Tom Terrell

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Racism Killed Rock: Part II

By Tom Terrell

The subliminal suggestion is that Sly Stone was this schizo black musician who needed chemical stimulants to transform his simple R&B tunes into bonafide rock anthems. In other words, black people can't rock without getting high. [14 December 2006]

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Racism Killed Rock: Part I

By Tom Terrell

I believe to my soul that a blue man can sing the whites; that when the Big Music is rocked epically by a musician who feels/claims it as birthright, he or she will render ethno-cultural-lingual-racial barriers moot every damn time. [7 December 2006]

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Death and Music

By Tom Terrell

As my eyes locked on that stark casket, my mind tripped out. The cognitive dissonance of it all shut me down until they played Aunt Shirley's 'Here's to Life'. [28 April 2006]

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