Rezi Updates: July 2025
Added 2025-07-15 23:45:15 +0000 UTC
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Love early Funkadelic!! Free Your Mind is a stone-cold psych rock classic, and the s/t and Maggot Brain aren't much further behind
Rezi Orenji
2025-07-19 15:13:14 +0000 UTCFor music that I’ve been listening to, I am on a Parliament-Funkadelic kick as of late. Listening to Parliament’s Testify (Alternative version) and Funkadelic’s Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts. That latter track is so good! Eddie Hazel’s guitar work is excellent and complements the lyrics (taken from the book As A Man Thinketh). This song sounds exactly like a mid-1970s prog rock jam, ala David Gilmour solo. Makes me understand fully via Living Colour’s Vernon Reid that Eddie Hazel should have always been recognized as a 1970s guitar hero like Gilmour, Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, Zappa, Uli Jon Roth, you get the idea Rezi.
George Crock
2025-07-16 01:34:10 +0000 UTCThanks for the update Rezi! Good luck on the move. Glad you got Fargo Rock City! I have had that book for quite awhile. Did read it all the way through. You make some good points about the time it was written. If you want any reference suggestions for the next glam metal video, I can offer you two. In the early 2000s (specifically 2000 to early to mid 2001) VH1 did two countdown special on this music. One was the 40 greatest Hair Metal Bands of all time, and the other 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. Last I checked both are on YouTube. These two specials I think would work great for your aftermath section as these show how the industry and the fans were starting to view glam metal. Ditto there was an MTV special on glam metal from 1996 (!) called Pop Goes The Metal and another VH1 doc from 2001 that was part of a larger series looking at 1980s music. Hopefully both can be found on YouTube as well.
George Crock
2025-07-15 23:53:32 +0000 UTC
