Gil Scott-Heron - Work For Peace (Live 2001)

Gil Scott-Heron - Work For Peace
Live in 2001

[@henrynash8871]

Serious Music for GROWN FOLKS, not just because you old !!

[@peculiarcaesar]

ha

[@feduppelin4]

for real

[@johnf5476]

Been an admirer and follower for years .... we need someone to follow on from him soon. as there seems to be so little honesty and integrity like Gill's now .... RIP Gill , I wept when I heard of your passing

[@edwinhurwitz6792]

I miss that voice. We need him now more than ever.

[@TimShepherd-yr8wo]

Oh God yes; he was a national treasure. Folk around him should have protected him better. Gone far too soon!

[@jessejazz3023]

Gil Scott-Heron always tells it like it is.His message is important powerful,and deep!

[@richardmbowman]

Gil....one of America's greatest poets....living or dead.

[@jonathanlyons230]

The King of the spoken word R.i.p. Gil-Scott Heron

[@castelrose]

Never heard this one. Gils was way ahead of his time in thinking. He went through it all, drugs, poverty, and racism but keep his vision and stayed true to himself.

[@JS-nw7xf]

towards the end of his life he made some of his greatest works... we are blessed to have shared some of this brief span of time with him.

[@johnf5476]

You are so right , we need more like him as soon as possible

[@jerseyrobynflorida]

Don't be fooled... beginning to the end.. my Friend always was right on POINT.

[@tajrobertson4611]

I met gil scot heron and attended three of he's shows . I was lucky to have met him,listening he's music makes me happy,l miss him still. Taj luchelleadams.

[@kelvinheron3425]

On this dreadful day, this music resonates more powerfully than ever.

[@trw5653]

s'why this older lady is here.

[@bustabass9025]

Saw him and the brothers in Detroit and at MSU back in the day. His gift of holding his audience spellbound as he wove his oratory magic between major and minor chord progressions, while African drums and shekere, pulsate the staccatoed rhythms, was indeed mesmerizing. Rest in peace man. The demons you fought didn't win. Your legacy still lives on.

[@stevenharris9716]

My man , the truth teller . RIP. Soldier

[@TheShabazzProduction]

Loved this brother!!!! I'm thankful I went to his shows several times and got to hug him and thank him for his bravery and genius.

[@OtheDaddy]

Lucky you! We will love him forever for his militancy!

[@shaunroberts9183]

never has this been more so relevant than now

[@derickwhite1374]

And now once again, proving how timeless this message is. Aww man, I really love listening to him. Wish I had had ty he chance to see in person. Much love

[@jeanetteeastman1638]

Just as relevant in 2024 - all the college students in solidarity with Palestine and hundreds of people including senior citizens risking their lives to sail from Istanbul on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla with tons of food and medical supplies tomorrow.

[@acbrown]

More relevant today than ever!

[@bjornbaron5940]

His songs are brilliantly a true reflection of society truths. The rich control the man's lives in deceitful ways.

[@alcornwest]

I love this stuff... and this brilliant artist. RIP GSH.

[@jerocastella]

Miss you bro...listening your tunes here in 2020... still remember you came to Badalona ( Barcelona Spain ) it was a great show there.. sometimes i try to sing your tunes, peace go with you Gil..wherever you go...great poet..PEACE.. LOVE

[@cynthiakennie9727]

I do sing his 🎵 when I'm alone and sometimes I get loose and sing around family. They don't mind cuz they know I love Gil.

[@AlexO-sx6ff]

What a guy and a poet.

[@ohitslp8581]

I wish Gil was still alive. He is a real legend ❤️

[@beatricedesbois2108]

👋toujours cette voix qui résonne🎼🎵🎶♥️sans modération. Je l'ais ❤ découvert à l'époque sur RADIO NOVA....😍💙🔥

[@Warpedsmac]

My God, this man is good. The band too.

[@e.g.moorejr.285]

Relevant in 2020!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Burning bush moment!!!!

[@pgonzo98]

talk more about burning bush...

[@DanielSaveryRaz]

Music with a message. He is missed.

[@richardmbowman]

Forever in our hearts....and in our headphones

[@naeemnuman4621]

@@richardmbowman 00

[@sandrotime7422]

I had seen Gilt Scott Heron live at Unterföhring, long time ago. He was a super Jazz Musiker.

[@darrelljordan4171]

Righteous

[@bernardcunningham3419]

Im lying here at home looking at Gil-Scott Heron dvd and he's playing this tune. Nice steppin record. I can see myself and partner Willie J. putting it down. Smooth. E.C./W.J.

[@INVISUO]

I was there , for my huge pleasure 👍👌😎

[@kellymcclelland4571]

Your music will live on thru me for sure my kids know you to keep it going❤

[@joanietaylor2447]

Yes Yes And Amen Memories Made for Strength In This Season Of Life With.. Peace Be With You

[@CHARISMA7171]

this one goes in the top 10

[@lonely_ghost9857]

Bro this is one of the best songs ever i kid you not

[@Narikeljinjira]

Miss you brother Gil.

[@darrylslaughter649]

A classic,performance

[@kellymcclelland4571]

My man you make my soul happy

[@rudolphbennett3988]

POWERFUL SIMPLE TUNE!

[@johncromwell2529]

Thanks Gil!!👏👏👏

[@mohammedyassien98]

We ask The Creator of the Heavens and Earth to lift this plague globally 🌏😎 👍🏾🇦🇺

[@rodneyharper2275]

Yeah this is nothing new every generation faces some sort of plague

[@susannatinti3143]

Superba interpretazione...messaggio idem

[@Chrisnickhill]

❤🎉Gil is the words

[@dorisschmid968]

Love dis Men ,,,,💕Peace Master ,,,, real Sound ,,,, perfekt in dis Moments💚💚💚💚

[@americanamusica13]

Peace ain’t gonna be free…ya gotta go to work.

[@setsotosekhonyane3762]

June 12th 2024 I just want to personally mark this day when I 1st heard about this man Gil Scott,coinciding with the events of today in my life and a discussion I was having with a great friend and artist about working within.Never have I ever felt more determined to accomplish on the gifts the cosmos gave me so in closing I'd like to ask who happens to know a good and precise tarot reader?I need to know when I need to bet the lotto or try my luck nje...bathi ngine windfall mtase🤣

[@tommaso7994]

This is the message he left. Get to it.

[@patrickbland115]

Before his time....Gil

[@bustabass9025]

The Urban Troubadour, whose golden throated chorus and verse, blended well with laser guided socio-political monologs, and etched an indelible message on the conscious of the planet. Rest in peace my brother...the drum still beats.🪘

[@dancarman4793]

Gil, His work is the best, period. This song says it all. how some things never change.. Peace!

[@Devissee]

It's interesting to note Brian Jackson wrote most of the Words that Gil Scott Heron spoke to the world through his unique voice and style....

[@niallmackinnon8982]

sorry D.M. but I'm sure this isn't true. From an interview with Brian: Is that how you worked together from then on, with you giving him music to put words to? Pretty much. He would always ask me to tell him what I was feeling or thinking in respect to the piece I was presenting to him. Sometimes I’d have a bit of a lyric or a hook. At the very least, I would have to have an idea of what I was trying to say with the music. Whenever we wrote together, that had to be a part of it. Once I did that, he could just run with it. He was always dead on. He always understood exactly where I was coming from. It was a great feeling to write with somebody like that. It was like a Vulcan mind-meld almost. I'm off to see Brian Jackson tonight in Melbourne. V. excited

[@twinpeaksVVV]

During their period of collaboration Brian wrote the music and Gil wrote the words.

[@kingskingdom6591]

Memories

[@richardmbowman]

The Military & The Monetary

[@TICSTUDIOSLLC]

Legendary man

[@kathebloom1089]

Definitely miss Gil...would surely like his commentary now. To quote him.."...and now democracy is ragtime on the corners..."

[@PurifyLoveTruth]

#2020 FACTS!!!

[@Thefunksoulbro]

Right on brother's and sister's 😎

[@alessandromanzo7495]

Play his music and let his words be listened..... rip bro✊🏽

[@MrKingGator]

Awesome

[@muriellechapelle9066]

J aime sa musique ❤

[@Rick-S-70]

Never a truer word said RIP son of black arrow

[@sohrabjabari5979]

Thanks so much

[@jamaicanaturally]

gil only lied to himself. But not to y'all. I love you always miss you baby my soulmate in life and the afterlife. xoxo you got freedom and you got peace. Finally.

[@williamhosana2691]

Jamaica...Naturally how did he lie to himself?

[@truefunksoul8638]

@@williamhosana2691 He refused to admit that he had any problem with drugs in his later years, which is presumably what she means. This article is pretty stark: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/09/new-york-is-killing-me

[@philoza1000]

@@truefunksoul8638 So so sad

[@ClaudeRains1948]

She was probably talking about his heroin addiction with that statement 😞…But he was truly loved & respected…Gil was beautiful

[@marcosrockwell6134]

Back when Eisenhower was the President Golf courses was where most of his time was spent. So I never paid much attention to what the President said Because in general, I believed the General was politically dead, But he always seemed to know how muscles were going to be flexed He kept mumbling something about a military-industrial complex. The military and monetary The military and monetary The military and monetary The military and the monetary Get together whenever they think it's necessary They have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, They are turning the planet into a cemetary. The military and the monetary Use the media as intermediaries. They are determined to keep the citizens secondary They make so many decisions that seem arbitrary. We've been standing behind the 'Commander-in-Chief' Who was under a spotlight, shaking like a leaf Because the ship of state had landed on an economic reef So we knew he'd be bringing us messages of grief. The military and monetary Were 'Shielded' by January and went 'Storming' into February. They brought us pot-bellied Generals as luminaries. Two weeks before I hadn't heard of the sons of Bitches And then all of a sudden they were legendary. They took the honor from the honorary They took the dignity from the dignitaries They took the secrets from the secretaries But they left the 'bitch' in 'obituary' Yeah, they had some 'smart bombs' But they had some dumb ones as well They scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel. The military and the monetary The military and monetary The military and monetary Get together whenever they think it's necessary War in the desert sometimes sure could seem scary But they beamed out the war to all of their subsidiaries Tried making 'so damn insane' (Saddam Hussein) a worthy adversary Keeping all of the citizens secondary Scaring old folks into coronaries Making us all wonder if all of this was really, truly necessary. We've got to work for peace. We've got to work for peace. If we all believed in peace we could have peace. The only thing wrong with peace is that You can't make no money from it. The military and the monetary Get together whenever they think it's necessary They have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries We are turning parts of the planet into a cemetary. We hounded the Ayatollah religiously, Bombed Libya and killed Qadafi's son hideously. We turned our back on our allies, the Panamanians Watched Ollie North selling guns to the Iranians Witnessed Gorbachev slaughtering Lithuanians So we better warn the Amish, they may bomb the Pennsylvanians. We've got to work for peace. Peace ain't coming this way. We've got to work for peace. Peace is not (merely) the absence of war It is the absence of the rumors of war and the threats of war And the preparation of war. Peace is not (merely) the absence of war We will have all touched the power of peace within ourselves. Because we will have all come to peace within ourselves. Peace ain't gonna be easy. Peace ain't gonna be free. We've got to work for peace.

[@yoyou3168]

Trump always on the Golf Course 😂

[@Warpedsmac]

This is great Marcos...would you please check my lyrics I have put up for Space Shuttle...its not the video lyrics I have posted them underneath like you have here. Your input would be most welcome. Thanks Warpedsmac.

[@truefunksoul8638]

Prince used the 'absence of war' line in his wonderful protest song Baltimore which he wrote in 2015 after the murder of Freddie Gray : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZrIi3Vmdsdqrs0

[@stephaniegfields9450]

Thanks so much for providing the words🤗🥰💙🧡👍

[@twinpeaksVVV]

"They had some smart bombs / But they had some dumb ones as well / Scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel." One of my favorite verses among so many.

[@kendrabrevard1976]

he tried to tell us

[@FabioFerriCiccio]

We have to work a lot, dear Kendra: all around the world, dear comrade Gil... With that big blond piece of shit sitting at the White's house, twitting, acting like a big bambinone, talking idiot phrases and signing pieces of igienic paper every day... provocating an imminent war. If we don't stop him asap. Thank you Gil. For the strength, the vision, the energy, the knowledge, the soul: the intelligence. Grazie compagno Gil.

[@rodneyharper2275]

You can live with your effort

[@hermancopelin9026]

"Peace be w. u my Bro."- (rip) 💖

[@kimberlyanderson2159]

💯

[@Rara-Abyss]

Number 1

[@twinpeaksVVV]

"Back when Eisenhower was president, golf courses are where most of his time was spent." Not much has changed.

[@rodneyharper2275]

The real message in the song is work for what you want and waiting for people to had you something for nothing

[@MsDragonfly58]

so true that is his message

[@stevon521]

R.I.P grandma hands

[@CalvinMayes-zv5di]

June The Teenth! Twenty-Twenty-Four!

[@isaacburdiss]

Nice

[@lelandthomosoniii4743]

Uno,,,dos TRES

[@frankhaukenfrers7783]

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[@qigongandthemartialarts3273]

Let's you know you can't sit around and get you want

[@rodneyharper2275]

I have been saying that amen

[@brockit79]

☮🧡

[@Apodeipnon]

The war in Afghanistan is now almost 20 years old..

[@lizijamal1599]

i filmed him at glastonbury festival..... i will have to look see if same ...

[@stephentrueman4843]

we need to set up a bake sale and try raise some funds for peace

[@BlackCountryJo100]

♠️🖤✌🕊

[@carmendamic77]

STUPENDO ARTISTA IMMENSO. PECCATO NON SI CONOSCA ABBASTANZA. E SPECIE IN ITALIA.

[@RonCarterBassist]

👍🏾

[@zenobia328]

✊🏾🖤

[@malicerat]

Oh, Gil....see you at the Mars Hotel xbt

[@joeschmo97]

😊

[@ashleys7631]

Watching this as the US is about to send 2000+ troops 😢

[@bryansebadtian1923]

his father celtic player hail hail

[@stevenmakse9481]

anyone know where this show was?

[@rodneyharper2275]

Stop waiting for people to hand you something my correction

[@sherman538]

.more views)

[@sherman538]

Snext?

[@gianlucavernizzi3071]

💚🤍❤️

[@sherman538]

Ill go first And Push From the Reaear

[@CalvinMayes-zv5di]

Melchizedek: The King Of Salem. The High Priest And The King Of Peace. Then, now Immanuel Messiah Yashua The Christ Wonderful Councillor Father Of Time Prince Of Peace Lord Allmighty

[@edwardleak3050]

Send this message to Biden. and Puttin.

[@frankhaukenfrers7783]

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