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QuietHammer:
What do you know about poly rhythm? What do you know about bitonality?

KingAzubuike:
I still don't know what people see in that fela. He fought against the government fine but his music were just meaningless. He sang alot of beautiful nonsense very meaningless lyrics

Judolisco:
that u invented something doesn't mean ur type is d best... If not we for still dey fly plane wey Wright brothers invent or old cars made in d 1800's

sylve11:
Lucky Dube to Bob Marley.

shevy878:
The Poster is an OLODO, perhaps an Indomine Generation .
What type of Music does Lagbaja Sings ? Ans= Afro Beat.
Who is the Originator of Afro Beat ? Ans= Fela Kuti.

Comparing Fela & Lagbaja is like You saying the Student is More brilliant than the School.

NewDelhi:
I'll give it to lagbaja. His music are more captivating, better beats and rhymes to put you in a dance mood. Even if you no dance you go dey shake head.

Give fela 10 mins to sing a song, he will use the first 5 mins for rythymless beats, 2 mins for lyrics wey no get meaning and the last 3 mins for another round of rhythmeless beats.

Lagbaja was way better in my opinion.

Don't ever compare the two abeg.
Wetin Fela sing? Fela was just a weed smoking noise maker. No lyrics, no message, just useless and unnecessary repetition of meaningless words.
Lagbaja any day anytime.

One day go be one day!
One day go be one day!
Those wey dey steal the money for government,
One day go be one day!

naptu2:
I always listened to this song in full in the 1970s and '80s, but in the 2000s many people often chopped up the song into bits. Thankfully, with YouTube's new licensing system, there's an official Fela page and I can show you what I want you to hear.


You don't even need to listen to the whole song. I would like you to listen from the beginning, but my main aim is to get you to listen to the drum solo at the 2:05 minute mark. Please listen to that drum solo. Please, please listen to that drum solo. It'll also be nice if you listen from the beginning, so that you can get the context, but please listen to the drum solo.


Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - Open and Close (1971).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en88_IEcQwU

Liposure:
i heard its orlando owo

NewDelhi:
I'll give it to lagbaja. His music are more captivating, better beats and rhymes to put you in a dance mood. Even if you no dance you go dey shake head.

Give fela 10 mins to sing a song, he will use the first 5 mins for rythymless beats, 2 mins for lyrics wey no get meaning and the last 3 mins for another round of rhythmeless beats.

Lagbaja was way better in my opinion.

Jason0147:
Op you must be high on something to have compared the legendary Fela of Africa with Lagbaja. Can you compare Lagbaja with the likes of Michael Jackson or Bob Marley? Before Fela there was no Afro beat, Fela was the inventor, discoverer, Founder and composer of Afro beat. His shoes are to big for Lagbaja to even lace. Don't know what's wrong with all this indomie children.
Even the Whites appreciates Fela music that's why they use his music in their movies.

Don't ever compare the two abeg.
Wetin Fela sing? Fela was just a weed smoking noise maker. No lyrics, no message, just useless and unnecessary repetition of meaningless words.
Lagbaja any day anytime.

naptu2:
Poem by Maya Angelou, chords, singing and beats by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and beats and horns by Buckshot LeFonque.



Buckshot LeFonque - I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings (1994).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlyv9CobmA8

brio1408:
I heard it was Orlando Julius.
He was the Original composer of I feel good by James Brown.

naptu2:
Lauryn Hill just sampled Fela. The guitar riff was from Army Arrangement. The trumpet was from another of Fela's songs, but I can't remember which right now. The dancing girls are DEFINITELY Fela.

naptu2:
Lauryn Hill on stage. Mashup of her song Lost One and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Zombie. (This isn't the award show that I watched last year. It's another performance).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeG4o5x4B2Y

NewDelhi:
I'll give it to lagbaja. His music are more captivating, better beats and rhymes to put you in a dance mood. Even if you no dance you go dey shake head.

Give fela 10 mins to sing a song, he will use the first 5 mins for rythymless beats, 2 mins for lyrics wey no get meaning and the last 3 mins for another round of rhythmeless beats.

Lagbaja was way better in my opinion.

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.

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20156053_1938967009693930_7730160130013072909_n.jpg?oh=fd902c2fb8e0c0d2f397e8114ab84c37&oe=59F7B8D4

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20228755_1938967209693910_7085622826318115908_n.jpg?oh=4f4f0e930b9b82318235abd88e3cd25d&oe=59F35933

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

Don't ever compare the two abeg.
Wetin Fela sing? Fela was just a weed smoking noise maker. No lyrics, no message, just useless and unnecessary repetition of meaningless words.
Lagbaja any day anytime.

naptu2:
I was looking for a very famous old video of Fela addressing people on the streets of Lagos, but I haven't been able to find it yet. Guess what I found instead?


I have been searching for this song for a long time and I resumed searching for it earlier this year but I had no luck.


She actually personally got permission from Fela in order to do this song and this was her very first hit.


You can (of course) here the bass and horns of Fela's "Look and Laugh" on the track. There's a part of the song in which she complained that the exchange rate was 120 naira to a pound.


Weird MC - Allen Avenue (1996).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0k4zzC0xE4

KingAzubuike:
I still don't know what people see in that fela. He fought against the government fine but his music were just meaningless. He sang alot of beautiful nonsense very meaningless lyrics