Hole in the Bucket! (SPEARHEAD!)

Want to know who the leaders are of today? Look no further. Michael Franti is that guy. His band is one of the best on the road.
And nobody tells it like it is better through song that Michael Franti. I am still all aglow from the hug he gave me at Power To The Peaceful this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CszG_bR35Mw

From the RNC in NYC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpHEB8K4n1w&feature=related

Multi Cameras, Perfect sound...incredible stuff

Videos http://www.megavideo.com/?v=AREDOW9S ROTHBURY (RIP) 08.

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=4QXP869E ALL GOOD 08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSbdKDL8otc Acoustic version

And the album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgBq_feHYQ4&feature=related

Oldest School: The BeatNigs http://www.archive.org/details/beatnigs1989-12-16.FM.flac16

The Beatnigs - 1989-12-16 Eindhoven

The Beatnigs was an early collaboration featuring Michael Franti and Rono Tse. The band's stage performance included the use of power tools such as a rotary saw on a metal bar to create industrial noise and pyrotechnics. One venue for the band was the infamous Barrington Hall. Franti at the time worked for Berkeley's Subway Guitars. Songs like "Television: The Drug of the Nation" were performed by the band and were later rerecorded for their next project, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy.


Here we can hear them perform live at the Effenaar in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on December 16. 1989

Really old school: The Disposable Heroes of hipHopcrasy. http://www.archive.org/details/dhoh1992-06-08.shnf (with Charlie Hunter)



Old School 95. The very beginning of SPEARHEAD

http://www.archive.org/details/spr1995-08-31.shnf

Middle School: http://www.archive.org/details/spr2001-03-10.shnf

disposable heroes of hiphoprisy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA

Been into him since The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. I remember hearing his cover of the Dead Kennedys song California Uber Alles and being blown away, so I got the whole CD of his own stuff. The song Music and Politics is a theme song to my life.

He varies his styles from CD to CD, and his lyrics are the polar opposite of what I normally listen to (i.e. positive lol), so it's always interesting. I'd love to catch him live but it just hasn't happened yet.

The vids are outstanding. Pro shot stuff.

He is all that and more. :hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQm6Zrj9gno
michael franti live #5 feelin free

but the title of your thread reminded me of "Pants on the Ground."

I'm sick. I must go to bed.

Hmmm?

I told you, I'm sick. Bedtime.

Edit to add link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc