@@davidsaints1 his Sign(of)Nature / sigNature was SolID,just enough AWE to make him Awesome,too much...Awe'Full,have a gooden Man,ppsssttt,it'll probably be Live~Streamed :)
I'm 69 and I remember playing this song over and over. My sons are in their 40's and 30's and they grew up learning the lyrics along with The Last Poets. Incredible
I worked in a records store, Peaches Records, in my hometown of New Orleans in the 1970s and my Manager, wouldn't let me play anything but music by Black artists when I was working my shift. Gil Scott-Heron was one of her favourites, and I loved this song instantly. Gil was a visionary.
This brother had a keen understanding of media and hegemony. His poetry is still relevant, still prescient, still right on. The revolution will not be texted, will not be tweeted, will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be live.
***** So what are we waiting for... Spoken words will light the tinder Gathered by our class. Ideas once swept to the dustbin By the corporate overlords, Now carefully piled like dry staves, Pickets long discarded but not destroyed and ready for the flame's tongue. The poet's flint strikes steel... A hiss, a spark, and a crackle-- The bonfires flare and pop, And Yeats's gyre expands anew-- Revolution unchained Slouching this time toward Babylon.
Gill Scott Heron was the voice of the revolution during the 1970's. I was a teenager back then, times have changed but people are the same. People want freedom from oligarchy oppression.
No he wasn’t. The same sh!t is still happening now as back then. We are going backwards, we are not learning and growing. The revolution will not be televised now just as it wasn’t then.
Amazingly prescient for 1970. As well as being an excellent song/poem, it's a significant precursor of rap and a great little chronology of commercials, personalities and trends of the time. I can never get enough of this.
@@sarang8585 Well, fortunately, I hosted GSH in Liverpool for a day, and today’s (C)rappers can’t hold a candle to him! And, his live performances are better than his CDs and make the imposters look stupid and amateurish. They lack vocabulary.
November 30, 1969: Five of my teachers wore black armbands in participation in the Moratorium that I helped organization at my high school in Indiana. They were suspended and ended up fired by the school board. I recently got reunited with two of them thru Facebook and we've been remembering that experience. A reporter from the NY Times came to town and interviewed them and some of us students. This recording takes me back to that time better than the rest of the stuff I was playing and listening to back then.
I needed to hear Gil Scott-Heron's brilliance today. I will now spin this on the turntable, as well as other empowering words from this genius, on and off all day. 🙏
You, too! We used to listen to this Brother at the Afro-House at the University of Iowa. The School of Law students would play his music. We’d have lengthy think tanks to interpret and debate Scott-Herron’s philosophy. I miss those people and those times. It painful to think we weren’t able to prevent the man from continuing Jim Crow so y’all wouldn’t have to be going through this Hell!
I took it to mean turn off the TV, turn away from the shiny distractions thrown in your face to keep you complacent, because you can't participate in the revolution through those things. The revolution won't come to you, at your convenience with commercial breaks and such, you have to go to it.
Also, I think it will not be televised because the media have a stake in the division of likeminded groups. Keep us distracted, divided and scattered looking outside ourselves for answers to what’s going on. When we turn inward, face what it means to take a stand for what we believe in and get out into the community to do the work of creating unity amongst ourselves as citizens then the revolution begins. I believe it will be way easier to love each other than it is to feel separated and different.
This song is more than a song, it's an anthem to anyone who wants desperately to think differently, to keep & gain his independance in a mass media world which darkens day after day our ability to be aware of our surroundings...This song is what Noam Chomsky would sound like if he decided to rap.
Noam Chompsky likely would refrain from equating The Revolution with the looting of appliance and department stores as in the summer rebellions of 1964-197?. The burning and looting of neighborhoods in LA after the Rodney King beating resulted in long term change. Reactionary forces doubled down their efforts. Until the Constitution is scrapped and a clean new one is written that erases the current English common law traditions and Napoleonic Code foundations for Lousiana, until the cop/suspect, landlord/tenant, employer/employee, parent or legal guardian/child or dependent relationships are radically transformed, there will be no genuine justice, and less sustainability.
@@antichrist5484 I would even go a bit further saying that as long as there'll be a pyramidal system (attractly only the ones that are addicted to power, the very ones that should definitely never been given political responsibilities) and a monetary system (that is as long as we are giving so much strength to the fictious currency) this system is doomed to failure...
@@antichrist5484 when you read such books as Naomie Klein "Shock doctrine" ; howard Zinn éa people's history of the us" but most of all David Graeber "Debt, the first 5000 years" it all became clear to me. PS : Sorry again if I made syntactic mistakes, for I am French.
I have read all but the Klein book. Have you read Why Nations Fail? I didn't like Zinn's obfuscations in some places, and he was somewhat reactionary. He also never addressed the different party affiliations and platforms well, nor the various Constitutional amendments well, if I recall correctly. Why Nations Fail gives case studies on how and why genocidal land thieves building empires determine currencies and other monetary policies.
I’ve always had such a great appreciation for black American poetry, from Langston Hughes to Killer Mike, but I’ve never heard anything by Gil Scott-Heron before this. Man, this is something else. Time to dive down the rabbit hole.
I’m 65 and I remember listing to Gil in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Along with The Last Poets. Things haven’t changed at all. The Revolution will be on Facebook. Go figure.
Hail! We are the conquering heroes the hippies… freaks and geeks! 1957! What’s a very good year! Solidarity from A cosmic sista! ….. find life just as rich and wonderful today as I did in the way back! Fly your freak flag ! Proud loud!
@@roderickmcneil432 it is not lost on the current generation. i’m puerto rican and 24 years old and even have a tattoo of a television with static and on the screen says the revolution will not be televised. my friends and i attend marches and write our politicians letter demanding reform monthly if not weekly. the revolution will not be on facebook, will not be on tiktok, will not be on instagram. the revolution will be in the streets as it always has been.
We must learn from history. And then it's up to us to choose either to give in to apathy and nihilism or to fight for justice and equality all the fiercer, all the longer. I pray we can manage the latter, but it will require love, support, and examining some hard truths.
It's a damn shame this man isn't mentioned in the same breath with a great many of the finest songwriters and recording artists of his time or since. Along with Brian Jackson. Two wonderful artists who together made some brilliant music on some truly fine albums.
TRWNBT came out my first year in college! The law students used to play it frequently at the University of Iowa Afro-House! It’s a good feeling to read young people are listening to great relevant music these days!
THIS man is the true OG and nobody today can touch him. To think WHEN he made this makes it even more incredible (You had to be there! I had to buy a 2nd copy back in the day because I wore the first one out.) This is high-art and historic greatness that endures! GSH FOREVER!
I am a 72 year old (raised upper class) white woman- you do my heart and soul good! Soul is not a matter of race. It is a matter of the human heart! The revolution that I have waited for all my life indeed will bot be televised!
Ii am so happy to hear this again. Iii have tried to explain the poetry to music perforners in the late 60s and early 70s, but I have had difficulty to have people believe me. In the coffee houses and small clubs in the era I speak of this type of entertainment was plentiful and there were so many poets. The advertising of these venues called it rapping with or without musical accompanying and it was mostly social and political commentary. Some called it the spoken word. This guy was among the best, for sure.
Beat Poets, Nuyorican poets, jazz to rap.....all spoken word performance, all connected, and all the words to accompany or foster needed social change. Thank you GSH and Miguel Piñero....just for starters. (Anyone here, if you never saw the flick "Piñero" you may want to check it out...puts so much into perspective.) Gawd I love this stuff!
Baba Gil Scott Heron is a phenomenal jazz poet and his classic the Revolution will not be Televised excellent absolutely excellent. Ase Baba Gil Scott Heron a jazz poet political activist author and hero.
oh... i remember when this came out... we were young and thought by the time we were old things would be different. for a while things did improve but i am heartbroken that my black brothers are still looking for that brighter day. my generation truly dropped the ball.
On the ‘Spirit’ tour, Gill came to Plymouth Hoe, Devon, England. What a night! The ‘roadies’ wouldn’t let me back stage, but the bass player recognised me from the crowd, and I ended up at the bar having a Bacardi and coke with Gill and his fabulous band. You guys were staying at The Grand. That night I fell asleep listening to Gill singing Spirits (are calling me) in my ears. What a night. How lucky was I. Small town country lass meets hero x.
I remember the first time hearing this song. It was over a year ago and it still strikes me of how much I remember the feeling of first hearing that song. It was the morning after April fools, I was visiting my friend in Utah. In Utah the radios play the coolest music. My friend is a super early bird and I am not. He had been up early and was ready to get me up early to go Ski and snowboarding. His alarm for me to wake up went off, which was turning on the Utah radio. The song that started playing was this song. I woke up there at 7am, a BEAUTIFUL morning - on my friends floor - in utah - listening to this song for the first time. I just laid there. Took in what this man was saying. I heard him referencing names from this time period and could hear how this was a classic song. I was amazed I had never heard it before. It made waking up at 7am pleasant for me. The groove was awesome. The poetry in the music. It really made me feel like this man was preaching for a movement that made history. I knew how important that song was. Once it finally finished I got out of bed and was ready to snowboard. I haven't heard that song since, but happy I now have.
Broadcast on WVTF Roanoke, Virginia Sunday Night Jazz (NPR) show this past summer. What a gas that was! I had almost forgotten the song, now here I am on you tube experiencing this piece of musical history!
Ron Carter on bass Hubert Laws on flute Pretty Purdie on drums (they 'done hired the hitmaker!') I saw Gil Scott-Heron at T in the Park in the mid-1990s when he came to my home country where his dad was the first black Celtic player (therefore also a trailblazer, as Gil was to rap & hip-hop; but c'mon, this is better than any of that stuff :))...I love the Pieces of a Man album and the recent Sky Arts documentary about the making of it, which included a great interview with Gil's brother-in-arms, Brian Jackson, was excellent. It's a shame that Gil ultimately seemed to walk a similar path in his later career and life to Arthur Lee, another authentic musical genius. But he left this...
Long story short, I played 4 stage shows in the 80’s with Gil, in the Amherst, U-Mass, college area. Know him fe real.👈🏽 I first heard this ,in 1972-3, on WHCN, from Hartford, Connecticut, a subsidiary, of WBCN, Boston. 🚩I eventually, became a freedom fighter, for my oppressed family. 🇲🇱
One of THE GREATEST Poetical musical rendictions from the revolutionary word spitter himself GIL SCOTT HERON! RIP Homie!!!🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀 #revolutionlliveson!🔥🔥 #Powertothepeople!🔥🔥
Reading the comments….. this is exactly where I need to be today…. Thanksgiving 2021! Thank you Mr. Scott -Heron ! Have faith we are all exactly where we need to be…. It is aligned…. The universe…. The sun the moon and stars! There is nothing new….. Evolution is a circle!
He is right! He was ahead of his time. It not about the colour of the skin. It is about people around the world. The Revolution will not be telivised by mainstream media.
To many Luke warm pastors scared to tell the truth, scared to offend people, scared to tell them the lie they are living. Well I'm not. The truth will liberate you. We are living in dangerous times and signs all around us. We must not be kept in bondage. We must praise the Lord and follow his commandments. Pray to God and he will liberate you from what keeps you captive in sin. Matthew 19:26 says, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible" The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The revelution will be televised via cellular phone, youtubers, twitter accounts, and so forth,,, everything big brother don’t want You to see will also now be televised, empathised, sympathized , realized, despised, socialized, and however, from the ignorant dowsized. First time hearing this will listen until i understand. So sad too bad to see injusice and toatl unrest 🥺😩. Paradise please 🐝 on your way☀️
The revolution is also influenced by corporations trying to sway things to benefit them. The old classic Coca Cola ad about the people of the world should have scared people.
This song is 100% true today. I see different and real things out there than what shallow news says. Fun stuff and kindness if people open their eyes. Thank you for posting this. Peace!
This is one of the great songs that no one knows. And I only came here because it was on Scandal which I only watched because my kids were watching it. This has transcended time completely.
@@chrisberardi2304 There is a different earlier version by Gil with only percussion. Sparse take is on his first album Small Talk At 125th And Lenox, this take is on his second album Pieces Of A Man. ruclips.net/video/1-9iVP-Lp-U/видео.html
This was AWESOME then, and gosh, gee willikers, this remains both AWESOME and RELEVANT to our times. Time to make America great again! The energy & idealism of the 1960s and 70s combined with 21st Century savvy & determination. This time for sure!
I met him at a set he did in Louisville, ky. He was so cool and he even joined us for a drink and of course I had to ask for his autograph, he was so shocked I had asked Great memory!
Election 2024 sent me here
It will not be televised....
same 💖✊
Me too.
Me too
Same sista
Woohoo 🥳
Listening from Africa in January 2024, and I can feel it. “The Revolution will not be Televised”.
And we almost lose Detroit.
The Revolution will be live!
@@davidsaints1 his Sign(of)Nature / sigNature was SolID,just enough AWE to make him Awesome,too much...Awe'Full,have a gooden Man,ppsssttt,it'll probably be Live~Streamed :)
Not the one of the mind, heart and soul....not that one....peace and godspeed to you and all@@garytodd6034
I was one of those children, living 40 miles from that nuclear plant, when we almost lost Detroit. Gil Scott-Heron always spoke to me.
I'm 69 and I remember playing this song over and over. My sons are in their 40's and 30's and they grew up learning the lyrics along with The Last Poets. Incredible
He is a true poet!
This is how we teach...
Good job my Friend
last poets respect
My children are growing up with it now. ✊🏼Keep it alive.
I worked in a records store, Peaches Records, in my hometown of New Orleans in the 1970s and my Manager, wouldn't let me play anything but music by Black artists when I was working my shift. Gil Scott-Heron was one of her favourites, and I loved this song instantly. Gil was a visionary.
My favorite record store ever
I used to buy my CD’s and Music Accessories from Peaches on Gentilly and Elysian Fields ❤.
2024 who's with me
someone still hasn't understood the song yet
Me
Am here 👋
✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿💯🖤
💪🏽💪🏽
This brother had a keen understanding of media and hegemony. His poetry is still relevant, still prescient, still right on. The revolution will not be texted, will not be tweeted, will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be live.
Yep,.... just change out some of the items... celeb names.... not much has changed it seems.
*****
So what are we waiting for...
Spoken words will light the tinder
Gathered by our class.
Ideas once swept to the dustbin
By the corporate overlords,
Now carefully piled like dry staves,
Pickets long discarded but not destroyed and ready for the flame's tongue.
The poet's flint strikes steel...
A hiss, a spark, and a crackle--
The bonfires flare and pop,
And Yeats's gyre expands anew--
Revolution unchained
Slouching this time toward Babylon.
Actually, yes, it will be live, texted, filmed, and tweeted....
+Shane Elder wonderful 👌
and packaged in a Del Taco drive through received bag of 3 tacos 4 hamburgers 2 french fries 1 mr pib....lets REVOLT!
Gill Scott Heron was the voice of the revolution during the 1970's. I was a teenager back then, times have changed but people are the same. People want freedom from oligarchy oppression.
teenager here! my generation is gonna free us
😂@@rosechoi9451
@rosechoi9451 I hope so cuz otherwise we're fukked 😇💥
@@rosechoi9451 I sure hope so
@@hazydazed
😂😆🤣
Mr. Gil Scott Heron. Was ahead of his time.
No he wasn’t. The same sh!t is still happening now as back then. We are going backwards, we are not learning and growing. The revolution will not be televised now just as it wasn’t then.
Beyond times.
"The Revolution will not be televised, it will be live."
Amazingly prescient for 1970. As well as being an excellent song/poem, it's a significant precursor of rap and a great little chronology of commercials, personalities and trends of the time. I can never get enough of this.
Jay Hardison yesss all of this, and to this day this song never gets old
Do you know what was going on in the late 1960s and early 1970s? This song was describing real life.
I cannot equate Heron’s music and lyrics with (C)rap!
@@jeremiahkerry
Fr!! Stupid cr*p fans 😠😡
@@sarang8585 Well, fortunately, I hosted GSH in Liverpool for a day, and today’s (C)rappers can’t hold a candle to him! And, his live performances are better than his CDs and make the imposters look stupid and amateurish. They lack vocabulary.
This is relevant for today. Wake up people!!!
✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼✊🏼✊🏻✊️Power to the People...
🙋🏻♀🗽
❤❤❤
Exactly
We support RAW music
This is art in its highest form.
This is not merely a song. This is an artistic treasure. Possibly the greatest piece ever written and performed by anyone.
Google hyperbole
Probably not.
It is not that great
You are correct brother . Here to secrecy and an eventual revolution.
...treasure ? you Bet !.... 'greatest ever' ? That's Quite a list.... this belongs on the list....
The irony of having to watch weightloss ads to watch this is just phenomenal.
Even more true today than ever.
Saw Gil in 1976 in a club. He was one of a kind.
Lucky dog! I wasn't even born in 76'! ^_^
powerful piece, it's a tragedy that most people in our current political climate will completely misunderstand it
Have faith! There is nothing new under the sun… The moon and stars….. have faith brother! In the universe we are exactly where we need to be.
@@erflingnot agreed because when the revolution is HAPPENING IT WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
@@bartolomeorejowski5904 yes cuz we'll cut out electricity cuz it will slow the goverment down lmao
Perchance, is your real name Alan Watts ?
Watkins.
I was very happy to see that Gil was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame
This is what I played to test out the transmitter when I started Freak Radio Santa Cruz, a pirate radio station, I think that it was in the 90's.
This entire album is one of the greatest recordings of poetry put to music ever recorded in the 20th century.
November 30, 1969: Five of my teachers wore black armbands in participation in the Moratorium that I helped organization at my high school in Indiana. They were suspended and ended up fired by the school board. I recently got reunited with two of them thru Facebook and we've been remembering that experience. A reporter from the NY Times came to town and interviewed them and some of us students. This recording takes me back to that time better than the rest of the stuff I was playing and listening to back then.
I needed to hear Gil Scott-Heron's brilliance today. I will now spin this on the turntable, as well as other empowering words from this genius, on and off all day. 🙏
You, too! We used to listen to this Brother at the Afro-House at the University of Iowa. The School of Law students would play his music. We’d have lengthy think tanks to interpret and debate Scott-Herron’s philosophy. I miss those people and those times. It painful to think we weren’t able to prevent the man from continuing Jim Crow so y’all wouldn’t have to be going through this Hell!
PARANOIA IS FUN? CIVIC DUTY MIGHT REPLACE CIVIC NEGLIGENCE ONE DAY, BUT NOT FOR YOU? YAWN.................
He is saying the revolution starts in the mind. The revolution has to to start in your mind for things to change.
Thanks for that. As much as I love this I never got the " ..not be televised"
Amen brother.. Free your mind to embrace the revolution
I took it to mean turn off the TV, turn away from the shiny distractions thrown in your face to keep you complacent, because you can't participate in the revolution through those things. The revolution won't come to you, at your convenience with commercial breaks and such, you have to go to it.
Exactly! The revolution starts with SELF first!
Also, I think it will not be televised because the media have a stake in the division of likeminded groups. Keep us distracted, divided and scattered looking outside ourselves for answers to what’s going on. When we turn inward, face what it means to take a stand for what we believe in and get out into the community to do the work of creating unity amongst ourselves as citizens then the revolution begins. I believe it will be way easier to love each other than it is to feel separated and different.
This song is more than a song, it's an anthem to anyone who wants desperately to think differently, to keep & gain his independance in a mass media world which darkens day after day our ability to be aware of our surroundings...This song is what Noam Chomsky would sound like if he decided to rap.
Hahaha! I'm having visuals of mr Chomsky bopping to this! Thank you for that!! 🤣
Love and light🙂🙏🏻❤😍🌻
Noam Chompsky likely would refrain from equating The Revolution with the looting of appliance and department stores as in the summer rebellions of 1964-197?.
The burning and looting of neighborhoods in LA after the Rodney King beating resulted in long term change. Reactionary forces doubled down their efforts.
Until the Constitution is scrapped and a clean new one is written that erases the current English common law traditions and Napoleonic Code foundations for Lousiana, until the cop/suspect, landlord/tenant, employer/employee, parent or legal guardian/child or dependent relationships are radically transformed, there will be no genuine justice, and less sustainability.
@@antichrist5484 I would even go a bit further saying that as long as there'll be a pyramidal system (attractly only the ones that are addicted to power, the very ones that should definitely never been given political responsibilities) and a monetary system (that is as long as we are giving so much strength to the fictious currency) this system is doomed to failure...
@@antichrist5484 when you read such books as Naomie Klein "Shock doctrine" ; howard Zinn éa people's history of the us" but most of all David Graeber "Debt, the first 5000 years" it all became clear to me.
PS : Sorry again if I made syntactic mistakes, for I am French.
I have read all but the Klein book.
Have you read Why Nations Fail?
I didn't like Zinn's obfuscations in some places, and he was somewhat reactionary. He also never addressed the different party affiliations and platforms well, nor the various Constitutional amendments well, if I recall correctly.
Why Nations Fail gives case studies on how and why genocidal land thieves building empires determine currencies and other monetary policies.
We’re all living it !!!!.
In 2024, still haunting
One of the most relevant pieces for over 50 years, the only complaint being it wasn't long enough.
What would you add....Hope it has put positive Direction in your Life....The song/Piece remains....
Revolution in Kenya, June 2024. VIVA! ✊
Bana steam ni kama imeshuka. Watu wanasahau
Kabaridi✊
I’ve always had such a great appreciation for black American poetry, from Langston Hughes to Killer Mike, but I’ve never heard anything by Gil Scott-Heron before this. Man, this is something else. Time to dive down the rabbit hole.
A talented man with an extremely powerful message...
PARANOIA IS A SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS, RUBE. SOCIAL NEGLIGENCE REPLACED CIVIC DUTY. DUHHHHHHH............
I’m 65 and I remember listing to Gil in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Along with The Last Poets. Things haven’t changed at all. The Revolution will be on Facebook. Go figure.
Hail! We are the conquering heroes the hippies… freaks and geeks! 1957! What’s a very good year! Solidarity from A cosmic sista! ….. find life just as rich and wonderful today as I did in the way back! Fly your freak flag ! Proud loud!
✊🤲☸️☸️🔥
.....😏📖📕📗📘📚
I’m 56 and used to hear this playing with the older brothers in my hood. Always wanted to be this type of black leader. 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
@@roderickmcneil432 it is not lost on the current generation. i’m puerto rican and 24 years old and even have a tattoo of a television with static and on the screen says the revolution will not be televised. my friends and i attend marches and write our politicians letter demanding reform monthly if not weekly. the revolution will not be on facebook, will not be on tiktok, will not be on instagram. the revolution will be in the streets as it always has been.
What he was saying is still true to this day! The revolution will not be televised! Period! Peace! (GOD-BLESS-HIS-SOUL). R.I.P. Mr.Gil Scott Heron!
the 1960's and 1970's still in 2020.
We must learn from history. And then it's up to us to choose either to give in to apathy and nihilism or to fight for justice and equality all the fiercer, all the longer. I pray we can manage the latter, but it will require love, support, and examining some hard truths.
I was born in the same year as him and knew this when it came out. Yet, minillenials dump on us for being "boomers".
Yes. There is no time. There is only now. The 60s, 70s, and 80s are layered in the now. Musicians and artists can tap into all the layers of Now.
It's a damn shame this man isn't mentioned in the same breath with a great many of the finest songwriters and recording artists of his time or since. Along with Brian Jackson. Two wonderful artists who together made some brilliant music on some truly fine albums.
TRWNBT came out my first year in college! The law students used to play it frequently at the University of Iowa Afro-House! It’s a good feeling to read young people are listening to great relevant music these days!
THIS man is the true OG and nobody today can touch him. To think WHEN he made this makes it even more incredible (You had to be there! I had to buy a 2nd copy back in the day because I wore the first one out.) This is high-art and historic greatness that endures! GSH FOREVER!
Can't get enough of this
I agree with you
I am a 72 year old (raised upper class) white woman- you do my heart and soul good! Soul is not a matter of race. It is a matter of the human heart! The revolution that I have waited for all my life indeed will bot be televised!
And here we are today.. with Revolution being televised.. ✊🏽✊🏽🔥🔥
Ii am so happy to hear this again. Iii have tried to explain the poetry to music perforners in the late 60s and early 70s, but I have had difficulty to have people believe me. In the coffee houses and small clubs in the era I speak of this type of entertainment was plentiful and there were so many poets. The advertising of these venues called it rapping with or without musical accompanying and it was mostly social and political commentary. Some called it the spoken word. This guy was among the best, for sure.
My life is suddenly complete , I had never listened to this but wow 😮
the father of street poetry
Good comment mate.
I think more like the father of rap. street poetry had been going strong long before this.
Beat Poets, Nuyorican poets, jazz to rap.....all spoken word performance, all connected, and all the words to accompany or foster needed social change. Thank you GSH and Miguel Piñero....just for starters. (Anyone here, if you never saw the flick "Piñero" you may want to check it out...puts so much into perspective.) Gawd I love this stuff!
TAndrackeH thank you I love me a good film recommendation I’m gonna go find it right now
The Last Poets have him beat, I think - maybe.
Not just about media control, however. Also about taking personal responsibility, being a person of action, not an observer.
The revolution will not be televised, but it will be commodified as a watered-down and pre-packaged family bargain for sure!
Yes!!!
Crazy how the cultural revolution is now right wing following Jan. 6th
Right, like if u waitin for something to be popular before you act, you aint gonna act in any courageous way.
Baba Gil Scott Heron is a phenomenal jazz poet and his classic the Revolution will not be Televised excellent absolutely excellent.
Ase Baba Gil Scott Heron a jazz poet political activist author and hero.
November 2024❤❤
I’m 29 and this has never hit harder
FR
My dad turned me on to Gil when I was in High school back in the 70s. Still relevant
so relevant even more than 50 years later
Gil Scot Heron could not be closer to the truth now than he even was then, because the Revolution will sure as hell never be televised.
oh... i remember when this came out... we were young and thought by the time we were old things would be different. for a while things did improve but i am heartbroken that my black brothers are still looking for that brighter day. my generation truly dropped the ball.
Intervention music allways offers the most amazing poems.
Still looking for better times after seeing this great man perform in the early '70's. We could, but have not.
I would feel better if somebody found the balls to play this on the radio
+Brenda Brookshire Owens (Travel Agent) Thanks sister.
+MrAntiSellOut 6 multinational corporations own 90% of public media and distribution, we'll never hear this on the radio.
Craig Coelho That's a perfectly good way to keep radio so very dumbed down unfortunately. Smh
Mission accomplished, NY the looks of the Democratic primary
+Craig Coelho If Trump wins, it's gonna be a lot worse
I have heard it 3x on KBEM 88.5 FM [our straight-ahead jazz station]
GiL Scott....tellin it as it is, what it was, and what will never be...this artist is way beyond intellectual, goodness, awareness, etc...🌹🌞💚
Possibly the most under rated song ever.
On the ‘Spirit’ tour, Gill came to Plymouth Hoe, Devon, England. What a night! The ‘roadies’ wouldn’t let me back stage, but the bass player recognised me from the crowd, and I ended up at the bar having a Bacardi and coke with Gill and his fabulous band. You guys were staying at The Grand. That night I fell asleep listening to Gill singing Spirits (are calling me) in my ears. What a night. How lucky was I. Small town country lass meets hero x.
One of THE most important, underrated, funk tracks of the 20th century....... the main was a genius, and he told it how it was
Drumpf's second coming as a worthless president bought me here
"The best revolutions are spontaneous, sparked by an outrage, not planned in a dark room".
Truth that's relevant to this day.
Great song I forgot all about this song, great song!!! It use to be on the radio back in the day!
Bring me to the early 70’s I love ❤this man for than and to now 2024
I remember the first time hearing this song. It was over a year ago and it still strikes me of how much I remember the feeling of first hearing that song. It was the morning after April fools, I was visiting my friend in Utah. In Utah the radios play the coolest music. My friend is a super early bird and I am not. He had been up early and was ready to get me up early to go Ski and snowboarding. His alarm for me to wake up went off, which was turning on the Utah radio. The song that started playing was this song. I woke up there at 7am, a BEAUTIFUL morning - on my friends floor - in utah - listening to this song for the first time. I just laid there. Took in what this man was saying. I heard him referencing names from this time period and could hear how this was a classic song. I was amazed I had never heard it before. It made waking up at 7am pleasant for me. The groove was awesome. The poetry in the music. It really made me feel like this man was preaching for a movement that made history. I knew how important that song was. Once it finally finished I got out of bed and was ready to snowboard. I haven't heard that song since, but happy I now have.
Sounds like you woke up to KRCL community radio!
A great response to injustice put upon the youth in the Vietnam War and those who suffered fighting for civil rights!
A M E N 🌹🌞🌿
THIS SONG NEEDS TO GO VIRAL. Have always loved it!!
It went viral before it was hip to go "viral." ;-)
@@williamyoung9401 TRUE THAT STATEMENT
Broadcast on WVTF Roanoke, Virginia Sunday Night Jazz (NPR) show this past summer. What a gas that was! I had almost forgotten the song, now here I am on you tube experiencing this piece of musical history!
Ron Carter on bass
Hubert Laws on flute
Pretty Purdie on drums (they 'done hired the hitmaker!')
I saw Gil Scott-Heron at T in the Park in the mid-1990s when he came to my home country where his dad was the first black Celtic player (therefore also a trailblazer, as Gil was to rap & hip-hop; but c'mon, this is better than any of that stuff :))...I love the Pieces of a Man album and the recent Sky Arts documentary about the making of it, which included a great interview with Gil's brother-in-arms, Brian Jackson, was excellent. It's a shame that Gil ultimately seemed to walk a similar path in his later career and life to Arthur Lee, another authentic musical genius. But he left this...
The Revolution will not be televised, but it will be streamed. ✊🏻
This is the type of shit we need to be hearing right about now..... dude was so ahead of his time.... TRWNBTL
Long story short, I played 4 stage shows in the 80’s with Gil, in the Amherst, U-Mass, college area. Know him fe real.👈🏽
I first heard this ,in 1972-3, on WHCN, from Hartford, Connecticut, a subsidiary, of WBCN, Boston.
🚩I eventually, became a freedom fighter, for my oppressed family. 🇲🇱
One of THE GREATEST Poetical musical rendictions from the revolutionary word spitter himself GIL SCOTT HERON! RIP Homie!!!🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀 #revolutionlliveson!🔥🔥 #Powertothepeople!🔥🔥
WBCN (104.1) in Boston used to play this back in the day, and I eternally thank them for introducing me to Gil Scott Heron.
The drumming is 🔥
Yeah, that's Pretty Purdie, one of the greatest!
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Reading the comments….. this is exactly where I need to be today…. Thanksgiving 2021! Thank you Mr. Scott -Heron ! Have faith we are all exactly where we need to be…. It is aligned…. The universe…. The sun the moon and stars! There is nothing new….. Evolution is a circle!
I love him. RIP Sir much respect!
YOU DIG IT THE REVOLUTION WILL BE L. I. V. E BROTHER AS AND SISTERS.
He is right! He was ahead of his time. It not about the colour of the skin. It is about people around the world. The Revolution will not be telivised by mainstream media.
I'm 17 this is awesome❤
One of the great American poets."I heard Nixon had phlebitis. Let him come to the Ghetto and I'll show him 'Flea bite us'"GSH
To many Luke warm pastors scared to tell the truth, scared to offend people, scared to tell them the lie they are living. Well I'm not. The truth will liberate you. We are living in dangerous times and signs all around us. We must not be kept in bondage. We must praise the Lord and follow his commandments. Pray to God and he will liberate you from what keeps you captive in sin.
Matthew 19:26 says, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible"
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Original, thougt provoking, emotional. Gill Scott-Heron's masterpiece.
This is awesome! ❤ Be well!
This song has never been more relevant than now
I remember this from my young days of the '70s in Phila" wonder where it went,I have found it" Yay"
The revelution will be televised via cellular phone, youtubers, twitter accounts, and so forth,,, everything big brother don’t want You to see will also now be televised, empathised, sympathized , realized, despised, socialized, and however, from the ignorant dowsized. First time hearing this will listen until i understand. So sad too bad to see injusice and toatl unrest 🥺😩. Paradise please 🐝 on your way☀️
Mary Moise The revolution happens in our mind first.
Christel G thank You!
Big brother will now let you see everything they want you to see
The revolution is also influenced by corporations trying to sway things to benefit them. The old classic Coca Cola ad about the people of the world should have scared people.
@@aaronkirchdorfer7779 That's exactly it
This song is 100% true today. I see different and real things out there than what shallow news says. Fun stuff and kindness if people open their eyes. Thank you for posting this. Peace!
I'm listening to this in April 2020, the middle of the Civod-19 global pandemic, and every word is hammered home!
I am the ghost of June 2020. It gets worse. It gets so much fucking worse.
@@Condorito380 it got worse before it got better.
Still listen in 2024
This was a prophetic word for those who are waiting for their network programmers to tell them what is going on today.
This is one of the great songs that no one knows. And I only came here because it was on Scandal which I only watched because my kids were watching it. This has transcended time completely.
I'm old enough to remember this coming out, and the times that made this so necessary.
I’m here because I heard it on season 6 of Homeland. The show starring Clare Danes. The music had been removed but the lyric hooked me.
@@chrisberardi2304 There is a different earlier version by Gil with only percussion. Sparse take is on his first album Small Talk At 125th And Lenox, this take is on his second album Pieces Of A Man. ruclips.net/video/1-9iVP-Lp-U/видео.html
Back in the day, they played it on the radio in Philly!!!
Not only are the lyrics incredible but the music with it truly shreds. It's a bop if I ever heard one.
I remember this amazing artist back from 1970s . I was very young back then.
All this is going on now..wow
This was AWESOME then, and gosh, gee willikers, this remains both AWESOME and RELEVANT to our times. Time to make America great again! The energy & idealism of the 1960s and 70s combined with 21st Century savvy & determination. This time for sure!
Today... the revolution will be streamed.
I met him at a set he did in Louisville, ky. He was so cool and he even joined us for a drink and of course I had to ask for his autograph, he was so shocked I had asked
Great memory!
A perfectly excellent track to play non-stop. Especially for what's currently happening.
the father of rap is rocking❤
This song have been playing in my mind as a background song for weeks.
Please stop playing it in your mind… he wasn’t referring to the genocide backing democrats or republicans including kamala Harris