The Revolution will not be Televised - Gill Scott-Heron dead at 62

[malaise]

http://www.nme.com/news/gil-scott-heron/56948



Rest in peace my politically conscious brother - we grew up together :cry:

[n2doc]

1. RIP n/t

[Kolesar]

2. I remember watching Gil Scott Heron on Saturday Night Live

Brother have you heard, about Johannesburg?

[marmar]

3. RIP, brother Gil.

The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruption.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell,
General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
Hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.

[malaise]

6. One hell of a classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p43YYovonS0

[Scuba]

4. RIP Gil. I was just thinking about you yesterday. NPR had a program...

...celebrating the 50-year anniversary of Kennedy's speech about going to the moon. My first thought was "A rat bit my sister Nell, with whitey on the moon...".


BTW, I'm both white and a supporter of our space program.

[blindpig]

5. k&r

[DinahMoeHum]

7. I remember a PSA he did with the song "Angel Dust"

for radio stations back in 1978. Like it was yesterday:

"...This is Gil Scott Heron with some bad news...it's called Angel Dust. It's a killer white powder often sprinkled on tobacco or marijuana cigarettes. It has come between the best of friends. Don't sell it, buy it, give it or take it. In other words, don't mess with it. It just might leave someone you love...very dead. That's no way to treat a friend...that's no way to treat yourself..."

:cry:

Rest in Peace, friend.

:cry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWitRABYVBk

[Paladin]

8. RIP. A Genuine Talent And Unique Voice. (n/t)

[malaise]

9. He has Jamaican roots

http://jamaicaheron.com/

This from someone who knew him well


He was a brilliant evocative artiste-perhaps one of the most incisive and important of the 20th century-who somehow could not outpace his many demons. His connection to Jamaica & Reggae is not readily acknowleged but he was very proud of his Jamaican father, Gilbert Heron, who played professional football in Scotland for Celtics.

Gil Scott Heron shared a bill with Peter Tosh at the No-Nukes concert at Madison Square Garden in 1979; he replaced Bob Marley, when Bob got sick in 1980, as Stevie Wonder's opening act for the tour which was supposed to break Bob in Black America; iconic Studio One percussionist Larry macDonald was a staple in his band for years. Gil was also instrumental, along with Stevie Wonder, in lobbying for Martin Luther King Jr's birthday to be declared a National Holiday.

It is really a paradox though that such insightful"conscious" artistes could at once also be so personally reckless, indiscipline and self destructive.