Milan B. Williams of the Commodores RIP

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Man, it's just a bad day. Dude wrote "Machine Gun" = for that alone he deserves praise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

absolutely. we're running a wee obit tomorrow, which is good.

slightly eclipsed by syd, mind :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh granted. ;-) But I'll put "Machine Gun" next to "Lucifer Sam" any day of the week, they both rule.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Just read this on the BBC site.
RIP. 1st Commodores album rules and Machine Gun in particular is an absolute classic track.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Dude pretty much performed services to mankind. RIP.

― Headspin (Barima), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ned OTM!!! on "Machine Gun." I hear a mixtape segue . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, another good man gone. Nothing against Lionel Richie, but those instrumentals from the first coupla Commodores were unbeatable and unbeaten and Williams wrote 'em. I had occasion to shower "Machine Gun" with unnecessary praise in some random forgotten thread or another just 4-5 days ago. RIP

― Myonga Von Booty (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

The Commodores weren't a bad band before Lionel and the ballads took over.

For a real trip, you should hear their earliest material from 1969, produced by Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams. These sides have been reissued over and over on different labels with different album titles, but suffice to say if you see a Commodores CD with "Rise Up," "Sing A Simple Song," "Keep On Dancing," etc., buy it. It's surprisingly primal houseparty funk like you'd expect from any self-contained black band playing the southern frat-party circuit in the late sixties.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

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