Talk:Mother's Finest

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There are some mistakes in the Membership. Look at the German Page ( Deutsch )

Hello from Austria! I have corrected the membership mistakes and written new the whole article. Whoever feels like correcting my grammatical, stylistical and other mistakes should do it. Greetings, Peruecke (registered member in german version, look there if you like)

Mother's Finest was the "first real rock band with both black and white members"[edit]

What about Can, with Malcolm Mooney? What about the Jimi Hendrix Experience? Was this a self-described quote? If so, it needs to be attributed.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because there were obviously rock bands with both black and white members that preceded Mother's Finest, such as the two I just mentioned, and Love (band) as another that's just come to mind, and I'm sure there are more. Maybe it's just the fact that Mother's Finest didn't consider these bands to be "real" rock bands.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 20:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the case of Hendrix, the plain facts are these: Mr. Hendrix was the boss, and the 2 other musicians were hirelings. Noel Redding was occasionally granted the opportunity to contribute a song, but musicians and fans, then and now, recognize that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was not a band of collaborators. Mother's Finest, on the other hand, sought to mix and balance the influences of white and black musicians. They were conscious of the tension among races and made that a point of their music and their live presentation.

I don't know enough about Can to comment, except to say that as far as I'm concerned, Can is an obscure band I never once heard on the radio, whereas I heard Mother's Finest in the southeastern USA for almost a decade.

Were not Sly and the Family Stone a rock band, with white and black members? Perhaps one would say they are also a band in a different genre, today. I doubt the members of the band would say

To be fair, the article should be revised to read, "one of the first truly interracial Southern rock bands." In the USA, in its Southeastern region, racial tension and division persist in many aspects of life, and for Mother's Finest in the 1970s, the barriers among white and black radio stations, in particular, presented a challenging and, ultimately, insuperable obstacle. To MF and its fans, the mix of races was remarkable because of *where* they were more than *when*.--Mooncaine 21:45, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hearsay[edit]

I read in a book..the are a band Anonymous8206 (talk) 00:30, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]