Friday, December 7, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Man in the Mirror
Look In the Mirror...are you Happy with Who You See? Everyone struggles with this..as do I from time to time. Judging yourself can only be effective when you are a Goal Setter. But lets face it ..Some Goals aren't easily attained without Support..So dont Swallow up all the Blame..Help is Near not Far if you can Embrace It!
Monday, November 12, 2012
J-Cast Muzik: When Is it Time to Give Up?
J-Cast Muzik: When Is it Time to Give Up?: NEVER!!! I have been grinding everyday for 20yrs today and not 1 time during this journey have I thought about giving up. The Long walks Ho...
My Palms is out
My Palms is out
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
When Is it Time to Give Up?
NEVER!!! I have been grinding everyday for 20yrs today and not 1 time during this journey have I thought about giving up. The Long walks Home after leaving a show with only a handfull of people in attendance, the late night studio sessions, all day writing melodies on the Korg Triton, learning New recording software, the list goes ON and ON. I am Married to this Game and Success is the only option. I Fight Hard everyday to gain an Inch, a new Fan, a View, a Like, even a Hate comment.
This is my Life and I am content with DREAMING Out of this World. Call it what you want, But I am Here to Stay!!
NEVER GIVE UP has been my Motto for my entire Life. If you are working Hard at something and receiving little to NO Respect, Response, or All Out Love, Use that feeling to your advantage and GO HARDER!!
J-Cast
This is my Life and I am content with DREAMING Out of this World. Call it what you want, But I am Here to Stay!!
NEVER GIVE UP has been my Motto for my entire Life. If you are working Hard at something and receiving little to NO Respect, Response, or All Out Love, Use that feeling to your advantage and GO HARDER!!
J-Cast
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
For only $.99cents you can take a trip to Barcelona and fall in Love
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/en-barcelona-produced-by-chew/id555310126?i=555310412
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Dare to Be Inspired
-Mr. Lee
Friday, July 6, 2012
Dare to Be Inspired
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
- Bruce Lee
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
FUTURE-PERFECT PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release
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- Supergroup FANOMM (Chew Fu, J-Cast & Substantial) Puts the Peddle to the Metal in Shanghai, China and Collaborates with Bentley Motors to Launch the 2013 Continental GT V8 Automobile Shanghai, China_ FANOMM, the Supergroup comprised of CHEW FU(Mega-Producer/
Saturday, June 23, 2012
RESPECT DUE!
On this day...Many Generations ago...God Created an Angel. His position was to Love,Teach and to Inspire! He fullfilled all of his duties and now Lives in "E"TERNAL Harmony and Peace...Happy Bornday Pops...Hope you are Jammin wit your Colleagues and those who Inspired YOU! We will "Continue the Castor Movement here on EARTH!
Tha Castor Bunch
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Today's Word 5-31-12
Remember: the enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.
-Shaolin Abott
-Shaolin Abott
Today's Word 5-31-12
Remember: the enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.
-Shaolin Abott
-Shaolin Abott
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
@FANOMM to Launch the New Bentley GT V8 in Shanghai, China
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Today's Quote 5-23-12
We are all ready to win, just as we are born knowing only life. It is defeat that you must learn to prepare for.
-Mr. Han
-Mr. Han
Monday, May 21, 2012
This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time:
Tick-tack, tick-tack - yep, it’s closer, and closer, every minute. You never know when you’re going to die. Maybe it’s in 10 years, maybe 50 - or, maybe, even tomorrow. You don’t know that. You can’t know it. So forget about doing everything “later”. “Later” often never happens. Maybe you don’t get a chance to do it tomorrow. But now? YES. Now - you are alive. Breathing. Alive. And be thankful for it. Stop being a c#$% and start acting, now, not later. Do what YOU want to do with your life - not what others think you should do. You don’t want to wake up at the age of 60 thinking “If I did this that then bla bla bla - could-a, should-a, would-a” - you DIDN’T do it. Period. You were a c$%# and you had no balls to confront your fears.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Today's Quote
Good Mornin World!! Today...The Only Person you should try to be better than..Is the Person you were Yesterday...
Monday, April 30, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Today's Quote 4-20-12
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them...
~Bruce Lee~
~Bruce Lee~
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Today's Easter Sunday Word...Peace be with you All
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ... 1 Peter 1:3
Friday, April 6, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
FUTURE-PERFECT PRESS RELEASE
ABOUT SWEET DREAMS (FANOMM)
Following the release of their inaugural single #1 SPOT, SWEET DREAMS, a remake of the Eurhythmics’ classic, is the second single to be released by FANOMM, the Supergroup comprised of CHEW FU(Mega-Producer/
Produced by CHEW FU, SWEET DREAMS will be released as part of Youngstar music-based content’s (mbc) ambitious 104-WEEKS Campaign, which has the company famously releasing a new album, EP, or single for 104 consecutive weeks. The 104-WEEKS Campaign commenced on Friday, January 6, 2012, and runs through Friday, January 3, 2014. Among the new music to be released, are offerings from the following: Chew Fu, Bootsy Collins, Doug E. Fresh, Donna Summer, Rapper’s Delight (f/k/a Sugar Hill Gang), Wiley, Gene Simmons, Eurythmics, Beenie Man, Jimmy Castor, Steve Clisby, J-Cast, Substantial, A-Clay, and Nice & Smooth.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
{MUZIK NEWS} Supergroup "FANOMM" colaborates with the Legendary "Bootsy Collins" for the #1SPOT!!
Peep what the Bootzilla Tweeted...STOKED!
New Single droppin this week on ITUNES...#gOcOPdATsHIT
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Super Group FANOMM (Chew Fu, J-Cast & Substantial) Invades Istanbul, Turkey, For “#1 SPOT”
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Today's Quote 3-26-12
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Today's Quote 3-25-12
"The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt."
-Bono
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Today's Quote 3-24-12
"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."
-Madonna
Friday, March 23, 2012
Today's Quote 3-23-12
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-John Lennon
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Today's Quote 3-22-12
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the start. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. Entertainment has pervaded every system of information in our culture, and along with it comes the promise of money. So it's hard for artists not to keep half an eye on what works commercially as they go about realizing their visions. As a young filmmaker, you've got to deliver, and you've got to deliver fast these days; that wasn't the case twenty years ago.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
My Mantra
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
~Michael Jordan
~Michael Jordan
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
We will miss you Mike..Please Read
R.I.P Vs Zero! I had the pleasure of working with him several times on our Tour de Canada. He was a good dude, talented and gifted DJ, and most of all devoted friend. He will be missed!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
http://therickeyvincentblog.blogspot.com
Notes from the Jimmy Castor Memorial
On Sunday March 4th I went to the Memorial for Jimmy Castor. Jimmy Castor was “The Everything Man” and one of my Super Funky heroes. In 2010 I was able to get to know Jimmy Castor and his son Jimmy Jr. and had the privilege of helping to facilitate Jimmy’s performance at the Long Beach Funk Fest, which would turn out to be his last live performance.
The Brooklyn native, Jimmy Castor grew up with members of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and Jimmy wound up singing doo wop professionally while still in Junior High School. Some of his compositions, like “I Promise to Remember” are as fresh today as they were in the 1950s. For reasons that still mystify and amaze me, Jimmy Castor immersed himself in Latin Soul in the 1960, and generated some musical buzz with his 1966 hit “Hey Leroy Your Mama’s Calling You.” Jimmy was equally at home singing doo wop, playing blistering timbales solos and clave on the cowbell, or playing soul jazz on the saxophone.
But he’s best known for his outrageous cavemen characters and novelty funk hits in the 1970s, some which are hip hop break beat classics. Stompers like “Troglodyte,” “King Kong,” “Dracula,” “Space Age” and “The Bertha Butt Boogie” were standards of the funk fans of my generation. How one artist could attain a mastery of such a wide palate of music was one reason why Jimmy Castor is the brilliant genius legend that he is, and one reason why he’s often passed over when the greats are mentioned.
Jimmy Castor moved to Las Vegas over ten years ago, and found a niche playing his old school sounds with a band that was versatile enough to keep up with his un-matchable creative range. At The Bootlegger bistro, south of the Las Vegas strip, a stirring range of stars came out to pay tribute to the E-Man, Jimmy Castor. The legendary doo wop singer, latin soul maestro, and thumpasorus funkmaster was given a proper tribute that only few could have pulled off.
The energy of the place was vibrant, full of color and life. Like Jimmy would have liked it. Jimmy’s daughter introduced the proceedings with a heartfelt tribute that also showed her Brooklyn accent, and a street sense that many of us had come to know through Jimmy’s body of work.
Jimmy’s son Jayson Castor starting things off with a wild rendition of “E Man Boogie” that showed that the fruit didn’t fall to far from the tree. Jayson had many of the mannerisms and the wickedly sassy style of his dad. Then one by one a series of performers came on stage to sing selections of Jimmy’s catalog. Avis Harrell sang “Everything is Beautiful to Me” one of Jimmy’s overlooked midtempo tunes from his funk days. Then the surprises really began to take off: Jimmy’s bandleader “Marinaro,” who handled the entire showcase brilliantly, introduced Louis Lymon, who’s name didn’t ring a bell, until he got on stage in a super snazzy white 3 piece suit, and started singing in perfect pitch like his brother Frankie Lymon! Louis Lymon then did some of those super smooth do wop dance steps that let everyone know how much STYLE there was back in the day, and where a lot of break dancing came from. I was transfixed by Louis Lymon, and how fresh he was after 50 years. I also realized that there was a contingent of extremely snappily dressed soul brothas and sistas in the house, wearing loud colors that bounced off the multicolored lights of The Bootlegger bistro that nite.
As a string of artists took the stage to do renditions of doo wop; of Jimi’s jazzy instrumentals; of Jimmy’s blistering Latin percussion driven music, and of his killer funk jams, an unmistakable sensation overcame me: that it takes a dozen people to put together the musical catalog of this one man. The Everything Man, Jimmy Castor! It was both exhilarating and so bittersweet.
Little Anthony of Little Anthony and the Imperials came up, fresh of a cross country flight, to describe life growing up with Jimmy Castor. And two of his original Jimmy Castor Bunch band members were there, including bass player Paul Forney, and Elwood Henderson, the one mentioned in one of Jimmy’s wildest funk masterpieces of soul rap, “Potential!” Elwood and Forney got on stage and represented that funk exquisitely.
During the break, a musician I didn’t recognize sitting in front of me said “I wish I could get a tribute like this when I go.” Something this diverse, where a singer could be doing a Dean Martin standard, following the “Bertha Butt Boogie,” well, only The E Man could make this happen.
By the time bandleader Mariano Longo brought up Las Vegas singer Sonny Charles to belt out Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” it was clear that this event was one for the ages. But there was still some of Jimmy’s biggest 70’s hits to be reprised. I had begun to wonder, how was this to be done at the level of the rest of the evenings proceedings? After Sonny Charles, the polish and elegance of the band, of the event, of the properly honored legacy was just overwhelming. But how do take it home?
Didn’t have to wait long to find out. The next artist to be announced was none other than FLAVA FLAV! Flava came out on stage to give some love, complete with his clock and sideways cap, and gave it up for Jimmy as only he could: “Yo G, I just want to say that Jimmy Castor is one of my musical heroes G, and his music is what the deejays all used at the start of hip hop” Flava then ran down a list of his favorite Jimmy Castor Bunch jams, and described a hilarious chance meeting with Jimmy Castor in a Wal Mart parking lot.
Then Flav announced that his jam – his all time jam - started with, “What we gonna do now is go back, way back, back into time!” The band got the signal and kicked into a rendition of “Troglodyte” and Flava Flave performed the entire song: “Cave men! Cave Women” "Her name was Bertha1 Berthat Butt! One of the Butt Sisters!” Tha whole 9. Flava Flav broght the house down – doo wop singers, Vegas band regulars, everyone got a taste of the attitude that is needed to bring Jimmy castor’s funk to life!
And if that wasn’t enough, Jayson Castor followed up, leading the band in a rendition of “It’s Just Begun,” while the Rock Steady Crew did their moves in the center of the dancefloor!
Jimmy Castor was given a fitting tribute. I was honored to be a part of it. Thanks to Jimmy Castor Jr for making sure this ole funkateer got to the spot and checked out what a tribute to a giant is all about.
The Brooklyn native, Jimmy Castor grew up with members of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and Jimmy wound up singing doo wop professionally while still in Junior High School. Some of his compositions, like “I Promise to Remember” are as fresh today as they were in the 1950s. For reasons that still mystify and amaze me, Jimmy Castor immersed himself in Latin Soul in the 1960, and generated some musical buzz with his 1966 hit “Hey Leroy Your Mama’s Calling You.” Jimmy was equally at home singing doo wop, playing blistering timbales solos and clave on the cowbell, or playing soul jazz on the saxophone.
But he’s best known for his outrageous cavemen characters and novelty funk hits in the 1970s, some which are hip hop break beat classics. Stompers like “Troglodyte,” “King Kong,” “Dracula,” “Space Age” and “The Bertha Butt Boogie” were standards of the funk fans of my generation. How one artist could attain a mastery of such a wide palate of music was one reason why Jimmy Castor is the brilliant genius legend that he is, and one reason why he’s often passed over when the greats are mentioned.
Jimmy Castor moved to Las Vegas over ten years ago, and found a niche playing his old school sounds with a band that was versatile enough to keep up with his un-matchable creative range. At The Bootlegger bistro, south of the Las Vegas strip, a stirring range of stars came out to pay tribute to the E-Man, Jimmy Castor. The legendary doo wop singer, latin soul maestro, and thumpasorus funkmaster was given a proper tribute that only few could have pulled off.
The energy of the place was vibrant, full of color and life. Like Jimmy would have liked it. Jimmy’s daughter introduced the proceedings with a heartfelt tribute that also showed her Brooklyn accent, and a street sense that many of us had come to know through Jimmy’s body of work.
Jimmy’s son Jayson Castor starting things off with a wild rendition of “E Man Boogie” that showed that the fruit didn’t fall to far from the tree. Jayson had many of the mannerisms and the wickedly sassy style of his dad. Then one by one a series of performers came on stage to sing selections of Jimmy’s catalog. Avis Harrell sang “Everything is Beautiful to Me” one of Jimmy’s overlooked midtempo tunes from his funk days. Then the surprises really began to take off: Jimmy’s bandleader “Marinaro,” who handled the entire showcase brilliantly, introduced Louis Lymon, who’s name didn’t ring a bell, until he got on stage in a super snazzy white 3 piece suit, and started singing in perfect pitch like his brother Frankie Lymon! Louis Lymon then did some of those super smooth do wop dance steps that let everyone know how much STYLE there was back in the day, and where a lot of break dancing came from. I was transfixed by Louis Lymon, and how fresh he was after 50 years. I also realized that there was a contingent of extremely snappily dressed soul brothas and sistas in the house, wearing loud colors that bounced off the multicolored lights of The Bootlegger bistro that nite.
As a string of artists took the stage to do renditions of doo wop; of Jimi’s jazzy instrumentals; of Jimmy’s blistering Latin percussion driven music, and of his killer funk jams, an unmistakable sensation overcame me: that it takes a dozen people to put together the musical catalog of this one man. The Everything Man, Jimmy Castor! It was both exhilarating and so bittersweet.
Little Anthony of Little Anthony and the Imperials came up, fresh of a cross country flight, to describe life growing up with Jimmy Castor. And two of his original Jimmy Castor Bunch band members were there, including bass player Paul Forney, and Elwood Henderson, the one mentioned in one of Jimmy’s wildest funk masterpieces of soul rap, “Potential!” Elwood and Forney got on stage and represented that funk exquisitely.
During the break, a musician I didn’t recognize sitting in front of me said “I wish I could get a tribute like this when I go.” Something this diverse, where a singer could be doing a Dean Martin standard, following the “Bertha Butt Boogie,” well, only The E Man could make this happen.
By the time bandleader Mariano Longo brought up Las Vegas singer Sonny Charles to belt out Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” it was clear that this event was one for the ages. But there was still some of Jimmy’s biggest 70’s hits to be reprised. I had begun to wonder, how was this to be done at the level of the rest of the evenings proceedings? After Sonny Charles, the polish and elegance of the band, of the event, of the properly honored legacy was just overwhelming. But how do take it home?
Didn’t have to wait long to find out. The next artist to be announced was none other than FLAVA FLAV! Flava came out on stage to give some love, complete with his clock and sideways cap, and gave it up for Jimmy as only he could: “Yo G, I just want to say that Jimmy Castor is one of my musical heroes G, and his music is what the deejays all used at the start of hip hop” Flava then ran down a list of his favorite Jimmy Castor Bunch jams, and described a hilarious chance meeting with Jimmy Castor in a Wal Mart parking lot.
Then Flav announced that his jam – his all time jam - started with, “What we gonna do now is go back, way back, back into time!” The band got the signal and kicked into a rendition of “Troglodyte” and Flava Flave performed the entire song: “Cave men! Cave Women” "Her name was Bertha1 Berthat Butt! One of the Butt Sisters!” Tha whole 9. Flava Flav broght the house down – doo wop singers, Vegas band regulars, everyone got a taste of the attitude that is needed to bring Jimmy castor’s funk to life!
And if that wasn’t enough, Jayson Castor followed up, leading the band in a rendition of “It’s Just Begun,” while the Rock Steady Crew did their moves in the center of the dancefloor!
Jimmy Castor was given a fitting tribute. I was honored to be a part of it. Thanks to Jimmy Castor Jr for making sure this ole funkateer got to the spot and checked out what a tribute to a giant is all about.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The Memorial/Celebration/Concert for my Dad
To all of the Supporters, Artists, Musicians, Fans, Loved Ones, and of Course "The Bootlegger Staff", I just wanna say Thank You Alll!! You made that Night special and and Unbelievable Success. The Love that filled that Room was Unexplainable in Words. I am humbled by you all!!
My Dad touched you all so You are all My Family!!
J-Cast
Thursday, March 1, 2012
RUSH!!
Luv how RUSH always Self-Interprets Anything he gets his Over Exaggerated Opinion On....Ha Ha what they say in my Biz izzzzz....Bad Press Is Great Press...On the 2day before The Memorial..Ill Take it! #ContinueTheCastorMovement...P
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The 27 Club
The 27 Club—also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club, Club 27 or the Curse of 27—is a meme regarding popular musicians who all died at the age of 27[1] often as a result of "precipitous lifestyles that made them candidates for early self-destruction."[2] The deaths of some prominent musicians at age 27, such asRobert Johnson,[3][4] Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, are the basis of this idea.[5]
The "club" has been repeatedly cited in music magazines, journals and the daily press. Several exhibitions have devoted to the Club of 27; distributed merchandising products, novels, films and stage plays captured this topic. There have been many different theories and speculations about the causes of such early deaths and their possible connections. Cobain and Hendrix biographer Charles R. Cross writes "The number of musicians who died at 27 is truly remarkable by any standard. [Although] humans die regularly at all ages, there is a statistical spike for musicians who die at 27."[5] However, a study published in the British Medical Journal in December 2011 concluded that the occurrence of famous musicians dying at the age of 27 was coincidental, and the risk of death from their lifestyle was increased, but not limited to the age of 27.[6]
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Respect is something You Earn..Its Not Given
If you #believe Hip Hop is dead than join me in my Passion and Love for Hip Hop. A Passion and a Love that will Transcend Death. #HipHopIsILL Not Dead and We are The Remedy. Those with Knowledge of Who we are and What we stay True to. Not a Fad or a Gimic or a Cookie Cutter Artist.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The Memorial/Celebration/Concert for my Dad
The Memorial/Celebration/Concert for my Dad, The Everything Man, Mr. Jimmy Castor will be held on Sunday March 4th from 7pm-11pm on the Las Vegas Strip at one of his favorite hangouts the Bootlegger in the Copa Room.
Address: 7700 Las Vegas Blvd LV NV 89123.
My Father's band past and present will be performing with many Special guest performers that were dear friends of his. Line up will be announced shortly. Admission is free. It will be Special. It will be Classy. It will be Funky.
If you can make it please come up and say hello. It makes things easier knowing how much he touched each and every one of you.
Address: 7700 Las Vegas Blvd LV NV 89123.
My Father's band past and present will be performing with many Special guest performers that were dear friends of his. Line up will be announced shortly. Admission is free. It will be Special. It will be Classy. It will be Funky.
If you can make it please come up and say hello. It makes things easier knowing how much he touched each and every one of you.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Can U Dig IT? Can U Dig IT? CAAAAANNN UUUUU DIIIIG IIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT?
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Preview songs from Hit The Dance Floor (feat. A-Clay) - Single by J-Cast & Chew Fu on the iTunes Store. Preview, buy, and download Hit The Dance Floor (feat. A-Clay) - Single for $0.99. Songs start at just $0.99.
Shoutout to Lady Gaga and Perez Hilton for their kind words today on our Breedlove Release.
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Get it on iTunes http://tiny.cc/4lqv5 Photo`s by Ky Digregorio (http://www.facebook.com/kydigregorio ) taken at @ Magic Monday http://www.facebook.com/magicmo ...
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