Co-written by orchestrator/keyboardist Harry Whitaker, “Exotic Dance” is the classiest strip-club jam you’ll ever hear. “Escape” brings white-knuckled suspense funk with rapid bongos/congas, trombone, and trumpet. On “Brawling Broads” (oh those wacky ’70s), Richard Davis’ strutting bass line and Dennis Davis’ in the pocket slaps undergird Ayers’ delicately spine-tingling vibes motif. “ King’s Last Ride” is as flashy and funky as a pimp’s wardrobe, but it’s a tease at 65 seconds. On “King George,” Ayers places his stage-whispered chat about the titular pimp over a lubricious, methodical rhythm that evokes War’s “Slippin’ Into Darkness.” If you’re gonna evoke, evoke the best, right? “Aragon” is as super-fly as Mayfield’s “Super Fly,” but soul-jazzier Roy and comrades pack so much coolness, tension, and action into 2 minutes 52 seconds.
“Pricilla’s Theme” starts as a mellow gold instrumental, a breezy, cushiony reverie that’s silk-sheet luxury… until Ayers goes elegantly manic on vibes and the bass/drums/percussion groove gets (gy)rated XXX. Ayers sings, and he ain’t bad for a vibraphonist, though he’s no Curtis or Stevie. “Coffy Is The Color” kicks things off in a manner as peppy and funky as Curtis Mayfield or Stevie Wonder on happy pills, powered by chikka-wakka guitar from Billy Nichols (or is it Bob Rose?), William King’s percolating congas, Ayers’ lithe vibes, and Richard Davis’ tensile yet rubbery bass.
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Ayers and his crack team of musicians have forged a treasure trove of action-packed jams that slap, from penthouse to pavement. I haven’t seen the movie, in which a nurse tries to get justice and revenge against the drug dealers responsible for misleading her 11-year old sister to drug addiction, but no matter.
In Ayers’ canon, Coffy is one of the richest source for said samples. Of course, Ayers had established himself as a jazz-funk catalyst previous to this swanky soundtrack, and consequently his catalog has become one of the most fertile plundering grounds for hip-hop producers. Along with these monuments to long-sideburned coolness, Roy Ayers’ Coffy belongs snugly in the top 10. Thankfully, the guardians of these gritty and flamboyant urban cinemascapes have kept awareness and availability alive all these decades later, and heads are consequently richer for having easy access to classics of the genre such as Curtis Mayfield’s Super Fly, Isaac Hayes’ Shaft, James Brown’s Black Caesar, Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man, and Earth, Wind & Fire’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song. But the soundtracks that accompanied them have had a much longer shelf life in the public’s consciousness. I think I paid like 2.50 apiece for them but was able to fix most of my tiger force arms that way.Blaxploitation flicks flourished briefly and brightly in the ’70s, but most have been forgotten, except by fanatical film scholars and heady hip-hop producers. I cleaned up my tiger force about four years ago by going through bins of beat up, incomplete figures at joecon looking specifically for TF figure that had at least one good arm. Good luck finding tiger force are Python patrol figure, for exa,ple, with uncracked elbows. How do you guys view elbow cracks?some figures seemed especially susceptible to elbow cracks. As I'm looking for loose samples to swap arms with, I have noticed that many figs, like Rampart, have cracks in the same elbow where mine is cracked. I started a quest this last week to replace the arms of the figs that have cracks in them but I'm wondering if I'm on a fool's errand. A normal hairline top to bottom crack is much harder to see. Those cracks are always more noticeable because when the break occurs it is much wider. By double crack I mean a crack that started at the top and bottom of the elbow. I think what I may end of doing is only replacing the arms of figs that have a double crack in the elbow. I think I may just have to accept this issue even though I take really good care of my figs like a lot of you guys do. If it has elbow cracks you need to mention this fact, or it will bite you.I started a quest this last week to replace the arms of the figs that have cracks in them but I'm wondering if I'm on a fool's errand. In the past, you could cover it with "played with condition." Not in this current collector climate. I have noticed more elbow cracks in the recent years when I purchase large collections. For the past few years when I post vintage ARAH on my eBay page, I make it a point to do close up photos of the elbows (and crotch).
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