Mark Antone Adams

Tag Adams was the cool, nimble-fingered bassist for past due-’70s/’80s nine-member funk music group Slave who strike number 1 R&B and Best 40 pop the very first time away with “Slide.” The genesis from the Dayton, Ohio-born group was when East Orange, NJ, transplant Steve Washington transferred to Dayton to complete senior high school while coping with his uncle, trumpeter Ralph “Pee Wee” Middlebrook from the Ohio Players. Washington acquired a band known as Black Satin Spirit, which included upcoming Slave associates Tim Dozier and Tag Hicks. After another regional group, the Mystics split up, its associates Tag Adams, Floyd Miller, and Tom Lockett became a member of Washington’s music group in fall 1975. Adams was still in quality school, as the various other people, who continued to add Carter Bradley, Daniel Webster, and Orion Wilhoite had been in senior high school. Miller attained rehearsal 1 day sporting a T-shirt that got the term slave created across. The music group decided to consider the adverse term and present it an optimistic connotation, musing “we are all slaves to God, the world, and life generally” and therefore Slave was created. The group relocated to Washington’s NJ house where they found the interest of Jeff Dixon, plan movie director of Newark, NJ, radio place WNJR. Dixon booked studio room period for the group and allow them self-produce themselves. One morning hours at around three o’clock, Adams, Hicks, and Washington experienced an impromptu jam program, which enthusiastically woke up the complete household. Another morning, the music group went in to the studio room and documented what became “Slide” in a single consider. Dixon got “Glide” to Henry Allen, leader of Atlantic Information’ subsidiary label Cotillion Information. Made by Jeff Dixon, “Glide” remained on Billboard’s graphs through the summertime of 1977. Due to the single’s lengthy chart operate, Slave performed nightly dates for nearly a season. “Slide” (at nearly seven mins) was included on the debut record, Slave, which proceeded to go gold, hitting amount six R&B and amount 22 play summer 1977. Additional Slave albums had been Hardness from the Globe (past due 1977, “The Party Track”), THE IDEA (quantity 11 R&B summer time 1978, “Only a Contact of Like), Rock Jam (platinum, quantity five R&B, past due 1980, “Viewing You”), Show Period (quantity seven R&B fall 1981, “Snap Shot,” quantity six R&B), and Visions from the Lite. Mid-charting LPs around the Ichiban label consist of: Unchained finally (1986), Make Believe (1987), Rebirth (1991), The Funk Attacks Back again and Stellar Funk: THE VERY BEST of Slave (both 1994). Adams may also be noticed on RCA Information take action Odyssey’s “Inside Out” (which noises nearly the same as Slave’s “Viewing You”).