Electric Purgatory: the fate of the black rocker

Electric Purgatory is a documentary that examines the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them.
http://www.electricpurgatory.com

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Music

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• prince
• rock
• black
• rocker
• electric
• purgatory
• fishbone
• jimi
• hendrix
• vernon
• reid
• raymond
• gayle
• payback
• productions

[joxxx76]

thanks for the info singaporegrrl! Could you please tell the song title too?

[singaporegrrl]

Dawn of the Millenia

[joxxx76]

As a fan of many of these bands, I really want to see the documentary. What's this song/band that's played in the trailer.

[singaporegrrl]

The band is God Forbid (http://www.godforbid1.com/)

[fineassb]

I wish blacks would just LIVE! LIVE DAMMIT! be outside the box. This world has sooooo much to offer than just rap r&b, jazz, and gospel.

[JoshAllain]

Yeah! I'm Black, and I stopped listening to R&B years ago. Ever since, I've been extremely happy listening to my metal and classic rock. I'm still aware of my Blackness. I still know that Black folks INVENTED rock music, even though I've gotten a lotta flack from many people @ school. Black listeners these days need to listen to the metal band God Forbid, which consists of 4 Black dudes and only 1 White dude.

[bimini121663]

@ThousandClaws Hey man glad you said that. Actualy rocks roots were very black as blues and rock was born from black music. Most if this music is as if black guys had kept playing from 1965 onward. Listen to howlelin wolf and you see the start of black rock handed offt to whites. Blacks started this revolution lets keep it going

[Cryptorchild92]

There are plenty of 'black' rock artists that are famous: Jimi Hendrix (aka god), chuck berry, living colour, bad brains.....But yeah Rap music Fuckin sucks.....ROCK N ROLL FOREVER MUTHAFUCKAS!!!!.....

[jreese66]

i like rock not into metal and punk.

[InSanityUnPlugged]

Same

[InSanityUnPlugged]

damnit i was hoping to see the actuall movie.

[GGboy1987]

i know when you tell black people u like rock its almost as if your coming out of a closet to them its literally that shocking..

[GGboy1987]

im sure at every rock concert there are at least a few black people..

[kilosnew]

I KNOW!!!! That is SO true! It's better to listen to all kinds of music than just what one deems as "culturally acceptable"

[oramikleepunk]

Most blacks don't even play blues anymore,and that was the whole roots of rock n roll.

[FlammablePlanet]

Sounds like Sevendust to me

[JoshAllain]

TRUE DAT!!!

[JoshAllain]

TRUE DAT!!!

[MUN7001]

I realize that alot of people need to open their minds. They dont have to like the music , technically, they just have to accept it as a form of black expression. Afro-Americans have to be make it normal to listen to rock, not necessarily like the music.

[MUN7001]

I really want to watch Afro-Punk, but this shit is scary as hell, it might give me nightmares

[EddesHere1]

i wonder which film will be more informative....Afro-Punk or this one.... cuz afro-punk was like a life changer.

[iluvpussyalot]

more power 2 u man, and o im ot black but i respect da fact dat u dnt care wat people thik and u stay a rocker.

[ibumo]

Black Rocker till i die

[kymrence]

Love the footage of of Prince and Dez Dickerson.

[xXBeiNxxKrAzedXx]

is every band just gonna be hardcore...or is there any softcore...???

[littlerussiadog]

nothing about Bad Brains... if you dont know them youtube them. 70's hardcore/ punk. Im not black but Latino and people trip out when i tell them im in a punk band. 5 stars!

[anthonydjuan]

this is more relevant than we can ever imagine. if we (as black people) can't get past our own stereotypes, we're doomed in the end. Rock IS relevant to black culture. more blacks need to get hip to Cody ChestnuTT and Fishbone for the sake of self expansion.

[Majesticon]

get real, music has a "color" and it's important to remember that. it's not wrong to "see color", it's the reality of the world and it makes more sense than pretending this dichotomy doesn't exist.

also, for every rap song talking about bullshit, there's one that is more expressive. u just have to find it. and rock was never *not* about sex, drugs, money, violence, etc.. do ur history

[Rhysvision]

Ive been a rocker since my older sister dropped the needle on Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced" man I was like 7 or 8 Blew my mind. People(black) Were allways hassling me about liking rock. But I made my mind as kids as to be rocker Will always be a rocker.