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Post by wetkingcanute on Jun 28, 2020 16:23:46 GMT
Chess Records. Formed and run by two nice Jewish boys from Poland.
Signed and promoted:(because no one else would)
Chuck Berry; Muddy Waters; Howlin' Wolf; Sonny Boy Williams; Little Walter; Bo Diddley; John Lee Hooker; Etta James and many many more.
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 28, 2020 17:57:39 GMT
And of course, many of those black American blues musicians would never have been heard at all without the help of American Jews.  Hmmmm .... have you canvassed the opinions of Afro-Americans on that subject? I think you'll find that opinions are divided, roughly: all of them v you. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 28, 2020 17:59:13 GMT
And of course, American English ethnomusicologist, John Lomax who recorded many, many black blues musicians for the first time. Lomax, you say? Sounds more like an of yer ain. |
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Post by mids on Jun 28, 2020 18:08:12 GMT
Possibly a borderer.
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Post by jimboky on Jun 28, 2020 18:11:25 GMT
Chess Records. Formed and run by two nice Jewish boys from Poland. Signed and promoted:(because no one else would) Chuck Berry; Muddy Waters; Howlin' Wolf; Sonny Boy Williams; Little Walter; Bo Diddley; John Lee Hooker; Etta James and many many more. kinda like Sun Records recorded unknowns like Johnny Cash and Elvis Priestly |
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 28, 2020 18:14:49 GMT
Well, there was often singing in streets of Hawick and Selkirk according to Bill McLaren. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 28, 2020 18:21:03 GMT
Record labels are famously altruistic. EMI have always been seen as the musician's friend. I wish someone had written a song about it.
Better still, I wish that one of their common man executives had gone on to become a by-word for decency, social responsibility and general probity.
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Post by flatandy on Jun 28, 2020 22:28:12 GMT
yes, andy. we already know the u.s.invented racism and slavery in 1776. prior to 1776, there no racism and slavery anywhere in the world. You do know that your sarcasm has nothing to do with what I wrote, don't you? Although, if we're going down this road, the US was very, very late to the party on abolishing slavery, and half the country fought to try and keep it even longer - which didn't happen in any other western or democratic country, as far as I'm aware. |
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Post by jimboky on Jun 28, 2020 22:47:06 GMT
the US had slavery what? <90 years? how long did England?
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Post by flatandy on Jun 28, 2020 23:01:15 GMT
The idiot region of the US fought a war to keep slavery. And is still celebrating the people who fought to keep slavery. Britain is a f**k*d up place, but it never did that.
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Post by flatandy on Jun 28, 2020 23:23:46 GMT
I have no idea who's doing that, or why. I do not speak for them. They are irrelevant to the point. But I'm glad you agree that we should be celebrating Lee's defeat, not celebrating Lee. Celebrating the success of Lincoln, rather than Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.
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Post by flatandy on Jun 28, 2020 23:35:34 GMT
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Post by Repat Van on Jun 29, 2020 0:01:43 GMT
the US had slavery what? <90 years? how long did England? Ha ha ha - I love that Jimbo has chosen to only count from the time of the Declaration of Independence. Pretending that the entire population of the US left and was replaced once the Declaration of Independence was signed. It’s like the Aussies you get here who refuse to accept that Australia persecuted indigenous Australian for a significant period of time: “that wasn’t us, that was the Brits!” |
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Post by voice on Jun 29, 2020 1:26:08 GMT
Mississippi only added the traitors flag in 1890 as jim crow and lynchings were really taking off. It was put there solely as a white supremacist things and had nothing to with the war, they lost a quarter of a century earlier, to keep on owning people.
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Post by voice on Jul 7, 2020 16:37:04 GMT
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Post by Whiterum on Jul 9, 2020 11:13:14 GMT
Kanye West has given the US and the world a glimpse of what President Kanye would be like, in his first interview since suggesting he'll run for office. The rapper said he would model his White House operation on Wakanda, the fictional kingdom from Black Panther. West told Forbes he is "extremely cautious" about a coronavirus vaccine. He said: "They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can't cross the gates of Heaven." In what the magazine described as "four rambling hours of interviews", West said he would decide in the next 30 days whether to definitely stand in November's presidential election. If he does, it would be under the banner of The Birthday Party. "Because when we win, it's everybody's birthday," he explained. But he said he was serious about the plan. "Like anything I've ever done in my life, I'm doing to win." However, he added: "When I'm president, let's also have some fun. Let's get past all the racism conversation, let's empower people with 40 acres and a mule, let's give some land, that's the plan." That's a reference to a 19th Century plan to give freed slaves 40 acres of land after the US Civil War. What else did he say?
One of President West's priorities would be to end police brutality, he said, and he is against the death penalty. He also wants to "clean up the chemicals - in our deodorant, in our toothpaste". Asked about abortion, he said he is "pro-life because I'm following the word of the Bible"; while he hasn't developed his foreign policy but is "focused on protecting America, first, with our great military". Asked about his approach to taxes, he said he hadn't done the necessary research yet. "I will research that with the strongest experts that serve God and come back with the best solution. And that will be my answer for anything that I haven't researched." He believes he contracted coronavirus in February, but said a vaccine was "the mark of the beast". And he professed his love for China. "It's not China's fault that disease. It's not the Chinese people's fault. They're God's people also. I love China. It changed my life. It changed my perspective, it gave me such a wide perspective." But he would take a radical approach to governing. "I don't know if I would use the word 'policy' for the way I would approach things," he said. "I [didn't] have a policy when I went to Nike and designed Yeezy and went to Louis and designed a Louis Vuitton at the same time. It wasn't a policy, it was a design. We need to innovate the design to be able to free the mind at this time." He added: "I'm gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it's the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House." He likened his approach to the film, "when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes". "Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine - like big pharma - we are going to work, innovate, together. "This is not going to be some Nipsey Hussle being murdered, they're doing a documentary, we have so many soldiers that die for our freedom, our freedom of information, that there is a cure for Aids out there, there is going to be a mix of big pharma and holistic." His running mate would be Michelle Tidball, who Forbes described as "an obscure preacher from Wyoming". www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53332251  |
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Post by Marshall on Jul 9, 2020 23:08:57 GMT
Yeah, in case any Trump supporters are looking for a different clueless egomaniac to assume the presidency, here's your man.
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Post by Repat Van on Jul 10, 2020 0:51:34 GMT
Kanye West has given the US and the world a glimpse of what President Kanye would be like, in his first interview since suggesting he'll run for office. The rapper said he would model his White House operation on Wakanda, the fictional kingdom from Black Panther. West told Forbes he is "extremely cautious" about a coronavirus vaccine. He said: "They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can't cross the gates of Heaven." In what the magazine described as "four rambling hours of interviews", West said he would decide in the next 30 days whether to definitely stand in November's presidential election. If he does, it would be under the banner of The Birthday Party. "Because when we win, it's everybody's birthday," he explained. But he said he was serious about the plan. "Like anything I've ever done in my life, I'm doing to win." However, he added: "When I'm president, let's also have some fun. Let's get past all the racism conversation, let's empower people with 40 acres and a mule, let's give some land, that's the plan." That's a reference to a 19th Century plan to give freed slaves 40 acres of land after the US Civil War. What else did he say?
One of President West's priorities would be to end police brutality, he said, and he is against the death penalty. He also wants to "clean up the chemicals - in our deodorant, in our toothpaste". Asked about abortion, he said he is "pro-life because I'm following the word of the Bible"; while he hasn't developed his foreign policy but is "focused on protecting America, first, with our great military". Asked about his approach to taxes, he said he hadn't done the necessary research yet. "I will research that with the strongest experts that serve God and come back with the best solution. And that will be my answer for anything that I haven't researched." He believes he contracted coronavirus in February, but said a vaccine was "the mark of the beast". And he professed his love for China. "It's not China's fault that disease. It's not the Chinese people's fault. They're God's people also. I love China. It changed my life. It changed my perspective, it gave me such a wide perspective." But he would take a radical approach to governing. "I don't know if I would use the word 'policy' for the way I would approach things," he said. "I [didn't] have a policy when I went to Nike and designed Yeezy and went to Louis and designed a Louis Vuitton at the same time. It wasn't a policy, it was a design. We need to innovate the design to be able to free the mind at this time." He added: "I'm gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it's the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House." He likened his approach to the film, "when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes". "Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine - like big pharma - we are going to work, innovate, together. "This is not going to be some Nipsey Hussle being murdered, they're doing a documentary, we have so many soldiers that die for our freedom, our freedom of information, that there is a cure for Aids out there, there is going to be a mix of big pharma and holistic." His running mate would be Michelle Tidball, who Forbes described as "an obscure preacher from Wyoming". www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53332251 (rofl) It will never happen but it would be hilariously funny if he was able to run and won. |
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Post by voice on Jul 10, 2020 1:08:27 GMT
Splitting the lunatic vote?
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Post by Marshall on Jul 15, 2020 19:22:54 GMT
Trump's campaign rant from the Rose Garden yesterday (supposed to be for executive announcements only) included this gem:
"Biden personally led the effort to give China permanent, most-favored nation status, which is a tremendous advantage for a country to have. Few countries have it. But the United States doesn't have it. Never did. Probably never even asked for it, because they didn't know what they were doing."
What a complete and utter imbecile. I mean you really can't get any more stupid than that.
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