SoulSummer Black Rock Report: Living Colour

[Michael A. Gonzales]

The Black Rock Report #2
Photos by Earl Douglass

A few weeks before Living Colour released their latest album The Chair in the Doorway (Megaforce Records), the band performed at an invite-only showcase in Brooklyn. I was hanging with my homie Lisa Cortes, one of the producers of the highly anticipated film Precious, and we were both excited.

As arty graphics rotated on a screen in the background, Living Colour transformed from middle-aged men into cocoa-hued children of the rock revolution, exorcising their demons surrounding racism, politics, relationships, greed and anxiety through unadulterated rhythmic rebellion.

When they launched into a rousing version of their newest single “Behind the Sun,” flaunting fluid grooves, soulful vocals about Katrina survivors, and Reid’s riff-heavy homage to Robert Fripp, Lisa screamed: “They sound as good now as they did in 1988!”

Back in the days when Earl Greyhound were still puppies and TV on the Radio were watching Saturday morning cartoons, Living Colour laid the foundation for a new generation of rockers “of color” to be taken seriously...

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