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Full on metal fan here; I loved this tune utterly - and I didn't know anyone who didn't. Metal, indie, pop, rap, jazz, prog, it didn't matter. This came on, you were dancing with a big fucking smile on your face 😃
The bass line is a sample from Herbie Hancock's song "Bring Down the Birds". Bootsy just does guest vocals on this. I don't know why he's holding a bass in the video. Maybe they were afraid we wouldn't recognize him without it? IDK LOL.
@@laraismyname821 I find that most amusing. You could be right! And the idea of not recognising Bootsy. I could laugh, but these reactors are getting younger and younger. It's like watching myself age.
@@cainealexander-mccord2805 haha right? Yes, Bootsy was well known for his subtle sense of style & ability to blend in anywhere...so of course we needed the bass as a video prop. 🤣
I saw another UA-camrs reaction to this a few days ago and someone commented; "this song was the exact point when the 80's became the 90's" I thought it was dead on.
OMG… I was 16 when this song came out. Times were wild. The first night I heard this song… we told our parents we were “going out” - no cell phones & they didn’t care. We drive to Memphis, at 16, got into all the clubs. Back then the music was a mix of all genres, as long as ppl would dance they’d play it (rock, hip hop, techno, country, all played together). WE DANCED. Nonstop. On the tables, in the bathrooms, everywhere!!! When the clubs closed at like 3 or 4, WE DROVE OUT to SOME RANDOM FIELD where some dude had huge person-tall speakers hooked up to the back of his truck and we danced and drank and smoked until like 9am. With like 60 strangers. Passed out in the field with randos. Woke up a couple hours later, went to the diner and drive home. Our parents never even noticed. That was an AVERAGE night out. It was WILD. Don’t know how we all survived.
It can't be understated what a huge hit this was! It was on MTV 24/7, on the radio and yes, in the clubs! This was definitely the type of music going on as we transitioned from the 80s to the 90s, like exactly 1990 for this one! 1989-1991 was a lot of stuff like this, plus hard rock, metal etc, ramping up to Grunge in 1992, roughly. I remember this time well!
I believe it's called a slide whistle. This song was so much fun to dance to in the bars in the 90s. This song and the B52's Love Shack always got the dance floor jumping!
"He looks familiar" he should, that's legendary bass man, Bootsy Collins! That instrument, usually found as a prize at carnival games of luck, is called a slide whistle.
🇬🇧 This song was HUGE in clubs. Classic early 90's banger. And and YES, of course we danced to it, its great to dance to. Your face btw, was a picture when this video started. 😮😂🎼🎶💃🕺💃🕺
I just found out recently that the "I-I-I-I-I" after "I couldn't ask for another" is a sample of Ava Gabor from the "Green Acres" theme! Yet another reason to love this song!!!
The song was in the 90s, but the video was definitely retro 70s. That’s why it looks like Austin Powers. The main band is a trio of club DJs. On this track, they have the help of Bootsy Collins (George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic) on bass and Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest) rapping. The backing track samples a lot of songs. It was a big hit!
Love that you reacted to this! Man we would hit the floor when this song was played in the bars! At during the bass solos we’d stop like frozen. Then start back with the grove. So hot!!!
I remember when this song came out. It was an instant hit. The fact that Lady Miss Kier (the lead) is now 61 years old (2024) makes me feel a certain way.
Dee Lite collaborated for that song which was their debut song released 1990 with 3 absolute Music Legends Bootsy Collins, bass Maceo Parker, saxophone (both former legend group members of James Brown who discovered them, then both did their own thing) Q-Tip, rap (Tribe called Quest)
One of my favs from my 20s . They wore 60s fashions, had a 60s vibe in the 80s and 90s .Still were ahead of their time . If you like this, you will love “LoveShack” by the B-52s
I can not get happier than someone playing this one. Banger forever. I was and is slightly( after that yeah) metalhead but when this one dropped I questioned my whole existence 😂😂😂😂
Highest charting pop hit to sample the Green Acres theme song. Also, another James Brown connection with Bootsy-- the sax player is Maceo Parker, who played sax for Brown for a number of years.
Yeah.Love this fun song. Another one in a similar vein that I also love is "Ain't No Love" by Sub Sub (later to become the superb band Doves) " There Goes The Fear, Pounding ,Catch The Sun, etc ,are great songs by Doves.
The bass player is the great, legendary Bootsy Collins who gained fame at 18 years old in James Brown's band, and then with Parliament/Funkadelic. He later fronted his own Bootsy's Rubber Band! Iconic bassist who has appeared on many peoples projects!
Adorava essa música nos anos 1990 dancei demais nas boates de São Paulo / Brasil (não fazia ideia do que se tratava a letra) eu já tinha meus 33 anos de idade ...
The 1960's and 70's meet the 1990's. The man that looks so familiar is Cincinnati's own Mr. William "Bootsy" Collins, one of the greatest Bass Players to ever walk the planet. "Watch Out!" I believe the "instrument" is called a Penny Whistle. Caught you diggin' the Pee Wee dance.
Remember this was on Viva Tv all the time. Viva was a german music tv channel similar to mtv, but you’d see more obscure stuff there as well. Watched that channel a lot as a 90s kid in Denmark.
This song always reminds me of when the ball dropped for 1990. I was 13 years old and drunk with my best friend and cousin 😅 We had a house to ourselves and a Nintendo, happy days.
The bass player for this group was Bootsy Collins. The greatest bass player to touch the instrument. Incredible riffs, runs and grooves flow from his fingers like you would not believe.
World clique and Dewdrops in the garden are two great Deee-Lite Albums. And if you're looking for some funky greatness, "Who was that" will scratch that itch. edit : sorry for not proofreading my comment beforehand.
So ... The Bass player is Bootsy Collins P-Funk, The sax player is Maceo Parker and fellow JB's (james Brown's backing band), alum Fred Weasly played some trombone.
Hey Steve from Ned in Spain. This song was such a breath of fresh funky air back in the day. Lady Miss Kier was a sexy treat. The guest bassist is the legendary William BOOTSY Collins of PFunk fame. He and his bro Catfish went from a local Philly Funk band to being hired by the Godfather of Soul James Brown. When they got fired for takin LSD etc they jumped aboard the P Funk mothership and finally found their family. The sax man poppin in and out was Maceo Parker another James Brown alumnus.
Hey bro!! I remember see the bass player many years ago in Grammys. She is awesome!! Please check the live version in Brasil. She is amazing. Thanks. Greetings from Argentina. Sorry for my English
I had to look it up but you're correct, 1990. And when I looked up the bass player, it came up a coup different times with, Bootsy Collins and Q-Tip. Idk what's going on there. I did see one column that read, "If Bootsy didn't play the bass, then who did". I didn't read it, but I'm guessing Q-Tip was the bass player. Now this video was insane. I've never seen it before, and I don't get it. The song is def different than the dance version I always heard in the clubs. We just had the parts you could groove to. I had no idea this was an Austin Powers band!
The bass is sampled from Herbie Hancock's "Bring Down the Birds", where the bass player is jazz bassist Ron Carter, almost solely famous for playing the double bass except for on this record. Dee-Lite has no bass player, Bootsy is on the video just cause he looks good.
@@snakeinthegrass7443 Q-Tip is from a 80s- 90s East coast hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. The Low-End Theory and Midnight Marauders are classic albums.
Knowing what this was, I kind of laughed to myself when you said you were ready to rock out! 90's pop wasn't exactly the kind of music you can rock out to, but it was extremely danceable.
Just to clarify, because I'm sure there will be some comments about it. Bootsy Collins (known for playing with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic) is the bassist you see in the video. The bass line you are hearing is not Bootsy however. The bass line from the Herbie Hancock song “Bring Down the Birds” which is slowed down a bit. The song is almost entirely samples, Eva Gabor sighing “I” on the Green Acres theme, 70’s R&B singer Vernon Burch’s “Get Up” for thesong’s drums, tambourine, crowd noise and famous slide whistle.
UK charts in the 90s had a *lot* of this sort of stuff. Digital sampling has a lot to answer for :) (and then there was Electric Six's video for Danger High Voltage in 2002...)
I love this song! The bassist is Bootsy Collins. I agree, we should all have more fun. One way to have more fun is to listen to Shaka Ponk's "LET'S BANG" ua-cam.com/video/jWYLL7wFyns/v-deo.html. Hey, it's a start, and I love playing along on my bass.
The bassist is Ron Carter from a 1966 song called "Bring Down the Birds" by Herbie Hancock. It's a sample. They just slowed it down a little. Bootsy just does vocals on this song.
@@laraismyname821 Wow! Thank you, Lara, that's great to know. In the video, you see Bootsy walking around with a bass and just connect the dots. Funny how it's the wrong dot. 😊😃🤣 I also had no idea that Herbie Hancock went back so far. Great info!
@@GranpaMike Yeah it is kind of misleading to have him wearing a bass in the video (although they never show him playing it). It's also kind of weird why they didn't just have him play the bass line, since he is one of the greats. 🤷♀
I'm in my 50's and been a Metal fan since I got my first Judas Priest album in '77. That being said, I was in the Army when this song came out and I ALWAYS danced when it came on. (edit: That's a slide whistle)
This song was released in late summer early fall of 1990. This song is considered to be house music. The lead singer is Lady Miss Kier from Youngstown Ohio, the Asian guy is DJ Towa Tei and the dancing guy is DJ Dmitry who is Russian. They were formed in NYC. That bassist is Bootsy Collins formerly of the band George Clinton and the Funkadelics. The rapper is Q - Tip from the group A Tribe Called Quest. React to their songs Power Of Love, Runaway and Bittersweet Lovin' please.
Of course we danced. It rather chimed with a movement in the UK at the time too, where retro sounds were making a bit of a comeback (something which ultimately led to Britpop). You could hybridize modern dance culture of the time with what had happened twenty years earlier, almost as a reaction against market forces in pop. Which, given the history of pop music even then, is slightly ironic.
Ned again coz I forgot to mention that the backing track is " Bring Down the Birds " by Herbie Hancock from the 1966 Blow Up soundtrack, which is amazing all day. That film also featured a live performance by the Yardbirds playing at the Ricky Tick in London. Both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck are in the band playing a smokin version of " Stroll On ".
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What a fun one!! If you aren't dancing when this hits, you don't have a pulse!
Bass booths collins parliament funkedelic, rapper qtip, tribe called quest, sax player macro Parker James Brown band
I don't think you even need a pulse to dance this. All the zombies grooving too!
Full on metal fan here; I loved this tune utterly - and I didn't know anyone who didn't. Metal, indie, pop, rap, jazz, prog, it didn't matter. This came on, you were dancing with a big fucking smile on your face 😃
P.S. Bass player is Bootsey Collins from Parliament Funkadelic. George Clinton.
The bass line is a sample from Herbie Hancock's song "Bring Down the Birds". Bootsy just does guest vocals on this. I don't know why he's holding a bass in the video. Maybe they were afraid we wouldn't recognize him without it? IDK LOL.
@@laraismyname821 I find that most amusing. You could be right! And the idea of not recognising Bootsy. I could laugh, but these reactors are getting younger and younger. It's like watching myself age.
@@cainealexander-mccord2805 haha right? Yes, Bootsy was well known for his subtle sense of style & ability to blend in anywhere...so of course we needed the bass as a video prop. 🤣
Bass player is Ron Carter. Plays on about a million jazz recordings since at least the early 70s to date, and still going strong.
@@laraismyname821 Whatever works!
I saw another UA-camrs reaction to this a few days ago and someone commented; "this song was the exact point when the 80's became the 90's" I thought it was dead on.
Absolutely!! I 💯 see that! 😁
@@setonhillstudios And as I commented on the original comment, by referencing the 70s!
i saw that too... its 100% right.. there song was the core of the 80's ending and the 90's sound starting
Before I even watch this, the answer is YES we danced to this!! Just SO glad there were no cell phones back then🤪🤪
Oh man, you got that right. No cell phones so no evidence! 😂
This was my era also of club music and dancing. Brings back such great memories!!
Shoot, everytime this comes on I jump on dance floor.
FUN, FUN, FUN. The bass player is Bootsie Collins from Parliament Funkadelic.
it was the summer song of 1990...a huge hit
We STILL dance whenever this comes on!
my cat absolutely loves this song. totally from wherever he is he runs to watch this.
I don’t dance.
except to this song I can’t help. It renders me senseless! So damn funky! BOOTSY!!!!
Absolutely!! 💯
Btw that's Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest🤘
When this song came on at the club, everyone got on the dance floor!!!
I'm rock and roll to my damned bones... And I JAM to this song EVERY TIME! 💯😎
The first CD I ever bought was Nirvana's Never Mind, the 2nd CD I bought was Deeelite! lol
This is the most Gen X statement anyone has ever said.
OMG… I was 16 when this song came out. Times were wild. The first night I heard this song… we told our parents we were “going out” - no cell phones & they didn’t care. We drive to Memphis, at 16, got into all the clubs. Back then the music was a mix of all genres, as long as ppl would dance they’d play it (rock, hip hop, techno, country, all played together). WE DANCED. Nonstop. On the tables, in the bathrooms, everywhere!!! When the clubs closed at like 3 or 4, WE DROVE OUT to SOME RANDOM FIELD where some dude had huge person-tall speakers hooked up to the back of his truck and we danced and drank and smoked until like 9am. With like 60 strangers. Passed out in the field with randos. Woke up a couple hours later, went to the diner and drive home. Our parents never even noticed. That was an AVERAGE night out. It was WILD. Don’t know how we all survived.
In the 60's we called them slide whistles.
It can't be understated what a huge hit this was! It was on MTV 24/7, on the radio and yes, in the clubs! This was definitely the type of music going on as we transitioned from the 80s to the 90s, like exactly 1990 for this one! 1989-1991 was a lot of stuff like this, plus hard rock, metal etc, ramping up to Grunge in 1992, roughly. I remember this time well!
I believe it's called a slide whistle. This song was so much fun to dance to in the bars in the 90s. This song and the B52's Love Shack always got the dance floor jumping!
"He looks familiar" he should, that's legendary bass man, Bootsy Collins! That instrument, usually found as a prize at carnival games of luck, is called a slide whistle.
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This song was HUGE in clubs. Classic early 90's banger. And and YES, of course we danced to it, its great to dance to. Your face btw, was a picture when this video started. 😮😂🎼🎶💃🕺💃🕺
I just found out recently that the "I-I-I-I-I" after "I couldn't ask for another" is a sample of Ava Gabor from the "Green Acres" theme! Yet another reason to love this song!!!
Bwahahahaha ok even a rock n roll maven such as myself had to groove whenever I hear this ! So much fun !!!!!🎉
The exact moment the 80’s left and the 90’s began! This song will never get old! Still sounds fresh today!
one of the all time greatest dance songs! dbl ♥
she's telling truths: groove IS in the heart!
The song was in the 90s, but the video was definitely retro 70s. That’s why it looks like Austin Powers. The main band is a trio of club DJs. On this track, they have the help of Bootsy Collins (George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic) on bass and Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest) rapping. The backing track samples a lot of songs. It was a big hit!
Love that you reacted to this! Man we would hit the floor when this song was played in the bars! At during the bass solos we’d stop like frozen. Then start back with the grove. So hot!!!
Such a fun one!! 🔥🔥
3:37 bootsy collins
Oh it was definitely a hit
Dude! That's Bootsy Collins on the bass!!!! A funk bass God. Love your reaction vids by the way.
Thanks so much! He was throwing it down for sure! 🔥
My daughter loved this song. Used to dance in her room upstairs and the hole house shook. LOL
🤣😂🤣
I remember when this song came out. It was an instant hit. The fact that Lady Miss Kier (the lead) is now 61 years old (2024) makes me feel a certain way.
Dee Lite collaborated for that song which was their debut song released 1990 with 3 absolute Music Legends
Bootsy Collins, bass
Maceo Parker, saxophone
(both former legend group members of James Brown who discovered them, then both did their own thing)
Q-Tip, rap (Tribe called Quest)
This was my all-time favorite dance song
It always makes me smile
One of my favs from my 20s . They wore 60s fashions, had a 60s vibe in the 80s and 90s .Still were ahead of their time . If you like this, you will love “LoveShack” by the B-52s
I can not get happier than someone playing this one. Banger forever. I was and is slightly( after that yeah) metalhead but when this one dropped I questioned my whole existence 😂😂😂😂
😂🤣😂
It's a SLIDE WHISTLE!!!!
Stereo MCs...Connected. its mega
Memories. Chicago, 1992ish?
Psychedelic Dance House Acid Scene. Love Bootsy from Funkadelic
Cheers!! 🍄🌲🍄💥✨🌈
Love this song, amazing video and her groovy dancing, so cute.
Highest charting pop hit to sample the Green Acres theme song. Also, another James Brown connection with Bootsy-- the sax player is Maceo Parker, who played sax for Brown for a number of years.
You can't keep from grooving to this song ❤❤❤❤this is a clubbing song ❤❤let's go❤❤
This is such a fun song! Love Lady Miss Kier Kirby!
Yeah.Love this fun song. Another one in a similar vein that I also love is "Ain't No Love" by Sub Sub (later to become the superb band Doves) " There Goes The Fear, Pounding ,Catch The Sun, etc ,are great songs by Doves.
I seen it said that this song marks the birth of the 90's. And love Q Tip on it.
05:33 I saw another YT junkie say that this tune was the exact moment that the 90s started. I have to agree...
Many great songs by Deee-Lite just go down the rabbit hole!
Love this. I have this in my favourites. Great reaction. 👍🏾😁
The bass player is the great, legendary Bootsy Collins who gained fame at 18 years old in James Brown's band, and then with Parliament/Funkadelic. He later fronted his own Bootsy's Rubber Band! Iconic bassist who has appeared on many peoples projects!
5:05 is q-tip from a tribe called quest.
I love your expression of plain bafflement.
Definitely baffled! 🤣😂
Adorava essa música nos anos 1990 dancei demais nas boates de São Paulo / Brasil (não fazia ideia do que se tratava a letra) eu já tinha meus 33 anos de idade ...
The 1960's and 70's meet the 1990's. The man that looks so familiar is Cincinnati's own Mr. William "Bootsy" Collins, one of the greatest Bass Players to ever walk the planet. "Watch Out!" I believe the "instrument" is called a Penny Whistle. Caught you diggin' the Pee Wee dance.
Remember this was on Viva Tv all the time. Viva was a german music tv channel similar to mtv, but you’d see more obscure stuff there as well. Watched that channel a lot as a 90s kid in Denmark.
This song always reminds me of when the ball dropped for 1990. I was 13 years old and drunk with my best friend and cousin 😅 We had a house to ourselves and a Nintendo, happy days.
The bass player for this group was Bootsy Collins. The greatest bass player to touch the instrument. Incredible riffs, runs and grooves flow from his fingers like you would not believe.
"slide whistle" sold by the millions in toy stores all over for decades.
World clique and Dewdrops in the garden are two great Deee-Lite Albums. And if you're looking for some funky greatness, "Who was that" will scratch that itch.
edit : sorry for not proofreading my comment beforehand.
So ... The Bass player is Bootsy Collins P-Funk, The sax player is Maceo Parker and fellow JB's (james Brown's backing band), alum Fred Weasly played some trombone.
This tune with this video is entertainment overload-such good fun! I'm not positive, but I think that's a water whistle.
Absolutely the 90's :) 1990 in fact :)
Hey Steve from Ned in Spain. This song was such a breath of fresh funky air back in the day. Lady Miss Kier was a sexy treat. The guest bassist is the legendary William BOOTSY Collins of PFunk fame. He and his bro Catfish went from a local Philly Funk band to being hired by the Godfather of Soul James Brown. When they got fired for takin LSD etc they jumped aboard the P Funk mothership and finally found their family. The sax man poppin in and out was Maceo Parker another James Brown alumnus.
The floating head rapper is Q-Tip, who was at the time best known for being part of A Tribe Called Quest, who had hits around the same time.
Sax player is Maceo Parker
1000% a hit. Granted mtv helped, but this is CATCHY all on its own without the video. It just makes you feel good and want to move.
And Maceo Parker on saxophone… he is the one playing with Prince in that Pass The Peas video you reacted to 😀
The whole 'World Clique' album is worth a listen. 'What Is Love' is maybe my favorite cut.
Hey bro!! I remember see the bass player many years ago in Grammys. She is awesome!! Please check the live version in Brasil. She is amazing. Thanks. Greetings from Argentina. Sorry for my English
fun song, creative n groovy!
The bass player is Bootsy Collins from Parliament / Funkadelic
The whistle that slides is a slide whistle.
Haha 🤣 Makes sense!
This is soooo coooool !
🔥🔥🔥
I had to look it up but you're correct, 1990. And when I looked up the bass player, it came up a coup different times with, Bootsy Collins and Q-Tip. Idk what's going on there. I did see one column that read, "If Bootsy didn't play the bass, then who did". I didn't read it, but I'm guessing Q-Tip was the bass player. Now this video was insane. I've never seen it before, and I don't get it. The song is def different than the dance version I always heard in the clubs. We just had the parts you could groove to. I had no idea this was an Austin Powers band!
The bass is sampled from Herbie Hancock's "Bring Down the Birds", where the bass player is jazz bassist Ron Carter, almost solely famous for playing the double bass except for on this record. Dee-Lite has no bass player, Bootsy is on the video just cause he looks good.
@@janskia So who is Q-Tip?
@@snakeinthegrass7443 Q-Tip is from a 80s- 90s East coast hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. The Low-End Theory and Midnight Marauders are classic albums.
Knowing what this was, I kind of laughed to myself when you said you were ready to rock out! 90's pop wasn't exactly the kind of music you can rock out to, but it was extremely danceable.
This is such a funky tune, love it!
Slide whistle is what it is called.
Ahhhhh, when clubs used to be fun!!!!!!!
3:07 slide whistle
i saw this group perform 2 different times in the 90s (minus Qtip) great tune !
BOOTSY Collin’s is one of the greatest bassists of all time. He’s in my top 5. SOLID
So funky on this one!! 🔥
Just to clarify, because I'm sure there will be some comments about it. Bootsy Collins (known for playing with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic) is the bassist you see in the video. The bass line you are hearing is not Bootsy however. The bass line from the Herbie Hancock song “Bring Down the Birds” which is slowed down a bit. The song is almost entirely samples, Eva Gabor sighing “I” on the Green Acres theme, 70’s R&B singer Vernon Burch’s “Get Up” for thesong’s drums, tambourine, crowd noise and famous slide whistle.
That's Bootsie Collins on bass... this song is the personification of fun
UK charts in the 90s had a *lot* of this sort of stuff. Digital sampling has a lot to answer for :)
(and then there was Electric Six's video for Danger High Voltage in 2002...)
Too true. I remember this played in the nightclubs every single week for so long. It was a good time!
I love this song! The bassist is Bootsy Collins. I agree, we should all have more fun. One way to have more fun is to listen to Shaka Ponk's "LET'S BANG" ua-cam.com/video/jWYLL7wFyns/v-deo.html. Hey, it's a start, and I love playing along on my bass.
The bassist is Ron Carter from a 1966 song called "Bring Down the Birds" by Herbie Hancock. It's a sample. They just slowed it down a little. Bootsy just does vocals on this song.
@@laraismyname821 Wow! Thank you, Lara, that's great to know. In the video, you see Bootsy walking around with a bass and just connect the dots. Funny how it's the wrong dot. 😊😃🤣 I also had no idea that Herbie Hancock went back so far. Great info!
@@GranpaMike Yeah it is kind of misleading to have him wearing a bass in the video (although they never show him playing it). It's also kind of weird why they didn't just have him play the bass line, since he is one of the greats. 🤷♀
Check out Shirley & Company "Shame Shame Shame"!!!!!!
I've tried following along with her dance moves.
It's quite a cardio workout.
😂🤣😂
The base player is Bootsy Collins.Legend!
I'm in my 50's and been a Metal fan since I got my first Judas Priest album in '77. That being said, I was in the Army when this song came out and I ALWAYS danced when it came on. (edit: That's a slide whistle)
Bass player is Bootsy Collins from Funkadelic
It's a slide whistle, also called a swannee whistle.
Huge dance hit and video...I mean Bootsy is a part of this so it was going to be awesome.
slide whistle
It's called a swanee whistle.
This song was released in late summer early fall of 1990. This song is considered to be house music.
The lead singer is Lady Miss Kier from Youngstown Ohio, the Asian guy is DJ Towa Tei and the dancing guy is DJ Dmitry who is Russian. They were formed in NYC.
That bassist is Bootsy Collins formerly of the band George Clinton and the Funkadelics. The rapper is Q - Tip from the group A Tribe Called Quest.
React to their songs Power Of Love, Runaway and Bittersweet Lovin' please.
Of course we danced. It rather chimed with a movement in the UK at the time too, where retro sounds were making a bit of a comeback (something which ultimately led to Britpop). You could hybridize modern dance culture of the time with what had happened twenty years earlier, almost as a reaction against market forces in pop. Which, given the history of pop music even then, is slightly ironic.
That instrument is called a slide whistle.
Ned again coz I forgot to mention that the backing track is " Bring Down the Birds " by Herbie Hancock from the 1966 Blow Up soundtrack, which is amazing all day. That film also featured a live performance by the Yardbirds playing at the Ricky Tick in London. Both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck are in the band playing a smokin version of " Stroll On ".
The saxophone player is Maceo Parker from the James Brown band.
Oh wow!! I had no idea!! 🔥