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MOTHER'S FINEST 1978

"Is it because these six occur before an audience totally unknown to them they were as good?"

MOTHER'S FINEST: Live At Rockpalast "Live 1978
Then the Rock of the 70 dies with his heroes now widely sixties, Rock of the 2010s trying to find the passion, creativity and spontaneity that it sorely needs.
If only a few years ago it was fashionable to take a bitter attack on the old Rock, dinosaurs of every decade who were the heroes of yesterday, today, institutions are revered.
course, there were few references to respect groups necessarily those that the rock critic of taste regarded as necessary and respectable, in short worship. Often it was the sidekick visionary, certainly, but having had obviously unfair, no success in their time. Include the Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Big Star, Nick Drake, and many others whose lives become beautiful loser or unjust death made her even more beautiful legend.
At the same time, groups of heavy-metal classics were mostly from seed to badgers. Rock idols of today, worship, therefore, are cheesy yesterday: AC / DC, Motorhead, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Mott The Hoople, and so on of the best.
short, at a time when our heroes are dying, all groups had their fifteen minutes of fame, and often their reunion celebrated with great pomp.
However, some went inexorably through the drops, and while the Rock is dying yesterday, I said, Mother's Finest is one of those groups completely forgotten. This means, therefore, a priori, that their musical legacy is totally insignificant.
Now that's all the opposite. It is quite impressive, even, downright embarrassing. Because if Mother's Finest was incredibly pumped, it has never been exceeded. And that is a fact that I'm going to show you, dear fans hysterical.
Little Background: Mother's Finest is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the states racist much of the southern USA. It is also the most amazing pool of musicians black and white, and was the fertile ground of the greatest. Include jumble the Allman Brothers Band or Little Feat.
We are in 1973, and the singer Joyce Kennedy and her boyfriend singer Glenn Murdock, both black, are tired of cachetonner for small single soul in two balls or backing vocals for local celebrities.
first recording released in 1973, amid general indifference, with a pocket recalling more frightening disc Black Metal a hard soul and rock. For the two to merge funk with a shape inspired rock of Hendrix, in this its most savage. Certainly, Funkadelic has already experimented with success, but Murdock and Kennedy want a more aggressive, more rock, stripped of accoutrements of the P-Funk.
Mother's Finest is a perfect mix with the arrival of black bassist Jerry "Wizzard" Seay, Mike Keck keyboard black and two white-beaks: Gary "Mo" Moses on guitar, and drummer Barry "BB Queen" Borden.
Three discs appeared between 1976 and 1978, who get a decent success in the U.S. charts with the single "Baby Love" or "Fire". Already, the group showed swollen and sure of his strength, and soon the first album, Glenn Murdock sings "Can not Sing Niggiz Rock'N'Roll.
Yet the studio albums, although engaging and effective, does not seem to be the height of the reputation of their music. Too many fonts, Mother's Finest, despite some excellent songs, seem to be an alloy of funk and disco rock stonien neat. This syndrome is typical of sonic emasculation of American bands of the era. It may well include Blackfoot, Outlaws, or Blue Oyster Cult, whose music has faded in the studio, a thousand miles from the fury live. It was probably not too frightening radios with a sound too dirty, especially in the days of disco.
Is it because these six occur before an audience totally unknown to them they were as good? In any case, it is good to praise the courage of the lineup this what Rockpalast German TV, and after saving Spirit, Mother's Finest did discover the European public (Rockpalast was in Eurovision, either across Europe satellite). He did the same with ZZ Top in 1980 (see the article on this event in these pages).
Still, that sounds generic, and the German presenter announced "Unsere guest: Mother's Finest! . And "Go Tell Tell Way," the sextet Atlanta terrace. Powerful, rock, and above all incredibly drenched funk, it prints a relentless rhythm that sticks to the listener's head imprudent, or anything that can ever so little support. The band toured as a big block V8. It hums, and the group is incredibly square, precise. This first title is a kind of parody of heavy funk discoid this time, incredibly successful, and that is only the introduction to hard hitting and "Fly With Me." Joyce Kennedy shows off her deep voice and soul of a power beyond description.
Murdock gets over with the powerful and UFO "Rain", but always with the inimitable style black. Murdock has a high rather see that put both in the category of hardcore screamers and the madmen of Soul James Brown style.
Joyce takes over the front, while Mo Moses did not yet left. With 'Truth' ll Set You Free, "as he launched a compact, heavy and totally relentless mid-tempo, perfect synthesis of the influences of the group. Only alternative, keyboards Mick Keck alloy of synthesizers and electric piano funk sound typical mid-70's, which makes the color very Herbie Hancock to the mix.
After this quartet Dante, you already have the quintessence of Mother's Finest. Yet the result is worth his weight in peanuts with their best songs performed live: "Give It Up," "Fire," "Give You All The Love" or the flawless "Baby Love". This last piece, alternating heavy riffs and funky, is a marvel of what we call the merger or the Black Rock symbolized mainly by Living Colour. This live at Rockpalast
, released on DVD from Germany but not on CD, will leave traces in the country. So much so that the group will again be received with enthusiasm in 2004 when a second Rockpalast.
Meanwhile, the quintet released a live official in 1979 very good but a little too clean to be honest (reviewed in these pages), and a disk-heavy funk relentless named "Iron Age" in 1981 which I absolutely brilliant speak to you again. And then it will be the big dip in the FM sound, like everyone, and general forgetfulness.
Well, not for everyone, as four white-beaks California will reuse this sound, blanch a good shot to make history more accessible and less "Niggizz" and make balls of gold by pretending to the creators of funk-rock genre: the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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