michael viner of INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND fame dies age 65

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in addition to everything else he did:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-michael-viner13-2009aug13,0,7483861.story

he was responsible for producing MICHAEL VINERS INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND whose version of "Apache" contains one of the original break-beats deployed by DJ Kool Herc.

the Bronx National Anthem!

RIP my man even if your greatest contribution to popular culture was unintentional.

m coleman, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records. Viner was called on to supplement the soundtrack to the virtually anonymous B film The Thing With Two Heads.

hilariously inept and bizarre this film starred Ray Milland and Rosie Grier as The Thing! often shown on TV in the pre-VCR era

m coleman, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:45 (sixteen years ago)

Good lord what IS with today?

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2291/2279421271_230b5ba0cc.jpg

m coleman, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:50 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAI2xpayCkA

m coleman, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:52 (sixteen years ago)


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