mother's finest 'fire' 1978 germany

amazing band. soul, rock, funk, boogie, southern rock, all of it. this band rules, one of the first bands i' ever saw live in 1980!

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• soul
• funk
• rock
• baby
• jane

[cicmark]

I owned a nightclub in NC 'back then'. MF was ALWAYS our biggest draws (even when we had the likes of Little River Band, etc.).

To top it off, everyone in the band and crew were GREAT to work with!

[OcalaMusician]

Amen Brother!! Yep and they were banned from almost EVERY radio station because they had, white, black, male and female players in the band. Even MORE stupid than the reason why it took so long for Canadian bands to make it on the radio in the USA. THEN Rick James through Living Colour took what these guys did yearsd earlier and made fortunes!! They're from Atlanta, GA and STILL no one knows who this great band is.

[nazzare79]

it remember me that song on the first captain beyond album...very similar riff...

[prohumanbeing]

I loved them too. Today... check out the BellRays.

[lv2surf]

Beat live Band Ever. These guys made the Stones look like a garage band!

[JPUPPY928]

i saw this band in 79 & they blew me away!! I forgot how awesome & amazing they really were!! This kicks ass!!

[debzeppeliniv]

I heard and saw um all over the South in the 70s and they sure rocked um on the radio in SC and Ga for sure.

[DeutscherTheWhoFan]

Saw them and listened to them in 1989 in Germany, Paderborn (small town). They played together with the german musician HEINZ RUDOLF KUNZE on stage. First KUNZE with "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz". And then Mothers Finest came. we were about 10.000 people in this stadium. we were like in rock and roll heavon. Mothers Finest gave prove: they were the loudest rockband in the world by that time. 10 miles distance from stadium people werde shocked about the "noise". that was tv-news. we loved them!

[sambosuzy]

I saw Mothers Finest in 1979 at the Dekalb Central College, Dekalb County, GA.. The concert was free for college students who had IDs. I was 16 years old, I flashed my drivers license and gained enrty into the concert hall. It was a fantastic performance. !! I have never forgot it.

[doubleslottedflaps]

Barry Borden (aka BB Queen)on drums. BB also played on Molly Hatchet's No Guts No Glory album. real good drummer

[clocktime11]

they rocked ..and crossed the racist barrier back in the 70s, saw em in knoxville tennessee at the freakin state fair and they EXPLODED the place, like nothing ever seen before.....funk, rock and blues....burning down the house!

[jmforge]

Mothers Finest may not have been of the level of Bob Dylan as far as their songwriting goes, but they were absolutely one of the best live band of their era. What is more is that they were THE premiere live act in Atlanta at a time when that city was changing in a radical way from a backwater, oft times Southern town to the amazing city that you see today. Most people don't realize how rapidily that change happened and the proces started not long before this band hit.