You can head over to KCRW’s Rhythm Planet blog to read/listed to the rest of Tom Schnabel’s heartfelt and thoughtful remembrance of Fela Kuti. Never one to conform to institutional pressures from society, Fela explained to Schnabel why he felt marriage imposed upon his personal freedom (peep the chuckle in response to his wives possibly exercising that same freedom). Schnabel also remembers fondly a Fela Kuti performance at the Greek Theater (or was it the Wadsworth? asks the author – such details are hard to keep track of when recalling a legacy as large as The Black President’s) where Fela’s bevy of wives – 27 to be exact – took to the stage in a clothed display of their, shall we say, “assets.” Visionary musician, activist, troublemaker – Fela was all of those things, but perhaps was none of those things if not a lover of the female form. “The whole thing of the government then was that people like me should be incarcerated, that was the policy then.” – Fela Kuti When he finally arrived back in Los Angeles after serving a partial sentence, Kuti took to the KCRW airwaves to discuss the incident: It was his 451st court appearance in ten years. In 1986, KCRW’s Tom Schnabel profiled the afrobeat pioneer, but the interview was two years delayed due to Fela’s arrest at the Lagos Airport on trumped-up currency violation charges prior to departing for the United States. radio station KCRW to dig in their audio vaults for some vintage Fela Kuti interview clips to commemorate the event.
Peep the full interview below.įELA! Returns to LA, KCRW Remembers īack by popular demand, FELA! The Musical is making a second round of appearances in Los Angeles, prompting legendary L.A.
For more information, it seems we will have to take Rae’s advice and follow the Twitters and the Facebooks to stay tuned. He do what he do.” Other highlights include Rae commenting on the experience of performing on a platform such as Coachella, where he graced the stage last weekend. Even The Chef himself is quick to disclose that he had to find out the album’s current title at the same time as the fans did – “That’s RZA, that’s the Abbott. Details of the group’s much-anticipated collective return are still scarce, including whether or not it will contain any unreleased verses from Ol’ Dirty Bastard. In a fresh interview, a salt-n-pepper-bearded, ruby-eyed Raekwon sat down with the crew from The Sermon’s Domain to chat about the upcoming Wu-Tan Clan 20th Anniversary album – hereby confirming its existence – as well as the status of his solo project, among other topics.
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