Evolution Revolution: the Earl

Double CD archiving some of his earliest work, recordings. Low fi in places (dont fret, the stereo balance is funky). This is what got Pryor so much attention/in so much trouble in the beginning. CD2 ends with a good interview, and the monlogue included in the film Wattstax is in here too. Incredible stuff. He shrugs off the label "black lenny bruce" but its not a bad moniker. Like Bruce, he pushed the envelope for Blacks in the same way Bruce did for gays and bohemians. This earlier stuff is sometimes slow to develop compared to his later more popular material that sucker punched you within seconds. In fact, theres almost no potty mouth on the entire first disc (however CD2 is replete, but I cleaned it all up good). Needlesstosay theres tons of timely, late 60's Black issues, addresses overt and best of all subtle, underlying racism that abounds which makes this stuff timeless, important. Disc set progresses chronologically.

Disc 1:

1) intro, growing up in Peoria, school, spankings
2) improv on Batman and Robin, Japanese meme
3) heart talking to brain, silly
4) subway riding
5) playboy club
6) elementary school rendition of "rumpelstiltskin" 7) slippin in shit
8) birth control pills "no you dont!"
9) nigger babies
10) pryor's forte: the preacher impression
11) white man's religion, rips a racist heckler, why afraid of black power?
12) "dope"
13) getting beat up in jail, "i hope you turn white"
14) watching a play in prison where "the nigger gets killed", but doesnt and this has quite a utopian moral
15) funny comment on rural folk and the way they ramble
16) movie stars dont poop
17) war movies, underlying racism 18) the army
19) hippy dippys and Jesse
20) pimps and hookers and scammers, great impressions, characters that Good Times just ripped off blind
21) improv "thats flip wilson...we all look alike!... it wasnt me!"
22) god...a history of mankind


Disc 2 (Many tracks are erroneously brief so put on continuous and let a few fly):

play (2-6) (9-11 religion) (13-14) (29-31)
1) a pre-intro “where were you daddy when the shit hit the fan”
2) intro: getting high, cocaine
3) marriage, fighting, sex
4) wife’s friend’s big ones, affair
5) married people advice, coming
6) president Nixon doesn’t come, Nixon jokes
7) high school sex, fathers kicking ass
8) cops arresting “Nig-roes”, fathers getting involved, cop line-up
9) masturbation, very brief
10) religion, church and money, bullshit
11) Pryor’s forte: the Black Preacher
12) brief
13) white doods and the black man’s penis myth, sex
14) nudity
15) cops, black and white partners
16) black doods in the neighborhood barber shop
17) white folks playing basketball, fuck the osmond bros
18) uncle tom niggers
19) strip searches in jail
20) going home a star
21) brief
22-26) dope, panthers, shooting craps, whoring (26 can fly solo, its good)
27) insurance man
28) black vs. Negro, black is beautiful
29) sex is bad and violence is good, “I’d rather come” (than kill)
30) casual sex with a man
31) jacking off
32) snapping pussy
33) classic Pryor farting routine “girls don’t fart they go ‘poot’”
34) from the incredible film “Wattstax”: all about ‘niggers’ (!), longer, covers a ton of ground, play this one if any as its classic Pryor, political, cutting, socially relavent
35) black whorehouse w/ honkey johns
36) more whorehouse stories
37) Italian neighborhood, stereotypes
38) jim brown movies
39) niggers making movies vs. white folks, black musical, theatrical and animated
40) religion, jesus made crucifixes
41) street characters, classic Pryor
42) FCC (oops, I missed one)
42) long story telling, good white man stuff, some technical glitches
43) excellent interview with Pryor, funny too, really good, 1974