Posted by PFunkJAzz on 7/17/2006, 10:57 pm
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Peter Lord, V. Jeffrey Smith, Sandra St. Victor were all togerther for a killer set at NYC's SUMMERSTAGE. A tour of Europe is underway and a new album is brewing and cooking. They're set up om myspace and a website is up with new updates. New album will be called SUPER SOL NOVA (no date yet).
http://myspace.com/thefamilystand
WWW.THEFAMILYSTAND.NET

Where should one start with them? All I know is "Ghetto Heaven."

ThreadBare said:

Id start w/ Connected. This is easily one of the most slept on R & B albums ever. ANd thats really no exaggeration. From start to finish this thing goes form serious grooves, achingly beautiful accoustic,, to straight up jams(did I say jams?) Anyway, thats where I'd start. From there Id go to Moon In Scorpio, which is REALLY rock oriented. Classic material. Then of couse theres Chain,which includes Ghetto Heaven. But wherever you start you cant go wrong.

ThreadBare said:

Moon in Scorpio, Chain, skip the 1st one Evon Jeffries.
Connected is ok but Sandra in not a part of that one.

unkemptpueblo said:

THANK YOU! Stand fans want to talk shit about this album because SSV aint on it but this album to me is Far more solid and superior in many ways to the first 2 stand albums. Sandra has such an excellent voice but Jacki McGhee more than filled her shoes on this venture. That girl can blow. There is some amazing shit on this album and I recommend it HIGHLY. It ranks among my most favorite albums ever.


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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

While I liked the songwriting I have to admit I was very frustrated at the prospect of the Stand having a new vocalist and shelved this after a few spins. Not a knock against Jacki McGee, she did fine. I hate to cop to this, but I prayed for SSV to tank. Her urge to go solo was depriving a great band of it's potential for greatness. I hope this new album puts things in the right groove.

I'll go dig out my copy of CONNECTED over the weekend.

PFunkjazz said:

Well it's not like Jacki didn't deliver. I love SSV's voice as well and while a band like Brand New Heavies losing N'Dea Davenport was simply worse for it because nobody they ever picked could touch her glorious voice, this was not tragic at all as Jacki really delivers the goods. They replaced one strong singer with another and I don't think they could have been as deeply R&B with SSV like they were with this album. I think they wrote around her voice and it worked very very well.

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Moon In Scorpio - .38
Connected - $1.09
Chain - $4.00

Total - $5.47
Shipping - $7.47

Grand Total - $12.94



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Tribal Disorder

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Why in the hell would you sell Moon In Scorpio?

Actually, the song, Education Of Jamie is right up there with the best Prince.

2freaky4church1 said:

That is one incredible song. Absolutely amazing

2freaky4church1 said:

Funny. Obviously TFS bit a lot off Prince, but I always thought, overall,they were cuts above Prince. Before you fams fly off the handle, bear in mind I'm a real flaky Prince fan and TFS was rising up during a "high flake" period (post BATMAN, pre-SYMBOL).

2freaky4church1 said:

I'm glad they had the discs available. Good deal for me.
The shipping costs were more than the product.


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Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

Family Stand is a breath of fresh air in an era of BS. Then and even more so today. Glad they are back. I hope they don't try to follow current "trends" and just be themselves.
Moon in Scorpio is a classic on any level. Bottom line.
If people are wondering about them and see that album for less than a dollar, get it!
'nuff said.

No surprise, Christgau gave Moon In Scorpio one of his bomb reviews, which is about as bad as his reviews can go. About f-