Saw him and the brothers in Detroit and at MSU back in the day. His gift of holding his audience spellbound as he wove his oratory magic between major and minor chord progressions, while African drums and shekere, pulsate the staccatoed rhythms, was indeed mesmerizing. Rest in peace man. The demons you fought didn't win. Your legacy still lives on.
Never heard this one. Gils was way ahead of his time in thinking. He went through it all, drugs, poverty, and racism but keep his vision and stayed true to himself.
Been an admirer and follower for years .... we need someone to follow on from him soon. as there seems to be so little honesty and integrity like Gill's now .... RIP Gill , I wept when I heard of your passing
I believe in peace, i believe in hope, i believe in love. Love is my religion. I'm still learning how to love in a haters world. But I am a believer, in LOVE
And now once again, proving how timeless this message is. Aww man, I really love listening to him. Wish I had had ty he chance to see in person. Much love
Just as relevant in 2024 - all the college students in solidarity with Palestine and hundreds of people including senior citizens risking their lives to sail from Istanbul on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla with tons of food and medical supplies tomorrow.
Miss you bro...listening your tunes here in 2020... still remember you came to Badalona ( Barcelona Spain ) it was a great show there.. sometimes i try to sing your tunes, peace go with you Gil..wherever you go...great poet..PEACE.. LOVE
June 12th 2024 I just want to personally mark this day when I 1st heard about this man Gil Scott,coinciding with the events of today in my life and a discussion I was having with a great friend and artist about working within.Never have I ever felt more determined to accomplish on the gifts the cosmos gave me so in closing I'd like to ask who happens to know a good and precise tarot reader?I need to know when I need to bet the lotto or try my luck nje...bathi ngine windfall mtase🤣
Back when Eisenhower was the President Golf courses was where most of his time was spent. So I never paid much attention to what the President said Because in general, I believed the General was politically dead, But he always seemed to know how muscles were going to be flexed He kept mumbling something about a military-industrial complex. The military and monetary The military and monetary The military and monetary The military and the monetary Get together whenever they think it's necessary They have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, They are turning the planet into a cemetary. The military and the monetary Use the media as intermediaries. They are determined to keep the citizens secondary They make so many decisions that seem arbitrary. We've been standing behind the 'Commander-in-Chief' Who was under a spotlight, shaking like a leaf Because the ship of state had landed on an economic reef So we knew he'd be bringing us messages of grief. The military and monetary Were 'Shielded' by January and went 'Storming' into February. They brought us pot-bellied Generals as luminaries. Two weeks before I hadn't heard of the sons of Bitches And then all of a sudden they were legendary. They took the honor from the honorary They took the dignity from the dignitaries They took the secrets from the secretaries But they left the 'bitch' in 'obituary' Yeah, they had some 'smart bombs' But they had some dumb ones as well They scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel. The military and the monetary The military and monetary The military and monetary Get together whenever they think it's necessary War in the desert sometimes sure could seem scary But they beamed out the war to all of their subsidiaries Tried making 'so damn insane' (Saddam Hussein) a worthy adversary Keeping all of the citizens secondary Scaring old folks into coronaries Making us all wonder if all of this was really, truly necessary. We've got to work for peace. We've got to work for peace. If we all believed in peace we could have peace. The only thing wrong with peace is that You can't make no money from it. The military and the monetary Get together whenever they think it's necessary They have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries We are turning parts of the planet into a cemetary. We hounded the Ayatollah religiously, Bombed Libya and killed Qadafi's son hideously. We turned our back on our allies, the Panamanians Watched Ollie North selling guns to the Iranians Witnessed Gorbachev slaughtering Lithuanians So we better warn the Amish, they may bomb the Pennsylvanians. We've got to work for peace. Peace ain't coming this way. We've got to work for peace. Peace is not (merely) the absence of war It is the absence of the rumors of war and the threats of war And the preparation of war. Peace is not (merely) the absence of war We will have all touched the power of peace within ourselves. Because we will have all come to peace within ourselves. Peace ain't gonna be easy. Peace ain't gonna be free. We've got to work for peace.
This is great Marcos...would you please check my lyrics I have put up for Space Shuttle...its not the video lyrics I have posted them underneath like you have here. Your input would be most welcome. Thanks Warpedsmac.
Prince used the 'absence of war' line in his wonderful protest song Baltimore which he wrote in 2015 after the murder of Freddie Gray : ua-cam.com/video/cieZB0Ab7xk/v-deo.html
"They had some smart bombs / But they had some dumb ones as well / Scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel." One of my favorite verses among so many.
The Urban Troubadour, whose golden throated chorus and verse, blended well with laser guided socio-political monologs, and etched an indelible message on the conscious of the planet. Rest in peace my brother...the drum still beats.🪘
Im lying here at home looking at Gil-Scott Heron dvd and he's playing this tune. Nice steppin record. I can see myself and partner Willie J. putting it down. Smooth. E.C./W.J.
sorry D.M. but I'm sure this isn't true. From an interview with Brian: Is that how you worked together from then on, with you giving him music to put words to? Pretty much. He would always ask me to tell him what I was feeling or thinking in respect to the piece I was presenting to him. Sometimes I’d have a bit of a lyric or a hook. At the very least, I would have to have an idea of what I was trying to say with the music. Whenever we wrote together, that had to be a part of it. Once I did that, he could just run with it. He was always dead on. He always understood exactly where I was coming from. It was a great feeling to write with somebody like that. It was like a Vulcan mind-meld almost. I'm off to see Brian Jackson tonight in Melbourne. V. excited
gil only lied to himself. But not to y'all. I love you always miss you baby my soulmate in life and the afterlife. xoxo you got freedom and you got peace. Finally.
@@williamhosana2691 He refused to admit that he had any problem with drugs in his later years, which is presumably what she means. This article is pretty stark: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/09/new-york-is-killing-me
We have to work a lot, dear Kendra: all around the world, dear comrade Gil... With that big blond piece of shit sitting at the White's house, twitting, acting like a big bambinone, talking idiot phrases and signing pieces of igienic paper every day... provocating an imminent war. If we don't stop him asap. Thank you Gil. For the strength, the vision, the energy, the knowledge, the soul: the intelligence. Grazie compagno Gil.
I think it was essential festival, hackney marshes, 2001. I was there and saw him, and remember the cap….but it was in a tent, which isnt clear here so could be another gig i suppose!
Melchizedek: The King Of Salem. The High Priest And The King Of Peace. Then, now Immanuel Messiah Yashua The Christ Wonderful Councillor Father Of Time Prince Of Peace Lord Allmighty
I miss that voice. We need him now more than ever.
Oh God yes; he was a national treasure. Folk around him should have protected him better. Gone far too soon!
Saw him and the brothers in Detroit and at MSU back in the day. His gift of holding his audience spellbound as he wove his oratory magic between major and minor chord progressions, while African drums and shekere, pulsate the staccatoed rhythms, was indeed mesmerizing. Rest in peace man. The demons you fought didn't win. Your legacy still lives on.
Never heard this one. Gils was way ahead of his time in thinking. He went through it all, drugs, poverty, and racism but keep his vision and stayed true to himself.
Drugs destroit him stil rember dancing on the bottle andalways follow-up his music
Serious Music for GROWN FOLKS, not just because you old !!
ha
for real
Been an admirer and follower for years .... we need someone to follow on from him soon. as there seems to be so little honesty and integrity like Gill's now .... RIP Gill , I wept when I heard of your passing
Gil Scott-Heron always tells it like it is.His message is important powerful,and deep!
towards the end of his life he made some of his greatest works... we are blessed to have shared some of this brief span of time with him.
You are so right , we need more like him as soon as possible
Don't be fooled... beginning to the end.. my Friend always was right on POINT.
Sorry in the beginnen hé made his grotest works
Gil....one of America's greatest poets....living or dead.
I believe in peace, i believe in hope, i believe in love.
Love is my religion. I'm still learning how to love in a haters world. But I am a believer, in LOVE
The King of the spoken word R.i.p. Gil-Scott Heron
On this dreadful day, this music resonates more powerfully than ever.
s'why this older lady is here.
never has this been more so relevant than now
And now once again, proving how timeless this message is. Aww man, I really love listening to him. Wish I had had ty he chance to see in person.
Much love
Just as relevant in 2024 - all the college students in solidarity with Palestine and hundreds of people including senior citizens risking their lives to sail from Istanbul on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla with tons of food and medical supplies tomorrow.
Loved this brother!!!! I'm thankful I went to his shows several times and got to hug him and thank him for his bravery and genius.
Lucky you! We will love him forever for his militancy!
My man , the truth teller . RIP. Soldier
I was there , for my huge pleasure 👍👌😎
More relevant today than ever!
The education I get from listening to Gil is priceless.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Miss you brother.❤❤❤❤
His songs are brilliantly a true reflection of society truths. The rich control the man's lives in deceitful ways.
Music with a message. He is missed.
Forever in our hearts....and in our headphones
@@richardmbowman 00
I love this stuff... and this brilliant artist. RIP GSH.
I wish Gil was still alive. He is a real legend ❤️
Righteous
Miss you bro...listening your tunes here in 2020... still remember you came to Badalona ( Barcelona Spain ) it was a great show there.. sometimes i try to sing your tunes, peace go with you Gil..wherever you go...great poet..PEACE.. LOVE
I do sing his 🎵 when I'm alone and sometimes I get loose and sing around family. They don't mind cuz they know I love Gil.
What a guy and a poet.
Relevant in 2020!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Burning bush moment!!!!
talk more about burning bush...
👋toujours cette voix qui résonne🎼🎵🎶♥️sans modération. Je l'ais ❤ découvert à l'époque sur RADIO NOVA....😍💙🔥
June The Teenth!
Twenty-Twenty-Four!
this one goes in the top 10
My God, this man is good. The band too.
June 12th 2024 I just want to personally mark this day when I 1st heard about this man Gil Scott,coinciding with the events of today in my life and a discussion I was having with a great friend and artist about working within.Never have I ever felt more determined to accomplish on the gifts the cosmos gave me so in closing I'd like to ask who happens to know a good and precise tarot reader?I need to know when I need to bet the lotto or try my luck nje...bathi ngine windfall mtase🤣
Back when Eisenhower was the President
Golf courses was where most of his time was spent.
So I never paid much attention to what the President said
Because in general, I believed the General was politically dead,
But he always seemed to know how muscles were going to be flexed
He kept mumbling something about a military-industrial complex.
The military and monetary
The military and monetary
The military and monetary
The military and the monetary
Get together whenever they think it's necessary
They have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
They are turning the planet into a cemetary.
The military and the monetary
Use the media as intermediaries.
They are determined to keep the citizens secondary
They make so many decisions that seem arbitrary.
We've been standing behind the 'Commander-in-Chief'
Who was under a spotlight, shaking like a leaf
Because the ship of state had landed on an economic reef
So we knew he'd be bringing us messages of grief.
The military and monetary
Were 'Shielded' by January and went 'Storming' into February.
They brought us pot-bellied Generals as luminaries.
Two weeks before I hadn't heard of the sons of Bitches
And then all of a sudden they were legendary.
They took the honor from the honorary
They took the dignity from the dignitaries
They took the secrets from the secretaries
But they left the 'bitch' in 'obituary'
Yeah, they had some 'smart bombs'
But they had some dumb ones as well
They scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel.
The military and the monetary
The military and monetary
The military and monetary
Get together whenever they think it's necessary
War in the desert sometimes sure could seem scary
But they beamed out the war to all of their subsidiaries
Tried making 'so damn insane' (Saddam Hussein) a worthy adversary
Keeping all of the citizens secondary
Scaring old folks into coronaries
Making us all wonder if all of this was really, truly necessary.
We've got to work for peace.
We've got to work for peace.
If we all believed in peace we could have peace.
The only thing wrong with peace is that
You can't make no money from it.
The military and the monetary
Get together whenever they think it's necessary
They have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries
We are turning parts of the planet into a cemetary.
We hounded the Ayatollah religiously,
Bombed Libya and killed Qadafi's son hideously.
We turned our back on our allies, the Panamanians
Watched Ollie North selling guns to the Iranians
Witnessed Gorbachev slaughtering Lithuanians
So we better warn the Amish, they may bomb the Pennsylvanians.
We've got to work for peace.
Peace ain't coming this way.
We've got to work for peace.
Peace is not (merely) the absence of war
It is the absence of the rumors of war and the threats of war
And the preparation of war.
Peace is not (merely) the absence of war
We will have all touched the power of peace within ourselves.
Because we will have all come to peace within ourselves.
Peace ain't gonna be easy.
Peace ain't gonna be free.
We've got to work for peace.
Trump always on the Golf Course 😂
This is great Marcos...would you please check my lyrics I have put up for Space Shuttle...its not the video lyrics I have posted them underneath like you have here. Your input would be most welcome. Thanks Warpedsmac.
Prince used the 'absence of war' line in his wonderful protest song Baltimore which he wrote in 2015 after the murder of Freddie Gray : ua-cam.com/video/cieZB0Ab7xk/v-deo.html
Thanks so much for providing the words🤗🥰💙🧡👍
"They had some smart bombs / But they had some dumb ones as well / Scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel."
One of my favorite verses among so many.
I had seen Gilt Scott Heron live at Unterföhring, long time ago.
He was a super Jazz Musiker.
This guy spitting the truths real talk old school real talk
This is the message he left. Get to it.
Before his time....Gil
The Urban Troubadour, whose golden throated chorus and verse, blended well with laser guided socio-political monologs, and etched an indelible message on the conscious of the planet. Rest in peace my brother...the drum still beats.🪘
thank you for sharing this. did not know GSH wrote a song about the border.
Im lying here at home looking at Gil-Scott Heron dvd and he's playing this tune. Nice steppin record. I can see myself and partner Willie J. putting it down. Smooth. E.C./W.J.
Miss you brother Gil.
Bro this is one of the best songs ever i kid you not
A classic,performance
"Back when Eisenhower was president, golf courses are where most of his time was spent." Not much has changed.
Your music will live on thru me for sure my kids know you to keep it going❤
Peace ain’t gonna be free…ya gotta go to work.
We ask The Creator of the Heavens and Earth to lift this plague globally 🌏😎 👍🏾🇦🇺
Yeah this is nothing new every generation faces some sort of plague
Yes Yes And Amen Memories Made for Strength In This Season Of Life With.. Peace Be With You
❤🎉Gil is the words
It's interesting to note Brian Jackson wrote most of the Words that Gil Scott Heron spoke to the world through his unique voice and style....
sorry D.M. but I'm sure this isn't true. From an interview with Brian:
Is that how you worked together from then on, with you giving him music to put words to?
Pretty much. He would always ask me to tell him what I was feeling or thinking in respect to the piece I was presenting to him. Sometimes I’d have a bit of a lyric or a hook. At the very least, I would have to have an idea of what I was trying to say with the music. Whenever we wrote together, that had to be a part of it. Once I did that, he could just run with it. He was always dead on. He always understood exactly where I was coming from. It was a great feeling to write with somebody like that. It was like a Vulcan mind-meld almost.
I'm off to see Brian Jackson tonight in Melbourne. V. excited
During their period of collaboration Brian wrote the music and Gil wrote the words.
Gil, His work is the best, period. This song says it all. how some things never change..
Peace!
Superba interpretazione...messaggio idem
POWERFUL SIMPLE TUNE!
The Military & The Monetary
Play his music and let his words be listened..... rip bro✊🏽
Right on brother's and sister's 😎
Thanks so much
#2020 FACTS!!!
Memories
Love dis Men ,,,,💕Peace Master ,,,, real Sound ,,,, perfekt in dis Moments💚💚💚💚
gil only lied to himself. But not to y'all. I love you always miss you baby my soulmate in life and the afterlife. xoxo you got freedom and you got peace. Finally.
Jamaica...Naturally how did he lie to himself?
@@williamhosana2691 He refused to admit that he had any problem with drugs in his later years, which is presumably what she means. This article is pretty stark: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/09/new-york-is-killing-me
@@truefunksoul8638 So so sad
She was probably talking about his heroin addiction with that statement 😞…But he was truly loved & respected…Gil was beautiful
Awesome
he tried to tell us
We have to work a lot, dear Kendra: all around the world, dear comrade Gil... With that big blond piece of shit sitting at the White's house, twitting, acting like a big bambinone, talking idiot phrases and signing pieces of igienic paper every day... provocating an imminent war. If we don't stop him asap. Thank you Gil. For the strength, the vision, the energy, the knowledge, the soul: the intelligence. Grazie compagno Gil.
You can live with your effort
Legendary man
My man you make my soul happy
Thanks Gil!!👏👏👏
Fabuloso.
Definitely miss Gil...would surely like his commentary now. To quote him.."...and now democracy is ragtime on the corners..."
Never a truer word said RIP son of black arrow
J aime sa musique ❤
Sehr aktuell
Peace ✌️🙂
"Peace be w. u my Bro."- (rip)
💖
💯
The prophet.
The real message in the song is work for what you want and waiting for people to had you something for nothing
so true that is his message
❤
☮🧡
Number 1
R.I.P grandma hands
♠️🖤✌🕊
i filmed him at glastonbury festival..... i will have to look see if same ...
Uno,,,dos
TRES
Let's you know you can't sit around and get you want
I have been saying that amen
👍🏾
we need to set up a bake sale and try raise some funds for peace
✊🏾🖤
The war in Afghanistan is now almost 20 years old..
😊
anyone know where this show was?
I think it was essential festival, hackney marshes, 2001. I was there and saw him, and remember the cap….but it was in a tent, which isnt clear here so could be another gig i suppose!
Oh, Gil....see you at the Mars Hotel xbt
Snext?
his father celtic player hail hail
Stop waiting for people to hand you something my correction
.more views)
Watching this as the US is about to send 2000+ troops 😢
💚🤍❤️
Melchizedek: The King Of Salem. The High Priest And The King Of Peace.
Then, now Immanuel Messiah Yashua The Christ Wonderful Councillor Father Of Time Prince Of Peace Lord Allmighty
Ill go first
And
Push
From the
Reaear
Send this message to Biden. and Puttin.
STUPENDO ARTISTA IMMENSO. PECCATO NON SI CONOSCA ABBASTANZA. E SPECIE IN ITALIA.
Sehr aktuell
❤