long before MTV and such, i was their biggest fan in the 70's, 80's, and i thought i had bought all of their music available, i guess, i was wrong...lol...and now in 'youtube' time, i have 2 find out , i dont know shit!!!! well, huhuhuhuhuhuhu....<3
Ralph was responsible for alot of ewf's drumming but might not get the credit cause he's out front alot he played on alot of groove's as much as Maurice and Fred!
This reminds me of a concert at HBCU Howard U. probably 1972-73 they opened with the Kalimba fog machines ,strobe lights and slow motion movements it was unforgettable what a great band....!!!!
It's a funny story behind it but the short version is GEORGE FAISON (choreograhpher) was working with them for the GOTTA GET YOU INTO MY LIFE video and said that's where he wanted him...and that's how it happened.
i remember seeing them at the watts summer festival in 1973 also. i actually liked Evil and thought should have headlined instead of head to the sky album. Dont get me wrong head to the sky is deep, just Evil moves me.
EWF before the Phoenix horns were added. I wish they would have remade this cut with horns added. Not that I am hating on the cowbell and the kalimba. These were the formative years.
3:14 .....left hand guitar player ...with the blue shirt....& my mans with the purple fit on.......foot work with the guitar playing simultaneously.....what ....is they jamming...y'all?
3:14....guitar player ...left handed..light blue shirt......& my mans with the purple fit......showing their famous foot work while playing their guitars is they jamming?
The ways of the Maurice had a special way of listening to the Spirit and letting it guide him to lead the band to make all the great music they have over the last 30+ years. As fans, we should keep these songs in our heart as they truly are a gift.
EWF and Parliment Funkedelic had the Best live shows and the Quality of the music was amazing. EWF was more Afro Spiritually Funky with a lot of class. It was the Best of Times for AFROJAZZSOULROCK and R&B
Funkadelic had the worst live shows, aside from the space ship, they couldn't play. They were the worst and most horrible band I ever heard live. Funkadelic doesn't compare to EWF in the slightest.
@1980Triumph Ive seen EWF and P Funk, I must say P Funk was the BOMB, ive been to many concerts and they were the best performers, people of all different ages were gettin down, EWF was dope but not as funky, they performed more of their love rnb jams
My father recorded this entire performance on VHS...its amazing...plus an extremely moving "head to the sky".....the white people in the crowd arent even moving tho...almost like they're watching ballet or something.....its odd....because I cant listen to this without getting up to get down!
@MzPoole63 God first? Dude, they worship the sun and some other planets. It can be seen in all their album covers and heard in there lyrics. Never saw another artist play a kalimba though and wondering why not. Such a beautiful sounding instrument.
Love, love, love EWF--takes me back to Marverick's Flat in L.A. Verdine is the embodiment of someone that is totally PASSIONATE about their career. If only we could all love our jobs the way he does. Love you Verdine; miss you Maurice.
I was an usher at the Norfolk Scope around 1973. EWF released Head to the Sky. They were the "backup band" for a white rock group called Uriah Heep. There was a full house, a sea of white folk. I'm not sure if they knew EWF. There was a small section of Black students from Norfolk State University in the nose bleed sets. EWF turned the house out. It was wild!!! Uriah Heep played just one song and the building emptied out. The people came, got there monies worth and left. Uriah Heep played on.
je pense que e.w.f est le meilleur groupe du monde car il a su creer une musique riche pour ses rythms sescourants ses influences ses prises de risques ils ont grandi a travers leur parcours et si on ecoute album apres album ils laissent une bible musicale riche et merci pour les avoir vu sur scene grandiose et merci pour votre generosite
I love watching large bands with a lot of members playing so well together. It's awesome. Everybody playing some instrument, even if it's something looks like two bricks sliding together to make one noise. Like that cowbell which is critical to the feel of the song.
I remember in 1975 when I was y.o. for my B-day my Aunt (a major EWF fan) bought me a Kalimba just before "that's the way of the world" took off and made EWF superstars, that Christmas kids in my neighborhoods got Kalimbas trying to be Maurice and got aching fingers in 1976 and wished we could play as melodically as Maurice and the Boys.
Earth Wind and Fire is based on Christian background. Everybody in the band was Christian. God blessed Maurice White. Phillip Bailey was blessed with a good voice. Larry Dunn with his mad keyboard skills and everybody. EWF is the heart of all music.
@BBT609 Actually not everybody in the band was Christian..According to Phillip some members were Muslim but that doesn't matter..It shows that with love , hard work , and a little common sense, people from different faiths can work together...Nothing wrong with diversity....
It breaks my heart to see where R&B music has come to today. There is no comparison to the music of EWF (or the '70's in general), and this performance justifies it. AWESOME!!!
Towards the end there you can clearly see the group getting into that effortless quasi-spiritual "zone" where they're tapping into something greater than themselves, which allows them to do *anything*, like dance around like maniacs while playing, without skipping a beat or misplacing a note. Truly an extraordinary thing to see.
Can we say a jam session at its finest! All of these young artist out here need to take note this is how you perform, with energy, passion, heart and most of all talent! It actually takes skill to do what these guys are doing, no computer generated beats, sounds, melodies, instruments, or singing here, nothing but pure talent. And Mr. Verdine White is making that guitar sing right now!
It beautiful jazz! Have you ever heard of jazz house compositions Valerio Minicillo? The First, Crazy Funky, wow! There is a wonderful video, which is LA MAGIA DEL SAX !
@tommies09 the kalimba was used as a voice in the music . If you listen to the album version , it sounds like it's talking . listen to drum song on the Open our eyes album
Real Talk! When you listen to this music-One song! you felt like you got your money's worth when you purchased the album! When you listened to the whole album, it felt like you went on a vacation without leaving your house! That is the difference between these classics, and the albums of today!
Love the kalimba, it's a great use of this traditional African instrument in a modern funk/R&B dance song
In the early 70's there was a great resurgence of African sounds in US soul and funk music - like Stevie Wonder coming out with Talking Book - these were the days when the Civil Rights Act had been passed and everybody was partying in celebration, when Black was Beautiful for the first time in America -- EWF did a lot of the sound track for those times
I tried to upload two of their very early tracks called "Beauty" and "Help somebody" but they were removed by Youtube for copyright reasons - Shame because are EW&F classics in my opinion
The Best Group Ever BAR NONE!!! WHY? This Band Has always put GOD First . There,s always been a message of Love in Their Music. That,s why they were Blessed so Long.
@orlandoclaxton This is real music, so real that when you bought an album you could listen to the whole album and be pleased. Also the radio stations would play all of the songs back then here in Philly
@orlandoclaxton What a load of crap. Are you seriously suggesting that beliving in a deity turns you into better musicians or gives you more success? Stop making trite claims for your religion.
@swami1 I wasn't - I was attacking orlandoclaxton for claiming that it was because the band put "God first", that that was why they were succesful. That's taking the genius of the music away from Maurice, Philip, Verdine et al and doesn't say anything for the sheer hard work they put into it. As for insulting other people's beliefs, why not?
responding bigbully.... yeah i can. i played for numerous local bands and groups back then myself and the kalimba was only one the instruments that i played. are you auditioning? :)
Maurice white & philip bailey Evil, runnin through our brain, We and evils about the same. Bad blood through our body flows, Wheres the love nobody knows. Beauty in our face you see, Tryin to hide all our misery, but Evil, runnin through my brain, Me and evil are about the same. Evil... in our life Evil... causin strife
does anybody have a copy of this whole show ??? they also do power of the last days and time album . looking for concerts by them during this period .
Earth at their best .The 70 s were a great time for Black Music It is the musicians that s what you are missing in much of todays music.HELLO the musicians !! OK. Hip Hop would have been better if there were bands backing it up Technology has no real soul.
Hip-hop ruined R&B.... That's a fact!! The radio starions that play R&B are few a far in between... Look at all the singers the sang in the 80's and mid 90's..They're puttmg out new mosic with no where to play it...Hip-Hop killed R&B!!!
I get the impression, rightly or wrongly that you never really listened to rap in its Golden Age. But check Tribe Called Quest, PE, NWA, GangStarr, Pete Rock and CL Smooth etc. For people in my generation, these guys brought the old stuff back. Thanks to these guys exposing me to the old music I now own a lot of it.
Those dudes you remembered actually grew up during the EWF, Ohio players period which is why they sampled quite a few from that period. They made people do research and in essence brought them new fans. TCQ actually got me into Rotary Connection (minnie rimperton's old group before she went solo)
If I want to bring the "old stuff" back , I'll listen to an oldies station or play my old albums...I want to hear "creative" music , not a sample of something I heard years ago...Rapper are a dime a dozen , musicians are not...
Muscians and rappers are a dime a dozen. Do you know how many cats I know who are drummers, bassist, and keyboardist. As Fred White told me once, "Anybody can record a song, but it takes innovation to create a timeless hit." You shouldn't trash a genre which you yourself know little about. Disco spinning off Hip Hip...lol!!! Man you have made me laugh. There are many books about Hip Hop culture. Read one. Record Excutives control the show anyways man. How do you think "Let's Groove" came to be?
First of all you are not a musician so spare me the "experience" talk..And we are not talking about timeless hits we are talking about music...Can you play any..??? I doubt it..If you could you would understand what it takes to be a musician..Like I said before, it takes little or no talent to be a rapper..Shaq, Iverson, Kobe all had rap CDS but could they play with Herbie, Miles, War, Mandrill....Hell no...Why..?? Because it takes more then just yelling in a microphone to be a musician...
By the way , your comment "Musicians and rappers are a dime a dozen" just proves how little you know about music..Try "being" a musician and see how much of yourself you have to put in to it...go ahead try it...
That's fine but like I like said, for people in my generation, its rappers who exposed many people to this music that you love and kept it alive. Younger people don't have the ability to just play "old albums" because they weren't born when this old stuff was produced.
Try to be more open-minded. There are plenty of "dime a dozen" musicians and there are plenty of creative rappers.
It's much easier to be a rapper then a musician, if you your a person that actually studied music you would understand. And you can always "buy" old CDs and albums. People do it everyday. I'm open minded about real music not fake sampled nonsense...
Happy tears everytime I see this. Pure music celebration.
EWF forever! Thank you Maurice.
pavawa66 2 weeks ago
this was my jam in 1973....love ewf.
bigdsing1 2 weeks ago
wow! I can't remember when I last heard this, HELL yeah, you go Romy!!
2010intrigued 2 weeks ago
long before MTV and such, i was their biggest fan in the 70's, 80's, and i thought i had bought all of their music available, i guess, i was wrong...lol...and now in 'youtube' time, i have 2 find out , i dont know shit!!!! well, huhuhuhuhuhuhu....<3
barosa13 2 weeks ago
THANKS YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING. LOOOVE MAURICE.
NJOY1960 1 month ago
All an All ! Grazie from Italy
Gelsyviolet 1 month ago
Incredible!!
doctorcheriwatts 2 months ago
Verdine is one of my favorite musicians...but he could never be my dentist...a little tooo much energy.....lol
freein2339 2 months ago
Ralph was responsible for alot of ewf's drumming but might not get the credit cause he's out front alot he played on alot of groove's as much as Maurice and Fred!
Rahnewmoney 2 months ago
Ralph stop playing drums, because Maurice wanted him up front with him, because of his harmony. I think!
pmartymar 3 months ago
pure magic, a forerunner of their time
gozanelli 3 months ago
i love this
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sapiscnn 3 months ago
This reminds me of a concert at HBCU Howard U. probably 1972-73 they opened with the Kalimba fog machines ,strobe lights and slow motion movements it was unforgettable what a great band....!!!!
lilhurk53 3 months ago
OOoooo Hell to da yeah... goodness gracious... love this song.
MultiplicityMe2 4 months ago
HELL YEAH!
PhuckHue2 4 months ago
@PhuckHue2 HELL YEA BROTHER!!!
n64wilbert 3 months ago
i love the latin beat...they truly are a great band
sassi90071 5 months ago
Ralph Johnson was solo on the drums in this footage. Great song!
pmartymar 5 months ago
@pmartymar Why did Ralph srop playing drums? Anyone know?
bassistdc 5 months ago
@bassistdc I don't know if he is still living or not, but it is time for the E.W. &. F Movie, & where are they at now!
pmartymar 4 months ago
@bassistdc
It's a funny story behind it but the short version is GEORGE FAISON (choreograhpher) was working with them for the GOTTA GET YOU INTO MY LIFE video and said that's where he wanted him...and that's how it happened.
RoninAli1 4 months ago
WOW ALL THAT'S JUMPING AROUND AND STILL KEEPING THE TIME I JUST LOVE IT!!
brokerightfoot1 5 months ago
x3 I Love 1973! x3 ...the year of my rebirth... x3
TheIlluminatus666 5 months ago
i remember seeing them at the watts summer festival in 1973 also. i actually liked Evil and thought should have headlined instead of head to the sky album. Dont get me wrong head to the sky is deep, just Evil moves me.
joeprojoe1 6 months ago
EWF BAD BACK IN THE DAY TRYING TO HIDE ALL MY MISERIES
nurse19731 6 months ago
this was the badest group in the 70's every record was a hit on every album!!!KEEP YOUR HEAD TO THE SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nurse19731 6 months ago
Maurice & Verdine White had one more brother in the group I think he played the drums or guiter?
pmartymar 6 months ago
@pmartymar Their brother is Fred White, who is also a drummer like Maurice. He didn't join until 1975
solesirching73 6 months ago
@solesirching73 That's right Fred White I wonder why he doesn't tour with the group now!
pmartymar 5 months ago
@solesirching73 I saw EWF in the summer of 1974 and Fred was touring with the band then...
freein2339 3 months ago
EWF before the Phoenix horns were added. I wish they would have remade this cut with horns added. Not that I am hating on the cowbell and the kalimba. These were the formative years.
Kai3807 6 months ago
Listen to the Spirit, and let it guide your talents.
Markcafl 6 months ago
Verdine White is one of the most underrated bass players in funk/soul history.
tumrani 7 months ago
Those 5 dislikes are EVIL!
jazzyjay334 8 months ago
This is for sometimes350, that guitar player's name is Al McKay
saxman2256 8 months ago
LOVE it love it love it!! "Maybe...if we'd learn to pray....life would give us....sunshine-y days!" Wow.
necey902 8 months ago
Still buzzing from the 6/1/2011 Nokia L.A. 40th anniversary concert. They jam for 2 hours straight. No Maurice but it was off the chain.
eyeremeber 9 months ago
3:14 .....left hand guitar player ...with the blue shirt....& my mans with the purple fit on.......foot work with the guitar playing simultaneously.....what ....is they jamming...y'all?
sometimes350 9 months ago in playlist Andrea
@sometimes350 His name is Al McKay
saxman2256 8 months ago
Phillip is feeling that cowbell... I need more cowbell!
erika2012vsu 10 months ago 11
@erika2012vsu
3:14....guitar player ...left handed..light blue shirt......& my mans with the purple fit......showing their famous foot work while playing their guitars is they jamming?
sometimes350 9 months ago in playlist Andrea
Maurice White is the truth....Evil was the jam!
sexsavannah43 10 months ago
The ways of the Maurice had a special way of listening to the Spirit and letting it guide him to lead the band to make all the great music they have over the last 30+ years. As fans, we should keep these songs in our heart as they truly are a gift.
macsaadiq 10 months ago
They don't make brothers like this anymore.
TheRecordplayers 11 months ago
We love you MAURICE!
MOREHOUSE80 11 months ago
best band ever!
jfsgro 11 months ago
I've always loved & admired this group, this song, their message!!! PUT GOD FIRST!!!
ddhtpope 1 year ago
EWF and Parliment Funkedelic had the Best live shows and the Quality of the music was amazing. EWF was more Afro Spiritually Funky with a lot of class. It was the Best of Times for AFROJAZZSOULROCK and R&B
BIGPREZY 1 year ago
@BIGPREZY
Funkadelic had the worst live shows, aside from the space ship, they couldn't play. They were the worst and most horrible band I ever heard live. Funkadelic doesn't compare to EWF in the slightest.
1980Triumph 1 year ago
@1980Triumph Ive seen EWF and P Funk, I must say P Funk was the BOMB, ive been to many concerts and they were the best performers, people of all different ages were gettin down, EWF was dope but not as funky, they performed more of their love rnb jams
sinanbrannon 1 year ago
GET IT Y"ALL!!! This is REAL Music right here...REAL Performing!
MsTexas73 1 year ago
the best group ever
jstewart9 1 year ago
My father recorded this entire performance on VHS...its amazing...plus an extremely moving "head to the sky".....the white people in the crowd arent even moving tho...almost like they're watching ballet or something.....its odd....because I cant listen to this without getting up to get down!
mixedbreed19 1 year ago
we miss you maurice! This is the original group
MrKeithMJones 1 year ago
Pure classic,Pure EARTH,WIND AND FIRE.what an awesome performance this was and they're sounding real good live.
MrNathan791 1 year ago
I am still lovin it 2011. Yes always a message and God First.
They are jammin check out those moves. CLASSIC
MzPoole63 1 year ago
I am lovin it 2011 -God First
MzPoole63 1 year ago
@MzPoole63 God first? Dude, they worship the sun and some other planets. It can be seen in all their album covers and heard in there lyrics. Never saw another artist play a kalimba though and wondering why not. Such a beautiful sounding instrument.
out42c 2 months ago
Work them shoulders...ressie...lol with yo fine goodlooking self..Adrienne..from Texas
adrienne071 1 year ago
my favorite ewf tune lve the latin feel
dizyootum 1 year ago
I think is my favorite of all their fantastic songs-although its so hard to pick a favorite with so many awesome songs!
pabc 1 year ago
EWF the Great ones in 70s splendid music fussion fun jazz brazilian. Old times better times with groups like this.
jorgeajamesg 1 year ago
Love, love, love EWF--takes me back to Marverick's Flat in L.A. Verdine is the embodiment of someone that is totally PASSIONATE about their career. If only we could all love our jobs the way he does. Love you Verdine; miss you Maurice.
yogini34 1 year ago
at the start phil looks like a kid on x mass morning ,so happy cant wait to get started with the music,
dizyootum 1 year ago
That's how its done!
evanjawharp 1 year ago
Man this still sounds good as the first time it came out!
poppingjaz 1 year ago
VERDINE IS A BAD, BAD BOY ON BASS! BUT DANCES LIKE CHICKEN WITH PALSEY!
PhillyGregA 1 year ago
I really miss the music of the mid 60s to the late 70s...before disco came out with the same beat...
freein2339 1 year ago
this is pure church music
VoMuzara 1 year ago
@VoMuzara Amen....
freein2339 1 year ago
wow, verdine is moving and rocking hard. forget tae-bo, some tae-bass will get your ass in shape!
raddehc 1 year ago
@raddehc I love Verdine. with all that energy....but...he would never be my dentist...:)
freein2339 1 year ago
I was an usher at the Norfolk Scope around 1973. EWF released Head to the Sky. They were the "backup band" for a white rock group called Uriah Heep. There was a full house, a sea of white folk. I'm not sure if they knew EWF. There was a small section of Black students from Norfolk State University in the nose bleed sets. EWF turned the house out. It was wild!!! Uriah Heep played just one song and the building emptied out. The people came, got there monies worth and left. Uriah Heep played on.
omoroomoro 1 year ago
@omoroomoro GREAT STORY! I SAW THE GEORGE CLINTON GROUPS AT THE SCOPE IN 79. GREAT SHOW! DIDN'T LIKE THE PARKING!
PhillyGregA 1 year ago
I am A Devoted E.W.F. SUPER FAN!
littledavid1000 1 year ago
One of the best groups ever. From the day of real talent when u would sind, dance, and play instruments. No one does that now. No talent.
tomnatwil 1 year ago
je pense que e.w.f est le meilleur groupe du monde car il a su creer une musique riche pour ses rythms sescourants ses influences ses prises de risques ils ont grandi a travers leur parcours et si on ecoute album apres album ils laissent une bible musicale riche et merci pour les avoir vu sur scene grandiose et merci pour votre generosite
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Hixichin 1 year ago
What ever that wasinstrument maurice was playing he tore it a new ass.
Destroe1 1 year ago
@Destroe1 It's called a Kalimba. Like a little thumb piano. African.
PeterMayer 1 year ago
I love watching large bands with a lot of members playing so well together. It's awesome. Everybody playing some instrument, even if it's something looks like two bricks sliding together to make one noise. Like that cowbell which is critical to the feel of the song.
KuttyJoe 1 year ago
Now that's what I'm talkin' bout! EWF could bring that analog funk. They would join Ramsey Lewis for Sun Goddess the next year.Real music y'all.
FIGHTSEEN 1 year ago
I remember in 1975 when I was y.o. for my B-day my Aunt (a major EWF fan) bought me a Kalimba just before "that's the way of the world" took off and made EWF superstars, that Christmas kids in my neighborhoods got Kalimbas trying to be Maurice and got aching fingers in 1976 and wished we could play as melodically as Maurice and the Boys.
TheNewsoul2 1 year ago
My talented brotha's.
MsMadame 1 year ago
Earth Wind and Fire is based on Christian background. Everybody in the band was Christian. God blessed Maurice White. Phillip Bailey was blessed with a good voice. Larry Dunn with his mad keyboard skills and everybody. EWF is the heart of all music.
BBT609 1 year ago
@BBT609 Actually not everybody in the band was Christian..According to Phillip some members were Muslim but that doesn't matter..It shows that with love , hard work , and a little common sense, people from different faiths can work together...Nothing wrong with diversity....
freein2339 1 year ago 3
@freein2339
I think Maurice Later changed his religion from christian to Buddhist.
brainysnaeha 2 weeks ago
Listening to EW&F wakes up the African spirit in me.
creaturebotman 1 year ago 4
@newmonii Thanks again , who'd eva known cow bells could sound so good except in the hands of such talented artists
rochelle61able 1 year ago
@newmonii
rochelle61able 1 year ago
@newmonii Thanks again , who'd a eva known a cow bell could sound so good in the hands of such good music artists such as earth wind and fire
rochelle61able 1 year ago
What are those instruments that Maurice and Philip are beating with what looks like a drum stick ?
rochelle61able 1 year ago
Simply the best!
trezlorenz 1 year ago
oh helll yea gettn sampled
MEXIMUMBLER 1 year ago
e.w.f ur evilllllll!!!
mic283 1 year ago
It breaks my heart to see where R&B music has come to today. There is no comparison to the music of EWF (or the '70's in general), and this performance justifies it. AWESOME!!!
acarterjazz 1 year ago
Towards the end there you can clearly see the group getting into that effortless quasi-spiritual "zone" where they're tapping into something greater than themselves, which allows them to do *anything*, like dance around like maniacs while playing, without skipping a beat or misplacing a note. Truly an extraordinary thing to see.
mtopper66 1 year ago
@mtopper66 Spirituality, philosophy fused with jazz, rock, and soul!!! What can you say? Who could compete with that these days?
nutothis1 1 year ago
Can we say a jam session at its finest! All of these young artist out here need to take note this is how you perform, with energy, passion, heart and most of all talent! It actually takes skill to do what these guys are doing, no computer generated beats, sounds, melodies, instruments, or singing here, nothing but pure talent. And Mr. Verdine White is making that guitar sing right now!
BlaqueReign25 1 year ago
jammed so hard at the end it was amazing
poncho2211 1 year ago
Good Evil!
13ewf 1 year ago
phillip bailey facial says it all
oleskooltj 1 year ago
Now that's how you make music!
oleskooltj 1 year ago
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It beautiful jazz! Have you ever heard of jazz house compositions Valerio Minicillo? The First, Crazy Funky, wow! There is a wonderful video, which is LA MAGIA DEL SAX !
MrAlexander3631 1 year ago
Verdine White was a fool(in a good way) back then too!!! lol.
DJYO545i 1 year ago
Great live version of a timeless classic. I will always love EWF.
Boopey61 1 year ago
Fantastic!
themightycelestial 2 years ago
One of my absolute favorites!!
pabc 2 years ago
One my favorite EWF hits!
DocCheGuevara 2 years ago
me too che , hear the clave !!!!
dizyootum 2 years ago
Earth, Wind, and Fire! Thats all I need to hear! That sound is stii unique & FRESH, some thirty-odd yrs later! love you!
sunnigarner 2 years ago
Awsome group classic song that kalamba wasn't nothing nice.
tommies09 2 years ago
@tommies09 the kalimba was used as a voice in the music . If you listen to the album version , it sounds like it's talking . listen to drum song on the Open our eyes album
tubagee 2 years ago
Hey ain't nothing evil about 1973!
No way!!!!!
2blakandbold 2 years ago 21
The music totally so way out front. The magic is just flowing. Even the quiet spaces between notes have a fabulous vibe.
hitomusic 2 years ago
Nothing soothes the troubled soul live some EWF.
Just feel the tension fade away...
Alexltavares 2 years ago
Real Talk! When you listen to this music-One song! you felt like you got your money's worth when you purchased the album! When you listened to the whole album, it felt like you went on a vacation without leaving your house! That is the difference between these classics, and the albums of today!
arobinson68 2 years ago 2
More cowbell! :)
Love the kalimba, it's a great use of this traditional African instrument in a modern funk/R&B dance song
In the early 70's there was a great resurgence of African sounds in US soul and funk music - like Stevie Wonder coming out with Talking Book - these were the days when the Civil Rights Act had been passed and everybody was partying in celebration, when Black was Beautiful for the first time in America -- EWF did a lot of the sound track for those times
SupernalOne 2 years ago 2
See, that,s the Elements in full effect. Great memories in that footage. Thanks for sharing this nugget.
adeezy06 2 years ago
Memories for sure!!!
UncleOman 2 years ago
this song reminds me of being 3 and my father playing this from super bad is back from k-tel
grimms34 2 years ago 3
Maurice White ROCKS that Kalimba soooo Fuckin crucial!
illroy77 2 years ago 4
I tried to upload two of their very early tracks called "Beauty" and "Help somebody" but they were removed by Youtube for copyright reasons - Shame because are EW&F classics in my opinion
kalcom2 2 years ago 2
i love help somebody
dizyootum 2 years ago
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kalcom2 2 years ago
The Best Group Ever BAR NONE!!! WHY? This Band Has always put GOD First . There,s always been a message of Love in Their Music. That,s why they were Blessed so Long.
orlandoclaxton 2 years ago 28
TRUE THAT!!!
KashanRamahn 2 years ago
agree 100%
HEATWAVE79 2 years ago
@orlandoclaxton they put kemet/ancient egypt first which god? amen rah
it's all in the art work,not just a design it's a message to the black man,the true god of our people. amen rah has blessed them in abundance.
amharjew1 1 year ago
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@orlandoclaxton: A M E N !!!!!! :-)
noneofyourbizzness 1 year ago
@orlandoclaxton This is real music, so real that when you bought an album you could listen to the whole album and be pleased. Also the radio stations would play all of the songs back then here in Philly
ralphslim 1 year ago
@orlandoclaxton What a load of crap. Are you seriously suggesting that beliving in a deity turns you into better musicians or gives you more success? Stop making trite claims for your religion.
Pezzab5 8 months ago
@Pezzab5 And YOU stop insulting other people's beliefs.
swami1 7 months ago
@swami1 I wasn't - I was attacking orlandoclaxton for claiming that it was because the band put "God first", that that was why they were succesful. That's taking the genius of the music away from Maurice, Philip, Verdine et al and doesn't say anything for the sheer hard work they put into it. As for insulting other people's beliefs, why not?
Pezzab5 7 months ago
responding bigbully.... yeah i can. i played for numerous local bands and groups back then myself and the kalimba was only one the instruments that i played. are you auditioning? :)
oldschoolsituationz 2 years ago
They were ridiculously good!!
worotan 2 years ago
nihowmache 2 years ago
Does a rapper know what a cow bell is - just a thought
kalcom2 2 years ago 2
nah they dont,the cowbwll is a gift from the Mambo Kings!!!!
dizyootum 2 years ago
Is there anybody out there that can play the kalimba like Maurice,BET NOT.
bigbullydog1 2 years ago
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thats funny! probably not....
oldschoolsituationz 2 years ago
EWF are amazing.
LGLG69 2 years ago
Musicianship, that's what EWF stand for! It's missing with today's performers, but the ones who mastered it are still performing.
gump489 2 years ago
What an inspiring piece of music -- much love Romynastore.... with a sense of humor -- give me more cowbell!!
Tontobuddy2 2 years ago
WHERE IN THE WORLD DID FIND THIS!?!?!?! FANTASTIC and thank you SOO much for posting!!!! I am completely FLOORED!!!!! BLESS YOU BLESS YOU!!!
thebigguy1 2 years ago 2
yessssssss
aleckrnb 2 years ago
does anybody have a copy of this whole show ??? they also do power of the last days and time album . looking for concerts by them during this period .
tubagee 2 years ago
Now someone tell me, seriously now, what their true affiliation to 'illumination' and freemasonry is wtf???
icke11234 2 years ago
haven't heard this one before, builds up nicely.
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thanks romynastore :)
Loofafa 2 years ago
hurra Soul!!!
etuiran 2 years ago
1 2 cha cha cha 3 4 cha cha cha ,love it ,love it ,love it , Mo you da main !!!!! yeah main not man.
dizyootum 2 years ago
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icura69 2 years ago
mr white is the man!!!!!!!
djrealmerda 2 years ago 3
I've got a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell!
chrisboets 2 years ago 2
WONDERFUL!
waltersboy7 2 years ago 2
Earth at their best .The 70 s were a great time for Black Music It is the musicians that s what you are missing in much of todays music.HELLO the musicians !! OK. Hip Hop would have been better if there were bands backing it up Technology has no real soul.
dizyootum 2 years ago 5
Bless The Roots.
inharmonicity 2 years ago 2
where are the new R & B bands
the New Issac Hayes.Curtis Mayfield, Quiny Jones,Teddy Riley,
The old bands have to play their old stuff no problem Well there is a problem black radio won't play their new stuff anway
Who to say it would be any good but can be any worse what out here now
music change all right
loosestudios 2 years ago 3
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I've got two words for you....HIP-HOP!!!
zeljr 2 years ago
I don't understand what you mean with those 2 words
loosestudios 2 years ago 5
Hip-hop ruined R&B.... That's a fact!! The radio starions that play R&B are few a far in between... Look at all the singers the sang in the 80's and mid 90's..They're puttmg out new mosic with no where to play it...Hip-Hop killed R&B!!!
zeljr 2 years ago 8
Yeah Don.t come out with 2 words
I knew if you were real you would tell it all
-Hop killed R&B!!! and Gangster rap going to bury it deep
that right keep telling the true zelir all the way
Peace love and soulllll
loosestudios 2 years ago 3
Hip Hop didn't ruin R&B, commercialism ruined it, just like its ruining Hip-Hop.
BloodyNine007 2 years ago
Oh no......You are not getting of that easily... Please explain.....
zeljr 2 years ago
I get the impression, rightly or wrongly that you never really listened to rap in its Golden Age. But check Tribe Called Quest, PE, NWA, GangStarr, Pete Rock and CL Smooth etc. For people in my generation, these guys brought the old stuff back. Thanks to these guys exposing me to the old music I now own a lot of it.
BloodyNine007 2 years ago 3
Those dudes you remembered actually grew up during the EWF, Ohio players period which is why they sampled quite a few from that period. They made people do research and in essence brought them new fans. TCQ actually got me into Rotary Connection (minnie rimperton's old group before she went solo)
rjam1974 2 years ago
If I want to bring the "old stuff" back , I'll listen to an oldies station or play my old albums...I want to hear "creative" music , not a sample of something I heard years ago...Rapper are a dime a dozen , musicians are not...
freein2339 2 years ago
Muscians and rappers are a dime a dozen. Do you know how many cats I know who are drummers, bassist, and keyboardist. As Fred White told me once, "Anybody can record a song, but it takes innovation to create a timeless hit." You shouldn't trash a genre which you yourself know little about. Disco spinning off Hip Hip...lol!!! Man you have made me laugh. There are many books about Hip Hop culture. Read one. Record Excutives control the show anyways man. How do you think "Let's Groove" came to be?
rockjohnson80 2 years ago
First of all you are not a musician so spare me the "experience" talk..And we are not talking about timeless hits we are talking about music...Can you play any..??? I doubt it..If you could you would understand what it takes to be a musician..Like I said before, it takes little or no talent to be a rapper..Shaq, Iverson, Kobe all had rap CDS but could they play with Herbie, Miles, War, Mandrill....Hell no...Why..?? Because it takes more then just yelling in a microphone to be a musician...
freein2339 2 years ago
By the way , your comment "Musicians and rappers are a dime a dozen" just proves how little you know about music..Try "being" a musician and see how much of yourself you have to put in to it...go ahead try it...
freein2339 2 years ago
That's fine but like I like said, for people in my generation, its rappers who exposed many people to this music that you love and kept it alive. Younger people don't have the ability to just play "old albums" because they weren't born when this old stuff was produced.
Try to be more open-minded. There are plenty of "dime a dozen" musicians and there are plenty of creative rappers.
BloodyNine007 2 years ago
It's much easier to be a rapper then a musician, if you your a person that actually studied music you would understand. And you can always "buy" old CDs and albums. People do it everyday. I'm open minded about real music not fake sampled nonsense...
freein2339 2 years ago 2