Gil Scott-Heron: THE BOTTLE - To My Lost Brothers And Sisters. | Radio DAZZ

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I first heard this amazing song when I was an undergraduate in college. I loved the straight-4 disco beat, the signature bass line and the animated flute licks surrounding Gil Scott-Heron's soulful, slightly war-worn voice: The voice of experience from a visionary. It made me want to dance. It's a hand-clapping tune, and in the mid-seventies it was an underplayed, understated sensation. I used to listen to music, without digging deeply into the message embedded into the lyrics.

The song had haunted me for years. Every so often it burned at the corners of my mind. It keeps popping up every time I hear about, or walk onto the real-life set a tragedy fueled by alcohol and alcoholism. It is a snapdragon of a song. A bear-trap hidden in the lush woods. The rhythm pulls you in, but it is mantra about the bottle. The destruction of people's loves and lives because of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Too many wreaths and roadside crosses to count.

I dedicate this song to my brothers and sisters who have lived with alcoholism, or who have had their lives wrecked by it. If you can't moderate it -- Eliminate It.

This song is a sorrowful cry and a wake-up call for ethanol-fueled traffic accidents, fights, deaths, and people who have to live and serve their sentences for things that they cannot even remember doing, but regret every morning when they wake up.

This gemstone is a hustle in 12-steps. If you're there, or you've been touched by it, or gone to meetings to work at putting it all together, you'll know exactly what RadioDAZZ is saying.

The song is a classic. It is the best --- a mixture of Sly Stone, Bobby Caldwell, Curtis Mayfield, Brick, The Brothers Johnson and even Neil Young. The song goes on, as does the saga.

The message, again [dig, dudes]: "Don't get into the bottle. Don't Let the bottle get into you." RadioDAZZ loves you and the world needs you here. Only You can be who You are.

Click below to be moved in ways you'd never quite imagined before. The caged bird sings, and his beautiful song is about one of Humanity's greatest curses. Click and enjoy, but let the anger and the frustration get into you ....to put you back in touch with all people, in all walks of life, everywhere. Get help. Give help. There's hope.

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