Re: Re: Dennis Coffey/Live Connection 81

Shoji Sadoi
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:09:06 -0500


On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, I wrote:

> Dennis Coffey released many good albums and was a good producer. He
> produced C.J & Co album "Devil's Gun" including "We Got Our Own Thing".
> I recommend his "Evolution" album (Sussex) and "Electric Coffey"
> (Sussex,1972). "Scorpio" (from "Evolution") and "Son Of Scorpio" (from
> "Electric Coffey") are well known beat record. The latter song is on
> UBB, but the UBB version sounds too low compared with the original LP version.
> Actually, there is a ultra rare LP which he had released before
> "Evolution" and it might be the funkiest album he has ever released (I've
> never heard the album, though).
>
>
> P.S. Does anyone know which record Grand Master Flash is using on "Live
> Connection 81 Vol.1"? I'm talking about the record that right before
> Flash spinning "Bounce, Skate And Roll". I've been figuring out, but I
> can't find it.

ashwin@visgen.com (Ashwin Tumne) wrote:
> Would this be _Going For Myself_? I think it's his first album.
> A Coffey Fact: He plays guitar on the first Funkadelic album and did the
> theme to "Black Belt Jones." The last I saw of him was an album in the
> early 90s on a small jazz label.

p040835b@pb.seflin.org wrote:
>From: p040835b@pb.seflin.org (Marina Salzano)
>To: Shojie@aol.com
>CC: ACID-JAZZ@ucsd.edu
>is the funkiest lp called back home on westbound?
>
>
>Marina Salzano
>p040835b@pb.seflin.org

Well, I found the name of the album. It's called "Hair And Thang" by
Dennis Coffey Trio. I don't have further into, but it seems his first recording.