Originally Posted by
Jerry Oz
I liked everything Whitney did. She was a generational talent, like Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin and her life was much too short. And painful. I'm like you, I know what I like when I hear it and I couldn't care less about genre. And the Busboys is another of my favorite bands. I digitized their American Workers LP and play it all the time. Their leader was Brian O'Neal and I think he inspired Fishbone and Living Colour greatly, just by having the balls to be black and play the music they liked, which just happened to be rock.
And I cosign on your statement about not being able to make myself not like music because of color or ethnicity. Heck, Malcolm McLaren introduced me to music from the African continent and to this day, I enjoy music from bands like Malopoets, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Oliver Mtkudzi and Fela Kuti. If he came out with an album like Duck Rock in 2019, he'd be accused of blatant cultural appropriation. Thank God he did it four decades earlier.
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