MILES DAVIS
Sun City Session
September 1985
Unknown Studio
New York, NY

This curio includes Miles rapping and playing over music heard through his headphones that we cannot hear during a recording session for the cut "The Struggle Continues," included in the Sun City Artists Against Apartheid project headed by Little Steven (Steve Van Zant, AKA Silvio Dante).
An attempt at a transcript of his comments follows:

Total time = 8:50
I'm ready, how 'bout you.
I'm ready. I'm a robot.
(Trumpet)
I'm ready, how 'bout you.
I'm ready. I'm a robot.
(Trumpet)
Do you have enough for me?
Enough to make an album.
Do you have enough for me?
(Whispers) I just had an orgasm. Do you know what I'm playing for?
Ron! Let's go.
(Control room directions)
OK. All right.
Oh. You.
You can't go in there. You're the wrong color. You don't belong there.
You're the wrong color. You don't belong in here.
You're too white to be in here.
You don't know what we feel.
You can't stay here... with that bullshit.
You don't sound like (?) on an African.
You can't stay here any longer.
Fuck you!
Leave, leave, leave!
(Plays trumpet)
You can't stay in here anymore.
You're finished!
We're tired of your shit now.
You have to leave!
(Trumpet)
You can't stay in here anymore.
That's how I (?) my whole life.
END


Source:
Studio recording

Lineage:
Studio reel >? >DAT >.wav via S/PDIF and Midiman Dio 2448 >CoolEdit Pro 2.0 >Trader's Little Helper >FLAC (level 6)

-Milesian
September 2006