Has this been done before? Anyway, Fatback Band:
http://static.bbc.co.uk/music/images/artists/542x305/a7290418-82e2-4016-abf4-3fd3e7db926f.jpgp
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:48 (thirteen years ago)
Great start.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:50 (thirteen years ago)
LOL, did that work?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:51 (thirteen years ago)
Try this...
http://images.hhv.de/catalog/detail_big/00087/87024.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:52 (thirteen years ago)
I'm assuming he's their accountant.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:54 (thirteen years ago)
Did you draw on his moustache in photoshop?
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:56 (thirteen years ago)
Graham Central Station
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/526339/Graham+Central+Station.jpg
(... dude's probably Italian or sumthin', so counts for black in some states in the US)
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:57 (thirteen years ago)
http://s55.radikal.ru/i148/0904/88/5be9fcf4e2b5.jpg
Was actually Oliver Bendt's band though.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:06 (thirteen years ago)
http://www1.sk-static.com/images/media/img/col6/20100506-135137-484588.jpg
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:11 (thirteen years ago)
TV On The Radio:
http://doubtfulsounds.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/tv-on-the-radio.jpeg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:12 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.thisishiphopmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/D12.jpg
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:15 (thirteen years ago)
Robert Randolph and the Family Band:
http://owlstoathens.driftdesignstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Robert+Randolph++The+Family+Band+robertrandolph.jpg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:16 (thirteen years ago)
http://songbook1.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/coltrane-adderley-miles-davis-bill-evans-during-58-miles-sessions.jpg
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:17 (thirteen years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZbRW-Ck7kwU/ToXhc1oKX_I/AAAAAAAABVw/UOZxQfU2L84/s1600/prince_9.jpg
― Tuomas, Friday, 23 March 2012 13:17 (thirteen years ago)
Whoops, sorry, I guess that one doesn't really fit, I forgot Fink is white too.
― Tuomas, Friday, 23 March 2012 13:18 (thirteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/78/Heatwave_%28band_photo,_1976%29.jpg/220px-Heatwave_%28band_photo,_1976%29.jpg
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:19 (thirteen years ago)
xp yeah, Bobby Z, Fink and Lisa are all white.
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:20 (thirteen years ago)
You're allowed to post that particular picture on any thread you want though iirc.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:20 (thirteen years ago)
lol @ the Fatback band - "okay, half of you smile, the other half, look pissed off"
― frogbs, Friday, 23 March 2012 13:23 (thirteen years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L1e8nf7arNE/TIbWhho83sI/AAAAAAAAAvs/-F2HUSWXXyU/s1600/Rufus+-+Street+Player.jpeg
― fit and working again, Friday, 23 March 2012 13:30 (thirteen years ago)
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, March 23, 2012 1:20 PM (10 minutes ago)
otm^^^^^^^^^^^^
― waiting in the shadow of the Big Gulp (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:33 (thirteen years ago)
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/3/7/1267997716293/Bob-Geldof-001.jpg
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:26 (thirteen years ago)
great thread
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:27 (thirteen years ago)
Wasn't Ron Bykowski (third guitarist) actually credited as "token white devil" in one Funkadelic album?
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:38 (thirteen years ago)
i know how we can save it xp
― waiting in the shadow of the Big Gulp (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:41 (thirteen years ago)
― waiting in the shadow of the Big Gulp (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:42 (thirteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9PVWJCBv1lI/TyaGJ9uEpaI/AAAAAAAAAdA/5w4PJPJ8MIk/s400/cover.jpg
― Cantera: Vulgar Display Of Puyol (DJ Mencap), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:07 (thirteen years ago)
http://cbswbbav.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/bill-clinton.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:18 (thirteen years ago)
^ lol
Cheer up, for gawd's sake...
http://idiotflashback.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/hot-chocolate.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:18 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.spinner.com/media/2010/10/bar-kays-456-102210.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:22 (thirteen years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SjWiZt0kiZU/T0XlReopJNI/AAAAAAAAUhQ/4pbA7CLS4zk/s1600/War.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:25 (thirteen years ago)
^who's that?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:26 (thirteen years ago)
War, with token Viking, Lee Oskar
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:27 (thirteen years ago)
uh
― adam, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:33 (thirteen years ago)
The Selecter:
http://www.neoldavies.net/files/images/the%20selecter%20leanin_3.preview.jpg
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:11 (thirteen years ago)
http://imagecache.blastro.com/images/feat/Discogs_BootCampClik.jpg
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:33 (thirteen years ago)
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:34 (thirteen years ago)
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/62512625/Comptons+Most+Wanted.png
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:37 (thirteen years ago)
http://ugghnicewatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/muggs_7a3.jpg
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:40 (thirteen years ago)
http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-131969-1329733162.jpeg
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:42 (thirteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y7o_kJy0vSE/TK601A_OYHI/AAAAAAAAAbM/s9Tii-oNY1c/s1600/eBay+071227+045.jpg
― Trip Maker, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:43 (thirteen years ago)
http://soundonmars.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/recently-updated591.jpg
― Trip Maker, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:45 (thirteen years ago)
What happened to the white bassist in The Roots btw? I noticed he disappeared a few months back.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:45 (thirteen years ago)
xp JESUS CHRIST HUGE PIC
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:46 (thirteen years ago)
um sorry?
― Trip Maker, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:46 (thirteen years ago)
http://images.hhv.de/catalog/detail_big/00019/19883.jpg
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:46 (thirteen years ago)
this thread is obnoxious
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:47 (thirteen years ago)
like lumping Charlie Haden in with Sean Wiggs is just sad
i think it is only 'lumping him in' insofar as it is observing he is a white male associated with a predominantly black musical form
― thomp, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:50 (thirteen years ago)
I don't know if the thread has any sort of higher propose, but I'm not sure it's saying that all these different examples of this one thing have the same meaning, whatever the hell that might be in each case.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:51 (thirteen years ago)
Err, higher purpose.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:52 (thirteen years ago)
Like take the example of the Goombay Dance Band. Here is one German dude who thought it would be profitable to create a pop disco reggae calypso band whose music uses all the corny stereotypes about living on a tropical island and he drags in some other folks who happen to be black and makes them dress basically like fools. This is obviously not the same thing as Bill Evans playing in Miles Davis's band - I honestly don't know what cultural impact that had within jazz, but would be interested to hear.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:59 (thirteen years ago)
bill evans looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:01 (thirteen years ago)
It's just kinda irritating to see massive, historically significant figures like Evans or Gregg Errico described as "token"
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:03 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the title is a joke.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:04 (thirteen years ago)
I can't imagine the Fatback band thought 'we must have a white guy so we can sell more of the funk'.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:05 (thirteen years ago)
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqvo8v8tkY1qzexpio1_500.jpg
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:08 (thirteen years ago)
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, March 23, 2012 11:04 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what a hilarious joke
― desk calendar white out (Matt P), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:21 (thirteen years ago)
can't wait for the inevitable 5,273 hilarious new posts
― desk calendar white out (Matt P), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:22 (thirteen years ago)
does your browser not have a back button Matt?
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:26 (thirteen years ago)
is that the same as "flag post"?
― desk calendar white out (Matt P), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:33 (thirteen years ago)
The one band on here who might actually fit the thread title is Eternal. I don't know whether it was actually the case that the racial mix was tweaked for commercial reasons but I'm quite prepared to believe it (it would be good if Lex was around to correct on that). But anyhow, I think they were by far the most successful r'n'b act in the UK in that era (mid 90s) and despite her not appearing to be significantly more talented than any of rest of the group, the one person who most people could name is the white one. She was also the one who appeared in all the gossip columns and all lad's mags and who ended up marrying a football star. And she was also the only one who had any sort of success as a solo act after the band split. This is not a slur on the quality of the band though, I did like some of their songs.
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:11 (thirteen years ago)
You tell us one then, funny man. Jesus, what the fuck's up with people on this board?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:23 (thirteen years ago)
Heatwave in 1982http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/78/Heatwave_(band_photo,_1976).jpg/220px-Heatwave_(band_photo,_1976).jpg
― late adopter, Monday, 26 March 2012 03:09 (thirteen years ago)
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/879934/Dave+Matthews+Band.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 26 March 2012 03:46 (thirteen years ago)
This thread could be titled "Token least fuckable band member."
Perhaps I've shared too much.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 26 March 2012 04:03 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.smokestacklightnin.com/images/Artists3/Booker%20T/Booker_T_and_the_MGs.jpg
50/50, strictly speaking, but the singers they backed were almost always black.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Monday, 26 March 2012 15:01 (thirteen years ago)