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I Lived To See This On CD!

Funky Cold Medina | Cali | 11/01/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Are you ready? The number one band in land! The Midwest music monsters! S-L-A-V-E! It's Slave!



Give yourself a chance! Let the FUNK create the new DANCE!



Slave has indeed come to blow ya mind! I guess I can speak for us old school folks when I ask, "What took sooo looong for the "Show Time" album to make it on CD? Now I can safely put away both of my sratched up vinyl records and listen to "Show Time/Visions Of The Lite" in CD quality sound! How sweet is that! I would've been satisfied with just "Show Time" on CD but adding "Visions Of The Lite" to it was a real added bonus. How much better can it get, you say? How about the fact that "Hardness Of The World/Concept is finally on CD, as well! You really have to love old school to undertand the significance of this! Thanks Collectable Records, for finally

doing something that Rhino records didn't do!



Slave had a very unique sound to them. There first three albums (Slave, Hardness Of The World, & Concept) incorporated a hard rock edge to their very raw funk sound. Even though Steve Arrington was added to the band on the Concept album, it was not until the next album "Just A Touch Of Love" that Steve had brought their sound to a whole new level, which was just a taste of what was to come. The next two albums "Stone Jam" and "Show Time" really brought Steve Arrington to the forefront as he smoothed out and polished up their raw funk sound and brought it to a whole new dimension, if you know what I mean. In my opinion, "Show Time" is by far the best album they put out with "Stone Jam" coming a close second. The next album "Visions of The Lite" was good,as well, but it didn't quite match the quality of their previous two albums. I guess it may of had something to do with the fact that Steve Arrington had a very unique sound to him and that he left the band after the "Show Time" album and went solo, what a shame. Anyhow, 'Visions Of The Lite" does sound sweeter in CD quality especially the jams with the monster bass solos. And the next album "Bad Enuff, was respectable, but they went downhill after that. To all you hardcore funkateers, this CD is a must! They don't make music like this no more. It's all about the sampling now! No originality!"

THE INVADE(STEVE ARRINGTON) WAS DA BOMB

FUNK DA FIED | DC | 02/02/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"His riffs were amazing and so passionately funky. But Drac and Mark Adams were awesome too! The stars were aligned just right when these cats got 2gether! Too bad ARRINGTON left the group to sing "dance gospel". I just saw Slave at Blues Alley on 1-30-06 but non of the original members were there except Mark Adams. And he funked the place up!!! The funkiest bass player of all times! Said he'll be starting a new label or band soon. Let's keep the funk alive!"

"Show Time" at last y'all!!!!

Bad Willow | Sunnydale,USA | 01/19/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

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When I was 13,I remember a Slave album from late 1981 called "Showtime" was out.On it was the unedited version of Wait For Me,Party Lites,Snapshot,Steal Your Heart,Smokin' and Funkentown.In short,the album was the bomb.It was just re-released on October 25,2005 as a twofer CD.Damn,I'm glad someone finally got around to issuing this classic of a funk masterpiece on a CD.

A lot of different people will have different Slave album picks.For some " "Stone Jam" is it.For others it's "The Concept".Mine is "Show Time".I think Mark Adams trademark bass stylings and Steve Arrington's vocals made this one for the DJ crates and home stereos.

THIS IS TRUE OLD SCHOOL FUNK AT IT'S PUREST"