I don't know about you, but I see a benefit in not having all of your records and CDs stored in alphabetical order, or even by genre. I'd say that about 75% of my collection is easily located by some sort of organizing method. But that other 25% is mixed all the fuck up. The benefit of being too lazy to re-file records is that when you grab from the middle of the stack, you might grab something you haven't heard in a while or forgot you even had. Such was the case last night when my chance pick was the Kashmere Stage Band.
The Kashmere Stage Band was a high school band. Ho-hum you say? Okay then, don't listen. Those that do will be treated to an exceptionally tight and well recorded funk powerhouse. Before they were subjects of multiple compilations and a documentary (roughly twelve years ago) their privately pressed records were changing hands at top dollar. Check these random selections and hear what the fuss was about. Listen to the breaks, the bass, the slinky wah wah, the percolating horns. The arrangements suiting the band. Being in a band like that might have made some seniors think about flunking just to keep playing. Hell, I'd be tempted.
Kashmere Stage Band - Super Bad mp3 at Internet Archive
Kashmere Stage Band - Scorpio mp3 at Internet Archive
Kashmere Stage Band - Take Five mp3 at Internet Archive
Kashmere Stage Band - Shaft mp3 at Internet Archive
Kashmere Stage Band - Do You Dig It Man? mp3 at Internet Archive
Watch:
Thundersoul (trailer) - Kashmere Stage Band documentary at YouTube
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