#wattstax

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𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘅 Documentary/1973. Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the anniversary of the 1965 riots in the Watts community of South Los Angeles. The event took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, August 20, 1972.

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[thesagittarianmind]

On August 20, 1972 at L.A.’s Memorial Coliseum, a benefit concert was organized by Stax Records which coincided with the 7th anniversary of the Watts riots (1965).

This concert later became the centerpiece of the concert film documentary “Wattstax”.

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Carla Thomas - Pick Up The Pieces (1972)

Live from the two day Wattstax festival at the Los Angeles Colisseum in 1972. While the studio version is good, the live version takes it to another level.

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took the transfers that he made to VHS, which we transferred to DVD; even though it was four cameras, it’s 20 hours of unique footage. I basically made that my visual aquarium for those five months. Instead of sitting here with my pad and pen and just watching everything, I wanted it to naturally hit me. So, all the TVs in my house, in my office at NBC, my laptop—it was like a screensaver. The concert just constantly played for 24 hours. I kept notepads next to each monitor in my house.  I’ll say that for me the most important thing was, I wanted my first five minutes to be like a gobsmack, just totally surprise you by what you were watching. And I felt that nothing spoke more of that surprise than Stevie Wonder playing drums, which shocked even me! Everyone knows I’m a drummer, so of course I’d be attracted to this, so that’s the beginning.

(via 'Summer of Soul': A Conversation with Questlove about Black Joy | International Documentary Association)

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