Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
There's a bunch of interesting reporting on the hiphop blogosphere on this event - "The Making Of Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - An indepth discussion event on the making of hip-hop's greatest album."
Via Different kitchen- "...Engineer Chris Shaw recalled how they set up a phone in a separate room to record Flavor's phone call parts on "Black Steel" but that he went on so long that Hank Shocklee ran into the room to try and cut him off and he shouted, "Hank, don't stop me" which ended up on the record.
The It Takes a Nation of Millions album cost only $40,000 to record (while, by comparison, Yo! Bum Rush the Show cost an even more modest $12,000), while Lyor & Russell had gotten a $225,000 advance from Columbia for it, which meant the album was already way in the black by time the 50,000 retail pre-orders came in."
Via Rio Rock... The NYU seminar on the significance of the Public Enemy album “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” this past weekend was one of those great ideas that actually fulfilled it’s promise. It rekindled the feelings of that ecstatic moment in time that the album ‘created’ (not, necessarily, ‘captured’).
I was only able to attend a few of the events (Friday’s screening and ‘Critics Panel’ and Saturday’s ‘Producer Panel’). Other blogs will likely have more complete accounting of the events judging from early posts on the subject so I will focus on a few comments that hit me center-mass."
"Link to full-size image. Incredible gallery of early hip-hop flyers. Page takes forever to load, all of the images (dozens of 'em) are slapped on one endless static page. But what an amazing collection! Link to image gallery" (via Boingboing)
Check out Steady Bootleggin - great MP3 blog currently hitting it with "Great Soundtracks To Awful Movies".
RIP Phil Fuemana.
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