Has anyone seen Soul Power the documentary, fascinating film, watched this last night,basically it was a music festival backdrop for the Kinshasa (Zaire) 'Rumble InThe Jungle' Heavyweight world title fight between Ali and Foreman, some brilliant footage including James Brown, Bill Withers, BB King, The Spinners,Celia Cruz and the Fania All Stars and others. It was all staged in Kinshasha for a 3 day festival, the film footage remained in the vaults for over 30 years, besides the obvious Soul musical performances, it is just a great piece of cinema, I have now got to get myself one of the 'Zaire 74' t-shirts wow, e-bay here I come………………….

Brett F

footnote...........i just got the t-shirt.....

Edited December 30, 200915 yr by Brett F

I saw it at the cinema and it can recommend it. The film is dominated by the presence James Brown and Mohammed Ali. The local acts are ones obviously picked by the tourist board and are more french influenced than funk. The Latin acts are brilliant and one can't say you've lived till you've seen the Spinners in all their finery on a sixty foot screen.

  On 30/12/2009 at 11:57, Brett F said:

Has anyone seen Soul Power the documentary, fascinating film, watched this last night,basically it was a music festival backdrop for the Kinshasa (Zaire) 'Rumble InThe Jungle' Heavyweight world title fight between Ali and Foreman, some brilliant footage including James Brown, Bill Withers, BB King, The Spinners,Celia Cruz and the Fania All Stars and others. It was all staged in Kinshasha  for a 3 day festival, the film footage remained in the vaults for over 30 years, besides the obvious Soul musical performances, it is just a great piece of cinema, I have now got to get myself one of the 'Zaire 74' t-shirts wow, e-bay here I come......................

Brett F

footnote...........i just got the t-shirt.....

ah but have you read the book? lolololol

Yes, I saw it at the cinema a while back. Great footage. Apparently there is lots of stuff still unreleased, so I'll definitely be looking for a follow up of some description.

the BB King set came out on video......

I think Soul Power is currently showing on Sky Anytime.

  On 01/01/2010 at 23:45, Pete S said:

I think Soul Power is currently showing on Sky Anytime.

It was, but it's finished now.

The Spinners stood out for me, along with the Fania All-Stars and Celia Cruz.

Can anyone name the funk-ish track that the Spinners performed? It was only a short clip and looked like they were warming up back-stage. The vocals were awesome.

  On 03/01/2010 at 19:19, Jamie said:

It was, but it's finished now.

The Spinners stood out for me, along with the Fania All-Stars and Celia Cruz.

Can anyone name the funk-ish track that the Spinners performed? It was only a short clip and looked like they were warming up back-stage. The vocals were awesome.

Well it waas definitely on last night!

THIS IS THE BEST FILM TO SEE, AND IS RECOMENDED BY ME....OLD MUCKER THEBUSHDOCTOR! IF YOU DONT KNOW IT THIS WIL NOT DISAPIONT, TRUE DOCUMENTRY ON THE WORLDS #1 BLUES RECORD COLLECTOR RECOMENDED MUST HAVE DVD

DAVE KILWORTH #1 DVD 2008/9

Edited January 3, 201015 yr by dthedrug

  On 30/12/2009 at 11:57, Brett F said:

Has anyone seen Soul Power the documentary, fascinating film, watched this last night,basically it was a music festival backdrop for the Kinshasa (Zaire) 'Rumble InThe Jungle' Heavyweight world title fight between Ali and Foreman, some brilliant footage including James Brown, Bill Withers, BB King, The Spinners,Celia Cruz and the Fania All Stars and others. It was all staged in Kinshasha for a 3 day festival, the film footage remained in the vaults for over 30 years, besides the obvious Soul musical performances, it is just a great piece of cinema, I have now got to get myself one of the 'Zaire 74' t-shirts wow, e-bay here I come......................

Brett F

footnote...........i just got the t-shirt.....

I just missed out at the Cinema, my girlfriend didn't and i intend to nick her T-Shirt as soon as possible!

Ste

  On 03/01/2010 at 23:23, dthedrug said:

THIS IS THE BEST FILM TO SEE, AND IS RECOMENDED BY ME....OLD MUCKER THEBUSHDOCTOR! IF YOU DONT KNOW IT THIS WIL NOT DISAPIONT, TRUE DOCUMENTRY ON THE WORLDS #1 BLUES RECORD COLLECTOR RECOMENDED MUST HAVE DVD

DAVE KILWORTH #1 DVD 2008/9

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You're rigt D, this film deserves a thread in itself : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5skAQvJ4RQ

yeah, that Joe Bussard doco is awesome.