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November 26th 2006 04:52
Lenny Kravitz - Wikipedia
He's a household name but do we really like him? He is an amazing musician, has a powerful voice and can rock with the best of them. But as I was listening to some of his music today, it occurred that I haven't heard that much about him, especially on Muzikal Mafia. I have not heard his name mentioned on any post so far, except for lovely DuskDevi, who mentioned him only for his drummer, Cindy Blackman. and Homer, who mentioned Kravitz's song 'Mr. Cab Driver.'
Kravitz started out 'letting love rule' in 1989 and I think maybe he was written off as a flake with the dreds -(which I LOVE, btw)-and his retro sound and hippie-esque lyrics. Since then, he has released 7 albums in addition to a Greatest Hits CD. Every once in awhile, I will pull some of his music out. Everytime I do, I am blown away by his talent.
Even though I make jokes about him all the time regarding how sexy he is and how I wished he would drop that towel again in that one video, this man is extremely talented.
He not only sings, Kravitz plays a helluva guitar-(heavily Hendrix influenced)-, bass, drums, piano, saxophone, trumpet and sitar. He also usually plays all the instruments on each recorded track, as well as writes most of his lyrics, in addition to numerous other behind the scenes involvement in other artist's albums.
I have his first Greatest Hits CD and it has everything on it from 'American Woman' (That grunt during the intro is GREAT. I could listen to it on a loop.), 'Black Velveteen' -(I still have no idea if he is singing about a woman, a robot or a sex toy. But I love that song.), 'Let Love Rule' to 'Are You Gonna Go My Way' -(I love the part, "So tell me why we got to die
And kill each other one by one, We´ve got to love and rub-a-dub, We´ve got to dance and be in love...") And what I want to know is...
Why do we not hear more of him? Every once in a great while, he has a song that get's some airtime, the most recent song, 'Lady' gained notoriety more for Sarah Jessica Parker's booty shaking GAP commercial than it did for being a great song. Am I the only one who thinks this is bizarre? Is he just overlooked? Is he one of those artists that refuses to be categorized? His lyrics are generally clean enough for air time, not that 'dirty' lyrics are particularly a problem anymore, anyways.
What's the deal? Why do we not hear a lot more from Lenny? Do you like him? Own any of his work? Do you hate him? Why?
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