Showing posts with label fela kuti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fela kuti. Show all posts

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Fela Kuti, the great musician, and some

Last of the deviations, but the thing with colds is you can't sleep, so I have been restlessly pottering around the house, just.

Opened up this suitcase..urgghhh!

Filled with reel to reels.

I spoke yesterday of getting more audio files on viewmagazine.tv

Well I'll start to bring some in, that actually I had on a while ago and must have jettisoned the idea.

So teeing up now is one of the last UK interviews with a giant of world music, Fela Kuti.

He is mad bonkers, but we love him. Fela passed away a couple of years after this interview, but he remains a colossal and huge influence.

Here he talks about Afro-beat being a con, how he and his 26 wives took over a squat and how he would rub government officials in Nigeria the wrong way by buying a merc and desecrating it.

Mercs were the preferred government vehicles.

Couple of more of the audios include an interview with Quincy Jones