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• David Harvey from AustraliaCurtis Mayfield was a very multitalented man: he was a skilled guitarist with his own personalized Open F# tuning (F#A#C#F#A#F#), an equally capable keyboardist, bassist, drummer and saxophonist and soundtrack composer, particularly with blaxploitation films and the film "Super Fly".
  In addition, he not only wrote and produced his own songs at a time when it was not the norm for R&B/soul musicians (unless you were Smokey Robinson or Sam Cooke), but he also had his own record company Curtom Records, his own music publishing companies Camad and Curtom Publishing Co. that were registered either with ASCAP or BMI and his own recording complex in Chicago called Curtom Studios (formerly RCA Studios).
  His tragic accident in 1990 should never have happened and it was very sad that his performing career ended that way. He was not only confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, but unfortunately, he also could no longer play the guitar.
• Tim Bryant from Bloomington, IlGreat stuff. I really like the story of Curtis Mayfield telling Pops he doesn't have to worry about the Lord.

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