THUNDER SOUL tells the true story of Conrad O. Johnson and the legendary Kashmere Stage Band. It was afros, pleated pant | dG1faGlvZFFVUkllME0
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00:00If there's no drama, there's no timing.
00:10Can you hear the drummer?
00:13At a time when everything was changing.
00:15It was the 70s.
00:16It was sexy.
00:17It was afros.
00:18It was girls, girls, girls.
00:21They were the hottest, baddest band around.
00:24We were called Thunder Soul.
00:26We was the bomb.
00:27It was the baddest band in the nation.
00:29And they brought the funk like no one else could.
00:32But they were just good.
00:34Not good as in mm-mm good.
00:36Good as in God created the world to be good.
00:38And the cool part about it was, they were only in high school.
00:42Now.
00:43Hey, everybody.
00:44What's going on?
00:45What's going on?
00:4630 years later, they're getting back together.
00:50This room looks smaller for some reason.
00:52To honor the man that brought them together, Conrad Propp Johnson.
00:57It was not a standard to have an all-black band led by a black band director.
01:02I had to teach him how to play funk.
01:05He didn't just teach us the music, he taught us how to be men.
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01:15feet.
01:16Really curious to see how are we going to sound.
01:21I have not picked up that horn since 1978.
01:25I wore grandparents down, gray hair, 50 pounds larger.
01:29I thought when I took that first blow, I was going to pass out.
01:35I thought we were really doing it, but really, we sounded terrible.
01:39We rolled like a snowball, man.
01:42We were so poor, we didn't have uniforms at the school.
01:44All we had was white pants and a white shirt.
01:46And people would say, who are those milkmen?
01:49What are they coming here for?
01:54This has been a long time coming.
01:55I want to be there.
01:56I want to feel it again.
01:58This is a must.
01:59We have to come together to do this.
02:01I want him to know that we didn't forget.
02:04We didn't forget how to do it.
02:05This is where it all started for us, right here in Cashmere.
02:09Get ready to go on a musical journey.
02:11One, two, three, four!
02:13Thunder Soul.
02:14Cashmere State Band, come on!
02:17My deepest hopes for this reunion concert is that I get a major record deal.
02:22I can't put it into other words.