No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-22-1979 to 9-23-1979: Gil Scott-Heron

First off, I have to say that I post this album with some trepidation.  I noticed that when people post Gil Scott-Heron albums at music sharing sites, they tend to get taken down pretty quickly due to copyright issues. I'm posting this now since I want to present the complete 1979 No Nukes concerts. But it would be great if someone could post this somewhere else, such as Guitars101 instead, and then I could link to that. My original plan was to post albums like this at Guitars101, but I tried it for the first No Nukes album (John Hall) and my account was immediately terminated for supposedly being "spam." I'm not sure what I did wrong (maybe it was because I posted a link back to this blog?), but it hasn't been unsuspended yet. So if someone else could help out, that would be great. In the meantime, I'm going to post the link in the comments, as that might help this last a little longer.

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Okay, with that out of the way, let's get to this album. This is the 13th 1979 No Nukes concert I've posted. Gil Scott-Heron is a bit different than most of the other No Nukes artists I've posted so far, who often were singer-songwriter types. You might call him a soul musician, but it's more accurate to say that he combined jazz, soul, and blues, and rapped as well as sung. As such, he's considered one of the founders of rap and hip hop. His songs were even more political and progressive than the others in the concerts so far. I really like his music. He died in 2011 at the age of 62 after having HIV for many years, which weakened his immune system.

Here's his Wikipedia page, if you want to know more:

Gil Scott-Heron - Wikipedia 

This album derives from two concerts, one on September 22nd at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and the other one on September 23rd at Battery Park, also in New York City. It was a bit tricky combining them, because he played "South Carolina" by itself on the 22nd, and then again as a medley with "Winter in America" on the 23rd. I ended up using the medley version, but I also used the intro for it from the 22nd. As a result, tracks one through four and seven are from the 22nd, and tracks five, six, and eight are from the 23rd.

Scott-Heron was a particularly good fit for the No Nukes concerts, because two of the songs he played directly addressed the issues of the dangers of nuclear power: "We Almost Lost Detroit" and "South Carolina." His most recent album was "Secrets," released in 1978. But he didn't play any songs from it.

One song he did, "We Almost Lost Detroit," made it onto the official No Nukes album. The version here is probably the one on that album, since it seems he only played it on the 22nd. However, it's possible he did other sets that I'm not aware of. All the other songs are unreleased.

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 talk by Jackson Browne (Gil Scott-Heron)
02 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
03 We Almost Lost Detroit (Gil Scott-Heron)
04 The Bottle (Gil Scott-Heron)
05 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
06 Johannesburg (Gil Scott-Heron)
07 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
08 South Carolina - Winter in America (Gil Scott-Heron)

As mentioned above, I'll be putting the download link in the comments for this one.

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from the "No Nukes" movie.