ShaqFu:
Not surprise. As usual Nigerians are never able to keep up with anything.

Triangles1:
Igbo baba my menthol.

I don't know why people look down on Weed taker and admire bear parlor.

The day my Girl friend caught me blazing weedo, she cried as if she loss her job, she fell sick for days, she look me with a pitiable eyes like some body in Sambisa with no help.

99.5 of musician worldwide are weedo taker because that's the only way they get expose to the reality of life.

naptu2:


Yeah right, you are dead serious and that's why you called him "Afonja". Sure, tell me another story.

Pochettino:
After voting this useless Fela, watch how AFONJAS will start chest beating about how only them were recognized by Hall of Fame. How they are the ones putting Naija music on the global scene, how Naija music cant breathe without them bla bla bla.

Leave AFONJAS to vote their own please. We have ours too

Pochettino:


Why dont u copy his 'style', Im sure your kids will be proud of u

ShaqFu:
Not surprise. As usual Nigerians are never able to keep up with anything.

Pochettino:


Hmmm
Is AFONJA offensive now? Hmmm

Omo Ibo, Afonja, Aboki are not offensive words. Its the stigma attached to them

Pochettino:
For me Iron Maiden deserves my vote not some drug-addicted, political thug & drunken sociopath that died in his prime due to poor life choices. The same misogynist that objectified we women.

Come be AFONJA again. Mbanu.

omonla10:
Tina Turner winning it gives same feeling just as fela.. I just want a black man to win it chikena..

naptu2:
I have to follow that post above with a Nigerian equivalent.


MUSON Symphony Orchestra playing Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Water No Get Enemy



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTp9kXZnqnI

omonla10:
Tina Turner winning it gives same feeling just as fela.. I just want a black man to win it chikena..

Pochettino:
For me Iron Maiden deserves my vote not some drug-addicted, political thug & drunken sociopath that died in his prime due to poor life choices. The same misogynist that objectified we women.

Come be AFONJA again. Mbanu.

naptu2:


I got you!

Can you show me where I said that it's offensive??

Listen, I know what you are doing. You are trying to derail the thread and turn it into a battleground. I didn't say that the word is offensive, but you know that it is offensive, that's why you brought it up. You are trolling and you want this thread to be about you and you want to turn it into a battleground.


This is my last response to you

Pochettino:
For me Iron Maiden deserves my vote not some drug-addicted, political thug & drunken sociopath that died in his prime due to poor life choices. The same misogynist that objectified we women.

Come be AFONJA again. Mbanu.

Pochettino:


My papa never took drugs, smoked irresponsibly, wearing pant like a deranged lunatic, fucking anything female that moved, littering the earth with hundreds of illegitimate bastards and dying shamefully of AIDS.

naptu2:
Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has been nominated for the 2021 class of the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. See previous thread here. https://www.nairaland.com/6410112/fela-kuti-nominated-2021-rock

He stormed into the lead after Nigerians began an online campaign to get people to vote for him.


www.nairaland.com/attachments/13133200_screenshot20210212154001_jpegfd7d506dfb3354ee609532c6158c24e9

However, votes from Nigerians have waned in the past few days and he has now been overtaken by Tina Turner.


Click on this link to cast your vote https://vote.rockhall.com

ShackWes:
Nigerians won't vote

If nah mercy lambo or Erica the IndecentStar now, they go dey lead

Spits

naptu2:


17) Fela Anikulapo-Kuti ft Ginger Baker – Live! (1971)

Ginger Baker is an English drummer and founder of the rock band Cream. He spent a lot of time in Nigeria in the 1970s, recording and studying African music and he became a good friend of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. You can see some videos of his interactions with Fela on YouTube. They are taken from his documentary Ginger Baker in Africa.
He was instrumental in settling the rift between Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney was bored with recording in the UK and so he decided to record his album “Band On The Run” at EMI studios in Apapa, Lagos in 1973. (You can read about everything that happened during McCartney’s visit on this thread https://www.nairaland.com/1387857/foreign-local-musical-tributes-nigeria ) . McCartney went to watch Fela play at the Shrine, but Fela confronted him and accused him of coming to exploit and steal African music.

Fela had good reason to be concerned. James Brown toured Nigeria in 1970. Fela’s legendary drummer, Tony Allen claims that James Brown sent his arranger, David Mathews, to check him out and that David Mathews took notes about how he played. James Brown’s bassist, William “Bootsy” Collins said that they went to Fela’s club (the Shrine) in Lagos and they were amazed by what they saw.
“I mean, this is the James Brown band, but we were totally wiped out! That is one trip I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world”.
In another interview he said, “I thought THEY were the greatest, period. Even before I got into the James Brown band, the James Brown band was number one to me. But once I got there and saw Fela and them, then I had second thoughts about it. . .when I heard these cats, it was like another dimension. . .a deeper feel to me. . .it was like, ‘Man, this is IT. We gotta try to be like this!” [laughs] (read more here http://afrofunkforum..com.ng/2006/04/felajames-brown-connection.html?m=1)

So Fela thought that Paul McCartney had also come to steal African music without giving anything back or crediting the source of the music. Fela also went to EMI studios to confront McCartney. Everything was resolved when McCartney and his group played their music for Fela so that he could hear that there wasn’t any African influence in it. Ginger Baker was also able to bring them together and he also invited McCartney to record at his studio in Ikeja.

Tony Allen is probably the most famous former member of Fela’s band. Fela writes the music for his band and all the members of the band must play what he has written. Dele Sosimi (former keyboardist for both Fela and Femi) gave an example in a BBC interview in the early 2000s. He said that they would be rehearsing and Fela would suddenly stop the band. “Who’s that?” he would shout and when he has identified the person that played the offending note, he would order the manager to deduct two weeks wages from the person’s salary. They must always play what Fela has written.

However, it was very different with Tony Allen. Fela would compose the melody and bring it to Tony Allen and ask him, “What can you play to this melody?” and Tony Allen would play something and Fela would go, “Yeah! Yeah! That’s it!” Tony Allen was not just the drummer of Africa 70, he was also the musical director of the band.

Some of my friends who were drummers have nicknamed Tony Allen “the Octopus” because they say that he drums with his hands, elbows and feet, as if he has eight limbs.

In 1978 Fela married 27 women at a go. He also set up a political party called Movement of The People, in order to contest in the 1979 Nigerian presidential elections. Tony Allen said that he also noticed that a lot of strange people started hanging around Fela. He decided that Fela was no longer serious and left the band. Fela had to hire two drummers to play the rhythms that Tony Allen singlehandedly played. Tony Allen has lived in Paris, France for a long time and he records and plays music over there.

There is a track on this album called Drum Solo. It is like a drum battle between Ginger Baker and Tony Allen. Ginger Baker is drumming in the European style while Tony Allen is drumming in the African style. It’s my favourite track on the album.

The first video is of the whole album, so only watch it if you have enough data. The second video is of Drum Solo, the battle between Tony Allen and Ginger Baker.





Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Ginger Baker – Live! (full album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20UbO62UJUg

Tony Allen vs. Ginger Baker (Drum Solo) part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIawMBojgvI

Tony Allen vs. Ginger Baker (Drum Solo) part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAeu9LJQDr4

Pochettino:
For me Iron Maiden deserves my vote not some drug-addicted, political thug & drunken sociopath that died in his prime due to poor life choices. The same misogynist that objectified we women.

Come be AFONJA again. Mbanu.

Pochettino:
For me Iron Maiden deserves my vote not some drug-addicted, political thug & drunken sociopath that died in his prime due to poor life choices. The same misogynist that objectified we women.

Come be AFONJA again. Mbanu.

bigbabyboy:


Your Papa also did not have any impact in this life. With his cool and calm demeanor as a gentleman that did not guarantee him success in this life. You are a glaring evidence of his gargantuan failure. Compared to the maestro himself whose self styled life transcended into his art, his music and politics, your father was a nonentity who could not even do basic things like raising a daughter. Shameful product of a rabid infested dog.