More Trouble Everyday (Frank Zappa Cover)
Does the future of "Rock" Music lie in Africa now?? Well, we
do think so, as strange as it may sound...Want proof?? Fine...
Check out our cover version of Frank Zappa's "More Trouble
Everyday". Video by courtesy of © X media Kenya and © Cool
Waters Jazz & Roots Festival, Live in Nairobi on Sept 24th 2016
A short piece oh history now...
"R&B", asserts Bo Diddley in Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll (Taylor
Hackford’s biographical documentary film about Chuck Berry)
"don’t stand for nothing but rip-off and bullshit". What he, Berry
and Richard played, he continues, was called rock ’n’ roll until
Caucasians started playing it, and then suddenly "they was rock
and roll and we were R&B". And R&B meant the ghetto: it meant
cheap-jack record companies most if not all of which were white-
owned, paying miserly or nonexistent royalties. (Charles Shaar
Murray, "Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop")
How far have we come since these times? Have things really
changed? With that idea in mind, we are humbly trying to offer
an alternative to this long lasting issue. Will it be solved eventually?
Who knows how or when? 'Cause the Gary Clark Jrs and
Benjamin Bookers of this world ain't gonna change a damn thing
about this mess...
Anyhow, the Fantastic Musicians on this video are Mr Asaph
Uzele (Kenya) on the Bass and Mr Christian Kibamba (Burundi)
on the Drums
Peace and enjoy