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Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five/Melle Mel - Adventures on the Wheels of Steel

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Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five/Melle Mel
Album Title
Adventures on the Wheels of Steel
Release Date
1999 
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Review by John Bush
For old-school fanatics who need still more Sugar Hill material, even after Rhino's massive five-disc set The Sugar Hill Records Story, Sequel packaged a three-disc box of material recorded by Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five (plus a few cuts headed by Grandmaster Melle Mel). Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel spans all the way from their earliest, pre-Sugar Hill recordings (the great singles "Super Rappin' No. 1" and "Flash to the Beat") to the mid-'80s material recorded after Grandmaster Flash split from Sugar Hill (both he and Melle Mel headed collectives composed of former members of The Furious Five). Read More
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