このアルバムは、Last Poetsというポエトリーリーディング(音楽にあわせて自作の詩を朗読するアーチスト。今のラップの起源とされる)の元メンバーであったジェラルという人物が、"Lightnin' Rod"という覆面プロジェクトとして製作したアルバムです。発売当時メンバーについては一切謎とされていたのが、その後バックの演奏はKool & The Gangほか錚々たるメンバーだったことが判明しました。1曲目の「Sport」はまさにKOOL & THE GANGの音。ファンキー!!70年代のKOOL & THE GANGを代表する1曲と行ってもいいいくらいの演奏です。
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HUSTLERS CONVENTION / LIGHTNIN ROD(1973)
1. SPORT - 2:37 (Kool & The Gang)
2. SPOON - 1:13 (Brother Gene Dinwiddie)
3. THE CAFE BLACK ROSE - 1:46 (Brother Gene Dinwiddie)
4. BROTHER HOMINY GRIT - 2:42 (Brother Gene Dinwiddie)
5. COPPIN' SOME FRONTS FOR THE SET - 2:23 (Brother Gene Dinwiddie)
6. HAMHOCK'S HALL WAS BIG (AND THERE WAS A WHOLE LOT TO DIG)
- 4:08 (Buddy Miles [Changes])
7. THE BONES FLY FROM SPOON'S HAND - 2:59 (Kool & The Gang)
8. THE BREAK WAS SO LOUD, IT HUSSHED THE CROWD
- 3:00 (Brother Gene Dinwiddie)
9. FOUR BITCHES IS WHAT I GOT - 4:08 (Kool & The Gang)
10. GRIT'S DEN - 1:21 (Eric Gale)
11. THE SHIT HITS THE FAN AGAIN - 3:34 (Sound Effects Tom Clack)
12. SENTENCED TO THE CHAIR - 1:40 (Eric Gale)
MUSICIANS
[Tracks-1, 7, 9]
Kool & The Gang
[Tracks-2, 3, 4, 5, 8]
Buzz Feiten - Guitar; Neil Larsen - Keybords; Fred Backmeier - Bass Guitar;
Philip Wilson - Drums; Brother Gene Dinwiddie - Tenor; Julius Hemphill - Alto;
Rocky Dejon - Conga
[Tracks-6]
King Curtis - Tenor; Billy Preston - Organ; Cornell Dupree - Guitar;
Truman Thomas - Piano; Jerry Jemmott- Bass; Bernard Purdie - Drums;
Pancho Morales - Conga; Wayne Jackson - Trumpet; Andrew Love - Tenor Sax;
Roger Hopps - Trumpet; Jack Hale - Trombone; Jimmy Mitchell - Bariton Sax;
Lou Collins - Tenor Sax
[Tracks-10, 12]
Eric Gale - Guitar; Richard Tee - Piano; Chuck Rainy - Bass;
Jimmy Johnson - Drums; Johnny Pacheco, Norman Pride - Candido Congas;
George McCleery - Drums & Conga; Bobby Matos - Timbales;
Trevor Lawrence, Maurice Smith - Tenor Sax;
Charles Sullivan, Gerry Thomas, Wilbur"Dud"Bascomb - Trumpet;
Gordon Specks Powell - Percussion
Director - Bob Walters