BT Express "Peace Pipe"

[INHeadKay]

I made a housy edit of this one (dld for free): soundcloud [dot] com/inhead-kay/bt-express-peac­e-pipe-kays-smoked-out-edit

[mottymcmott]

@INHeadKay You heard Theo Parrish's edit? i prefer the original but still good.

[miamimilk]

BT Express and Brass Construction were big in NY back in the days.

[oraivan1]

dam i use to play this in the clubs in new york city great song ,, dam i want to light one up now lol

[oraivan1]

dam i use to play this in the clubs in new york city great song

[blindfire4ever]

I was was just using my pipe as this song played!

Put it in your peace pipe, smoke it all out!

[stepper7023]

25 lbs lost in one month at the clubs. Keep you PX90

[stepper7023]

This song is way too much for standard computer speakers. An UPGRADE is definitely needed.

[klassov88]

everybody get some....everybody get a little bit

[Ninjalo4life]

I'm bout to sample this into a new song

[sjr10011]

Turn it up!!!

[rickydfcc77]

B.T. Express peaked with this LP in late summer of '75 which took them into 1976. "Peace pipe" was the cut that got Club play, and "Discotizer" created an early Buzz. Can't forget "Give it what you've got"!

[PumaDown]

@rickydfcc77 Do you remember a record they made probably in '77-'78...I don't know the name of it but I remember some of the chorus."Knock on wood...beat your chest....gimme 5....stomp your feet and do the freak"

[rickydfcc77]

@PumaDown I seem to remember an album called "Energy to burn" and another LP with "Shout it out" before the "1980" LP. When they left Scepter/Roadshow records they seemed to leave their mojo there too.

[hevyonez97]

@PumaDown i know the record you talkin about.....it's "good good feeling" by War...that came out in 1979 of their "the music band" lp....

[PumaDown]

@hevyonez97 This is the record I have been looking for...thank you very much!!! You have a friend for life! :)

[hevyonez97]

@PumaDown no problem, always happy to help folks out with the good stuff!

[TheColkevin]

Yep...BT Express. Black Colleges Back n The Days wore this out!

[tonyblair999]

@Poppadoc YEAH!!!!!!!!! however u forgot Saurers

[funtony32]

Chiicago house music at its best!!!!!

[zimmytherock]

My GRAMMY!!

[djlemmyb]

@zimmytherock one funky grammy!

[Poppadoc11]

If you arent from the the WINDY,,then you will never truly appreciate the song!!! its much much more then music!!!....IT WAS PART OF A MOVEMENT !!!!...Ware house, UNDERGROUND. tHE bOX..LAMARIAGE..ETC..ETC !!

[lennymac100]

PARADISE GARAGE, FRIDAY NITE!!!!!!

[chuker77]

Lockin it up rt. Now "Poppin Chuck" Damn! Funkaholics dream!

[racorp1101]

This was the stuff back in 86' house partae daz!

[KireRen]

siiick!

does anyone know where i can find the instrumental? or what song was sampled in this?? the instrumental is too dope!

[msmasterjam]

@KireRen plz let me know when u find the insturmental version, thanks.

[mosaicluv51]

i love this

[barrtok]

cool. Is there a live recording [no playback] from that band?

[V2000theultraemcee]

put it down in 2002...so all my smokers...spark one for me!

[tasteone2]

BT Express was BAD! What is going on? Where is the original music today?

[hapzap13]

Smokin !!!!!!!!

[TheEileenjasmine]

smoke it in the peace pipe!

[joealanouf]

reminds me of new birth

[jonahspj22]

Awesome record, bought the Kenny Dope Randy Mullers best album, unreal stuff.

[1TICKHAND]

PEACE PIPE LOVE ALL DAY !!!!!!!

[sydferret]

Jah bless, groovy.

[FrankiexNYC]

The music was all about LOVE and ACCEPTANCE....we need more love in the world!

[dreadtodred]

remember when my sister first brought this album home

[Kaplanman09]

This is my joint. i got this in a old school house blend and when ever a session began we kick this joint off. Props for the upp.

[tictac1408]

classic house cut

[DaveWollenberg]

Hit #31 pop in Billboard. Was the filp side to 'Give it what you got.' God bless!

[lac71804]

Chicago house music reintroduced alot of forgotten musicians back into ths spot light. New York may have come up with the ingredients, but Chicago put it together through basement and underground parties. Then it hit the mainstream.

[victor35120]

how the hell I danced in those platform shoes......amazing 7" shoes

[romloyschol]

Damn it old school music was that shit, I thank God for house music and growing up in Chicago. Get your hands in the air, smoke it on out.

[602pleasure]

hell yea im smoken my peace pipe every day =]

[SamuraiZach0]

boys have penis

girls have vagina

[ogfunk187]

not your case.

[SamuraiZach0]

i have both

[mhawkins28]

Melvin Meeks - Peace Of Mind / Relief Records

[jody808]

classic on the dance floor

[ddja57]

B.T. Epress, (Brooklyn Tranist Express), Brooklyn, in the house. sorry Chi Town, these boys and (girl) are from New York! 70's music jams! Rock to the beat!

[tphoyas]

This a staple of Chicago DJ's House Music...we know they're from NY....

[romloyschol]

Okay, I will give you that but its' Chicago's House music that reintroduced this song to the world. Don't get twisted.!!

[ddja57]

I am not getting twisted. I got nothing but love for Chi Town and it's music.

[reddvelvet]

That maybe true about it being reintroduced in Chicago, but still it was originated in New York City. Without the original, you can't have a carbon copy or duplication. Disco was born in New York City. We had Studio 54 and the Paradise Garage. Not to take away from the other wonderful clubs in Chicago, New Jersey or DC. But people (celebs) from all over would come to Studio and Paradise because of the great disco music New York played. First there was Disco and then House music.

[peachesncreamme]

@reddvelvet I agree New York was the birth place for disco but, Chicago was the birth place for House music in which Disco paved the way for House Music to exist.

[mzkisa01]

I love this song!  Chicago house!!!

[peachesncreamme]

@mzkisa01 I love it too but, this is not House, it's Disco.

[tphoyas]

@peachesncreamme Could someone please explain the difference between Disco, House, and Deep House? I grew up around the birthplace (Westside of Chicago) where DJs originated the mixing of this sound. We have plenty of spirited debate about what music is what. Often, back in the day, DJs would mesh all these sounds together, which I think, leads to the confusion...I would think that Disco is the 1st cousin of Deep House, making them interchangeable. Would you care to expound on the topic?

[peachesncreamme]

@tphoyas Not on here to "debate'" with anyone. But I agree and disagree. "House" music did not originate on the westside of Chicago; brief history of the Chicago house sound. Disco (in which this happens to be) is the underlying foundation for house music. Frankie Knuckles started in the 70's in New York along with Robert Williams (the owner of the original Warehouse and US studio's which later on became the Music Box). 1977 the Warehouse has born.

[peachesncreamme]

@tphoyas A lot of people leave out one important factor in the Chicago House Sound and that is Robert Williams. In fact, he IS the foundation of Chicago House music. He's from the west side nor the south side, He's from New York.

[clinicrecording]

@mzkisa01 this was wwwwaaaayyyyyyyy before house.... It's the foundation of the house..... and btw they're from NYC ;-))

[INHeadKay]

@clinicrecording they're actually from Philly

[BHDread]

@mzkisa01 same in nj/nyc

LoKIDz

ZANZIBAR==SOUND FACTORY BAR

[BHDread]

@BHDread SAME THING FOREVER...AINT NUTHIN NEW UNDER THE SUN...AND PASS IT AROUND

[stevenbogarat]

I put it in my glass pipe for over 40 years and finally my doctor told me I needed a clean urine specimen...old age isn't easy!!

[Deetroiter]

Man, me and some of my crew here in Detroit get the hell on down to this jam. Lockin it up like no tomorrow

[mybabykrit]

old house music!!!!!!!!!!!!yessssss!!!!!­!!!!!!!

[LordAku]

CHICAGO HOUSE!!!

[thehouserocker]

Man That Bassline rumbles!

[ThePrinceChannel]

When I die, I don't to go to heaven. I want to go back to the 70s and 80s!

[rsharrieff]

"...put it yo' peace pipe, problems in Vietnam..." my Dad came home injured in 1969 shortly after I was born and did just that ! all day every day ! Black Power

[mhlite]

they broke this funky jam down for sure! I remember dancin' to this back in the day. peace&love

[ggn1]

so god DAMN HIGH RIGHT NOW

DAMN! 5/5

[Foekie1987]

The first thing I think of in this song is...the gogo brothers lockin ^^

[VF5]

Yes me too. Goddamn youtube -- they took off all the video of GoGo in Super Chample show.

[7miledog]

just lockin period..

[LorraineinFL]

Lamont, Thanks so much! Love this!

[0467family]

another old school mix jam!!

[btinsley1]

put THAT in ya pipe yo !!!

[v4d]

Looking at the lenght of the song, there is no doubt that it is the extended version by Tom Moulton, one of his firsts.

Dope!

[loosestudios]

keyboardist in the band from 19761979, later went solo and recorded under the name Kashif; he had several R&B hits in the 80s.

B.T. Express were signed in 1974 by pop music industry veteran Sid Maurer, and former man Fred Frank, who were launching theirThe first record they released was their #2 Billboard Hot 100 song from 1974 "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)" (which also hit #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart), as well as its follow-up, "Express", (Hot 100 #4). "Express", w

[SamuraiZach0]

Good shit

[lloydval]

chaka doll 1111111111111

[drok1000]

Another hot classic song from Brooklyn's finest. B.T. Express.

[mattratt512]

i lost 45 pounds dancing to this. thanks.

[db32585]

LOL...if they had this in aerobics class at Jenny Craig, our whole country would be in shape...lol

[tom667]

Although BT Express already had two #1 R&B hits with "Express" and "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)", this song is perhaps their funkiest that they ever recorded. It ended up being a #5 R&B hit and a Top 40 Pop hit in 1975.

[NYCman530]

I haven't heard this song since I was working club security in this topless joint. Cool song, but Do It Till You're Satisfied and Express are better.

[LamontCJ]

Matter of opinion. The whole lp is slammin'

[ironlionknight1]

@NYCman530

my favorite song from BTE is "Energy to Burn"

[peachesncreamme]

@ironlionknight1 ♥ that song!!! 

[chinita41]

wow i haven't heard this in years.

[LamontCJ]

Everybody Get Some!!!!

[chinita41]

put in it your peace pipeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! *danceing*

[LLJtbone]

@chinita41 Holy crap, me neither. Hello 70's.

[eric2181965]

Anybody remember Kashif? He started out in this group. I think his contributions showed up when Septer Records (on which this album was recorded for) went out of business and Columbia Records picked them up.

[millos71]

o fuck yeah! smoke that peace pipe!

[walant2004]

Too Funky.

[LamontCJ]

Definitely!! Funky Classic!!

[clinicrecording]

@walant2004 naw!!! Just about the right amount of FUNKY..... :-))