Noooooooo!!!!! It cuts out RIGHT BEFORE the killer chorus! Please somebody find the complete take of this sensational live footage of B Movie and POST IT!
Can you please write English? Anyway, I repeat that Ronald Reagan was the greatest President in U.S. history in my opinion, and this song (?) is a disgrace.
@Michele640 Reagan was a master of propaganda, he convinced the average joe he was for him, while he fucked him straight in the ass, a master manipulator..
This song is simply scandalous. Ronald Reagan was the best President in U.S. history. Up with America, up with President Reagan! Gil Scott Heron, shame on you, go back into the sewer!
Too good briliant I remember when the Bottle came out , we were all listening to punk that blew every one away one of the best voices there is and what great tracks havent dated a bit, does it all with out doing much
Hard copy of the state of the nation at that time - but still the same ghost in the mashine - Listen to Gil - he knew it all before - check out greece, portugal, ireland, maybe spain, even more so the US - banking makes the world go nuts.
sadly most music nowadays seems to be a product of reagan and thatcher. completely unpoliticised, instead about money, narcissism and selfish desires. this is most prevalant in the very genre gil influenced: hip hop and rap. how sad.
@Noevaw Unfortunately, the "power" behind Reagan was the Military-Industrial complex, the greedy junk-bond traders and the fascist Christian fanatics who all wanted to exert their evil control over the very (ignorant) "great silent majority" of middle America--the very people who voted him into office, twice! Go figure. Thanks to this "force," we had covert Latin-American & African wars, the beginning of the trend of enormous income disparity, & the seeds of Taliban/AlQaeda in Afganistan
A great American poet who will be remembered (thanks to the eulogizing of the media) as just another self-destructive dope-addicted black man. How tragic for us! Edgar Allen Poe, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, etc, are all remembered for the legacy of greatest they added to America's literary treasures. Each might well have been described by their addictions, but were not. They are each allowed their complexity. So sad!
A great American poet who will be remembered (thanks to the eulogizing of the media) as just another self-destructive dope-addicted black man. How tragic for us! Edgar Allen Poe, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, etc, are all remembered for the legacy of greatest they added to America's literary treasures. Each might well have been described by their addictions, but were not. They are each allowed their complexity. So sad!
One of the most clever and incisive commentary about the Reagan era. Thank you Bro Gil for enriching our lives. Peace, I wish you peace, now that you're back in Grandma's hands.
The Rockefeller family own controlling interest in the financial, insurance and real estate sectors of the economy, namely Citibank and JP Morgan Chase as well as Standard Oil (Exxon, Standard Oil of Ohio, etc) Google under "Rockefeller Family"
@DAngelo136 Of course, I know who the Rockefellers are and what they control, I just didn't know what G-S.H. specifically meant by "transportation furnished by the David Rockefeller remote control corporation." Any ideas?
@SEMVienna He means they were among the corporate interests supporting Reagan hoping to control him like someone would control the channels on a television using a remote control.
@3kingkool I kind of figured that it was meant so generally. But I started to look deeper and found out about the President's Commission on Executive Exchange (actually started by Carter) with which Reagan and Rockefeller laid the foundations of the revolving door of corporate influence in the government as well as the dissemination of insider government info to the private sector. Check it out! The Commission ended with Papa Bush, under curious corrupt circumstances.
Anybody know anything about the "David Rockefeller Remote Control Corporation" reference @ 7:49 ? Brilliant: "Why wait 'til 1984, when you can panic now and avoid the rush?"
Before RAP sunk to the celebration of gutterhood rage & revenge of brothers killing brothers, Gil Scott Heron looked beyond and saw the real ENEMY of the people. RIP, poet and artist and visionary, Mr Gil Scott Heron.
"The monkey was a'ight. The monkey was cool." Heron's rants wouldn't be half as entertaining without the sharp jokes for sure, but silly ad-libs like this are what make him a genius.
Saw him at a small club (seating of about 100) in 83. He was between shows in Denver and somewhere else. It was Jerry Valdez' Comedy Club in Colorado Springs. The first thing I remember is that it was a really good show. The second thing, is that it was a very uncomfy place for three white people to be.
more than 30 years ago i heared this song for the first time in a club and absolutely went CRAAAZYYY about that pumping groove, perfect for dancing.much later i realized what he was telling (germans don't listen to english lyrics very often) * ;-)*that was way back when hiphop was cool and important.
Gil Scott Heron is one of the grandfathers of hip hop / rap. He is an activist musician most wise from the 70s and 80s. Always a revolutionary radical with a true humanist world view. I heard his voice in the 80s, along with Malcolm X and the Last Poets and it raised my consciousness about the need and our ability to change the world. I was moved by his song to Jose Campos Torres, a Chicano killed by police in Houston in 1977 and they were fined $2 for violating his civil rights
@maiwandwal so cool. dropping some serious knowledge, but still has a twinkle in his eye! I discovered this on napster way back in the day, but to see him deliver it...wow. That's one cool cat.
Nostalgia, that's what we want, the good old days when we gave'em hell. When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something with it. To a time when movies were in black and white and so was everything else....
been lookin for this, had it on a cassette tape for years, would love to own it on vinyl. the grandfather of rap, saw him in hyde park london @ a rally for south africa
This work is very important, am sorry that a lot of young people are still a sleep on Brother Gil Scott for he has a very important place in African-American music and art
@sekouche I agree with you 100%. There is whole generation of young people who are not politically informed or interested in the current or future state of our affairs.
Yeah, the same shit has been happening since right around the American Civil War and we love it so fucking much we take the show on the road to Iraq or to Afghanistan or to Yemen or Iran, anywhere we can do all over a-fuckingen.
hes soo cool cooler than cool , out of all the singers and voices him marvin gaye donny hathaway, maurice white best voices hes up there
Marcus538 3 weeks ago
Noooooooo!!!!! It cuts out RIGHT BEFORE the killer chorus! Please somebody find the complete take of this sensational live footage of B Movie and POST IT!
1mikecoll 1 month ago
2 people who watched this video rather want to be the stars in an Oscar winner.
RustumK 3 months ago
going bed on this, legend....
funkyflautist 3 months ago
Saw him in 1983 in a small comedy club - he had an open night between two bigger venues. It was interesting being the only white table in the club.
Oldguywithanosering 3 months ago
saw this guy when I was 18 in Liverpool England, Great memories,
The911fella 4 months ago
Great guy, managed to make fun of America as a heroin addict...! Oh yeah, let's make some excuses for his bad behavior you goobers.
LowBid86 4 months ago
is not complete... the video
rafraf83 5 months ago
Ronald Reagan made America great again after the disasters of the Carter era, he was NO DOUBT a great President.
Michele640 5 months ago
To my mind, he was anything but a manipulator, he was simply a great President.
Michele640 5 months ago
@Michele640
Ronald Reagan made ignorance cool in America, he was not a Great President
TheNewsoul2 5 months ago 6
Why wait til 1984, you can panic now and avoid the rush!!
AustralianLeprechaun 5 months ago
Fucking amazing
DeleteTheEIite 5 months ago
Can you please write English? Anyway, I repeat that Ronald Reagan was the greatest President in U.S. history in my opinion, and this song (?) is a disgrace.
Michele640 5 months ago
@Michele640 Reagan was a master of propaganda, he convinced the average joe he was for him, while he fucked him straight in the ass, a master manipulator..
DeleteTheEIite 5 months ago
This song is simply scandalous. Ronald Reagan was the best President in U.S. history. Up with America, up with President Reagan! Gil Scott Heron, shame on you, go back into the sewer!
Michele640 5 months ago
@Michele640 De mortuis, nihil nisi bonum.
pipian1 5 months ago
@Michele640
So, freedom speech for everybody, except for the ones you disagree with?
Rottenhaus 5 months ago
in 1981 Gil was talkin about Americas bullshit
3azabb 5 months ago 5
@3azabb and in 2011 it's ALL still true! Some of the names and faces have changed but the bullshit is still the same.
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David Stockman is still around yo people...remember yo this was written int he 80s goddamn it ...its Sept 2011 now
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Great song and artist!
loamsold 5 months ago
Loved it, esp the underscored bass lines...to bring it on home, 30 years still freakin true.
jimnsue50 6 months ago
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Nothing has changed... sad testament to American people living in the past than looking forward to the future.
maxlimbo007 6 months ago
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maxlimbo007 6 months ago
Too good briliant I remember when the Bottle came out , we were all listening to punk that blew every one away one of the best voices there is and what great tracks havent dated a bit, does it all with out doing much
Marcus538 8 months ago
Hard copy of the state of the nation at that time - but still the same ghost in the mashine - Listen to Gil - he knew it all before - check out greece, portugal, ireland, maybe spain, even more so the US - banking makes the world go nuts.
sag1tar1us 8 months ago
Fucking great. What a genius !!
Poltergeist40 8 months ago
sadly most music nowadays seems to be a product of reagan and thatcher. completely unpoliticised, instead about money, narcissism and selfish desires. this is most prevalant in the very genre gil influenced: hip hop and rap. how sad.
KingKonway92 8 months ago
@KingKonway92
Yes, very sad. How good Gil and some other musicians started this and what absolute garbage it is nowadays.
loamsold 5 months ago
cool, thanks
samiwistler 8 months ago
Liked
samiwistler 8 months ago
Sadly his sentiments are still as relevant today as 30 years ago :(
rasx101 8 months ago
Ronald "Rotgut" Reagan aka 666 aka The Ultimate Evil got zero votes; votes go "Up in Smoke" and then are "Lost in Space."
lumpagogo 8 months ago
will you guys stop the chapter and verse stuff you aint got to the c yet...
mxa1axm 8 months ago
Rest in peace, Gil...
MsCallyson 8 months ago
Rest in peace, Gil...
MsCallyson 8 months ago
This was one of his best train of thoughts. Much better than anything else. But not as smooth as Winter in America.
We will all miss him. He was a huge contribution to humanity.
carioca56 9 months ago
The first rapper I ever heard!
hazesbud 9 months ago
THANK YOU for posting this! Brother Gil lives in my heart.
UrBorntoKnowThySelf 9 months ago
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2 people voted for Regan
smello79 9 months ago
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smello79 9 months ago
RIP Gil Scott Heron. Gone too soon.
hsdscsds 9 months ago
R.I.P. you were a true original, you never backed down
Kholley979 9 months ago
yesssssssssss
GunitForLyfe 9 months ago
@Noevaw Unfortunately, the "power" behind Reagan was the Military-Industrial complex, the greedy junk-bond traders and the fascist Christian fanatics who all wanted to exert their evil control over the very (ignorant) "great silent majority" of middle America--the very people who voted him into office, twice! Go figure. Thanks to this "force," we had covert Latin-American & African wars, the beginning of the trend of enormous income disparity, & the seeds of Taliban/AlQaeda in Afganistan
SEMVienna 9 months ago 2
Rest in Peace. Our folks must pay attention. Nothing has changed. Mr. Scott-Heron was a visionary.
NYhistorian 9 months ago
Brother Gil, may you rest in peace. With much love, from all the old school brothers from Harbor City, CA.
zaimne 9 months ago
2 people are total cocks! R.I.P. Mr. Heron! The revolution will not be televised!
P0rn0ralle84 9 months ago
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A great American poet who will be remembered (thanks to the eulogizing of the media) as just another self-destructive dope-addicted black man. How tragic for us! Edgar Allen Poe, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, etc, are all remembered for the legacy of greatest they added to America's literary treasures. Each might well have been described by their addictions, but were not. They are each allowed their complexity. So sad!
brsoskin 9 months ago
A great American poet who will be remembered (thanks to the eulogizing of the media) as just another self-destructive dope-addicted black man. How tragic for us! Edgar Allen Poe, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, etc, are all remembered for the legacy of greatest they added to America's literary treasures. Each might well have been described by their addictions, but were not. They are each allowed their complexity. So sad!
brsoskin 9 months ago 3
@brsoskin We see him for what he was, warts and all, a visionary.
NYhistorian 9 months ago
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So relevant today.
fal2grace 9 months ago
what does he mean with rea-gun ????
CapitanoGUC 9 months ago
@CapitanoGUC Ronald Regan
fal2grace 9 months ago
In Gil Scott Heron we've lost a strong voice for peace, equality, and social justice in America-Peace Brother!
mudwon 9 months ago
Always Keepin' Real....! RIP
chillbone63 9 months ago 17
@chillbone63 He will be missed
jharmon05 9 months ago 12
For 30 years I have been thankful to Gil Scott Heron for his lyrics that absolutely pegged the Retrograde Right in this country:
"Nostalgia -- that's what we want
The good ol' days ...
[Back] to a time when movies were in black and white
And so was everything else."
R.I.P.
substanti8 9 months ago 2
RIP Gil Scott-Heron. You will be missed.... :(
AnneDroid1 9 months ago
This song is as relevant today as it was back then.
bf0rpd 9 months ago 2
@bf0rpd Yes
SarahMcQuaid 9 months ago
word
INHeadKay 9 months ago
RIP GS-H U WILL BE MISSED
stevej85716 9 months ago
A Crying Shame, Another Great Has To Make Their Transition
All the best to you Gil as you have made your transition to join the ancestors in the eternal spiritual realm.
And to your family & love ones, may your spirit continue to provide them with guidance & protection.
FOREVER, GIL!!!!
nelfow 9 months ago
One of the most clever and incisive commentary about the Reagan era. Thank you Bro Gil for enriching our lives. Peace, I wish you peace, now that you're back in Grandma's hands.
martycrow 9 months ago 2
The Rockefeller family own controlling interest in the financial, insurance and real estate sectors of the economy, namely Citibank and JP Morgan Chase as well as Standard Oil (Exxon, Standard Oil of Ohio, etc) Google under "Rockefeller Family"
DAngelo136 9 months ago
@DAngelo136 Of course, I know who the Rockefellers are and what they control, I just didn't know what G-S.H. specifically meant by "transportation furnished by the David Rockefeller remote control corporation." Any ideas?
SEMVienna 9 months ago
@SEMVienna He means they were among the corporate interests supporting Reagan hoping to control him like someone would control the channels on a television using a remote control.
3kingkool 9 months ago
@3kingkool I kind of figured that it was meant so generally. But I started to look deeper and found out about the President's Commission on Executive Exchange (actually started by Carter) with which Reagan and Rockefeller laid the foundations of the revolving door of corporate influence in the government as well as the dissemination of insider government info to the private sector. Check it out! The Commission ended with Papa Bush, under curious corrupt circumstances.
SEMVienna 9 months ago
Anybody know anything about the "David Rockefeller Remote Control Corporation" reference @ 7:49 ? Brilliant: "Why wait 'til 1984, when you can panic now and avoid the rush?"
SEMVienna 9 months ago
Loved this man -- he taught me so much.
wombbat909 9 months ago
Gil, I will miss THEE, thanx for lettin ME hit with U BACK THEN!!
kvnbshprd1 9 months ago
RIP the great Gil Scott-Heron.
rohangb 9 months ago
A brilliant man, a brilliant mind...his relevance for today cannot be denied...third world status ever looming...
aleluya6845 9 months ago
there will be none like you
onlywhenprovoked 9 months ago
R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron. A great poet.
padavidsen 9 months ago
Before RAP sunk to the celebration of gutterhood rage & revenge of brothers killing brothers, Gil Scott Heron looked beyond and saw the real ENEMY of the people. RIP, poet and artist and visionary, Mr Gil Scott Heron.
verbaud 9 months ago 3
rip .
PHAEDRIDER 9 months ago
GIL SCOTT HERON DIED IN MAY 2011 R.I.P.
OldGoldSoul 9 months ago
RIP you will never be forgotten. Thank you for your inspiration, music and honesty
slange71 9 months ago
RIP
mediaploy 9 months ago
RIP GSH. Rest in peace.
Thank you for the music!
billhuston 9 months ago
RIP GSH
jewmaicanman 9 months ago
this is one of gil's best - very relevant to current politics and as the comment above says, "we haven't learned a damn thing"
rest in peace my brother...
planetjeffy 9 months ago
@planetjeffy no doubt. this is definitely what is going on today
NYhistorian 9 months ago
RIP Gil Scott Heron, a true inspirational lyricist and poet
jrb2707 9 months ago
rip
alovelytime 9 months ago
RIP
MrMrill 9 months ago
Ray-gun lol
technologic21 11 months ago
Mr Heron is too cool.
johnnierah 1 year ago
The prophet tells the truth.
1111che 1 year ago 2
Right on the money. Still right on the money.
dondebar 1 year ago
"The monkey was a'ight. The monkey was cool." Heron's rants wouldn't be half as entertaining without the sharp jokes for sure, but silly ad-libs like this are what make him a genius.
satanlivesinmybowels 1 year ago
majoirty - ha ha for Britain, wish I'd seen him live on this tour, sounds fantastic
funkyflautist 1 year ago
REAL RAP,Talking about something !!!!instead of B.S Lil G's s Listen you may learn something!!!
1Tokology 1 year ago
"common sense is at an all-time low"... and this was almost 30 years ago... it's a sad state of affairs that somehow became even sadder......
no1rnbfan 1 year ago
The best damned song about who we are and where we're going of all time. Fantastic!
thelundian 1 year ago
Saw him at a small club (seating of about 100) in 83. He was between shows in Denver and somewhere else. It was Jerry Valdez' Comedy Club in Colorado Springs. The first thing I remember is that it was a really good show. The second thing, is that it was a very uncomfy place for three white people to be.
I'd do it again.
madmanmikey 1 year ago
That damn Alembic.
proctor940 1 year ago 2
hes a legend dosnt get mention as much as he should talk more sense than anyone ive ever heard simple truth
indicahybryd 1 year ago
An omniscient and indelible voice in music and life...
bongoloid77 1 year ago
....got to dance
2KGrind09 1 year ago
this guy is so cool
jgniklas01 1 year ago
genius
darogen 1 year ago
genius
darogen 1 year ago
Play this side by side with Patti Smith's Piss factory, comrades
gerardmanleyh 1 year ago
He'll be missed. I hope his legacy lives on for a very long time.
spleenblender 1 year ago
DEEP! LOVE IT!
smokeykisha 1 year ago
more than 30 years ago i heared this song for the first time in a club and absolutely went CRAAAZYYY about that pumping groove, perfect for dancing.much later i realized what he was telling (germans don't listen to english lyrics very often) * ;-)*that was way back when hiphop was cool and important.
MrBassSlapp 1 year ago
Thes words are so powerful
Margue03 1 year ago
supercool performance from black wax dvd 1982...10 beans on amazon folks
MrJusticejohn 1 year ago
Gil Scott Heron is one of the grandfathers of hip hop / rap. He is an activist musician most wise from the 70s and 80s. Always a revolutionary radical with a true humanist world view. I heard his voice in the 80s, along with Malcolm X and the Last Poets and it raised my consciousness about the need and our ability to change the world. I was moved by his song to Jose Campos Torres, a Chicano killed by police in Houston in 1977 and they were fined $2 for violating his civil rights
BronxRaven 1 year ago
How cooool is this guy!
maiwandwal 1 year ago
@maiwandwal so cool. dropping some serious knowledge, but still has a twinkle in his eye! I discovered this on napster way back in the day, but to see him deliver it...wow. That's one cool cat.
t3rr3nc388 1 year ago
@t3rr3nc388 "...napster way back in the day..."
That would be the Napster founded in 1999/2000? Way back... Hilarious.
ArchangelBoab 1 year ago 3
@ArchangelBoab dafuck is your point?? Get a life, troll.
t3rr3nc388 1 year ago
This is the kind of speech we need to hear more often nowadays. And by the way, cool music too.
VinceBigjohn 1 year ago 2
Nostalgia, that's what we want, the good old days when we gave'em hell. When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something with it. To a time when movies were in black and white and so was everything else....
lordnigey 1 year ago 3
Holy shit this video needs more views
reljin2 1 year ago 2
Hell Yeah!
Gil Scot Heron for President !
Dxpro007 1 year ago 31
He's got my vote!
jharmon05 1 year ago 15
@jharmon05 and mine 8)) xx
stixnicky 1 year ago
@Dxpro007 HELL YEAH! I AGREE.
gwensanders37 1 year ago
HELL YEAH! I AGREE.
gwensanders37 1 year ago
@Dxpro007 Yeah he get my white vote
ellmiguel 1 year ago
In a word " GREAT !!!!!!! "
sgoughsr 1 year ago 3
Nobody has learned a damned thing since this song.
instantdogma 2 years ago 66
@instantdogma: men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, and that, is the most important lesson of history.
innozenzfrek 9 months ago
@instantdogma damn right just the same old shite with different arseholes......... GSH was real damn real
bawdynapa 8 months ago
You ain't seen nothin' yet, till you have heard The Last Poets. We had some great social justice minstrels back in my day!
chgosatrap 2 years ago
been lookin for this, had it on a cassette tape for years, would love to own it on vinyl. the grandfather of rap, saw him in hyde park london @ a rally for south africa
shemanic1 2 years ago 3
Yeah... I remember what he said about the Ray-Gun...
...he MEANTIT!
takeonparis 2 years ago 3
Father of RAP
medialiss 2 years ago 3
This work is very important, am sorry that a lot of young people are still a sleep on Brother Gil Scott for he has a very important place in African-American music and art
sekouche 2 years ago 38
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I voted for skippy mcnigger
Things are so much better now
ichbineintoober 2 years ago
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"Brother Gil Scott for he has a very important place in African-American music and art "
Shorten that to:
Brother Gil Scott for he has a very important place in music and art .
Fantastic work.
instantdogma 2 years ago
@sekouche I agree with you 100%. There is whole generation of young people who are not politically informed or interested in the current or future state of our affairs.
bonedaddy199 1 year ago
the same shit is happening now with 2010 less than a week away
3azabb 2 years ago 6
Yeah, the same shit has been happening since right around the American Civil War and we love it so fucking much we take the show on the road to Iraq or to Afghanistan or to Yemen or Iran, anywhere we can do all over a-fuckingen.
guywalker29 2 years ago 3
Bottoms Up This Rapp is Real Deep!
I Like It Mr Big Mack
Phlexxon 2 years ago 2
gil scott the greatest living legend of the 1970s very focus gandfather of rap
jonnyjonesify 2 years ago 4
gil scott the greatest ooet of all time very focus on the issues of 1970s
jonnyjonesify 2 years ago
Schade, hier Untertitel in Deutsch wären genial.
fastiglioso 2 years ago