazz, hip hop and alternative rock. The band's current members are guitarist Vernon Reid, lead singer Corey Glover, drummer Will Calhoun and bassist Doug Wimbish.
Yep. Sevendust and Killswitch Engage.
Just saw Living Colour open for Extreme. They are as tight as they have ever been.
Not sure if he's ready for KILLSWITCH ENGANGE 🤣... but if he is... then check out THIS FIRE or END OF HEARTACHE 🤘🏽😎
@@PML78 End of Heartache was my thought. Especially the video version. Its a bit less harsh.
Nobody can touch fuckin' Sevendust!!
I did too, killer show, both groups:)
Around the same time Fishbone was another black heavy rock band. So underrated. Their cover of Soul legend Curtis Mayfield "Freddie 's dead" is worth a reaction.
yes! this!
Based on your taste, i would say POD Youth of The Nation would be your cup of tea.
Living Colour is from New York City - they formed in 1984
One of the best live bands of the era. I was front and center for quite a few shows. Living Colour and King's X (Black front man) were tearing it up.
This song came out in 1988. I loved it then and I love it now! I got so excited when I saw you were about to react to this. I knew you'd love it too!! They're from New York I think. I really enjoy watching you!❤
Thank you!
I'm a 50 year old white dude from Louisiana. I've been rocking to Living Colour since I was a teenager. Powerful stuff.
52 in BR, Vernon Reid still one of my favorite guitarists
Same, although I'm not from Louisiana. People fail to realize how much of an impact Living Colour had on our generation.
55 in Arkansas. And this song strikes true today
Have you gotten into Jimi Hendrix yet? He's not the first Black rocker but he changed guitar in the 60s, it's never been the same. 'Voodoo Child', 'All Along the Watchtower', 'Purple Haze'...the list goes on and on and on. He didn't make a bad song. Unfortunately we lost him too young, but he left behind life changing music.
The opening was from Malcom X's speech "Message to the Grass Roots". The title was penned by Nikita Khrushchev in response to Joseph Stalin "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences". Other historical figures seen and heard in this video include JFK, FDR, MLK, Benito Mussolini, and Mahatma Gandhi. According to Vernon Reid, "a famous German" was originally also in the lyrics but was pulled due to fear that referring to him would be misconstrued and too controversial. I do know of history teachers who have used this song in class. This song was released in 1988 but could have been written today.
For another song with tons of messaging try Living Colour - Open Letter To A Landlord.
Want to blow your mind try Fishbone - Sunless Saturday and Bad Brains - I Against I; both great bands. Bad Brains is a black punk band, they are pillars in the punk community... period. Enjoy
Rock n roll started as a genre of music by African Americans heavily influenced by the blues. A quick list of great black rock artists: Fats Domino - Ain’t that a Shame (1956)
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (Live 1958)
Little Richard - Lucille
Bo Diddly - “Bo Diddly”
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you
Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe Live at the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967 4K
Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday people
Thin Lizzy - whiskey in the jar
Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, beautiful people
Peter Tosh - African
Funkadelic - one nation under a groove
Bad Brains - i against i
Robert Cray - Smoking Gun
Downpressor Man and Equal Right live by Peter Tosh I just love so much.
💙 The lead singers of Sevendust, Bad Wolves and the singer of Alice in Chains that replaced the legendary Layne Staley after he passed are all black men. I recommend checking them all out!
I’ll definitely check them out!
Gotta do Lenny Kravitz “Are you gonna go my way?” & “American Woman” (which is a cover).
Not a fan of Fly Away? Probably his most popular.
@@caracoidwren944 Forgot about that one. Thanks.
Prince - who also played guitar on other Rockers songs also and his own. On youtube is a video of him playing the guitar solo on an all-star version of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood. He sort of blew the others away.
The video comes from the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, where the song’s writer, George Harrison, was inducted, along with PRINCE, ZZ Top, Bob Seger, Jackson Browne, Traffic and Fifties doo-wop group the Dells on that day.
Prince was a beast on the guitar... check out COMPUTER BLUE 🤘🏽😎
Sevendust!!!!
I saw Living Colour and Bad Brains in concert together....... so very very nice also recommend the short-lived DC band Lucy Brown.
Can't wait till you hear Bad Brains. Living Colour is from NYC btw.
Also Cm punk's entrance music
I opened for these guys a few summers ago. I got to meet Vernon and Corey back stage. Super, super great guys. Finally some of my hero's that I actually didn't regret meeting. Lol. And they were as good as ever on stage.
Showing my age but I seen these guys open for the rolling stones in like 90-91. Great band and the guitarist is so underrated.. great reaction man!!
That’s dope man and thank you!
The 'Steel Wheels' tour. Also saw that tour. 1989, f'in awesome show
Yep. I saw them open for The Rolling Stones in Atlanta. Amazing show.
Used this song teaching high school history - much better explanation of the cult of personality than the textbook. Also major cool points when the students realized I owned the album and saw them live. 😎
Have loved this song from the beginning...and even more relevant today. Plus awesome vocals and band!
I loved them so much and remember as a kid staying up on Friday night to watch them on Friday Night Videos. The 80’s were a weird good time. Back then we were all a melting pot. 80’s & 90’s were so chill, it just mattered if you were a solid human, but the powers that be couldn’t have us all getting along and vibing, so we are where we are now.
Saw them open for the Rolling Stones in a baseball stadium. They killed it!
I’m 50 now (and white) and this song definitely played a part in why I’m neither democrat nor republican.
WOW !!!!!!!! Ever try reading ?
@@larryzigler6812 Yep. Unlike you, 4th grade wasn’t the hardest three years of my life. WOW!!!!!
@@detroitpolak9904 Was it Dr Seus? WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vernon Reid shreds like a beast and doesn't get near enough credit for how bada** he is. The whole band deserves way more props.❤
I agree with the other comments, BODY COUNT is awesome, especially the 1992 album! 👍👍👍
Sevendust!! Lead singer ... awesome!
Living Colour are all from New York, except guitarist Vernon Reid who was born in London, UK and moved to the USA. Vernon formed the band but retained the UK spelling of Colour instead of Color. Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, was a big fan who endorsed them and got them signed up to Epic Records. Singer Corey Glover was also an actor but is not related to Danny Glover.
Thank you for the insight!
SKINDRED and BODY COUNT are two bands you need to check out next.
Skindred gets very little love but deserve a lot. Talk about black singers in heavy music, I once saw a concert with Skindred as the opener, second was Nonpoint and the headliner was Sevendust.
Jeez, I listened to this LP a gazillion times.
These guys rock..the lead singer corey lives in my hometown and I see him in the stores and he's sooo down to earth..he's a great person..the entire band is...he lives 2 houses away from my brother....what up Corey
This version of the band is Vernon Reid on Guitar, Corey Glover on Vocals, Wil Calhoun on Drums and Muzz Skillings on Bass - the first 3 are still in the band, but they have a different bass player now.
Can't wait until he finds out about Bad Brains and Fishbone.
Check out Bad Brains. I would recommend a back-to-back since their songs so short. One studio and one live to see how insane these guys were live. One of the most influential hardcore/punk groups of all time. Their influence in the punk scene was massive!
Like what songs? The soul craft and sacred love or what?
Check out "Denial" by Sevendust, "Nobody" by Skindred and "What you do to me" by Straight Line Stitch for some more artists of color... oh and my personal favorite: "Renegade" by (hed) PE.
I was about to suggest he check out Sevendust! Great band.
I just saw them opening up for Extreme on tour and they still sound awesome!
If you were a guitar player back in the late 80’s/early 90’s and you followed guitar magazines, this band was definitely on the radar. At the time I owned less than a dozen CDs and this was one.
Black people played in Rock bands since the beginning of the genre. Also, Rap wasn't as big as it is now, and Rock was almost monolithic until the industry crash in the 00's when streaming got big. If you had a rock band and made decent music, you were almost guaranteed radio play. This song was pretty big for a time.
@@vincentvancraig I said rap wasn't AS BIG as it is now, but thanks for the history lesson - tldr
Check out Bad Brains. 🤘🏼🖤❣️
Definitely Bad Brains! 💀🧠😎
24-7 Spyz are contemporaries of Living Colour from the New York rock scene, so you should check them out. Ice T and Body Count is another obvious band to look at. King's X Has dUg Pinnick on Bass and amazing lead vocals. Bad Brains are some of the forefathers of Hardcore. There have always been black people in rock, and more show up every day, Which is fantastic!
One the great rock guitarists was a man named Jimi Hendrix.
While they're primarily known as a one hit wonder, their debut album was top notch.
I miss Muzz
If you want to hear an all black metal band that pre-dates Living Colour, check out the band Sound Barrier...Conquer the World and Born to be Wild (a remake) both rock hard as hell.
One of my favorite band ❤
For the longest time I've only known this as CM Punk's entrance music. I didn't find out about Living Colour until a couple of years ago.
Great Band
They still tour
Rare and timeless!
Saw them live in 1989 opening for the Rolling stones at the old Shea Stadium (now CitiField) in Queens NY. Seeing them live made me a fan!
This came out in the 80s. Corey has a great voice and Vernon kills on the guitar
Vernon Reid! Showing them white boys what's up. Great song. Radio play alot. Grammy award winning! It's a banger for sure
You’ll probably want to check out Sevendust. Lajon Witherspoon has been one of the best metal singers over the last 30 years. 👍
I'm a black songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist and I played in rock bands back in the 80's into the 90's and there weren't many of us in rock music. I only knew of one other black guy playing in a rock band at that time and he was a bass guitar player. I remember playing in rock bands in the 80's in packed clubs and I would sometimes be the only black person in the entire club, and I was in the band. It's something that you didn't see much of. So, I remember when this song came out in 1988. However, you saw more of it after that song collaboration with the rock band Aerosmith and the rap band Run DMC doing the Aerosmith song "Walk This Way" which they did in 1986. That's what kinda changed everything. That exposed more black people to rock music and more white people to rap music.
That’s crazy man💯
One word.......SEVENDUST!!!!
THE BLUES BIRTHED ROCK&ROLL
For some strange reason ill never understand black youth culture kind of abandoned rock n roll in the early 1980's onward...but, if u trace back the history & origins of shred guitar, to me, Buddy Guy & Jimi Hendrix come to mind, so, it shouldnt be too, too surprising....anyway, when i was 12 years old in 1988 & living in the southern united states this song was a PHENOMENALLY giant hit (as it obviously was all over the coutry & the world), these guys were legends overnight....they still rock out as far as i know, i follow them on facebook, but i havent seen them post in a while....its been a weird few years for the world tho.
Imguess tne movement of many black people going into funk in the 1970's, instead of prog rock like all the white boys did, may be part of the equation...both were ripping solos and stuff tho...idk, the american musical tapestry is amazing.
They were always being featured in Hit parader and metal edge magazines they were welcomed into the metal industry with open arms love them
Great band and deep message!
It's a pretty simple rocker but I always enjoy "Desperate People".
I'm not sure if they have a new album coming out soon but they are touring. Great band.
The lead singer was in the movie "Platoon"
Awesome, this is why CM Punk choose this as his entrance theme music
If you’ve seen the movie Platoon from 1986, the singer here, Corey Glover, was the actor who played Francis. “We two timers, I’ll see you in the hospital, we gonna get high high…”
This was a jam back in the day and funny thing was - we didn’t think about whether they were black or white - they were just good.
🎸Timeless🥁
This came out in 1988?!?! I am so old! I am so sad to see that this message is just as important today as it was back then! Progress is slow on those issues that shouldn't exist in the first place.
My era.
Vernon Reid (the dude in my avatar pic) was in a jazz fusion band for a while. He also played with some funk artists. One of his major influences was the all Black band, Bad Brains. They pioneered a fast, hardcore punk rock style with some reggae mixed in. Vernon Reid's rapid fire guitar playing has some similarities to the guitarist Dr. Know from Bad Brains.
Living Colour is from New York City. If you want to check out some other stuff by them, I'd recommend "Type" "Ignorance is Bliss" "Flying" "Leave it Alone" and "Wall". Another band you need to listen to is Fever 333 out of Los Angeles.
This song is full of truth and a cautionary tale for today..don't blindly follow anyone. Every time I hear this song I can't help but think of CM Punk. Great reaction.
Glad you liked it!
Came out in late 80's and was a big hit. It was number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. I was about 20 yrs old when this Came out and everybody I knew loved it!!!
Like others have said, the lead vocalist is Cory Glover which also starred in Platoon as the character "Francis" But for some reason, I always get him mixed up with the actor Courtney B Vance who starred in Hamburger Hill (another Vietnam War film) and Hunt for Red October. He played "Doc" in Hamburger Hill. He was also the Sonar operator on the USS Dallas in Red October.
"I have a lot of things that i want to get off my chest" - C M PUNK
I love the song "Love Rears Up Its Ugly Head"
Lead singer Corey glover has a very strong voice.
They are from NYC. They were influenced by Bad Brains. Bad Brains were one of the most influential punk rock bands of all time. They pioneered hardcore punk rock. They’re all black, too.
There are so many current all black artist metal and punk rock bands in the underground scene. If you throw in the bands that are mixed… I can’t even name them all there are so many. The difference is that none of them are as popular or sound as good as “Living Color.”
If you want to go down the rabbit hole check out “Bad Brains - Attitude.” Some of my current favorite all black artist metal/punk rock bands are “Zulu” “Knife Wound” “Negro Terror” but they are all pretty heavy stuff, so it might not be your cup of tea.
Of course, this is just mentioning the heavier bands. If you want to get into jazz and blues, that’s a whole other list. Always remember jazz, blues, rock n roll, and funk are all black music genres. In fact, there isn’t any music in the U.S. that isn’t of black origin, except country…. But, country music has a banjo, which is a black instrument, and a lot of it is influenced by blues. So, there you go…
SevenDust is a highly underrated band with an awesome black frontman✌🏻check out Denial, you won’t be disappointed!
Living Colour "Which Way to America?" is much slept on.
Vernon Reid is possibility the most underrated guitarists of all time! As many people have said Body Count is something you should check out! Ice-T formed the bamd because he felt his friend wasn't getting enough attention for his talent because he was a black guitarist.
Gotta react to "Sevendust" DENIAL or "Nonpoint" WHAT A DAY next.
Tony Thompson was the drummer in Chic snd Power Station, Average White Band and Doobie Brothers also have black members. Have you checked out anything from Jimi Hendrix?
Sevendust might be something you'd wanna check out too!
Dude, you need to check out Skindred. Reggae metal. Insane live band. Honestly one of the best modern British bands as far as Im concerned.
They are from NYC and many of them are from jazz. Radio and music segregation in general is a bummer. There is an organization called the Black Rock Coalition (BRC) which started in the mid-80's and supports/highlights many artists. Another noteworthy group would be Fishbone and for an earlier band check out Death (yeah, that's their name) from Detroit. Bob Khaleel from Super 8 is also an amazing singer worth a listen.
I remember first hearing this song in San Andreas
They are still touring!! Burning Vernon still shreds ❤
They're from NY. Vernon Reid on guitar...
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
current rock band from Brooklyn, NY; 4 black guys and one white guy on guitar and keyboard
Outside the box? It's your box my man. Your birthright.
Ahhh this song brought me back to my childhood memories. I used to play GTA SA and this song has always been my fave ever since. And ofc, CM Punk
Such an underrated band. They rock!
Check out Killswitch Engage when Howard was with them. Hands down one of my favorites growing up
I can assure you that every white fan of hard rock on the planet absolutely loves Living Colour & this song in particular
I mean, going back to Jimi Hendrix (& Chuck Berry before him), a few super talented black musicians took a liking to hard rock & just decided to apply their skills toward expanding the genre with their own inspirations & audiences loved it. I mean, Jimi's background was basically R & B, but when he tackled the rock genre during the psychedelic era, he became recognized as a kind of Guitar God