The DISGUSTING Reason No One Wanted to Play Living Colour!
The story of Living Colour struggled to achieve success, finally breaking through with Cult of Personality.
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The band’s lineup in addition to Reid, is made up of lead vocalist Corey Glover, drummer Will Calhoun and bassist Muzz Skillings. The band’s drummer Calhoun was a graduate of Berklee college of music in Boston he had worked with Jaco Postorious and toured with harry belefonte. Skillings played in a variety of salsa, jazz, reggae and rock groups in the area. He met Reidd through the black rock coalition.
Bassist muzz skillings was from queens and played salsa, jazz and rock in a variety of bands growing up before attending city college studying music. Shortly before joining living colour he led a cover band named Muz and also met Reid through the black rock coalition.. It was during the early days of living colour that skillings contemplated becoming a nyc firefighter but abandoned his plans once the band started to gain some momentum. The band’s vocalist Cory Glover was a student of Dowling college in long island and served as a DJ at the college radio station in addition to some brief acting roles, landing a spot in the oliver stone film Platoon. Glover was given the opportunity to join Reid’s band after he attended a birthday party for a mutual friend pair attended a birthday party of a mutual friend and heard Glover sing happy birthday. While Glover didn’t join the band through the Black Rock Coalition he could relate the organizations message teling Rolling Stone “ The first time I went down to meet an agent, they had me read some copy, and they said, ‘Too ethnic,’ ” “And my mother was an English teacher at the time. If I spoke any less than perfect, I’d hear about it. Then, about a year and a half later, I did this radio commercial for some allover body scent. The guy came out of the control room and said, ‘It’s just not black enough. Could you make it blacker?’ What do you want me to do, slap it on? That was the rudest thing I’d ever heard.
By the time Reid founded Living Colour there was a wide perception that he was the leader of the group with Glover Telling Rollingstone “In New York, people thought of Living Colour as Vernon’s band, which in a way it was,” “And the first video, ‘Middle Man,’ was too disjointed. It didn’t show us as an entity, interacting enough. Long after the first album was out, people still thought of this as totally Vernon’s thing.” Despite that perception the band came with a memorandum of understanding for how they would operate as a band with Glover saying “it gave us a united front in dealing with the outside world.”
Living Colour soon started gigging at CBGB’s and northeast clubs and the college circuit. WHile they drew in big audiences and according to Reid label people loved the band but he was met with the same responses “hey i love it, hey i think it’s a good band with good songs. But i cannot market it. ”
But then the band landed the biggest break of their career, when Reid who had already made a name for himself in the new york music scene auditioned for Mick Jagger’s solo record Primitive Cool. The Stone’s frontman was so impressed with the guitarist that he agreed to attend one of the band’s shows at tCBGB’s. Also in the audience that night was Jeff Beck. Jagger enlisted Reid to play on his solo album Primitive Cool, but Reid wouldn’t play as part of his touring act as he was committed to Living Colour. Reid told Loudersound his thinking the night his band played at CBGB’s in front of two legends “Before we went on stage one of our managers told me: ‘He’s here,’” the guitarist recollects fondly. “I didn’t tell the rest of the band and just tried to put his presence out of my mind.”
Jagger ended up producing a collection of demos for the band. Just then because of the band’s connection to the stones frontman the offers from labels started pouring in. Reid remarked But just the idea that it takes a mick jagger, is a commentary on how our system works.” Living Colour soon nabbed a deal with Epic Records. Reid remarked to loudersound “In a very singular way, Mick Jagger is rock’n’roll,” “We had even been considering the p
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