"KEEP YOUR HEAD TO THE SKY"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iJ_E5WRABc
Thursday, February 4, 2016
MAURICE WHITE - EARTH, WIND AND FIRE IS DOWN ONE! DAMN!
I am devastated. My heart is in pieces. The frontman, Maurice White, of one of the all-time great funk, RnB, Latin, jazz, pop, rock, disco, African, soul (they did it all!) bands has made his transition! In all my youth, into adulthood there has never been a time that I have not had EARTH, WIND AND FIRE in some sort of way in my life! Oh freakin' man. Their music was, is as spacey and spiritual as David Bowie's. And you had not lived unless you'd seen them open for CHICAGO. The songlist is toooooo long to post here but they are easily searchable. BUT..my favorite song written by Mr. White is "KEEP YOUR HEAD TO THE SKY." A great, gone on to perform in the heavens. Bye, Maurice. Glad to have experienced your gift.
"KEEP YOUR HEAD TO THE SKY"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iJ_E5WRABc
"KEEP YOUR HEAD TO THE SKY"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iJ_E5WRABc
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It's just too sad. I know people can't live forever, but some people leave and you feel like the world is just losing something. Maurice White was a genius.
ReplyDeleteI know! He did so much. I didn't know he started as a session drummer for people like Fontella Bass ("Rescue Me") and for Ramsey Lewis before becoming his exclusive drummer for awhile. I guess their collaboration for EWF's "Sun Goddess" was a returned favor. I heard this morning on the Tom Joyner Morning Show that White and Philip Bailey did ALL the 2nd soprano singing for all the songs. EWF concerts were not of this world. When the lights would go down and the MC would announce, "Presenting the elements of the Universe, EARTH, WIND AND FIYAHHHH!" Then an Egyptian pyramid would float down from the ceiling to land on stage and the crowd would go insane! Yep, nothing last forever. Damn!
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