ISAAC HAYES - SHAFT @ WATTSTAX 1973 [feat. Richard Pryor]

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• JJ

  @Jj-ty7qh · 1 year ago

  This is when black folk were black and proud and loved and were supportive of each other

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• LP

  @LPJack02 · 3 years ago

  RIP Richard Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005), aged 65<br>And<br>RIP Isaac Hayes (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008), aged 65<br>You both will be remembered as legends.

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• JO

  @jonhilderbrand4615 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve lived a hard life, bad decisions, bad parenting, bad a lot of things, but I was blessed to be born in 1960, and have lived a life in the golden age of music! So much, just so much, it&apos;s hard to comprehend the blessing music has been on my life! Thank you, Isaac Hayes, for being part of it!

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• UR

  @uryic000 · 4 years ago

  Man, I’m 66 years old this happened my senior year of high school. &nbsp;This was the ultimate cool and bad ass thang then. &nbsp;Even Jesse Jackson w his big Afro was cool. &nbsp;This event, this video just shows the absolute necessity of the arts, civil rights were fought for on many platforms and battlefields. &nbsp;This was one of them, though on the surface it appears to ONLY be entertainment, which it is, but this music, this master musician touches the soul. &nbsp;Lasting change always begins from the inside out. &nbsp;This music helped to heal souls, touch hearts, give hope. &nbsp;Those things are very intangible yet very real. &nbsp;They cannot be quantified as say $50 million dollars could, hence to the the casual observer, this only appears to be a bunch of mainly black folk out partying, having a good time. &nbsp;It is that, and far more. &nbsp;I would submit that the Jackson 5, The Temptations, James Brown, Sly Stone Earth, Wind, and Fire, and many others were just as important to the civil rights movement as Dr. King. &nbsp;What those artists contributed to the world and their people just generally wasn’t as quantifiable as what Dr. King and others did. &nbsp;When I see this video it is what “I” a 66 year old black man, and full time musician born and raised in segregated south La. Am see and am reminded of.

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• GO

  @gordon8463 · 3 years ago

  My first film i was 12 in 72......!!!! That&apos;s why a white poor boy in France loved The Funk and soul and jazz....and always do !!!!...

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• PE

  @peopleunite78 · 5 years ago

  Isaac&apos;s intro is just too cool !!! R.I.P. Black Moses

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• CA

  @carpenoctem775 · 7 years ago

  The 70’s were so groovy.

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• JA

  @javierguzman3421 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Isaac Hayes is the only man in the world that gets away with wearing sunglasses at night... and is still cool...

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• PR

  @preciousbabydoll9793 · 9 years ago

  The mot soulful man to ever grace any stage , Mr. Isaac Hayes (RIP ). May his music live on forever.

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• SA

  @sandyprimus9831 · 11 years ago

  I liked the scene when Isaac took off his cape , no wonder the audience screamed, that chain vest and a &nbsp;nice strong body too. way to go .

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• WA

  @Wally-H · 4 years ago (edited)

  Love the warning from the announcer at the beginning. This was most likely a result of what happened when Rufus Thomas was on stage earlier in the day, and the crowd invaded the pitch to dance when he did Funky Chicken. Stax executives were horrified because they&apos;d promised the football club they&apos;d look after the field so it wouldn&apos;t get damaged.

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• GH

  @Ghostmane665 · 4 years ago

  This is the flyest performance I ever seen in my life😉😉😉😉 rip king

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