Easily. Vernon Reid the guitarist is on another level and any guitarist worth his salt knows it. He's a guitar legend.

100% agree

Extremely underrated! This song KILLED IT in the 80's and STILL KILLS IT!

Agreed

Fact

If you haven’t seen it already you tube channel “wondermommaog” did a great compilation video of reaction channels reaching to this song. It’s really great.

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But yes before living color there was a Detroit All black metal group called Black Death

Absolutely agreed !!! Was thinking the same thing !!

It's all about manipulation.

Biggest cults of personalities are Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, FDR, and Che.

AMEN!

Exactly. They referenced world leaders and influences. I loved their music!!

And that's why they never got as big as they should've. The White Rock media didn't know how to promote them, because Black, and the Black Rap/Rn'B media didn't know what to do with them, because Rock. Should've been MASSIVE, but barring this one song, they never quite broke through...

@@gchampi2 That's not true, I heard this all over the radio and the video was played a lot on tv back then, the problem was they only released one other song that kind of caught on.

Yessir that was the main takeaway at the time 😂

@@gchampi2they needed one more catchy song on that album. I bought it when it came out and didn’t quite find another banger like this

@@gchampi2 As if they weren't massive. Big L for ya.

Dude is a fucking great! He shreds like a madman!

Vernon Reid is a MONSTER

I was going to post this until I read yours… dude was absolute dynamite. He made it look so effortless. I loved this band and his guitar play for years….

Reid is a shred-monster, he's so criminally unrecognized. And Living Color should be up there with all the Gen X bands, but they are so often overlooked. These guys ripped it up.

I read somewhere that this solo was a take where he was angry and frustrated that after several takes he couldn’t get the feel that he wanted and just went super aggressive on it and thought it was a throw away at the end but it turned out to be the take he wanted. I love, love this song for so many reasons and the solo just pushes this song over the edge for me. Amazing!

Well, close. No such thing as a "false idol". It's simply "idols". You're thinking about "false gods". To whit, idols and false gods aren't just statues and symbols. It's anything or anyone other than God Almighty. Money, govt., yourself, graven images, persons, etc. They all qualify.

Amen

Fascinating to me that you phrase it like that. I was raised Roman Catholic but no longer "Believe". That being said, there are SO MANY great bits of the (King James) Bible that I still think about all the time when interacting with people. 😊

​@@realPenrodPooch True, but I've heard a few times that some other Christian sects consider Roman Catholics idolaters for "worshipping a physical representation of Jesus on the cross"

Trump is the perfect example 😂

Bro is voting for Trump and doesn't realize the song is exactly about Trump

@@BlueHen123 Nailed it. The only reason people are so devoted to him is personality, nothing to do with ideas or policy

@@ecbenson98 It isn't about Trump, Biden, Obama or Bush. All of them are administrators of the State. The "Personality" is just one among may in the "Cult"... of the State. "YOU gave me fortune..." How many administrators of the State are not rich, no matter their "party?" "YOU gave me fame..." How many are _not_ famous? "YOU gave me power in YOUR god's name." Ultimate authority. Make it about Trump, and when you do, you are just part of the "other" cult.

​@ecbenson98 not true! It's about policy

@@trfrenchy Like?

we've always been living this song.

We are living the shit out of this song right now.

They were living it then too. Reagan and the war on drugs that was designed to control the poor and funnel money to us allied dictators.

FACTS!!! 💯

​@@BriansgateOnly the young or uneducated fail to understand this. They truly mistakenly believe now is unique.

Cal Berkeley or Berklee?

@@desiyoung9611 Berkee, as in NYC & Boston (and a few other places now). It's also now called the Berklee College Of Music - formerly the Berklee School Of Music.

@@BigTroyT Berklee is the breeding ground for so much musical talent - St Vincent, Bent Knee, Sound Struggle. All excellent in different ways.

Vernon Reid had some mad guitar riffs and solos. The man combines styles of music that back then you only heard in underground or garage bands. You'll see him listed among the greatest guitarists of all time for a reason

@@desiyoung9611 Berklee (Boston)

More true today. They were giving us, " heads up."

​@JaquelineGoodspeed 😢 unfortunately it wasn't a "heads up," it was what was happening. Itwasn't addressed and it's now worse

Spot on. Especially when BP said personalities create cults. I was like bro, wait till you press that play button again , lol.

Every time I see a reaction to this song, I bring up this EXACT set of lyrics. Some of my favorite lyrics of all time!! I actually posted this before I saw your post!

And the third verse says “only I can set YOU free “

I've thought for the longest that they had some people come and do a dang good cover for it, because the guitar solos sounded different, and didn't sound exactly the same throughout, but the singer sounded just about the same. I played the guitar hero version so many times that I got used to it and grew to like it over the original because the solos were cleaner, meaner, and the song was on guitar hero just hit harder. When I found out a few years later about them recording a new version for the game, I was like no wonder! I think the guitar hero version is the better version now probably because it was well rehearsed then.

@@MetalMann-de3xi yea they'd been playing it nearly 20 years at that point lol

@@leonardwashington6456 up to guitar hero 3 they used a lot of cover bands to do some of the songs without masters and getting more legal permissions from band's label. That's why I thought it was a cover band from a company called Line 6 which they used. It's crazy how record labels chastise their musicians so much. Some are crazy enough to block sound clips of their band's being used on anything like a local metal band here in Louisiana, even just to give tribute to them. The record label is actually very small and the band is their most successful band having just two albums made in the early 90s. Bands want and need the exposure to succeed. I'm pretty sure guitar hero repopularized the song for younger generations before CM Punk made it his theme music. These days, a lot of vintage music is making a comeback to inspire more. I still have my old LP of their first album and listen to it every once in a while, but I think I've worn it out 🤣

all of these bands should go in and re-record their "Taylor's Version" tracks of the hits. f- these labels and producers.

i read they re-recorded it because epic couldn't find the masters in the vault

My absolute fav Living Colour song. So worth a react. Reminds me of growing up in the Bronx

Amen, still relevant today. Especially when you see the issues in cities like Baltimore and others. The gentrification of historic neighborhoods. Yes, I grew up on the East Coast in and around Boston, Philly and Baltimore. It is sad what they have allowed these places to become

Excellent, spot on reaction. May you keep educating both us and yourself for a long time to come. Where's my Tim Buckley?

Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, MLK Jr, and JFK were thought to have been assassinated by the FBI to stop the advancement of the Civil Rights Movement.

Ignorance attacks the truth.

@@randal_gibbons When telling the truth about corruption of the State becomes a crime you are ruled by criminals. The criminals on TV (the propagandists licensed by the state) will call you ignorant if you scrutinize “their truth”.

Fact-checking never existed until technology was exploited for truth telling, which then led to govt/globalists reclaiming technological exploitation utilizing all media hands on deck spinning PR narratives like "mis/dis/mal" information.

Amen!

Yep good music is goof music

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But it is a little gratifying to see the young brothers and sisters realise that it's not white boys making that wonderful noise. That's right. Book. Cover. Judge.

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The first Lollapalooza was the summer of 91’ and what a wild lineup.

Body Count STILL putting out bangers.

Oh I bet that was a helluva show!!!

@@essdeeem3320 Saw it in the bay area. Amazing show.

That festival was badass across the board.

Along with Rocky George of Suicidal Tendencies

Name three other songs by them? Without google.

agreed!

love how Tarja Turunen teamed up with some of the greatest guitarists around today on her Outlanders album. Filmed in Hopes Bay Antigua. Including Vernon Reed and Joe Satriani. The music very different then her usual metal/hard rock. 2 years old now. Lots of messaging about the history of the paradise Antigua is now. And her and German EDM artist Torsten Stenzel it is a summer groove good anytime and with the visualizers its amazing . And yes wrestling fans should know " IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!!! Thank you Phil ' C.M.Punk' Brooks. For making the point.

Whats your favorite color,living color​@@davidstephan5116

so a song about trump..... !?!?

​@@Metzwerg74 No, the song is about CM Punk

@@Metzwerg74are you truly believing any dumbass politician cares about you? They say what you want to hear my guy.

Hmm, makes ya think......

​@@Metzwerg74I was wondering if someone was gonna say it. Lol.

For all time. Evita Perón said as much and she got her own musical. A certain German also. He got a musical within a movie then and actual musical but not not as flattering a portrayal.

My dad lost his mind when this was the first tape my elementary school little white girl self bought and played until it broke.

who is FDR ? sorry but as a german, i´m not that familiar with american politicians names....

@@Metzwerg74 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

@@babylonsister118 ahhh... did not know, there was a middle name to roosevelt.... thanks

@@Metzwerg74 No worries

@@Metzwerg74 And until I looked him up, did not know he married his cousin! (fifth though, which I suppose maks a difference) Or if I did, had long since forgotten.

I like that too even though I am a believer in the Messiah.

That is the most repeated formula of every dictator throughout history. Freaking profound.

I'm EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BE I'M THE CULT OF PER... -SON... -AL... -ITY!!!!

@@JaquelineGoodspeed Yeah it's saying that the ignorant people who worship money, put men in power only because they say they are good with money. Doesn't matter if its true, a lot of elections come down to who do you trust with money. Not who do you trust with the heart and soul of the people of the nation. The CoP has fortune and fame and power because his supporters worship him with their money

Magats.

It did in my household~!! Me and my (now ex😂)husband's first date was Lolapalooza 1991,Living Colour was one of the bands we went to see🔥

I seen them last year here in Australia with Extreme. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Nuno and Vernon on the same stage on the same night was a dream come true for me. 👍🏻

@@bigoz1977 Wow! That would've been amazing!

@@Alan_Duval it was indeed 👍🏻

@@bigoz1977 Nice! The closest I've come to seeing that level of guitar wizardry on stage was when I saw Vai many years ago, in Auckland.

@@Alan_Duval wow he’s no slouch! Another legend 👍🏻

When I found that out years ago... I swear I put on that movie again and was " Oh Yeah! There he is" 😆😂

Very prominent role.

New channel!!! “Political Pegasus”

Seems to be written about Trump and his cult.

@@mnn1265 let's not pretend that doesn't go both ways - there is as much cult of personality surrounding Democrat leadership as there is Republican and has been for many, many years. There's a reason I tell people to do their own research and vote based on track record of policy, not just empty words or likability.

@@mnn1265the fact that this is where you went indicates you’re a victim of the same cult mentality they’re talking about. It doesn’t matter what cult you worship, they’re all the same, and they are just that: cults. And with the absence of religious cults we’re forced down political ones.

@@PatternRecognitionMusic Name one Democrat that has cult like status of Trump? You'd have to go way, way back in time to find anything approaching the Trump MAGA cult. If ever... So, no, I think that's false equivalency. It does happen to some degree but I can't think of anyone that even approaches the unconditional control of the party that Trump wields.

@@c1ph3rpunk Nonsense, critical thinking is fundamental.

The reason we have a treasonous candidate running for reelection is because millions of people are “drinking” the kool aid!

Very well said! Thank you

A certain party (read project 2025), are going to turn America fascist before your eyes, if you as a Democratic Republic don't WAKE UP to it NOW !!

Thats a good one

YES!!

Agree

My favorite LC song!!

YES!

Sooo true. Man my best friend and I would shout these lyrics together.

I think they were a little too heavy and progressive for mainstream rock radio.

true. i grew up in the UK and in my circle this album/band was on constant REPEAT. Brilliant band.

They still tour, I'm seeing them on the 22nd

My future bar trivia group thanks you for this info.

I don’t remember them changing the name. (The band also spells it “Colour”) but the TV show did need to change the logo - it originally had each letter in a different color, just like the band had on its album artwork.

Really, this song is pretty easy to play.

HIs solo album "Mistaken Identity" was a road map to a future of "hip hop" that never happened (says the old white guy). Even on its own, it is sadly overlooked as a work of musical genius.

@@marlew6629 there is absolutely no way this quote is real. I love both. But it's just not true.

@@user-vx5le4te2c He said it, during an MTV interview. It's true.

@@DavidB-vk8ei You couldn't get that sound if you had 2 years to practice

Perfect song to show the youngins just waking up that only times change, not the game.

ABSOLUTELY 💯! How can we make others see this?

I actually saw them with Body Count..

Saw them in the 80's in Cleveland, Ohio opening for the Stones...

No other "rock" black band ever since ...they were good, what happened?

Body Count are still going, still amazing and vastly underrated -almost unknown. I'd love to see reactions to their songs!

I miss the 80s

Being a Military brat and Army vet I resonate with your family teachings. We need this to be taught in schools again, But we know common sense isn't common and few have the discernment to question everything!

The American government IS her citizens. We govern ourselves through our elected Representatives. But we've gotten lazy and passed our responsibilities on to them which has made them more powerful than we are. We the people hold the most important office in the country, that of American Citizen.

@@randal_gibbons The people on TV sure seem to think that both the USA and Democracy are spelled D.C.

As a veteran, I love this... I try to tell others, I vote to protect the constitution - not a person & not the flag - the CONSTITUTION against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic...😢

@@randal_gibbons I agree 100%. We are a constitutional republic, but that fact hasn’t been taught in school (intentionally) for decades. And because of this, no one under my generation even knows what that means. I am a Gen X’er and I believe every generation younger than mine have zero clue of the greatness of our incredible country. Quite the opposite, all the schools, the media and all things social media repeat the mantra that America is a bully and fundamentally flawed and evil. It’s hard to bring up the next generation of patriots when the powers that be have carefully constructed a system to stay in power. And that system isn’t a call for patriotism, truth and excellence.

Yeah, Obama ruined that. Sadly.

You’re blaming Obama for that? That’s so beyond stupid.

@@MamaJewels99 nope, he brought race into everything and started all the woke BS. HE'S still Destroying America, just like he and Big Mike want.

@@MamaJewels99 No. It's not. Obama created more hate than any other president in my lifetime and I lived in the south in the late 60's, early 70's and my parents were hippie musician activists. Odetta sang me Happy Birthday and Winnie the Pooh when I was 5. I was at the center of the zeitgeist of the time and I can ASSURE you that things were getting so much better till Obama used racism as a political tool.

​@@MamaJewels99Obama intentionally set race relations back 50 years in this country, whether you choose to recognize it or not.

Oh like MAGA

@@shanepn No, that would be you chomos with biden.

First used in reference to the ideological cult which the individual who falsely named himself a "man of steel" ("stalin" **puking**) grew around himself. Later, applied to all types of tyrants, cultists and oppressive subjects of idolatry, worldwide. 👍

​@@shanepn, you could say the same about government entirely at the moment. And your TDS is showing.

@@truckinleprechaunscottcask9747 I saw no sign of the _Total Devotion Syndrome_ that infects the MAGA cult. He wasn't waxing poetic about getting to lick Trump's boots, or cheering for the sniveling orange coward.

I came here to say exactly this!

FAITH, FAMILY, FREEDOM!!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

Middleman is a great track as well. When they first broke into the mainstream they opened do “THE” Rolling Stones. One of the best live shows I have seen ever and they are still touring almost 40 years later!!!

He's Danny Glover's nephew, isn't he?

​@elliekahl5305 now that you've said that - kinda remember that he was

And he still rocks it. Voice is incredible after all these years

Never heard those songs before, just listen to them...WOW!

Great concert. I saw Living Color, Guns and Roses, then The Rolling Stones. Eric Clapton came out and played a song with Mick ang Keith. Never forget that show.

*In the last century. Essentially since the age of mass media. The radio, TV, and on and on it rolls...

Pegasus might have heard the music without being able to hear the lyrics. I don't know if he would follow wwe, but he might be more familiar with Bellator. As Phil Brooks aka CM Punk was a terrible mma fighter, but he was trying to make some coin following Brock Lesnar making a splash as a fighter.

And now the lead singer of H&tB, Darius Rucker, is a Country singer. Talent crosses boundaries!

Have you ever listened to Sevendust? Lead singer, Lajon, is black and he has some amazing vocals in their songs. They have a song, Licking Cream, that features another black singer, Skin of Skunk Anansie, that has amazing vocals. It's my favorite song by Sevendust.