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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 198
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 10:53 am: | 
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I just finished "Hit Me, Fred" the biography by Fred Wesley Jr. who was a sideman for Ike and Tina Turner, Hank Ballard, James Brown and Parliament Funkadelic (why the man ain't in the loony bin after that I don't know)
This one is a couple of years old, but joins all of the excellent books about the Soul Music period as an interesting memoir on the period from one of the architects of Funk. |
Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 119
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 12:13 pm: |
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Hello All,
Chris: I read Hit Me, Fred a couple of years ago. I liked it a lot. There were a couple of spots that were dry to me, but over all, it was a good biography. I especially loved it when he got into his years with James Brown. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 199
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 03, 2004 - 10:06 am: |
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Thumper:
I thought you had read it and went back through to find your post but did not go back far enough. I dug his memoir of the time on the Mothership, too. There is another book about that that explains more about what happened, I think it is called Boogaloo by Arthur Kempton. |
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