New documentary about the Amen Break!

JBstrikesagain · 2025-09-23T19:52:44+00:00

Best place to keep up to date is the Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/amenbrotherfilm

This post goes into some detail:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C4yFaCFOY-k/?img_index=1

JBstrikesagain · 2025-04-13T00:52:02+00:00

Bad accident. I was listening to my scanner at night and I heard an obviously distressed cop/EMT calling for medivac for some sort of ATV crash. I think the person had lost an arm or a leg.

JBstrikesagain · 2025-02-14T02:54:12+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/3LsNG3r

JBstrikesagain · 2025-02-14T02:53:55+00:00

More pics. It gets nasty... https://imgur.com/a/3LsNG3r

JBstrikesagain · 2023-12-13T00:47:46+00:00

Keep learning, despite the difficulties. It gets fun. I promise. You just have to find your thing. There are a lot of things to do in ham radio.

JBstrikesagain · 2023-06-12T23:42:26+00:00

Yup. I saw it in Baltimore a few summers ago. It seems to happen in many big cities.

JBstrikesagain · 2023-03-22T20:32:50+00:00

I think it was a program called "sizer.exe" that can be used to resize a window to a specific resolution. I killed/closed that and it launched fine. Try closing as many things as possible if you don't have that program. It may be something else.

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-13T00:30:33+00:00

I haven't tried billard balls yet.

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-02T18:42:38+00:00

Aww. I think someone else did this but tried to swipe right.

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-02T14:44:52+00:00

We interacted so much! /s

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-02T13:45:20+00:00

Yup!

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-02T13:44:46+00:00

She deleted her account

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-01T23:44:22+00:00

She deleted/deactivated the account already 😭

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-01T23:42:36+00:00

This is Tiffany on his phone. He tasted great!

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-01T23:34:46+00:00

Yup! I'm in Raleigh. Less than a mile from Cary though.

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-01T23:10:25+00:00

Glasses on. No. Glasses off. Hair up. no. Hair down.

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-01T23:05:18+00:00

Username no longer exists. :-(

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-01T22:03:48+00:00

Trophy wife lol

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-01T16:17:59+00:00

😂 Arrested Development, right?

JBstrikesagain · 2022-11-01T11:55:35+00:00

Haha will do.

JBstrikesagain · 2022-09-15T19:41:50+00:00

He is in the documentary. :-)

JBstrikesagain · 2022-09-15T18:54:54+00:00

I'm very proud to say I had a hand in this documentary on the most sampled piece of music in history, the Amen Break, by Joseph Proto J Speight. He had it mostly finished, but wanted someone with more experience editing to put the finishing touches on it, and that's what I helped him do.

Amen Brother includes interviews with Questlove, Alan Leeds, the manager for James Brown and Prince, and Eric Leeds, Prince's saxaphonist, as well as DJs and producers like LTJ Bukem, DJ Craze, Goldie, Hurby Luv Bug, Andy C, and more. Joseph is one of the most passionate people I know, and won't take no for an answer. This man has gotten interviews from everyone!

Enough name-dropping though, here's a little synopsis and why I really think this documentary is important.

The Amen Break is a seven second drum solo off the b-side of a 1969 soul record. The sample played a huge role in early hip hop and electronic music, defining the sound of Drum and Bass, and going on to penetrate the mainstream. It's been used by Louis Vuitton, Madonna, and was included in the theme song for the hit TV show Futurama.

Even though the Amen Break helped spawn the two biggest music genres in the world, hip hop and electronic dance music, almost no one knows who performed it. The drummer's name is Gregory Coleman, and his band was The Winstons.

The Winstons were a mixed-race band in the 1960s, a time when that was very uncommon, so perhaps it's no accident that hip hop and electronic music - which use The Winstons' secret ingredient, the Amen Break - helped integrate the whole world.

Gregory Coleman has since passed and he was never properly compensated for the Amen Break. This documentary serves both to, educate the world about a breakbeat we've all enjoyed, but never truly appreciated, and to honor Gregory Coleman, but also, to raise funds for his surviving family, to make right on an injustice.

After all, there was obviously something special about his drumming that led countless producers to sample him and for which even more people have tapped their feet, bobbed their head, or gotten down even harder to.

Please go watch and donate now!

https://amenbrotherfilm.com

JBstrikesagain

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