I traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to their second annual Labor Day Explosion festival concert.

It was held at an outside venue called The Hamilton County Fairgrounds. The show started at approximately 5PM with acts like Robert Hatcher (from America's Got Talent TV Show), II Frum Tha Soul, a 3 man r&b singing group; jazz guitarist Wilbert Longmire, The Deele, Lyfe Jennings, Kelly Price and Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds.

The low point of the long concert was the awful rant on stage that was delivered by Mister having been in prison for many years Lyfe Jennings about homosexuals. His gay bashing was very offensive. Several people were not pleased.

His set was also too long and very boring as it was done to a backing track instead with a live band.

The Deele, whom have reunited in the past 3 years w/o Babyface and L.A. Reid, put on a strong set, with their hits, "Body Talk", "Material Thangz", "Shoot 'Em Up Movies" and their biggest record "Two Occasions".

Kelly Price also performed two a backing track. Unlike Jennings, she did not have any background singers.

She was a soul-shouting hefty siren with a voice that rang out in the Ohio skies like a Baptist church revival.

Near the end of her too long set (due to a lengthy medley of tunes she had sung background vocals on), she brought out Shirley Murdock and the two of them ripped a seam in the earth with a soul-stirring of the latter's "As We Lay".

Due to sets that were too long, Babyface, came on some 35 minutes past his slotted time - but being the consumate performer he is, he pulled it off. His set included many of his solo hits ("For The Cool In You", "Never Keeping Secrets", "As Soon As I Get Home") as well as tune she has produced on others. He even did a rendition of "Two Occasions", which he co-wrote and sang featured lead vocals on durng his tenure with The Deele. Other songs in the medley were: "Don't Be Cruel", "Roni", "Can We Talk", "My, My, My" and "End Of the Road" - where the veteran producer/writer/musician/singer bolted from the stage and went into the audience with an army of police and bodyguards following behind - and the audience went beserk. Females nearly ripped his shirt of of him. He also did a great routine where he did R. Kelly's "Bump N Grind", Luther Vandross' "Never Too Much" and DeBarge's "Love Me In A Specal Way".

His 4 piece band of bass guitar, keyboards, drums and guitar were excellent.

He did a touching tribute to Michael Jackson on "Gone To Soon" and closed his show with "Whip Appeal".

RnBAmbassador said:

I traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to their second annual Labor Day Explosion festival concert.

It was held at an outside venue called The Hamilton County Fairgrounds. The show started at approximately 5PM with acts like Robert Hatcher (from America's Got Talent TV Show), II Frum Tha Soul, a 3 man r&b singing group; jazz guitarist Wilbert Longmire, The Deele, Lyfe Jennings, Kelly Price and Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds.

The low point of the long concert was the awful rant on stage that was delivered by Mister having been in prison for many years Lyfe Jennings about homosexuals. His gay bashing was very offensive. Several people were not pleased.

His set was also too long and very boring as it was done to a backing track instead with a live band.

The Deele, whom have reunited in the past 3 years w/o Babyface and L.A. Reid, put on a strong set, with their hits, "Body Talk", "Material Thangz", "Shoot 'Em Up Movies" and their biggest record "Two Occasions".

Kelly Price also performed two a backing track. Unlike Jennings, she did not have any background singers.

She was a soul-shouting hefty siren with a voice that rang out in the Ohio skies like a Baptist church revival.

Near the end of her too long set (due to a lengthy medley of tunes she had sung background vocals on), she brought out Shirley Murdock and the two of them ripped a seam in the earth with a soul-stirring of the latter's "As We Lay".

Due to sets that were too long, Babyface, came on some 35 minutes past his slotted time - but being the consumate performer he is, he pulled it off. His set included many of his solo hits ("For The Cool In You", "Never Keeping Secrets", "As Soon As I Get Home") as well as tune she has produced on others. He even did a rendition of "Two Occasions", which he co-wrote and sang featured lead vocals on durng his tenure with The Deele. Other songs in the medley were: "Don't Be Cruel", "Roni", "Can We Talk", "My, My, My" and "End Of the Road" - where the veteran producer/writer/musician/singer bolted from the stage and went into the audience with an army of police and bodyguards following behind - and the audience went beserk. Females nearly ripped his shirt of of him. He also did a great routine where he did R. Kelly's "Bump N Grind", Luther Vandross' "Never Too Much" and DeBarge's "Love Me In A Specal Way".

His 4 piece band of bass guitar, keyboards, drums and guitar were excellent.

He did a touching tribute to Michael Jackson on "Gone To Soon" and closed his show with "Whip Appeal".

Curious...If Babyface did "Two Occasions" during his solo set, did The Deele also perform it before him? I would have liked to see Babyface perform again with The Deele. Did The Deele do "Sweet November"? That's my cut!!

So Lyfe Jennings is a homophobe huh? Oh well fuck him anyways.

As for both the Deele and Face doing "Two Occasions" in two different 'occasions' (how ironic is that statement?! ), that's quite interesting lol

dannyd5050 said:

RnBAmbassador said:

I traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to their second annual Labor Day Explosion festival concert.

It was held at an outside venue called The Hamilton County Fairgrounds. The show started at approximately 5PM with acts like Robert Hatcher (from America's Got Talent TV Show), II Frum Tha Soul, a 3 man r&b singing group; jazz guitarist Wilbert Longmire, The Deele, Lyfe Jennings, Kelly Price and Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds.

The low point of the long concert was the awful rant on stage that was delivered by Mister having been in prison for many years Lyfe Jennings about homosexuals. His gay bashing was very offensive. Several people were not pleased.

His set was also too long and very boring as it was done to a backing track instead with a live band.

The Deele, whom have reunited in the past 3 years w/o Babyface and L.A. Reid, put on a strong set, with their hits, "Body Talk", "Material Thangz", "Shoot 'Em Up Movies" and their biggest record "Two Occasions".

Kelly Price also performed two a backing track. Unlike Jennings, she did not have any background singers.

She was a soul-shouting hefty siren with a voice that rang out in the Ohio skies like a Baptist church revival.

Near the end of her too long set (due to a lengthy medley of tunes she had sung background vocals on), she brought out Shirley Murdock and the two of them ripped a seam in the earth with a soul-stirring of the latter's "As We Lay".

Due to sets that were too long, Babyface, came on some 35 minutes past his slotted time - but being the consumate performer he is, he pulled it off. His set included many of his solo hits ("For The Cool In You", "Never Keeping Secrets", "As Soon As I Get Home") as well as tune she has produced on others. He even did a rendition of "Two Occasions", which he co-wrote and sang featured lead vocals on durng his tenure with The Deele. Other songs in the medley were: "Don't Be Cruel", "Roni", "Can We Talk", "My, My, My" and "End Of the Road" - where the veteran producer/writer/musician/singer bolted from the stage and went into the audience with an army of police and bodyguards following behind - and the audience went beserk. Females nearly ripped his shirt of of him. He also did a great routine where he did R. Kelly's "Bump N Grind", Luther Vandross' "Never Too Much" and DeBarge's "Love Me In A Specal Way".

His 4 piece band of bass guitar, keyboards, drums and guitar were excellent.

He did a touching tribute to Michael Jackson on "Gone To Soon" and closed his show with "Whip Appeal".

Curious...If Babyface did "Two Occasions" during his solo set, did The Deele also perform it before him? I would have liked to see Babyface perform again with The Deele. Did The Deele do "Sweet November"? That's my cut!!

The Deele did perform "Sweet November" in their set.

Nice...

Timmy84 said:

As for both the Deele and Face doing "Two Occasions" in two different 'occasions' (how ironic is that statement?! ), that's quite interesting lol

Hell i wouldn't want to see any one of them doing it. That's one song i don't care

to ever hear again but i would have loved to see the Deele perform all the

songs off their first album along with Material Thangz.