Comments on: DISPOSABLE HEROES / “Television, The Drug Of A Nation” http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/05/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/ a conversation about black music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:17:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eric http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/05/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/#comment-4130 Eric Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:14:03 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/04/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/#comment-4130 thank you for this wonderful song I heard once about twenty years ago from the beatnigs live. They were support for a Billy Bragg ! concert and the whole show was blasting away everything so I fully agree with Matt. Especially the refrain of this song is escorting me my whole life when I tried to talk to anybody who couldn´t get off his eyes from this - drug. Againandagain - thank you: Your blog is alive thank you for this wonderful song I heard once about twenty years ago from the beatnigs live. They were support for a Billy Bragg ! concert and the whole show was blasting away everything so I fully agree with Matt. Especially the refrain of this song is escorting me my whole life when I tried to talk to anybody who couldn´t get off his eyes from this – drug.
Againandagain – thank you: Your blog is alive

]]> By: Matt http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/05/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/#comment-4106 Matt Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:36:03 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/04/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/#comment-4106 Franti's first effort, with the Beatnigs, is also in your face industrial/rap/hip hop... Sadly, it's no longer available. I agree fully that what Franti and Spearhead are putting out is some wonderfully life-affirming music, but I think that if you buy the disks and think you've heard the best of what they have to offer, you are missing out. They are the best live band I've ever seen, bar none. Franti’s first effort, with the Beatnigs, is also in your face industrial/rap/hip hop… Sadly, it’s no longer available.

I agree fully that what Franti and Spearhead are putting out is some wonderfully life-affirming music, but I think that if you buy the disks and think you’ve heard the best of what they have to offer, you are missing out. They are the best live band I’ve ever seen, bar none.

]]> By: Clarence http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/05/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/#comment-4076 Clarence Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:19:36 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/04/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/#comment-4076 Thanks I have been looking for some music by Michael Franti for two years. Thanks again and this is one CD I will have to get. Peace CJIII Thanks I have been looking for some music by Michael Franti for two years. Thanks again and this is one CD I will have to get.

Peace CJIII

]]> By: rich http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/05/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/#comment-4074 rich Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:34:40 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/11/04/dispossable-heroes-%e2%80%9ctelevision-the-drug-of-a-nation%e2%80%9d/#comment-4074 I still remember when I first heard this track that it was like a wake-up call. Politically switched on, funky and with a slice of anger apparent in the performance. Coming of age with the arrival of the track, I know many of my peers and I hung on to Franti's early music, both with Disposable and Spearhead, as our generation's angry, gifted poetic voice. Perhaps in retrospect the music may not prove as seminal as Scott-Heron and PE, but it definitely expanded the consciousness. If I remember rightly, one of the highlights of seeing Disposable Heroes live was the freakishly talented guitar player, Charlie Hunter - a one-man music machine who could coax out bass, guitar and organ lines seemingly simultaneously while he played. I still remember when I first heard this track that it was like a wake-up call. Politically switched on, funky and with a slice of anger apparent in the performance. Coming of age with the arrival of the track, I know many of my peers and I hung on to Franti’s early music, both with Disposable and Spearhead, as our generation’s angry, gifted poetic voice. Perhaps in retrospect the music may not prove as seminal as Scott-Heron and PE, but it definitely expanded the consciousness. If I remember rightly, one of the highlights of seeing Disposable Heroes live was the freakishly talented guitar player, Charlie Hunter – a one-man music machine who could coax out bass, guitar and organ lines seemingly simultaneously while he played.

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