It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back-PUBLIC ENEMY
Maggot Brain-FUNKADELIC
Cry Of Love-JIMI HENDRIX
Innervisions-STEVIE WONDER
Joe's Garage-FRANK ZAPPA
Last Days And Time-EARTH.WIND& FIRE
the first two BETTY DAVIS albums: I've got to expound on this choice for the non-initiated. Betty Davis
was the first wife of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, who featured her on two of his album covers, "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "E.S.P." She was influential to turning Miles onto the "new" rock
music of the early Seventies, and introducing Miles to Jimi Hendrix. She wasn't a great singer, but she had an attiude about her feminity
that was both intoxicating and intimidating at the same time. Her music was provocative, sexually charged and in-your-face. Her self-titled debut
and the follow-up, "They Say I'm Different" were examples of truly aggressive funk that simmered with erotic tension.
These albums also featured
an collection of the Bay Area's top players such as Larry Graham and Greg Errico(Sly & the Family Stone), Neal Schon, and the Pointer Sisters.
This is some of the music I humbly consider essential listening. Others you might consider checking out
are gems like...
Birds Of Fire-MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA
Headhunters-HERBIE HANCOCK
Black Elvis/Lost In Space-KOOL KEITH
The Chronic-DR. DRE
Tim's Bio-TIMBALAND
Back On The Block-QUINCY JONES
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