No matter who you are you can not watch this video/interview and not come away with something. This great Jazz musician had a whole lot to say but at the end of the day a lot of people don't want to hear the truth.
One of the hardest truth's spoken by Sun Ra is his own testimony that he did not speak the Truth but served the agenda of those he called enemy. The Berkley speech is Sun Ra laying out his mental craft on Black people to his European peers.
Everytime the legend pops up on my feed, i stop & 👂🏿. Rocket no.9 has taken me to space, which is the place. I wish i had an opportunity to meet this being while he was here on the planet but I came here in '87 so i missed my window but thanks to the music that was shared by Sun Ra & Arkestra I was able to tap in. I AM GRATEFUL!
"Everyone has to have their own government n their own ethic cultural structure" 👏👏 I admire how he seamlessly transitions from philosophy, politics, culture, religion n all in the same tone also, the interviewer was great n asked him some sensible questions.
This was a great interview. She treated Sun Ra with respect and with no air of judgement. I listened to this interview and I found it to be full of wisdom.
A master who espoused wisdom every time he spoke treating words like sacrament...that he could fuse this with musical orchestration is a true gift to all mankind. Still tripping on Ra after all these years
"- I do get a lot of publicity in Europe and every other country I go in, because they know I deal with something more than music. They're beginning to feel it can't be expressed in words, and that's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to play a superior type of music. Not music that deal with the body, not music that deal with the mind - but music that deal with the spirit. The way it should be! You know, when you deal with music that deal with the spirit, you can encourage people to fight against the bad conditions on this planet. Even encouraging them to change things, simply by the music. " Sun Ra speaks the truth like no one else. Amen.
This (brother) if I may called him ‘’that’’ is truly uniquely different, different prospective about black people and our lifestyle and culture that you don’t hear from anyone else, his music is not from planet earth period.
He saw the future, he saw the past. He really was the truth, a seer, and possibly the greatest jazz & blues keyboardist of the 20th century... piano and organ.
Sun Ra is more than music. He is an important reminder that we must treat everyone we meet with love and respect. My ears were fortunate to have heard him a few times. Wonderful ! I have a piece “12:30 On M Street “ with a tribute to Sun Ra. Space is the place!!!!! Please if you check out 12:30 On M Street…. Give a comment so I can grow and learn. Peace and Love 💕
i was so lucky, a friend took me to a show at the old ballard firehouse in Seattle. i was such a punk..but suddenly I understood...music is fun, and freeing. thank you sun ra.
Most of black jazz musicians took racism as their biggest muse to be creative... Not sun ra he is a choosen one... He had no hate inside.... Even when his music is all about destroying and creating a parallel universe ...he has so much knowledge inside you can hear in his frequencies.... I mean his voice
" German Town North Philly '98, I lived above a speakeasy and the sax player from his band used to go there and Sun Ra's old house was literally right around the corner " #classicmaterial
music before money ! sucsess based on genuine creativity [reflecting our source, and mutual creation] , not mass aceptance in pop culture ]...money power ego Sun Ra the seeker of truth... live humble
You may interpret him that way. But I think he meant the ancient Ethiopians who were the first Egyptians and they lost their country and government. Sun Ra was an Egyptologist. He read on Egyptology widely. Find out what he read in Szwed's book Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra.
"Any man talking about God, I investigate it." He did. The translations of his findings resonates in the music. In this interview,, his philosophy is beyond this world. If you've witnessed him perform live, you've witnessed, or experienced communion with angels.
Thanks for suggesting "Magical Egypt" I just finished and about to watch it again. From the spirituality, lucid dreaming, to the alchemy, all have my mind blown.
Great. He's talking "Chinese", for more than 90% of the people. The interviewer didn't comprehend what he was talking about, and could question Sun Ra responses to extract more Gems. He knows much more than we can imagine if the right person could extract those answers.
Amazing interview seriously! I hate how people on comments board try to talk and act like Sun Ra. Sun Ra is an amazing person, but you guys need to be yourself. That's the best way to be.
Egypt was the last golden age we experienced before our descent into spiritual darkness. All of the secret/sacred knowledge we hold today (hermeticism, themela, OTO, Free-masonry, alchemy) can have its roots traced back to the egyptians. If you want to get a basic understanding of what Sun Ra intuitively or otherwise understood than watch the series "Magical Egypt" on UA-cam. This was put together by some really turned on and tuned in scholars I must say,
Hahahaha I love his little quick smiles when the interviewers are acting and sounding like they don’t know what to do or say and you can tell he’s getting a kick out of making them uncomfortable. Go to 10:30 for instance and watch the quick little smile after the the ufo not having a license remark 😂😂
Great interviewER and great interviewEE. Only by letting Sun Ra speak at length can misquoting him and taking him out of context be avoided. Listen to how he 24:40 corrects her : "......P.R.O.F.I.T." At 25:29 is the truth as I have rarely seen it being spoken.
knuF timE Then, by all means, let him who is without sin cast the first stone (or drink the first Coke). Even the Dalai Lama has been known to rarely indulge in one thing or another of a worldly mature -why, u may ask? because, after all, he lives in this world and it is this world he has to deal with. Coming across as 100% saintly actually works against any crusader, because it is 100% off-putting and makes him/her non-relatable.
The first americans were actually the clovis people and they weren't pacific islanders or australian aborigines. Also as of 2011 were actually finding other cultures that pre-date the clovis people none of them came from the pacific islands. They crossed a land bridge from the bering strait during the ice age.
Oh fuck, i don't want to ruin this comments board because i'm talking about something other than Sun Ra because this is an amazing interview. Basically what i was explaining to MySkiesAreBlue24 is that the first people who lived in North and South America were ancient people called the Clovis people. They lived around 11,000 years ago. Look it up.
I really like this film! I did not like the audio quality at all but that happens often with videos. So, I turned on captions and this helped me quite a bit, even though that tool is not perfect. I loved it. The captions and hearing him at the same time gave me the experience I wanted; I wanted to actually think about what he was saying... He had charisma. He had a a great sense of humor. He starts to smile, but then he follows through and makes his points-- points which he meant to offer to all humans and in all sincerity I feel.
Listen to the Berkley speech and hear his truth about his speeches to Black people. Inwardly you will know if you can really accept Sun Ra, or if you have selective hearing as he points out about Black people. He knew people couldn't accept Truth, so he took advantage of their wishful thinking.
I wonder if Sun Ra was an activist? He is speaking from a stance of truth but then he goes off on some weired tangent. He was really a complicated man.
+Gerald McCarter he seems to be suggesting that the truth of humanity is that a race requires myths for it to be built up, and that blacks don't have any myth themselves
the first americans were pacific islanders and australian aborigines. the mongolian tribes were migrate hunters who followed the deer and were minority tribes. the so called african americans been here all along. this is what he meant by black ppls "lost their country and government".
Sun Rat was poetic for sure. Just don’t buy into the “we’re bigger than we really are” delusions of grandeur mentality. It will suppress your actions as opposed to enlightening you
Interesting theory. So, do you subscribe to the theory that people came across the land bridge over the Bering Strait millions of years ago and populated North, Central and South America, ultimately having originated in the Rift Valley of Africa?
that reporter missed what he said! he said "black ppls lost their country and goverment and felt if they intergrated they would be accpeted by society." what does he mean by this?
The Ancient Spirits say that the planet is billions of years old and that from my own research within myself I was told that the planet was ran by many different beings side by side with man..Thats why we see all the variations of beings living among man in the pyramids. They talked and commune with each other...but since the last 6000 years the world has been in a spiritual decline...now this is the dawn of the resurrection of man and his balance with the eternal cosmos
I love that stuff at 2:20. NO KIDDING. Jazz has lost it's intent...BIG TIME. He's got the "race reason" wrong I think...but he wasn't saying this in the "Lincoln Center Jazz Series Era". GET YOUR "CULTURE STRUCTURE" PEOPLE!!! PLay for your people!!! I know we think we are post-race...but notice that white people are saying that......
Cheikh Anta Diop, the Senegalese scholar and scientist has written on the subject of who the Egyptians were. As to the Amerindians do you mean such a civilization that disappeared in what is now Ohio and left behind their serpent shaped mounds, the "mound builders"?
She' s a great interviewer, you can tell from Sun Ra's responses
Sun Ra was from Saturn, no question.
Thanks Ra, for your wisdom and the lovely music.
He was from Alabama
@@pgroove163 he came to Alabama
He was a living myth
No matter who you are you can not watch this video/interview and not come away with something. This great Jazz musician had a whole lot to say but at the end of the day a lot of people don't want to hear the truth.
ofcourse you can....if you don't understand english
One of the hardest truth's spoken by Sun Ra is his own testimony that he did not speak the Truth but served the agenda of those he called enemy. The Berkley speech is Sun Ra laying out his mental craft on Black people to his European peers.
Everytime the legend pops up on my feed, i stop & 👂🏿.
Rocket no.9 has taken me to space, which is the place.
I wish i had an opportunity to meet this being while he was here on the planet but I came here in '87 so i missed my window but thanks to the music that was shared by Sun Ra & Arkestra I was able to tap in.
I AM GRATEFUL!
we have to develop our ethnic structures
pure brilliance
Malcolm X said the same thing.
"Everyone has to have their own government n their own ethic cultural structure" 👏👏 I admire how he seamlessly transitions from philosophy, politics, culture, religion n all in the same tone also, the interviewer was great n asked him some sensible questions.
Recording artists worldwide who are in the industry right now need to listen to the intro of this video ... and then learn from the rest of it.
This sister is a great interviewer man.
This was a great interview. She treated Sun Ra with respect and with no air of judgement. I listened to this interview and I found it to be full of wisdom.
Salam. That's what what happened to Father Adam (as) in the Garden. Check out Sun Ra's Berkley speech and listen to what he reveals about the craft.
A master who espoused wisdom every time he spoke treating words like sacrament...that he could fuse this with musical orchestration is a true gift to all mankind. Still tripping on Ra after all these years
She was very respectful,Yes
"- I do get a lot of publicity in Europe and every other country I go in, because they know I deal with something more than music. They're beginning to feel it can't be expressed in words, and that's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to play a superior type of music. Not music that deal with the body, not music that deal with the mind - but music that deal with the spirit. The way it should be! You know, when you deal with music that deal with the spirit, you can encourage people to fight against the bad conditions on this planet. Even encouraging them to change things, simply by the music. "
Sun Ra speaks the truth like no one else. Amen.
He was live and direct. Gentle revolutionary with a big punch.
@@suchapill3077 Indeed!
💯
This (brother) if I may called him ‘’that’’ is truly uniquely different, different prospective about black people and our lifestyle and culture that you don’t hear from anyone else, his music is not from planet earth period.
He saw the future, he saw the past. He really was the truth, a seer, and possibly the greatest jazz & blues keyboardist of the 20th century... piano and organ.
how good that she let him talk and not interrupt or push her own ego-good job!
Sun Ra is more than music.
He is an important reminder that we must treat everyone we meet with love and respect. My ears were fortunate to have heard him a few times. Wonderful ! I have a piece “12:30 On M Street “ with a tribute to Sun Ra.
Space is the place!!!!!
Please if you check out 12:30 On M Street…. Give a comment so I can grow and learn.
Peace and Love 💕
i was so lucky, a friend took me to a show at the old ballard firehouse in Seattle. i was such a punk..but suddenly I understood...music is fun, and freeing. thank you sun ra.
Most of black jazz musicians took racism as their biggest muse to be creative... Not sun ra he is a choosen one... He had no hate inside.... Even when his music is all about destroying and creating a parallel universe ...he has so much knowledge inside you can hear in his frequencies.... I mean his voice
yeah..finally someone that gets 'it'
He Projected Higher Frequency,Yes
" German Town North Philly '98, I lived above a speakeasy and the sax player from his band used to go there and Sun Ra's old house was literally right around the corner "
#classicmaterial
good interview with the legend sun ra. a jazz legend well ahead of his time. we all come away with something listening to this.
"Everything on this planet came out of Egypt". Sun Ra!
@William W. Campbell-Shepherd IX Paul and Cleopatra is Dead
Sun Ra, I relate to him! Our young people need to experience him!
I agree so much
Yes they do
sun ra so cool
Listening in 2019 and how relevant and prophetic in the new era. There are billions of dollars for the blacks in the world bank
music before money ! sucsess based on genuine creativity [reflecting our source, and mutual creation] , not mass aceptance in pop culture ]...money power ego Sun Ra the seeker of truth... live humble
You may interpret him that way. But I think he meant the ancient Ethiopians who were the first Egyptians and they lost their country and government. Sun Ra was an Egyptologist. He read on Egyptology widely. Find out what he read in Szwed's book Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra.
Sun Ra did talk alot about Ancient Aethiopia and India being Ancient Centers of Civilization
I gleaned a lot of wisdom from this video. Thank you.
"Any man talking about God, I investigate it." He did. The translations of his findings resonates in the music. In this interview,, his philosophy is beyond this world. If you've witnessed him perform live, you've witnessed, or experienced communion with angels.
Yes there was Divine Communication in his Performances,I saw him many times. His Arkestra still projects a Prophetic and Spiritual energy now
Sun ra was definitely ahead of his time
Thanks for suggesting "Magical Egypt" I just finished and about to watch it again. From the spirituality, lucid dreaming, to the alchemy, all have my mind blown.
"They eliminate the truth..."yes. Speak it, my prophet, speak it! They couldn't eliminate your truth and they never will.
Great. He's talking "Chinese", for more than 90% of the people. The interviewer didn't comprehend what he was talking about, and could question Sun Ra responses to extract more Gems. He knows much more than we can imagine if the right person could extract those answers.
Damn Sun Ra Is Dropping it Sun!!
Sun Ra is a precursor to Earth Wind and Fire.
I did a Maurice White video that speaks a little on his mysticism.
thankyou kindly.
Galighticus.com were is that video I'd love to see it
yeah where is it??
George Clinton has that Sun Ra feel
@@MADDGOATTV-ln5xs
Jimi Hendrix has aspects of it too. If you are cosmically attuned you will be attracted to Ra.
And George Clinton and Hendrix
Wonderful Interview Thank you 🤎Ra
11:50 so the idea of the angel race came from a newsreel on Nigeria with people who look just like people here. I'm with you Mr. Ra.
Sun Ra ❤
Amazing interview seriously! I hate how people on comments board try to talk and act like Sun Ra. Sun Ra is an amazing person, but you guys need to be yourself. That's the best way to be.
It's alot of my people into the ancient Egypt way of life he's lived I Philly like me and it's alot of ancient Egyptian lovers here
@@emergematic9048 I visit Philly often,Sun Ra left his energetic imprint there
P-R-O-F-I-T! Man Sonny was so quick! Such a void now that he's gone.
my man dropping shots with those hearing test head phones on....vibe
lol
Thank you so much for posting this interview !
Excellent Interview, thank you very much. Speace!
*listening with arms crossed stroking my beard with eyelids half shut staring side-eyed* Go on ...
enlightening perspective.
Egypt was the last golden age we experienced before our descent into spiritual darkness. All of the secret/sacred knowledge we hold today (hermeticism, themela, OTO, Free-masonry, alchemy) can have its roots traced back to the egyptians. If you want to get a basic understanding of what Sun Ra intuitively or otherwise understood than watch the series "Magical Egypt" on UA-cam. This was put together by some really turned on and tuned in scholars I must say,
Most of the knowledge we hold today is not sacred
TEACH, PROPHET, TEACH!
Thanks for posting this. My goodness.
Sun Ra drinking a Coca-Cola is probably one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
"Space is the place" - Sun Ra 🛸 🪐
damn, go Sun Ra, OG wise
Hahahaha I love his little quick smiles when the interviewers are acting and sounding like they don’t know what to do or say and you can tell he’s getting a kick out of making them uncomfortable. Go to 10:30 for instance and watch the quick little smile after the the ufo not having a license remark 😂😂
Sun Ra Respect!!!
Great interviewER and great interviewEE. Only by letting Sun Ra speak at length can misquoting him and taking him out of context be avoided. Listen to how he 24:40 corrects her : "......P.R.O.F.I.T." At 25:29 is the truth as I have rarely seen it being spoken.
Zeit Geist "P R O F I T" then takes a sip from a coca-cola can. Subtle, maybe insignificant. But still genius.
knuF timE Then, by all means, let him who is without sin cast the first stone (or drink the first Coke). Even the Dalai Lama has been known to rarely indulge in one thing or another of a worldly mature -why, u may ask? because, after all, he lives in this world and it is this world he has to deal with. Coming across as 100% saintly actually works against any crusader, because it is 100% off-putting and makes him/her non-relatable.
What a brilliant unique man
4:44 From "Superman" to Man, Joel Augustus (J. A.) Rogers (1917)
4:23 💣
5:50 💣
7:40 💣
13:03 💣
14:54 💣
17:48 💣
26:57 💣
I worked on the movie "Space is the place" the crew was told we would be paid when the movie was released Nobody was paid.
the most important statement made to black people ever-- 19:54 to 20:45-- billions-- THATS SO TRUE
The All mighty Sun Ra
Love it
This is Sun Ra
Culture. This is what he speaks on, and this is we so desperately lack, to the point where it's a leading cause of our demise.
BLAK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!
Peace, Sun Ra was so on point. He was wise.
I wish I was raised in a conscious household
yes !!!
If as many people who followed the honorable Alijah Mohammed would have followed Sun Ra the world would be a different place by now
Sun Ra: Super-Genius.
+Boozy Grogy In a nutshell, from his point-of-view... is what makes it a timely interview/documentary
@CEddy10165 closing credits say 1981, for tv production/ broadcast
yeah man..l you know what... its the same in scotland...
The first americans were actually the clovis people and they weren't pacific islanders or australian aborigines. Also as of 2011 were actually finding other cultures that pre-date the clovis people none of them came from the pacific islands. They crossed a land bridge from the bering strait during the ice age.
Sun ra was from saturn 🪐🛸
Oh fuck, i don't want to ruin this comments board because i'm talking about something other than Sun Ra because this is an amazing interview. Basically what i was explaining to MySkiesAreBlue24 is that the first people who lived in North and South America were ancient people called the Clovis people. They lived around 11,000 years ago. Look it up.
I really like this film! I did not like the audio quality at all but that happens often with videos. So, I turned on captions and this helped me quite a bit, even though that tool is not perfect. I loved it. The captions and hearing him at the same time gave me the experience I wanted; I wanted to actually think about what he was saying...
He had charisma. He had a a great sense of humor. He starts to smile, but then he follows through and makes his points-- points which he meant to offer to all humans and in all sincerity I feel.
sun ra should have been handed the key to the universe, not the key to the city..
Impossible is not impossible.
viiibes +++
the most far out guy on the planet .. :)
Truth in a nutshell
Before the was George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, before David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust, there was SUN RA!
Listen to the Berkley speech and hear his truth about his speeches to Black people. Inwardly you will know if you can really accept Sun Ra, or if you have selective hearing as he points out about Black people. He knew people couldn't accept Truth, so he took advantage of their wishful thinking.
George Clinton and Hendrixs mentor....
Wow. Think about it.
I wonder if Sun Ra was an activist? He is speaking from a stance of truth but then he goes off on some weired tangent. He was really a complicated man.
+Gerald McCarter he seems to be suggesting that the truth of humanity is that a race requires myths for it to be built up, and that blacks don't have any myth themselves
Gerald McCarter what makes you believe you know the truth? what makes something weird? oh, never heard it before?? must be weird.
jason lol false . He said there own philosophy meaning there own minds . These so called black people are Caucasians in the mind
This the kinda music I make
the first americans were pacific islanders and australian aborigines. the mongolian tribes were migrate hunters who followed the deer and were minority tribes. the so called african americans been here all along. this is what he meant by black ppls "lost their country and government".
blackness!
the American black culture should have gone to the direction of this man not the Reagan hip hop Direction
Our music would be better that’s for sure. Not enough music is about space now a-days, and how it is the place
Sun Rat was poetic for sure. Just don’t buy into the “we’re bigger than we really are” delusions of grandeur mentality. It will suppress your actions as opposed to enlightening you
i don't know, it allowed to travel the world many times over and keep an enormous big band together for over 50 years
:)
whats that he says at 25:50? "...not from guns, not from power, but simply because God was....
“Was for them”
I get a lot more out of his music than his words.
wow he's right even Egypt was built on a myth
What Myth? Egypt is a Greek name? The real name is "Kmt" and before that "Ta Meri"
Interesting theory. So, do you subscribe to the theory that people came across the land bridge over the Bering Strait millions of years ago and populated North, Central and South America, ultimately having originated in the Rift Valley of Africa?
24:50 :)
This dude is WOKE. Sun Ra ...
that reporter missed what he said! he said "black ppls lost their country and goverment and felt if they intergrated they would be accpeted by society." what does he mean by this?
Please inform me then, what was his point?
Sun ra enseñeme el jazz
apprentlatly you messed the point he was making as well.
The Ancient Spirits say that the planet is billions of years old and that from my own research within myself I was told that the planet was ran by many different beings side by side with man..Thats why we see all the variations of beings living among man in the pyramids. They talked and commune with each other...but since the last 6000 years the world has been in a spiritual decline...now this is the dawn of the resurrection of man and his balance with the eternal cosmos
I love that stuff at 2:20. NO KIDDING. Jazz has lost it's intent...BIG TIME. He's got the "race reason" wrong I think...but he wasn't saying this in the "Lincoln Center Jazz Series Era". GET YOUR "CULTURE STRUCTURE" PEOPLE!!! PLay for your people!!! I know we think we are post-race...but notice that white people are saying that......
Cheikh Anta Diop, the Senegalese scholar and scientist has written on the subject of who the Egyptians were. As to the Amerindians do you mean such a civilization that disappeared in what is now Ohio and left behind their serpent shaped mounds, the "mound builders"?