Robert Plant Calls R&B "Spook Music" on NBC's Today Show

[marv2]

I just heard about this on New Yorks WRQN Kiss-FM :

http://www.topix.com/forum/afam/TOAMA83556TKSPR2A

[StuBass1]

One could only hope he was talking about Haloween music...Otherwise, he's a jerk.

[marv2]

Oh no , he [[Robert Plant) was talking about how they use to listen to American black music to come up with a sound....you know "spook music".........

[midnightman]

Hmm... as far as I know, here in America, that comment is derogatory to blacks. Someone said it had a different meaning there but I'm still trying to find that meaning.

[pshark]

I try to google British spook slang without any luck. I just hope he is ignorant of the meaning.
He posted that on his FB page, so if anybody wish to leave a comment:
http://www.facebook.com/robertplant#!/robertplant?v=wall
Btw, didn't spooks at one time referred to white people? Mainly the kkk?

[marv2]

Hmm... as far as I know, here in America, that comment is derogatory to blacks. Someone said it had a different meaning there but I'm still trying to find that meaning.

Midnightman, I'm getting good at this. I knew that they would try that bullshit. Everytime someone gets caught with their racist draws showing, they go either they were taken out of context or that there is a different meaning to whatever racist display they've made in their home country. That type of excuse was used by the Australians regarding the black faced skit performed on a program there called "Hey,hey It's Saturday" where 5 men in blackface mocked the Jackson Five and African Americans in general.

Robert Plant said what he said on AMERICAN Television, on "The Today Show". He is a World traveler and has been in this country countless times in is 40 year plus career. He cannot get away with simply saying that what he said has a different meaning somewhere else and feining ignorance to what certain terms mean here in the U.S. They played the audio on the radio here in New York and he sounded like an asshole. He knew exactly what he was saying.

[marv2]

I try to google British spook slang without any luck. I just hope he is ignorant of the meaning.
He posted that on his FB page, so if anybody wish to leave a comment:
http://www.facebook.com/robertplant#!/robertplant?v=wall
Btw, didn't spooks at one time referred to white people? Mainly the kkk?

Pshark, no, they [[the Klu Klux Klan) were referred to as "hanks" as in "ghosts". It was never a term used to degrade white people, only people of color.

[marv2]

There is more:

http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/09/2...s-spook-music/

[tamla617]

spook has the same meaning here in uk.having said that i havent heard it for years.
except for spies.spies[[MI 5,CIA etc. are spooks to

[bankhousedave]

I never heard the term in that context. Don't know what Robert meant. Spooks and spooky - as in Spooky Tooth - were definitely American expressions when I was a young dinosaur. Came out of Scooby-Doo and that kind of thing. Latterly, as Tamla says, in the UK it refers to 'the funny people' - security services, GCHQ, MI5 - those who hide behind surveillance cameras and peeping tom on the honest punter.

There's even a big show on the BBC called Spooks.

Plant, on the other hand, is what you are found with when the spooks turn over your drum.

[moe]

Oh, that's a good one, Bankhouse!!

[robb_k]

Well, Robert Plant couldn't have been referring to music made by surveillance people, CIA, or spies [[those types haven't made very much music anyone would have heard). So THAT excuse won't work.

[arrr&bee]

HEY R&B IS SO GREAT THAT OF COURSE[GHOST]LISTEN TO IT...ISN'T THAT RIGHT ROBERT??[and your answer had better be yes].

[tamla617]

HOW MANY MORE TIMES there was a COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN and i'm DAZED AND CONFUSED.

he must have seen it coming these tracks were on the 1st album,1969!