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2. "The Pips Choreography...man listen."
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I watched that on Hulu and had to go back and rewatch their performance!
Like, their background vocals were in full step WITH the choreography! Amazing.

I think the best part of the film overall was how every act and character got their own small documentary within' the story.
Outside of the acts getting their own shine we learned about the promoter, the mayor, Harlem in addition to the state of Black America in 1969.
All of that context really helped shape the concert as a whole. Quest, the producers and the editors get a lot of props from me on that.
That's not easy to do.

MORE THOUGHTS:

- How did they select what songs they used?
- Speaking of music, DAMN, who paid THAT bill? Need an entire department to wrangle those permissions together.
- Wanted more Stevie. This was Stevie right before his genius period and it's a great moment to see (the easter egg was great..ha).
- I loved the quote, "Nobody was interested in a Black Woodstock".

>- As much as I love Sly I actually haven't seen that much
>concert footage, so "Higher" and "Simple Song" here were just
>a lot of fun for me

>- Some of the details on how the days were planned were pretty
>slim, like, start time/end time, length of an average set,
>etc. It seemed like a lot of these folks were coming out and
>doing just one song but I'm assuming that was editing, no
>one's flying to NYC to do a one and done, are they?

I have two Sly bootlegs from 1968 from The Filmore East and the music presentation in Summer Of Soul matches
the set he used to do. All the way down to the crowd interaction on "Higher".
This was my first time SEEING it though, and it was great to see. The shows I have are just under an hour,
so I imagine Sly & The Family Stone did maybe 20 minutes.

>- Two words: Mongo Santamaria! And Sheila E talking about
>finer points of playing different drums with your hands

I felt like this was the Quest influence. Getting that explanation was some music nerd stuff that was just perfect.

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summer of soul [View all] , thebigfunk, Tue Jul-06-21 10:46 AM
 
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pretty good pfork interview w/Quest
Jul 06th 2021
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RE: The Pips Choreography...man listen.
Jul 07th 2021
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RE: The Pips Choreography...man listen.
Jul 07th 2021
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Loved it. So much great footage.
Jul 06th 2021
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Saw this last night with my sister and I have to say it was really good
Jul 06th 2021
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Very enjoyable doc
Jul 11th 2021
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Jul 12th 2021
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