Mother's Finest - Niggizz Can't Sang Rock 'n' Roll (Live on Playback*) (July 5, 1976)
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- Mother's Finest is an American rock band founded in Atlanta, Georgia, by the vocal duo of Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy and Glenn "Doc" Murdock in 1970 when the pair met up with guitarist Gary "Moses Mo" Moore and bassist Jerry "Wyzard" Seay. Their music is a blend of funky rhythms, heavy rock guitars and expressive soul/R&B-style vocals.
The group charted with the singles "Fire" (No. 93 Pop Singles), "Baby Love" (No. 79 Black Singles, No. 58 Pop Singles), "Don't Wanna Come Back" (No. 54 Black Singles), "Love Changes" (No. 26 Black Singles), and "Piece of the Rock" in the mid- to late 1970s.
Mother's Finest issued its debut album Mother's Finest in 1972 on RCA; a second album for RCA remained unreleased until it surfaced as bonus tracks on the 2010 Wounded Bird re-issue of Mother's Finest. The group signed a new contract with Epic Records and released its sophomore effort, also titled Mother's Finest, in 1976, stirring up controversy with the ironic "Niggizz Can't Sang Rock 'n' Roll." Riding a wave of success, the band's next three albums, Another Mother Further (1977), Mother Factor (1978) and Mother's Finest Live (1979), all went gold,[5] helped along by heavy touring opening for the likes of Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath, The Who, Aerosmith and AC/DC.[6]
In 1978, the band set out for Europe and took part in the Rockpalast concert series at the Grugahalle in Essen, produced by Germany's WDR television and broadcast to various countries. With only one concert Mother's Finest put themselves on the map all over Europe where the band still has a dedicated following. The legendary 1978 show was finally released on CD and DVD in 2012 as Mother's Finest - Live At Rockpalast 1978 & 2003 which also includes the band's 2003 "Rockpalast" appearance at Satzvey Castle.
After four albums for Epic/CBS in the 70's, the band signed with Atlantic Records for its heaviest album to date, 1981's Iron Age.[7] That same year Joyce Kennedy guested with Molly Hatchet on the song "Respect Me in the Morning" from the Take No Prisoners album. Mother's Finest went on hiatus after 1983's One Mother to Another, with vocalist Joyce Kennedy pursuing a solo career, releasing the soul/R&B-styled Lookin' for Trouble album on A&M Records in 1984. She scored a Billboard Top 40 hit with "The First Time I Made Love," a duet with Jeffrey Osborne. A year later, Joyce recorded the song "Didn't I Tell You?" for the soundtrack of the film The Breakfast Club. Drummer Barry Borden, who had joined Molly Hatchet on the No Guts...No Glory album, teamed up with guitarist Moses Mo in the band Illusion, resulting in a pair of albums, Illusion (1985) and I Like It Loud (1986), on Geffen Records. Borden would later join The Outlaws for a pair of albums and has been a member of The Marshall Tucker Band since the late 1990s.
Straight up jam...damn, they still killin' it to this day...✨🤙🏼✨🔥✨
This band rocked East Carolina University in the 1970's and 80's routinely. Saw them many times with Nantucket at the Attic in Greenville, NC!!
Hi powered rock & roll!!
Thank you for doing this…I hadn’t seen my husband play drums in a long time…he died in the late 70s. Again… THANK YOU!!!!
@@CP-tb4fl yes……Sanford Jeffery Daniel……one of the best drummers I’ve seen….not just saying that…he WAS good and best of all, he loved the music. Do I know you?
@@CP-tb4fl Why, how very kind of you to take the time to say. I think what made Pepe a talent was the passion he brought to his music….he was constantly on search for different drummers, always looking to expand his craft. At the time of his death, he was beginning to look at Billy Cobham. He said he felt he had gone as far as he could with just playing rock, and this guy amazed him. He was constantly trying to improve his skills.
Thank you again for your kind words, and giving me a chance to talk about him….he is missed.
@@CP-tb4fl do you still play?
To make his efforts on drums all the more extraordinary…Pepe suffered from acute asthma…in fact, that is what killed him. It was the breathing situation that made him quit MF, unfortunately. The fact that he had that stamina while trying to breathe, well, he very WAS special.
Straight from Atlanta, GA!!!
Yes I saw them in Atlanta in 74 at Alex Haleys Electric Ball Room😊
This whole album is good!!
Greatness
Wyzard was cool guy. He worked out in the Gym near my parents house when I was a teenager. He often jogged in our neighborhood in Dunwoody and when we hollered out, he'd wave. After that when he jogged through and around, he'd wave and we'd wave back and left him alone. Man, I wanted his autograph so bad, I was a Bass player too and here was one of my hero's right there going by my driveway, but I didn't want to bother him, he just wanted his peace you know, and we respected that. The way he played, that style was something new to us white boys and it was like "how does he get that sound?" So we'd experiment.
@@Wooley689 I know Wyz, and he would have loved to sign an autograph for you….and, if you told him you played bass also….thatvwould have been a joy for both of you. Wyzard is a great guy,
@@Crone369 I would have really enjoyed that, I would have been walking on air for sure.
Thanks for the post.
Have loved this band since 1977 when I saw them in concert, we just saw them at the HickoryNewton NC speedway for Rockfest 2 and after all these years still AWESOME, still one if my favorite rock/funk bands. True legends of talent . I’ve seen them in several cities and always attend when they’re within 3 hours .
YES they can.......
I really like this band tho man!
Thanks 4 posting this.
Post the whole video
.. why that abrupt cut off?!
this band reminds me of (later on) Brooklyn, NY band Brooklyn Funk Essentials who also have lots of dates (stayed there years) in EU.. back here currently.
FB being hypocritical
Lots of radio play I bet.
Aerosmith booted them off the tour. Mother's Finest opening. The fans wanted more and booed Aerosmith when they came out. It happened several times.
If I had said that title I’d get my head kicked in. But hip hop is full of violence,homophobia,transphobia,sexism,misogyny and gun violence,rape and abuse references.
This song/band ISN’T hip hop, they’re a straight up R&R band from the 70’s. This song was written and recorded as a reply to “critics” and artists of that time saying that black bands had no place in R&R and should stick to R&B or disco.
@@malcolmr3MF was and still is the best funk rock band that ever existed. I'm from Brazil and a fan since 1976. I'm an old guy..66 years old..and I still love good music from the 70s.
why would u say a word that has a historic connotation against an entire group of people? and this a critic to black singers being excluded out of the R&R industry although they created it.
You must be a white dude who want to say the N Word so bad, and why are you acting like rappers do not get criticize (and in some places banned) for all of the things you are talking about? Stop it!