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Anyone go to the P-Funk show last nite in LA? Someone give us some details please!
Im going to the show tonite in San Francisco  Peace and Love! | |
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vgallo6 said: Someone give us some details please!
Im going to the show tonite in San Francisco I'm waiting for a report as well. It's still early and those that were there were prolly up all nite.  Fantasy is reality in the world today. But I'll keep hangin in there, that is the only way. | |
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 didn't make it there in the flesh but was there in sprit. will be looking forward to hearing the Funk highlights.[Edited 9/10/05 11:32am] | |
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vgallo6 said: Someone give us some details please!
Im going to the show tonite in San Francisco I'm gonna try to make the SF show tonight too  ... if I can get out of the office.  a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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First half of the show was awesome as Children of Production (Michael Clip Payne plus some younger P-Funk recruits) tore shit up with nothing but pure older classic Parliament (i.e. I Want to Testify and Funkin' for Fun) and Funkadelic (i.e. Good to Your Earhole and Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock?). I thoroughly enjoyed their 45-minute or so set. Then the Red Hot Chili Peppers came out and ripped through Funkadelic's Super Stupid (wicked solo by Frusciante) and Parliament's Funky Woman before being joined on stage by the P-Funk All-Stars (including Bootsy) for Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker). P-Funk then went into Cosmic Slop and away it went from there. At that point, I was thinking it was one of the best P-Funk shows I had ever seen, and I have seen them about 40 times dating back to the mid-1970s. However, the show got mired down by a lame Belita Woods ballad, a long, noisy jam session with violinist Lil Hayden and especially and extended oldies medley of Whole Lotta Shakin', Lucille and many other 1950s rockers. When they finally got back to a funk groove, GC left the stage and the crowd was shouting for Bootsy, who had scarcely gotten any mike time. However, when he came center stage and grabbed a mike, the venue cut all the power with the crowd at full frenzy due to the 11 pm curfew of the Greek Theater. P-Funk was just getting warmed up and had not even gotten around to staples like Knee Deep, One Nation or Maggot Brain. A lot of the crowd was upset and there was a lot of booing. GC or whoever manages P-Funk should have better paced the set and made sure Bootsy got some time as well as some other P-jams instead of all the wasted time on a lame ballad and oldies cover tunes. It was also disappointing that the advertised Bernie Worrell was not there nor was Michael Hampton, who was in town and perhaps was too wasted to show up (I saw him at Tower Records Monday and he did not seem straight to me at all). One cool thing was they showed a lot of the upcoming PBS documentary on P-Funk on the big screens that will air on Oct. 11. It is amazing! There is lots of old classic Funkadelic concert footage in it that is crystal clear! I had no idea that stuff even existed and it is a crime if that material is not released in its entirety on DVD. One more thing I appreciated about the concert was the inclusion of several new tracks, including Bounce to This, Inhale Slowly and Sexy Side of You.
There you have it. I am curious to hear what others in attendance thought of the event. Peace, Scott If you've got funk, you've got style. | |
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