GAP Band Fans

[cyclingwriter2]

Once you put together where the GAP Band comes from and the history of the neighborhood, it's hard to listen to "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" the same way.

Tulsa bombing 1920?

 

[JRoyal]

Tulsa bombing 1920?

They grew up just a few blocks away from the Greenwood District here in Tulsa, the neighborhood which was destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Mashacre, an event that included witness reports of planes dropping bombs on the neighborhood. There were even rumors the song was referencing the mashacre, but Charlie Wilson said in an interview that the only bombs the song was talking about were bombs "made of love."

 

[Scout]

YGBFKM

 

[cyclingwriter2]

YGBFKM

I read that in a book just last week.

 

[qtlaw]

 

[Scout]

Dear God did this age badly.

 

[maumann]

Dear God did this age badly.

The "Pac-Man Fever" of funk.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[qtlaw]

All staples in my 80's Funk Spotify playlist. (Admittedly, I actually prefer Slick Rick's "Give it to Me Baby" over "Superfreak")

 

[Neutral Corner]

Yeah, I shoulda thrown "Brick House" and "Superstition" in there too. The Al Green really isn't a great fit, but my lord, I love that song.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Well, someone had to do it.

 

[qtlaw]

Yeah, I shoulda thrown "Brick House" and "Superstition" in there too. The Al Green really isn't a great fit, but my lord, I love that song.

Al was/is sooooo smooth, he's got a double album of great stuff. Unfortunately (IMHO) he then retired and went preacher/gospel mode.