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 ..: GrandMaster Flash.com Bio : Welcome :..
Flash recorded the unique sounds he created, and in 1977 began experimenting and collaborating with local MC's and put together his own group who became known as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Grandmaster Flash has remained one of the world’s most-respected musical innovators by never stopping his touring and performing for appreciative crowds around the world.
Flash’s trailblazing sounds were recognized with the 2002 Strut Records release of The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash, a critically acclaimed collection of tracks which hark back to the block party tapes and sounds he created early in his career.
www.grandmasterflash.com /bio.html   (1258 words)

  
 A Brief History of Rap-Grandmaster Flash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Saddler was the DJ of the group that he formed, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Grandmaster Flash provided the rap genre a musical foundation by manipulating records on turntables, scratching them, and repeating certain instrumental sections, known as sampling.
Flash's early raps were of the let's-party-and-tell-our-zodiac-signs variety with no consciousness, political or otherwise.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~syverson/worldsfair/exhibits/hall1/vaughn-sowa-iskander/bios/grandmasterbio.html   (279 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler)
Grandmaster Flash (name Joseph Saddler) is credited by many popular cultural historians, as being the innovator who brought about the genres of both hip-hop and rap music.
Grandmaster Flash- The music on this new record was extremely hard for me to come together because this is music that is from an era that is very large period of time and a very large body of work musically.
Grandmaster Flash- Kraftwerk was a hip-hop record for me. At the hip-hop parties, the music on the albums by Kraftwerk was a way for me to take a brief break after playing twenty records in five minutes time or even two hundred records in twenty minutes time.
www.mcapozzolijr.com /grandmasterflash.html   (2164 words)

  
 MTV.com - Grandmaster Flash
DJ Grandmaster Flash and his group the Furious Five were hip-hop's greatest innovators, transcending the genre's party-music origins to explore the full scope of its lyrical and sonic horizons.
Flash was born Joseph Saddler in Barbados on January 1, 1958; he began spinning records as teen growing up in the Bronx, performing live at area dances and block parties.
Flash and the Five's next effort, 1982's "The Message," was even more revelatory -- for the first time, hip-hop became a vehicle not merely for bragging and boasting but for trenchant social commentary, with Melle Mel delivering a blistering rap detailing the grim realities of life in the ghetto.
www.mtv.com /bands/az/grandmaster_flash/bio.jhtml   (456 words)

  
 Articles - Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
Flash recalls Herc embarrassing him because he didn't have the system (nor did anyone else at the time) that could compete with Herc's.
Flash rapped and made the shout outs on his own at first, but he knew if he wanted to remain innovative and retain his flawless turntable technique he needed some help.
In 1981, Flash released what is considered the most influential display of cutting and scratching ever recorded- "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel." On it he uses sections of "Rapture", "Good Times," "Another One Bites the Dust," and sections from some of their previous work.
www.hiphop-network.com /articles/djarticles/grandmasterflash.asp   (957 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Grandmaster Flash mpeg
Grandmaster Flash introduced the world to the then-new sounds of scratching or "cutting" records while DJing.
Throughout the 1990s, Flash was fairly off the radar, reappearing once in a while in the second half of the decade.
DJ Grandmaster Flash and his hip-hopping group the Furious Five will always be known as hip-hop's greatest innovators.
www.askmen.com /toys/interview/44_grandmaster_flash_interview.html   (1207 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jump-cutting like 10 crates of vinyl tickled by a Chic bass line, Grandmaster Flash's 1981 single "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" wrote the laws of turntable physics for everyone from Jazzy Jeff to Cut Chemist.
Flash has been untouchably cool ever since, even though he hasn't made a real record since 1988's best-forgotten On the Strength.
But Flash kept the anthems coming -- from A Tribe Called Quest's "Award Tour" and Redman's "I'll Bee Dat" to enough Biggie Smalls to put a tear in anybody's eye -- until resistance was useless.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/01/28/REX/GRANDMASTER_FLASH.html   (339 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five / Grandmaster Flash: The Message / They Said it Couldn't Be Done: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Everyone knows now how influential Grandmaster Flash was to the mechanics of DJing, with his invention and popularization of various mixing and scratching techniques.
Sensing this, Flash steals a title and a sound with "Rock the House", which has guitars and a mid-tempo rock backbeat though none of the energy of the guys from Hollis.
Flash would release a couple more records in the 80s without much success, and then he dropped off the radar, resurfacing periodically to play shows when given a boost by current DJs who understand his importance to hip-hop's development.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/g/grandmaster-flash/message-they-said-it-couldnt-be-done.shtml   (779 words)

  
 Grandmaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up Grandmaster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Grandmaster (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics' universe
Grandmaster Recorders, a music recording studio in Hollywood, California
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grandmaster   (216 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash interview in London
Without Grandmaster Flash, aka Joseph Sadler, we'd probably all be swinging our plastic flares to fifth-generation glam rock.
Born in Barbados and raised in the Bronx, Joseph was weaned on the mid-70s block parties of early heroes Cool Herc and Peter DJ Jones.
Grandmaster on the Wheels of Steel, the first record to use samples, followed and the next release, The Message broke hip-hop internationally.
www.viewlondon.co.uk /home_feat_int_grandmaster.asp   (981 words)

  
 RA: Resident Advisor - Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler, Flash, The Furious 5) Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Immortalized by Blondie, feted by the hip hop cognoscenti, Grandmaster Flash is the man who turned the humble record deck into an instrument as potent as the piano or guitar.
Born in Barbados but raised in New York, Grandmaster Flash (aka Joseph Saddler) was an electronics student with a desire born of seeing his heroes Pete DJ Jones and Kool Herc to turn the music they were playing into an art form.
Grandmaster Flash, meanwhile, continues to do what he does best: filling floors, making people dance, and there’s no-one still who can do quite what Flash does with a mixer and two decks.
www.residentadvisor.net /dj_profiles.asp?id=178   (845 words)

  
 Warning : Don't call Grandmaster Flash a rapper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grandmaster Flash has considered cancelling his Australia tour all because Undercover called him a rapper.
It was exactly 20 years ago when Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released 'The Message', one of the most potent raps of all time.
That "grandmaster rapper" comment, it would appear, was enough to make the 80's DJ throw a grandmaster wobbly.
www.undercover.net.au /news/2003/20030411_grandmasterflash.html   (465 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash (1958 - )
Wimbish is perhaps best known as the bassist in the house band of the legendary rap label Sugar Hill, backing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on their epochal Message album, among many others.
Strut Records hooked up with Grandmaster Flash and asked him to delve deep and faithfully re-create the original days, to play the tunes that actually were played.
Flash takes us through different aspects of the block parties from the extended freestyle mixes to the tracks he used to play in their entirety.
www.jahsonic.com /GrandmasterFlash.html   (775 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash: Rap Pioneer
Grandmaster Flash, one of hip-hop's pioneering DJs, will receive the Billboard's 2003 Hip-Hop Founders Award Aug. 8 at this year's Billboard-AURN RandB/Hip-Hop Awards show at the Roney Palace in Miami Beach, Fla..
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's groundbreaking 1982 hit "The Message" was a milestone in the emergence of rap.
Flash watched fellow pioneers like DJ Kool Herc -- known as the godfather of hip-hop -- spin in parks, playgrounds and at block parties throughout the New York borough.
www.billboardradio.com /bb/feature/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1948530   (1097 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash: The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash ---Ink Blot Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was the first to blend funky street records with smooth disco mixing techniques; he was the first to juggle beats from different records to form new rhythms, new melodies, new paradigms for music; he did the first scratching and the first continuous mixing; he may even have been the first to write a rhyme.
Anyway, by the time he was calling himself Grandmaster Flash, he was also organizing the first rap supergroup, the Furious Five, to rhyme over his radical beats.
This is a heroic piece of work by the record label, by the historians, by the permissions clearance staff, and, most of all, by Grandmaster Flash, the greatest DJ in the history of the world.
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Grandmaster_Flash_Official.htm   (635 words)

  
 Grandmaster flash - Grandmaster Flash - Latest news, reviews and interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
DJ Grandmaster Flash and his group the Furious Five were hip-hop's greatest innovators, transcending the genre's party-music origins to explore the full
Grandmaster Flash (aka Joseph Sadler) was born in Barbados, By the end of the gig it has become apparent that Grandmaster flash isn’t about image or
Grandmaster Flash Grandmaster Flash CD Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and the Furious Five took rap out of the block Grandmaster Flash did.
newinfoseek.com /nwis/grandmaster-flash.html   (483 words)

  
 Sirius "Breaks" Ground with DJ Pioneer Grandmaster Flash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grandmaster Flash is widely credited as one of the first DJs in the world to combine songs from a variety of music genres — rock, pop, jazz, blues and R&B - into one mix.
Last year Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were nominated for inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the first DJ and hip-hop artist to be nominated for inclusion.
Flash was also inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame, and had a New York City street named after him.
www.fourtitude.com /news/publish/Industry_Tuner_News/printer_1198.shtml   (468 words)

  
 World's Best Source For That Ol' Boom Bap
Grandmaster Flash - I think when I was angry, it was more with the company I was with and the way they destroyed my group, but that's another story.
Grandmaster Flash - My first official step out was in the 70's and this park called 63 Park on 168th Street in the Bronx.
Grandmaster Flash - I think Herc and I have a major presence when it comes to this turntable because we allowed them to become the monopoly with the 1200.
thaformula.com /grandmaster_flash_-_backbone_of_hip_hop_day_5.htm   (3380 words)

  
 1996 Interview w/ Grandmaster Flash by Davey D
GM Flash: As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.
A lot of people know you as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, but I remember when you started off with just one, then it became three and then for a long time it was GMF and the Furious Four.
GM Flash: I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.
www.daveyd.com /interviewgmflashchronicle.html   (2978 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash Interview | Quick Mix Theory | Hip-Hop Pioneer | Essential Mix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hip-hop music and DJing are forms of music that have evolved over time and the legendary Grandmaster Flash is considered one of the great musical pioneers of DJing and the evolution of hip hop.
Kidzworld got to chat it up with Grandmaster Flash and here's what he has to say about turntables, touring, his fave actor and the future of hip-hop.
Flash is a really nice guy whose passion for music runs deeper than his fingertips.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p2161.htm   (859 words)

  
 LOST AND FOUND: Grandmaster Flash
By then, Flash's influential turntable techniques had spawned a whole new musical culture — and rap as a genre was born.
Flash never quite recovered from an acrimonious split with Melle Mel and spent most of the '90s laying low while succeeding generations took rap in a decidedly more nihilistic direction.
Fortunately, Flash's old-school sound never lost its appeal — and earlier this year, Flash himself made a long-awaited return with a pair of releases, The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash and Essential Mix: Classic Edition, featuring a melange of new and reworked mixes and interviews.
onstagemag.com /ar/performance_grandmaster_flash   (407 words)

  
 Grandmaster Flash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Flash also scientifically invented something called the 'Quick Mix Theory' and the 'Clock Theory' the former his way of explaining the funky way of working one musical 'break' seamlessly into another and the latter a method by which a DJ could find the beginning of such a break.
His incredibly innovative 'Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel' was the first hip-hop single to use both samples and scratching.
In the late 1980s, Flash was also the first DJ to develop and successfully market his own DJ'ing device, titled the 'Flashformer'.
freespace.virgin.net /john.tiss/dance-flashinterview.htm   (1252 words)

  
 OldSchoolHipHop.Com - Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
Born in Barbados, Grandmaster Flash is one of the Holy Trinity of Hip Hop.
Grandmaster Flash was the musical director of HBO's The Chris Rock Show.
Grandmaster Flash has also been working on a new mixer, a turntable tournament, and other projects.
www.oldschoolhiphop.com /artists/emcees/furiousfive.htm   (1018 words)

  
 On Point : Grandmaster Flash - 9/2/2002
Grandmaster Flash is one of the most influential pioneers in the musical genres that have come to be known as rap and hip-hop.
Flash was the first person to change the arrangements of songs by using duplicate copies of records and manually repeating the climatic part by rubbing the record back and forth.
This hour, Grandmaster Flash looks back at the early days of rap and hip-hop and assesses where what those genres have become today.
www.onpointradio.org /shows/2002/09/20020902_b_main.asp   (144 words)

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