Man I miss this era and all that funk in the atomosphere…..I’m 57yrs old and I remember listening to SLIDE for the first time and was hooked on that funk instantly……I still get the same reaction hearing it today!!
The guitar solo to this has to be one of the greatest solos in R& B history. And the young man playing it was only 16 years old at the time doing it in 1 take I heard ! Truly amazing !! Not to mentioned the Hardcore Bass Playing. One of the gems from my Youth from that magnificent Spring/ Summer of 1977.
You have to remember this was in 1977 and these guys were in their teens. Steve Washington (Fearless Leader) was the mastermind behind Slave. Mark "Drac" Hicks lead guitar, Mark "The Hansolor" Adams bass and Danny Webster guitar were their core. Most of them were from Dayton OH. You should check out another one of their songs Stone Jam.
I was 17 when this song came out and let me tell you WE WENT CRAZY!! We already had Funkadelic, Bootsy, The Brothers Johnson, and Graham Central Station, but this right here took us to another Funk level!! I just turned 64 and I've NEVER partied so hard as I did then🎶🎶💃💃💃🤗🤗🤗
Man… I was 10yrs old when I heard this song….. and was highly influenced by it back then…… I’m 57 now and still can’t let go of this song…… it funked me up!
❤ Slave! Interesting trivia, Slave is one of 3 bands where the drummer became the lead singer. Teddy Pendergrass - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Stevie Arrington & Slave and Stokley & Mint Condition. ✌️
Jeffrey Osbourne (L.T.D.) / Maurice White (Earth Wind & Fire - Philip Bailey is a percussionist as well) / Jan Kincaid (Brand New Heavies) / Micky Dolenz (Monkees) / Ringo Starr (Beatles) / Bernadette Cooper (Klymaxx) / Melvin Gentry (Midnight Star) / also Chaka Khan is a drummer
Hey Jack my dear haha someone got you into my boys Slave. Im a 70's kid raised on this one funkiest band of 70's & 80s. Eventually Steve Arrington became the lead singer but their instrumental. I know the songs is long but back then but its almost like listening a jam session. You haven't even begin to tap into music like this plenty riff like this in R&b funk music
Reminds me so much of my pops and the skating rink on the weekends. My Slave jam is “Watching You” (Snoop’s “Gin And Juice” sampled it). I also liked Steve Arrington solo (“Dancing In The Key Of Life”). ✌🏽
I been hearing this song all my childhood life and that song watching you which was featured in everybody hate Chris even tho I wasn't born in the 70s I love 70s music
It’s refreshing to see a young person of today appreciate this song. It’s an Absolute Masterpiece and I could tell by his (Natural) body movements as it play and continued. Mark Adams played bass for Slave and was The Best!❤️👍🔥
This group was ranging ages from 14 to 18 or 19 when this album came out. Distinctive bass from Mark Adams. His.murder is still unsolved. Hit after hit from these cats
FUNK personified, Drac,floyd, to all of the slave families i was on the dance floor groovin all slaves hits all the world need today is just a touch of love ❤ peace happy holidays to everybody around the globe.
An "A" for you to catching and calling out the bike horn before wrapping your reaction. This one kicked me in the face as a high school senior on the Soul station in Saginaw, MI. Tom Joyner's morning show had it rolling 25 years later and stuck it back in my head. Slave is so very put together and when you consider they were teenagers and this was their first hit on their debut album, that is really somethin'!
These are my homies from Dayton, Ohio…THE FUNK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD! Several of these bruhs were still in high school when they hit big. Dayton also is home to The Ohio Players, Roger Troutman & Zapp, Slave, Aurra, Faze-O, Lakeside, Heatwave, Sun and Dayton. Check them out!
Hey Jack. Imagine you are 17 and you got a big 8 track boom box and the new Slave/slide song comes out with all that base. School’s out and the school bus driver is cool and says you can crank it up loud. All the kids are dancing to that funky base all the way home singing “SLIDE>>>>SLIDE!” Man you would have loved them days.
My Brother !!! GREAT REACTION.... I suggest you react to HOF guitarist Mark "DRAC" Hicks follow up from this Funk Classic "DRAC IS BACK". In many songs the bass player, Mark Adams is equally hard. But EDDIE HAZEL of the very early FUNKADELIC classics 1970-1976 , was the innovator of heavy lead guitar in funk bands. Actually HAZEL, HENDRIX and ERNIE ISLEY of THE ISLEY BROTHERS were great friends with significantly different styles. A must... is HAZEL'S "MAGGOT BRAIN". Every legendary guitarist/violinist has attempted this classic at least once in their career. Please do the studio version because NO ONE, including Hazel himself, had ever come close to duplication. Funkadelics MIKE HAMPTON may have the best live recording ever. Hazel's "SUPER STUPID" "RED HOT MAMA" " I WANNA KNOW" " MISS LUCIFER'S LOVE" "FREE YOUR MIND" and his cover of THE BEATLES "I WANT YOU" During his solo career are why he is in the HALL OF FAME. And Hazel's collaboration with BERNIE WORRELL on the Dedication to the VIETNAM WAR VETERAN'S "MARCH TO THE WITCH'S CASTLES" is a rendition of TAPS/WHEN THE BOYS COME MARCHING HOME AGAIN. The Dept. of DEFENSE bought the rights to the song. Added actual war footage video( maybe quite disturbing to some) and plays it in a loop 24/7 at the V.W.V.Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
The horn was an actual Schwinn bicycle horn. That rested on its own stand. The song was done in one take. The bass guitar was Drac 17 years old old. The other guitar solo was done by A 16 year old. That song still hits hard
Drac was Mark Hicks and he played lead and rhythm guitar and backup vocals. Mark Adam's played bass. In fact, his son Mark Akridge plays bass and still performs to this day.
Don’t even get started on slave, these boys started out at 16 years old with this album, and they went on it run with multiple albums and great music! I will be requesting more Slave for you, Jack!
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What this white man know about the funk soul band slave? 😅😅😅
My favorite Slave jam is Just A Touch Of Love
Mine is "Snap Shot".
@@LYBism Good One!
From Dayton,ohio...the Land of Funk.
Sliiiide..❤❤❤
What a joy it was growing up in this era. Funk everywhere in Ohio.
Got damn right!!!
9-3-7 Represent Represent!!👍🏾👍🏾
Man I miss this era and all that funk in the atomosphere…..I’m 57yrs old and I remember listening to SLIDE for the first time and was hooked on that funk instantly……I still get the same reaction hearing it today!!
I miss it ❤❤❤
The 70’s & and 80s were lit af!!!! I am a 61 year old black woman, and we were jamming so hard back in the day!!!!
It was a Very Cool era!
Funk filled era like no other….
Anyone who was not in that era of music have NO IDEA what was MISSED!!!!❤❤❤These were teenagers. Mark Adams (15), Mark Hicks (16).......
The guitar solo to this has to be one of the greatest solos in R& B history. And the young man playing it was only 16 years old at the time doing it in 1 take I heard ! Truly amazing !! Not to mentioned the Hardcore Bass Playing. One of the gems from my Youth from that magnificent Spring/ Summer of 1977.
You have to remember this was in 1977 and these guys were in their teens. Steve Washington (Fearless Leader) was the mastermind behind Slave. Mark "Drac" Hicks lead guitar, Mark "The Hansolor" Adams bass and Danny Webster guitar were their core. Most of them were from Dayton OH. You should check out another one of their songs Stone Jam.
I was 17 when this song came out and let me tell you WE WENT CRAZY!! We already had Funkadelic, Bootsy, The Brothers Johnson, and Graham Central Station, but this right here took us to another Funk level!! I just turned 64 and I've NEVER partied so hard as I did then🎶🎶💃💃💃🤗🤗🤗
Man… I was 10yrs old when I heard this song….. and was highly influenced by it back then…… I’m 57 now and still can’t let go of this song…… it funked me up!
🔥🔥🔥🔥 song Wow I'm loving the guitar part OMG that person can play damn love this request for sure much love 💖💖💖💖
❤ Slave! Interesting trivia, Slave is one of 3 bands where the drummer became the lead singer. Teddy Pendergrass - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Stevie Arrington & Slave and Stokley & Mint Condition. ✌️
Also Cameo. Larry Blackmon started out as the drummer.
@@phillytnoize Also Morris Day (The Time) Walter Orange (The Commodores)
How about THE EAGLES? Dave Grohl and THE FOO-FIGHTERS? LONNIE JORDAN and WAR? Phil Collins and GENESIS ? JEROME BRAILEY and MUTINY.
Jeffrey Osbourne (L.T.D.) / Maurice White (Earth Wind & Fire - Philip Bailey is a percussionist as well) / Jan Kincaid (Brand New Heavies) / Micky Dolenz (Monkees) / Ringo Starr (Beatles) / Bernadette Cooper (Klymaxx) / Melvin Gentry (Midnight Star) / also Chaka Khan is a drummer
Yeah… can’t leave my man Larry Blackmon and Cameo out….. another favorite funk group of mines!!
Hey Jack my dear haha someone got you into my boys Slave. Im a 70's kid raised on this one funkiest band of 70's & 80s. Eventually Steve Arrington became the lead singer but their instrumental. I know the songs is long but back then but its almost like listening a jam session. You haven't even begin to tap into music like this plenty riff like this in R&b funk music
Slave is the epitome of deep soulful funk from the gut……. Long Live 70’s SOUL FUNK…… classic black funk era!!✊🏿🤨💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Slave was my favorite group when I was a kid back in the day
Reminds me so much of my pops and the skating rink on the weekends. My Slave jam is “Watching You” (Snoop’s “Gin And Juice” sampled it). I also liked Steve Arrington solo (“Dancing In The Key Of Life”). ✌🏽
Watching You is my favorite Slave song!
I been hearing this song all my childhood life and that song watching you which was featured in everybody hate Chris even tho I wasn't born in the 70s I love 70s music
It’s refreshing to see a young person of today appreciate this song. It’s an Absolute Masterpiece and I could tell by his (Natural) body movements as it play and continued. Mark Adams played bass for Slave and was The Best!❤️👍🔥
This group was ranging ages from 14 to 18 or 19 when this album came out. Distinctive bass from Mark Adams. His.murder is still unsolved. Hit after hit from these cats
Is that true? I had no idea they were super young
The youngest ones in the group when Slide dropped was Danny Webster, Mark Drac Hicks and Mark Adams. They were 16-17 years old.
Man that song was super fire…… it should have been the theme song for funk itself…..👊🏽🤨💯✊🏿
Dipping into the 70's funk. Yesssssssssss!
Saw em live in Detroit 1981..unforgettable performance!
FUNK personified, Drac,floyd, to all of the slave families i was on the dance floor groovin all slaves hits all the world need today is just a touch of love ❤ peace happy holidays to everybody around the globe.
An "A" for you to catching and calling out the bike horn before wrapping your reaction. This one kicked me in the face as a high school senior on the Soul station in Saginaw, MI. Tom Joyner's morning show had it rolling 25 years later and stuck it back in my head. Slave is so very put together and when you consider they were teenagers and this was their first hit on their debut album, that is really somethin'!
This a classic my mom use to go skating to this 👍🏼🤩
Yup, takes me back to 1980,1981, 1982 and skating to “Watching You”, “Snap Shot” and “Wait For Me”.✌🏽
Nuff said!!
Oh Yeah! LOVE Slide!❤️❤️ And the dance we did was the slide, too. Such great #memories
😄 This was my grandma's groove! She'd be in the kitchen cooking and shaking her groove thang to this.
Thank you Art for the request!!!
Thanks Jack for the review and support!! SLAVE manager
I appreciate the love! Thank you for stopping by!
Got me dancing all up over my room with this super banger 🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾
Classic banger🎧😎
That bass line is funky and that guitar solo, probably the best I've ever heard.🔥🔥🔥🔥
Both gentlemen have since passed on. 😔
Long live Magnificent SLAVE✊🏿🙏🏽💯
Masterful guitar playing. The best!!!!!loved slave!!!Ithink he was underappreciated.
These are my homies from Dayton, Ohio…THE FUNK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD! Several of these bruhs were still in high school when they hit big. Dayton also is home to The Ohio Players, Roger Troutman & Zapp, Slave, Aurra, Faze-O, Lakeside, Heatwave, Sun and Dayton. Check them out!
💯🔥💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥❤️ remember when this hit the air waves!!! STILL SLAP!!!💯
Love this band, use to party hardy to this jam back in the day, unfortunately never heard them live.
Hey Jack. Imagine you are 17 and you got a big 8 track boom box and the new Slave/slide song comes out with all that base. School’s out and the school bus driver is cool and says you can crank it up loud. All the kids are dancing to that funky base all the way home singing “SLIDE>>>>SLIDE!” Man you would have loved them days.
My Brother !!! GREAT REACTION.... I suggest you react to HOF guitarist Mark "DRAC" Hicks follow up from this Funk Classic "DRAC IS BACK". In many songs the bass player, Mark Adams is equally hard. But EDDIE HAZEL of the very early FUNKADELIC classics 1970-1976 , was the innovator of heavy lead guitar in funk bands. Actually HAZEL, HENDRIX and ERNIE ISLEY of THE ISLEY BROTHERS were great friends with significantly different styles. A must... is HAZEL'S "MAGGOT BRAIN". Every legendary guitarist/violinist has attempted this classic at least once in their career. Please do the studio version because NO ONE, including Hazel himself, had ever come close to duplication. Funkadelics MIKE HAMPTON may have the best live recording ever. Hazel's "SUPER STUPID" "RED HOT MAMA" " I WANNA KNOW" " MISS LUCIFER'S LOVE" "FREE YOUR MIND" and his cover of THE BEATLES "I WANT YOU" During his solo career are why he is in the HALL OF FAME. And Hazel's collaboration with BERNIE WORRELL on the Dedication to the VIETNAM WAR VETERAN'S "MARCH TO THE WITCH'S CASTLES" is a rendition of TAPS/WHEN THE BOYS COME MARCHING HOME AGAIN. The Dept. of DEFENSE bought the rights to the song. Added actual war footage video( maybe quite disturbing to some) and plays it in a loop 24/7 at the V.W.V.Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
My favorite song by Slave ❤😊
The horn was an actual Schwinn bicycle horn. That rested on its own stand. The song was done in one take. The bass guitar was Drac 17 years old old. The other guitar solo was done by A 16 year old. That song still hits hard
The bass guitar was by Mark Adams (The Hansolor), not Drac. .
@@jaywilliams6779
Mark Adams (R I P) is Drac.
Drac was Mark Hicks and he played lead and rhythm guitar and backup vocals. Mark Adam's played bass. In fact, his son Mark Akridge plays bass and still performs to this day.
@@jaywilliams6779 you're right ✅️
It's all good..I lived through that Era. Take care...
Ooooweeee, let's goooooo🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥
Reminds me of roller skating to this jam during my childhood ❤ Shout out Dayton Ohio!
this is the one. the funk never fails!!!
🔥 Yep!!! I remember when I was pre teen I used to sneak in my brother’s albums. Just a touch of Love was the one for me by Slave. Check it out
That’s from my era as a teenager in the 70’s! Today’s music can’t touch my era! 😊
I remember when this album came out!!! It was 🔥🔥🔥!!!
Yes! Glad you found this.
Roller Skates would go well with this!!
Yup esp on “Watching You”. 😎
Slave lead singer sound similar to Keith Sweat. Keith Sweat actually remade one of their songs “ Just A Touch”.
Steve Arrington. Went solo sung Weak In The Knees which is the sample for NWA Gangsta,Gangsta!
My favourite guitar solo, The video version is the best. You need to react to Johnny Guitar Watson
Right up there with Jimmy Hendrix solo on The Isley Brothers Who's That Lady.
That’s right I heard that Jimi Hendrix collaborated with the Isley brothers….
WTF?? I've always loved this song, but I never knew that they did this song.
Funk
Nasty base line, and the dude said, "Put it on yall playlist 😄
Check out the group Lakeside if u wanna hear some more good funk. "Raid"...🔥🔥🔥🔥 also just about anything from 70s/early 80s Cameo...
It’s was a dance called the slide ❤❤❤❤
Pure uncut Funk 🤘🏾
Drac Lead the guitarist used a pitch shifter on his solo & maybe a compressor.
🕺🏿FUNKY!
70s music was my favorite era besides gospel music!!!
“I like, I’ll let my grandmother check that out”……Drac
Yes, lady 70 80s are nice.I'm fifty seven
Jammmmm
🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
This and Holy Ghost by the Barkays are the 2 most funkiest songs on the planet! All the Dayton Ohio funk groups are k1ller! Good react!
❤💯
Straight from the movie Friday After Next. Big ups!
Love it 😍
Bruh…. Don’t get me started on Lakeside…… that funk itch is coming back!!😆💯✊🏿
Slave Great funk Band Listen to Bad Girl To hear Mark Adams and Danny Webster Collaborate together. PS. Slave has many jams!
Is the best group
Don’t even get started on slave, these boys started out at 16 years old with this album, and they went on it run with multiple albums and great music! I will be requesting more Slave for you, Jack!
And to think this band were teenagers then
Try slave Separated that one great.
Hey Jack coming soon and separated are huge bangers keep on funkin
Club banger
Try bart baker parodies 🙏
Love to see it! I watch Bart Baker's videos since 2014
Dry hill - how deep is your love,
Lol dry
THIZ IZ 1 OF THA FUNKIEST BANDZ OF ALL TIME, LOV THEZE BROTHAS !!!!!