Yeah, yeah, it’s been a week since the Saturday Night Live (SNL) special, and Bob’s given his views on the pros and cons. But I’m still thinking about what the show meant to me, in its heyday, and occasionally, since.
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Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock ’n’ Roll – H2
Posted in Opinion with tags Beastie Boys, Cameron Carpenter, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Grandmaster Flash, Hop Hop, music, NWA, NXNE Film Festival, Run DMC, Shanghai Cowgirl, SugarHill Gang, The ABCs of Rock on June 7, 2012 by segarini
Hip-Hop
Most people would make the very safe assumption that I am not a fan of hip-hop but there was a time in my career that it played a very big part in my life. When I worked at Quality Records back in the late seventies we were the distributors for Joe and Sylvia Robinson’s rap label Sugar Hill Records. Their first release in 1979 was the ground breaking “Rapper’s Delight” from The Sugarhill Gang. It was revolutionary. Master Gee, Big Bank Hank and Wonder Mike took the bed track from Chic’s “Good Times” and in one take rapped back and forth for close to 15 minutes.
