Original guitarist Johnny Echols was a childhood friend from Memphis and Lee was proud to have formed rock's first mixed-race band.
"Traveling through the South is something we'd like to forget," Clora Bryant, the self-described "trumpetiste," tells us, recalling a Jim Crow law against mixed-race bands.
From there, five men, brought together by their common interests in horse racing, banded together to buy the team for $1 million in 1963.
Clegg is a white South African, and his mixed-race bands in the 1970s and 80s tested the country's apartheid laws to breaking point.
Mixed-race bands were forbidden, black musicians barred from playing in all-white nightclubs, and a 10pm curfew left them prey to tsotsis or police, who would come to the concerts and interrogate people.
During the apartheid period, black and white musicians were segregated, although they still collaborated on occasion; a notable example is Johnny Clegg, a white South African who learned traditional Zulu music and formed the mixed-race bands Juluka and Savuka, both of which gained international followings.
All of them come on leather racing bands.
He challenged racial barriers by hiring the African-American bassist Eugene Wright as part of his quartet in 1958 and proceeding to tour the South, a region of the country that did not welcome mixed-race bands.
After a large chorus chants, "This ain't a scene, it's a goddamned arms race," the band kicks into a punk assault, and Stump cries, "I'm a leading man, and the lies I weave are oh so intricate, oh so intricate".
I also yearn for a world where the human race can band together to use their shared intellect to overcome the numerous obstacles we collectively face.
