RasCue aka Black Burgundy

09/29/2024

Have to make an emergency trip to Redding, CA today. Does any of my family/friends know of anyone that could possibly put me up for a night? Cities like Orland, Corning, Red Bluff, Willows, etc? DM me please 🙏🏾 Thank you!

09/28/2024

Uppitees Fashions and Tie Dye
Blues and Bones Festival TODAY!!!

09/24/2024

This Saturday!! BLUES & BONES(BBQ) 🔥🔥 Uppitees Fashions and Tie Dye & Uppitees Deals And Giveawayser

09/11/2024

Rest in Peace Mr. Frankie Beverly 🙏🏾

08/08/2024

Uppitees Fashions and Tie Dye

August 9-11

07/04/2024

Visit Uppitees Fashions and Tie Dye and DJ RasCue at the Waterfront Market in Morro Bay July 5,6 k 7 and bi-weekly throughout the Summer in the Central Coast, CA Uppitees Deals And Giveaways

06/30/2024

Thank you everyone for my birthday wishes! I am truly grateful and appreciative!! 54 down and counting up! All of you contributed to me having a special day! Cancer I ♋️

06/28/2024

06/21/2024

The Legends: James Brown and Bootsy Collins

James Brown sacked his backing band in March 1970 after they complained about his system of fining anyone who played a bum note. In their place he pulled in a young Cincinnati act named The Pacesetters, led by brothers Phelps "Catfish" Collins and Bootsy Collins, aged 27 and 19 respectively, and renamed them The JB's. Their first recording was "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) S*x Machine." Their first LP, S*x Machine, is cited as one of the greatest and most important soul records of all time.
The original J.B.'s played on some of Brown's most intense funk recordings, including "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) S*x Machine", "Bewildered (1970)", "Super Bad", "Soul Power", "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing", and two instrumental singles, the much-sampled "The Grunt" and "These Are the J.B.'s". In regards to his tenure working for James Brown, Bootsy Collins stated:
"He treated me like a son. And being out of a fatherless home, I needed that father figure and he really played up to it. I mean, Good Lord. Every night after we played a show, he called us back to give us a lecture about how horrible we sounded. [Affects James Brown voice] "Nah, not on it, son. I didn't hear the one. You didn't give me the one." He would tell me this at every show. One night, we knew we wasn't sounding really good – we were off – and he calls us back there and said, "Uh huh, now that's what I'm talkin' about. Y'all was on it tonight. Y'all hit the one." My brother and I looked at each other like, "This mother has got to be crazy." We knew in our heart and soul that we wasn't all that on that show. So then I started figuring out his game, man. By telling me that I wasn't on it, he made me practice harder. So I just absorbed what he said and used it in a positive way."
After parting ways with James Brown, Collins moved to Detroit, Michigan, after Philippé Wynne suggested joining The Spinners, for whom Wynne had been singing. However, following the advice of singer and future Parliament member Mallia Franklin, Collins made another choice. Franklin introduced both Collins brothers to George Clinton, and in 1972, both of the Collins brothers, along with Waddy, joined Funkadelic. Collins played bass on most of Funkadelic and Parliament albums through the early 1980s, garnering several songwriting credits as well.
In 1976 Collins, Catfish, Waddy, Joel Johnson (1953–2018), Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Robert Johnson and The H***y Horns formed Bootsy's Rubber Band, a separate touring unit of Clinton's P-Funk collective.
The group recorded five albums together, the first three of which are often considered to be among the quintessential P-Funk recordings. The group's 1978 album Bootsy? Player of the Year reached the top of the R&B album chart and spawned the #1 R&B single "Bootzilla". Like Clinton, Collins took on several alter egos, from Casper the Funky Ghost to Bootzilla, "the world's only rhinestone rockstar monster of a doll".

06/10/2024

Uppitees Fashions and Tie Dye

05/30/2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/sport/josh-gibson-mlb-records-negro-league/index.html

Major League Baseball (MLB) has incorporated the statistics of former Negro Leagues players into its historical records on its website, meaning legendary leaders in some categories like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb have now been replaced in the record books by players who were not allowed to play on the sa...

05/01/2024

Uppitees Fashions and Tie Dye
https://www.facebook.com/Artintheparkshellbeach?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Outdoor Art/Music Festival featuring 50+ artists/vendors, live music and food. Free admission!

04/26/2024

Rest In Peace Chris King 🙏🏾
The kid was nice on the mic 😔