Labels:text | screenshot | font | document | black and white OCR: SPEARHEAD: FORMER HERO HITS THE HIGHWAY But, with a libretto that read like a political treatise and a number of six-minute-plus songs, it wasn't exactly a lighthearted party platter. In fact, Franti is fond of likening the Heroes music to broccoli-people were into it because they thought it was good for them, but it was hard to make it through a whole serving in one sitting. So when he left and started Spearhead, his aim was to create songs that were both "delicious and nutritious," kind of like yams. He gave up the Heroes' industrial-sounding mayhem for a more accessible reggae-tinted, jazz-funk ensemble and-although his words stayed conscious and black issues got more airtime-the songs took on a warmer, more personal sheen. As a result, his revamp of the classic spiritual "Hole In The B ...
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