I’ve written a new piece, “blues for obama.” that has Scott-Heron all over it. Time has come today for the one and only to record it ‘cause the revolution will not be televised.
If interested, let me know: jdebrizzi@yahoo.com
Comment left by John DeBrizzi · Thursday June 10, 2010 · #
Fantastic, beautiful, awesome! Sung by a man who knows what he’s talking about. You gave us chills. My wife is crying right now after watching “I’m new here”. Please come to Santa Cruz, CA. This town would love to see and hear your brilliance. We would love to share a bottle of our favorite local wine with you.
Me and the devil is moving i am getting goose bumps all over, keep doing what you do.
Comment left by Monzer · Saturday June 19, 2010 · #
man, i was reduced to sobs the first time i heard that voice 30yrs ago…it just got me again. gil, welcome back, will you show me around?
Comment left by chuck · Saturday June 19, 2010 · #
Mr. Gil Scott-Heron … still showing us the way … welcome back “Spiderman”!
Nard
Comment left by Bernard Rouse · Saturday June 19, 2010 · #
So nice to hear your voice and see your smiling face again.
Blessings to you.
Comment left by Rob Martin · Sunday June 20, 2010 · #
A friend introduced me to your music some time back . . I’m still in love with you!
Thanks for sharing your awesome gift with the world. Blessings.
Comment left by Doris Stephens · Sunday June 20, 2010 · #
already had the album. just tweeted that Seth Godin felt it was a ‘gift’ – and he’s right.
and you are such a gift that I had to come see the video again, like a beloved book that I stopped reading years ago because I grew to know it by heart.
and here’s that gift again.
Comment left by Terrintokyo · Sunday June 20, 2010 · #
This is amazing!….I knew you had been in touch with reality way before now!….I love it and thanks for sharing your foreseen knowledge for many generations! Peace and Blessings/Benefits, BBB
Comment left by Blackbeltbeauty · Sunday June 20, 2010 · #
Not what I’m used to coming from u. Too easy to sell out. Suck it up and bust something fresh. This just ain’t it. Thumbs down!
Comment left by tunckdr · Monday June 21, 2010 · #
I’ve followed your music my entire adult life,glad to hear you. Keep doing what you were created to do! You’re so enlighting.
Peace go with you my brother
Thanx
R.Ponds
Comment left by R.Ponds · Tuesday June 22, 2010 · #
I’ve followed your music my entire adult life,glad to hear you. Keep doing what you were created to do! You’re so enlightening.
Peace go with you my brother
Thanx
R.Ponds
Comment left by R.Ponds · Tuesday June 22, 2010 · #
Awesome! Simply, awesome. There’s a calming in this song. I hope you come to Chicago. I was at the Green Dolphin some years back to see in concert, but things happened and I didn’t get to see you. I still have my CDs, and I still hope you sign them. You are an amazing poet. I understand you’re new here…no more tiny jigsaw pieces. We’ve been waiting.
Peace, brother.
Comment left by B-Love · Tuesday June 22, 2010 · #
My laptop only stopss gos so bad i never grt to listern to any mumusic or vedio to comment on.
Comment left by Russell Stringfield · Wednesday June 23, 2010 · #
The Godfather of ‘MEANINGFUL’ rap is back. I was teaching some young people in one of the summer programs, I let them hear and explain ‘The revolution will not be televised.’ That was the best class I ever taught. Keep it coming Gil Scott-Heron.
Comment left by Nathaniel Green · Thursday June 24, 2010 · #
Hello, I am enjoying the videos but it keeps stopping briefly after every few lines. How can I stop this? Some are worst with this defect than others.
Helen Boyd
Comment left by Helen D. Boyd · Tuesday June 29, 2010 · #
a God sent word. i am new here again. have missed you gil scott. it has been 30 or so years. eternally….
I have been asking around at record store, anywhere i can find you. nobody could tell me, only jil scott. I am so glade you are back to let the world know and the young people and to enlighten all of them as you did when i saw you live sometime ago.GLAD YOUAREBACK! GOD BE WITHYOU!
Comment left by jackie Eddens · Wednesday June 30, 2010 · #
Saw and heard you for the first time in Edinburgh Scotland around 25 years ago – have listened ever since. I live in Melbourne now and wondering if you are planning to visit Australia and perform anytime soon?
i took a few minutes to listen to the original song, sung by smog. ok, just asked myself had he e-mailed gil to thank him for really putting this song on the map?
had not gil borrowed it as a cover for his new album, i never would’ve heard it because i wasn’t familiar with the artist who’d penned the brilliant text and watch very little youtube, etc.
no disrespect to the original artist, but gil really gave this song a new lease on life.
and,…
been hearing lots of folks complain about the new album? for those who dislike the lyrical directon gil has chosen i refer you to a brilliant piece he did with malcolm cecil (a poem for jose campos torres) in which gil himself says “i’d said i wasn’t gonna write no more poems like this…” take some minutes and listen to it for yourself.
malcolm cecil’s synthesizer work backing gils lyrics on that piece touch every nerve! would’ve been virtually impossible for the young xxl group to reproduce anyway, so why not experiment with something new?
do the lyrics.
Comment left by herbert · Tuesday July 6, 2010 · #
Gil Scott Heron is greatly appreciated in my region,a genius and a great talent:never completely appreciated overall. Too bad you are missing something extremely special and necessary.
Comment left by peedogg · Tuesday July 13, 2010 · #
I’ve appreciated Mr. Heron since I was first exposed to him on Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s.
“What’s the word from Johannesburg!”
Comment left by George Wilson · Wednesday July 14, 2010 · #
I saw gill in Manchester recently. The Room was full. He was poor. Showcased afew unkowns to fill the show, and told afew cheap jokes about dwarfes? He performed winter in america and the bottle solo on his keyboard. no other highlights. He must of been on stage about 30-40 minutes.
Comment left by gurnam · Thursday July 15, 2010 · #
Dear Gil, i bought a ticket for the gig in bonn last year…this year i only visited the summerjam in my hometown cologne to see you. sadly you coudnt make it. nobody informed us about the reason why you could not be there to play and sing. can you tell me? and please come to cologne, germany to share your music with me, i invite you to a (famous) beer in cologne, a “kölsch”! go on building the dream and keep reaching your hand.
greetings from cologne
Comment left by Nils Schomers · Sunday July 25, 2010 · #
My brother,
It is hard to put into words just what you and your music means to me. Like Miles and others I won’t take time to list, I am thankful that I hit the planet when I did so that I could experience your gifts.
I can’t explain all that your work means to me. I don’t know who first turned me on to you but it was in the 70’s. A great time to be a teen and to discover you my friend.
How do I tell you of the great/thought filled times I had with friends in college @ NCCU while listening to you? Or how my time at Yale drama was made special because hearing/seeing you live at Toad’s Place made me feel at home?
My dear brother how do I tell you what it means to pull out cassettes that I filled with favorites like “A Song For Bobby Smith” or “A Racetrack In France”, “Essex”, “Cane”, “Pieces Of A Man”, “ H20 Gate Blues”, “A Poem For Jose Compos Torres” and many, many,many others? I thank God for you brother Gil. I have you on LP, cassettes, CD and love it all! I’m surely going to get the new one too!
I’ll stop here. I don’t have the gift of language to fully express myself. Please know that I am another person out here who loves you and all that you have given to us.
I know, I’ll go home and put on some Gil! That says it all! I love you man! Be well!
Comment left by Robert Beatty · Wednesday July 28, 2010 · #
Hello Mr. Scott-Heron – I appreciate the resolve in your voice and I found this new song by chance – just when I needed to hear a calmly resonant voice that is heavy with stories.
I’m new here, too. I am worried about all the people that seem forgotten…poor people, mostly. If there is anything you could do to ease the lives of forgotten children, please do it. If there is anything I could do to help you, please let me know. I am just an out-of-step white girl from S. Ga who plays banjo and has a couple of kids I am trying to keep close.
Thank you for the song and the eyes gone tired and kind. Blessings.
Comment left by Faith Rhyne · Saturday August 7, 2010 · #
First i gotta thank my dad AL and uncle Brady for introducing me to your music and poems, Mr.Gil i appreciate everything you have to say and im so glad your back. Im 37 ive been listening to you for 12 years now,riding around playing your music and poems loudly. I understand Real to Reel! You r truly a legend dont stop telling it like it is and may GOD continuously bless you and much love from the Chapmans! Welcome back we’ve been waiting on you…
Comment left by Ashura · Monday August 9, 2010 · #
I’ve always admire your style and the way u speak your mine! Keep on doing and saying what on your head.
I 2 have something 2 say.
please e-mail me at smovword32@yahoo.com
If u would like 2 hear my cd.
thanks
Comment left by smovword · Monday August 9, 2010 · #
.
great!
thanks
.
Comment left by oriental curry · Saturday August 14, 2010 · #
I’M NEWHERE is a seminal piece of work from an artist who remains at the forefront of rap, poetry and black america today – pure class!
God bless you, Gil!
Comment left by David B · Sunday August 15, 2010 · #
I`ve joined your gig in Munich this year.Nearly 30 Years after I heard your songs in a fantastic show in Bremen, Germany in 1982, your words, your lyrics and your music mean so much to me. Go on and on and on. Thank you!
Comment left by Herbert · Thursday September 2, 2010 · #
A friend of my sister’s sent me a clip of Gil referring to H20 gate, and 4 more years. I remembered these pieces of his like it was yesterday. I saw him for the first time at Central Park in NYC. I was just a young non political teen at the time. He woke me up to the world of politics, which I thought was conversation for men, as I felt it was a man’s world. It was during the time of the Viet Nam war.I’s glad there was some one who could reach my very unexperienced mind.
I’d like to catch up with his WORD of today, since Obama.
Comment left by Jewelanne Witness Star · Saturday September 4, 2010 · #
I’ve written a new piece, “blues for obama.” that has Scott-Heron all over it. Time has come today for the one and only to record it ‘cause the revolution will not be televised.
If interested, let me know: jdebrizzi@yahoo.com
Comment left by John DeBrizzi · Thursday June 10, 2010 · #
Fantastic, beautiful, awesome! Sung by a man who knows what he’s talking about. You gave us chills. My wife is crying right now after watching “I’m new here”. Please come to Santa Cruz, CA. This town would love to see and hear your brilliance. We would love to share a bottle of our favorite local wine with you.
Peace.
Phil & Lisa Lee
Soquel, CA
Comment left by Phil & Lisa Lee · Sunday June 13, 2010 · #
Me and the devil is moving i am getting goose bumps all over, keep doing what you do.
Comment left by Monzer · Saturday June 19, 2010 · #
man, i was reduced to sobs the first time i heard that voice 30yrs ago…it just got me again. gil, welcome back, will you show me around?
Comment left by chuck · Saturday June 19, 2010 · #
Mr. Gil Scott-Heron … still showing us the way … welcome back “Spiderman”!
Nard
Comment left by Bernard Rouse · Saturday June 19, 2010 · #
So nice to hear your voice and see your smiling face again.
Blessings to you.
Comment left by Rob Martin · Sunday June 20, 2010 · #
A friend introduced me to your music some time back . . I’m still in love with you!
Thanks for sharing your awesome gift with the world. Blessings.
Comment left by Doris Stephens · Sunday June 20, 2010 · #
already had the album. just tweeted that Seth Godin felt it was a ‘gift’ – and he’s right.
and you are such a gift that I had to come see the video again, like a beloved book that I stopped reading years ago because I grew to know it by heart.
and here’s that gift again.
Comment left by Terrintokyo · Sunday June 20, 2010 · #
This is amazing!….I knew you had been in touch with reality way before now!….I love it and thanks for sharing your foreseen knowledge for many generations! Peace and Blessings/Benefits, BBB
Comment left by Blackbeltbeauty · Sunday June 20, 2010 · #
Not what I’m used to coming from u. Too easy to sell out. Suck it up and bust something fresh. This just ain’t it. Thumbs down!
Comment left by tunckdr · Monday June 21, 2010 · #
I’ve followed your music my entire adult life,glad to hear you. Keep doing what you were created to do! You’re so enlighting.
Peace go with you my brother
Thanx
R.Ponds
Comment left by R.Ponds · Tuesday June 22, 2010 · #
I’ve followed your music my entire adult life,glad to hear you. Keep doing what you were created to do! You’re so enlightening.
Peace go with you my brother
Thanx
R.Ponds
Comment left by R.Ponds · Tuesday June 22, 2010 · #
Awesome! Simply, awesome. There’s a calming in this song. I hope you come to Chicago. I was at the Green Dolphin some years back to see in concert, but things happened and I didn’t get to see you. I still have my CDs, and I still hope you sign them. You are an amazing poet. I understand you’re new here…no more tiny jigsaw pieces. We’ve been waiting.
Peace, brother.
Comment left by B-Love · Tuesday June 22, 2010 · #
My laptop only stopss gos so bad i never grt to listern to any mumusic or vedio to comment on.
Comment left by Russell Stringfield · Wednesday June 23, 2010 · #
The Godfather of ‘MEANINGFUL’ rap is back. I was teaching some young people in one of the summer programs, I let them hear and explain ‘The revolution will not be televised.’ That was the best class I ever taught. Keep it coming Gil Scott-Heron.
Comment left by Nathaniel Green · Thursday June 24, 2010 · #
Hello, I am enjoying the videos but it keeps stopping briefly after every few lines. How can I stop this? Some are worst with this defect than others.
Helen Boyd
Comment left by Helen D. Boyd · Tuesday June 29, 2010 · #
a God sent word. i am new here again. have missed you gil scott. it has been 30 or so years. eternally….
Comment left by kweli · Tuesday June 29, 2010 · #
I have been asking around at record store, anywhere i can find you. nobody could tell me, only jil scott. I am so glade you are back to let the world know and the young people and to enlighten all of them as you did when i saw you live sometime ago.GLAD YOU ARE BACK! GOD BE WITH YOU!
Comment left by jackie Eddens · Wednesday June 30, 2010 · #
Saw and heard you for the first time in Edinburgh Scotland around 25 years ago – have listened ever since. I live in Melbourne now and wondering if you are planning to visit Australia and perform anytime soon?
Comment left by Palma · Friday July 2, 2010 · #
i took a few minutes to listen to the original song, sung by smog. ok, just asked myself had he e-mailed gil to thank him for really putting this song on the map?
had not gil borrowed it as a cover for his new album, i never would’ve heard it because i wasn’t familiar with the artist who’d penned the brilliant text and watch very little youtube, etc.
no disrespect to the original artist, but gil really gave this song a new lease on life.
and,…
been hearing lots of folks complain about the new album? for those who dislike the lyrical directon gil has chosen i refer you to a brilliant piece he did with malcolm cecil (a poem for jose campos torres) in which gil himself says “i’d said i wasn’t gonna write no more poems like this…” take some minutes and listen to it for yourself.
malcolm cecil’s synthesizer work backing gils lyrics on that piece touch every nerve! would’ve been virtually impossible for the young xxl group to reproduce anyway, so why not experiment with something new?
do the lyrics.
Comment left by herbert · Tuesday July 6, 2010 · #
Gil Scott Heron is greatly appreciated in my region,a genius and a great talent:never completely appreciated overall. Too bad you are missing something extremely special and necessary.
Comment left by peedogg · Tuesday July 13, 2010 · #
I’ve appreciated Mr. Heron since I was first exposed to him on Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s.
“What’s the word from Johannesburg!”
Comment left by George Wilson · Wednesday July 14, 2010 · #
I saw gill in Manchester recently. The Room was full. He was poor. Showcased afew unkowns to fill the show, and told afew cheap jokes about dwarfes? He performed winter in america and the bottle solo on his keyboard. no other highlights. He must of been on stage about 30-40 minutes.
Comment left by gurnam · Thursday July 15, 2010 · #
Simply beautiful.
Comment left by Line · Saturday July 17, 2010 · #
Dear Gil, i bought a ticket for the gig in bonn last year…this year i only visited the summerjam in my hometown cologne to see you. sadly you coudnt make it. nobody informed us about the reason why you could not be there to play and sing. can you tell me? and please come to cologne, germany to share your music with me, i invite you to a (famous) beer in cologne, a “kölsch”! go on building the dream and keep reaching your hand.
greetings from cologne
Comment left by Nils Schomers · Sunday July 25, 2010 · #
My brother,
It is hard to put into words just what you and your music means to me. Like Miles and others I won’t take time to list, I am thankful that I hit the planet when I did so that I could experience your gifts.
I can’t explain all that your work means to me. I don’t know who first turned me on to you but it was in the 70’s. A great time to be a teen and to discover you my friend.
How do I tell you of the great/thought filled times I had with friends in college @ NCCU while listening to you? Or how my time at Yale drama was made special because hearing/seeing you live at Toad’s Place made me feel at home?
My dear brother how do I tell you what it means to pull out cassettes that I filled with favorites like “A Song For Bobby Smith” or “A Racetrack In France”, “Essex”, “Cane”, “Pieces Of A Man”, “ H20 Gate Blues”, “A Poem For Jose Compos Torres” and many, many,many others? I thank God for you brother Gil. I have you on LP, cassettes, CD and love it all! I’m surely going to get the new one too!
I’ll stop here. I don’t have the gift of language to fully express myself. Please know that I am another person out here who loves you and all that you have given to us.
I know, I’ll go home and put on some Gil! That says it all! I love you man! Be well!
Comment left by Robert Beatty · Wednesday July 28, 2010 · #
Hello Mr. Scott-Heron – I appreciate the resolve in your voice and I found this new song by chance – just when I needed to hear a calmly resonant voice that is heavy with stories.
I’m new here, too. I am worried about all the people that seem forgotten…poor people, mostly. If there is anything you could do to ease the lives of forgotten children, please do it. If there is anything I could do to help you, please let me know. I am just an out-of-step white girl from S. Ga who plays banjo and has a couple of kids I am trying to keep close.
Thank you for the song and the eyes gone tired and kind. Blessings.
Comment left by Faith Rhyne · Saturday August 7, 2010 · #
First i gotta thank my dad AL and uncle Brady for introducing me to your music and poems, Mr.Gil i appreciate everything you have to say and im so glad your back. Im 37 ive been listening to you for 12 years now,riding around playing your music and poems loudly. I understand Real to Reel! You r truly a legend dont stop telling it like it is and may GOD continuously bless you and much love from the Chapmans! Welcome back we’ve been waiting on you…
Comment left by Ashura · Monday August 9, 2010 · #
I’ve always admire your style and the way u speak your mine! Keep on doing and saying what on your head. I 2 have something 2 say.
please e-mail me at smovword32@yahoo.com
If u would like 2 hear my cd. thanks
Comment left by smovword · Monday August 9, 2010 · #
.
great!
thanks.
Comment left by oriental curry · Saturday August 14, 2010 · #
I’M NEW HERE is a seminal piece of work from an artist who remains at the forefront of rap, poetry and black america today – pure class!
God bless you, Gil!
Comment left by David B · Sunday August 15, 2010 · #
Succinct as ever ..
Comment left by dcw · Monday August 23, 2010 · #
I`ve joined your gig in Munich this year.Nearly 30 Years after I heard your songs in a fantastic show in Bremen, Germany in 1982, your words, your lyrics and your music mean so much to me. Go on and on and on. Thank you!
Comment left by Herbert · Thursday September 2, 2010 · #
A friend of my sister’s sent me a clip of Gil referring to H20 gate, and 4 more years. I remembered these pieces of his like it was yesterday. I saw him for the first time at Central Park in NYC. I was just a young non political teen at the time. He woke me up to the world of politics, which I thought was conversation for men, as I felt it was a man’s world. It was during the time of the Viet Nam war.I’s glad there was some one who could reach my very unexperienced mind.
I’d like to catch up with his WORD of today, since Obama.
Comment left by Jewelanne Witness Star · Saturday September 4, 2010 · #