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1) A female fronted Thrashcore band from Sacramento, CA.
2) Rose Ann Dimalanta, a.k.a rad., grew up in Oakland, California and began playing piano at the age of 4. In 1990, she completed her jazz studies at U.C. Berkeley. By this time, she had already played alongside Bay Area jazz greats like Pete Escovedo and was quickly recognized as an exceptionally talented pianist. In 1988, she met Sound Engineering student Michael Kirsch at the College for Recording Arts in San Francisco. The two were married in 1991 and Rose Ann moved to Kirsch's hometown Hamburg, Germany. In 1992, she started her solo project rad. with the first release radified on her husband's record label, Soulciety Records. The record instantly won critical acclaim and sold over 50 000 units independently. The following years brought collaborations with Tower of Power, Roger Troutman, Howard Johnson, Marc Russo of the Yellow Jackets, Sheila E. and others. After leaving the label Soulciety Records in 1996, both rad. and Kirsch moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area and started attracting an all star cast of musicians to the project, including jazz guitarist Ray Obiedo and Tower of Power drummer David Garibaldi. rad.'s band and live concerts have been a favorite among musicians everywhere and word about her talents traveled to Prince's Paisley Park in Minneapolis, MN. Prince invited rad. to join his band, the New Power Generation which she did for his Musicology tours in 2003 and 2004. rad. left the New Power Generation to focus more on her new born daughter and finish work on the album East Babe which was released on hers and Kirsch's label 7 Bridges Recordings in 2007. She has been touring in 2007 and 2008 with long time Prince saxophonist Eric Leeds and long time Santana drummer Billy Johnson alongside Jazz guitarist Ray Obiedo. A live album with this band "Live in Japan" was released in early 2008. rad. was joined by Patrice Rushen on her next studio album "Getting Down Is Free". After a brief stint with the Prime Time Band on NBC's Jay Leno show she returned to live touring in 2009.
Never Say Never
Rad Lyrics
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Sitting on the roof top
In this lousy hot night
Throwing pebbles down the ground
And hope I will be right
But I ain't sure
About anything
Or give me golden wings
Save me the night
Show me the light
Cause I can't go on
another day without you
It's now or never
I fear the light
Now or never
Bound to the night
I am so sorry
but we must wait
It ain't really fair
It's the truth I deeply hate
Yes, life sometimes
Takes more we have
It's only a question of time
But then we'll meet again
The lyrics of rad.'s song Never Say Never, particularly the lines "It's now or never," express a sense of urgency and desperation. The singer is sitting on the rooftop on a hot and lousy night, throwing pebbles down the ground, hoping to be right. However, they express uncertainty about anything, and they wish to be given golden wings or be left alone. They need to be saved because they can't go another day without the person they're addressing in the song. The author also conveys the idea that the singer is afraid of the light, which might mean they're afraid of truth or the unknown. They feel like it's now or never, and they need to be shown the light before they can move forward.
The second stanza expresses a sense of regret and a need to wait. The singer acknowledges that they deeply hate the truth, but they must wait because it's not fair. Sometimes, life takes more from us than we have, and it's just a question of time. The author suggests that the singer and the person they're addressing might meet again someday. Overall, the lyrics convey a sense of longing, desperation, regret, and uncertainty.
Line by Line Meaning
Sitting on the roof top
I am sitting on the roof contemplating my situation.
In this lousy hot night
The night is uncomfortable and unpleasant.
Throwing pebbles down the ground
I am trying to distract myself by throwing pebbles onto the ground.
And hope I will be right
I hope that my current situation turns out the way I want it to.
But I ain't sure
I am uncertain about my future.
About anything
I do not have confidence in any of my decisions.
Leave me be where I am
I prefer to stay where I am for now.
Or give me golden wings
Alternatively, I'd like to be able to fly away from my problems.
Save me the night
I am not enjoying this uncomfortable night and would like to be saved from it.
Show me the light
I want someone to guide me towards a better outcome.
Cause I can't go on
I feel stuck and unable to move forward on my own.
another day without you
I need the support of someone else to get through this.
It's now or never
I feel like I have to make a decision soon or it will be too late.
I fear the light
I am afraid of what the future holds.
Bound to the night
I feel trapped in my current situation.
I am so sorry
I am apologetic for not being able to make things better.
but we must wait
Sometimes things are beyond our control and we have to wait for them to get better.
It ain't really fair
Life can be tough and difficult to bear.
It's the truth I deeply hate
I don't like the fact that I have to wait for things to improve.
Yes, life sometimes
Indeed, life can be challenging and hard to navigate.
Takes more we have
Life can demand more from us than we are capable of giving at times.
It's only a question of time
I know that eventually things will get better, it's just a matter of when.
But then we'll meet again
I believe that no matter what happens, we will meet again in the end.
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@juc3rd
@@amyholley4331 "Mascotting" isn't a celebration of culture, it's a perversion of culture (the expression of which in this case aligns the notion of the "savagery" required in sport to win the contest with stereotypical ideas of "the other"...and in that way is at least tacitly racist).
Things might've been different had Native Americans been treated with respect OFF of gridiron, ice, diamond, field, etc., but they *weren't*. At all. And still aren't - the reverberations of the Trail Of Tears (name isn't an accident) are still being felt in 2021.
Reservation land, for example, was a concession in the sense that it ended outright genocide, but the reservations themselves could not - and did not and weren't intended to - support the traditions of the people who were essentially forced onto them. So although reservations put a stop to murderous genocide, the continued marginalization of those people wasn't an accident.
Need an example of just how audacious and idiotic the level of mockery goes? - look no further than "Chief Noc-a-homa". There is NO culture there, and yet the demeaning stereotypes are everywhere: from the fact that a non-Native American played the initial role (same with "Iron Eyes Cody"...), to the mixing of "identifiable memes" (the Chief lived in a tipi, despite tipis not being representative of the tribes in and around Atlanta), to the name of the mascot itself.
I agree that Native American presence needs to be felt, but considering the uneven benefit (where there is any benefit at all) to 1st Nation people, I hardly think that keeping stereotypical representations of them as mascots is beneficial in any significant way.
@jonpaul3866
NEVER SAY NEVER...IT'S 2024 WHO OUT THERE IS STILL LISTENING TO THIS GREAT MUSIC?
@mattreneau-fs1hm
I will never forget this song😊
@microminiskirt
1981 vintage great year for music much better than today than the noise they call music now.@@mattreneau-fs1hm
@teecutie3471
Indeed
@microminiskirt
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@valiumboys4344
Me of course.
@Rael64
Highly underrated band (and singer). Just fucking amazing, to be blunt. I loved them decades ago, and today at 60, I make my neighbors nervous as I crank up the old Bose speakers and play some Romeo Void and a handful of other 70s-80s bands. 'It makes my garden happy,' I tell them, as my wife rolls her eyes.
@mrc302
😂😂👍
@user-vd5wi1qu7p
😂😂❤️❤️
@MailaDR
Awesome comment! We all want happy gardens 🎉