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PFunk LA. 9-9-05 Show Review From The PFunk One Nation Board:
We arrived right when Children of Productions were finishing up. Heard the end of it with Bootsy playing as we were walking up to the theater and cursing out the traffic. Red Hot Chili Peppers played for about 20 minutes. They didn't play any RHCP tunes, all P-Funk covers. Super Stupid, Funky Woman, Tear the Roof Off, and I might be forgetting one more... George and some of the others sat in for a lot of it. No Michael Hampton and no Bernie. But Bootsy was out there with the mob when the curtain dropped and he sat in through the first half of the show and then rejoined 'em at the end for WLS. Opened with an amazing Cosmic Slop and Bootsy was right up front in the mix, adding a whole new (old) layer of depth and texture to the song. George was in fine form, the PFAS seemed to be in high spirits, and Bootsy set the whole thing off. The highlight for me was Bootsy's Rumpofsteelskin jam into Thumpasaurus People. That was some transcendent sh*t. They played a handful of new songs - Sexy Side, Inhale Slowly, and Saddest Day. Plus most of the old songs you'd expect. No Maggot Brain. The setlist wasn't too shocking but the performance was tight and they did seem to change things up a bit. Show ended with chants of "BOOTSY! WE WANT BOOTSY!" and he walked out into the crowd, everybody slapping his hands and pawing at him like he was Jesus. We were about 5 feet from the stage and he walked right past us, radiating energy and funky vibes. This should be most of what they played, with the order off by a bit... Cosmic Slop Up for the Downstroke Thumpasaurus People James Brown medley Sexy Side Flashlight Something Stank Hard as Steel Bounce to This Inhale Slowly Saddest Day Never Gonna Tell It Booty Atomic Dog WLS Funkadelic jams Chants I might be forgetting one or two. They didn't play Tear the Roof Off, but most of 'em joined in on that in the RHCP set. They didn't play Knee Deep or One Nation or Maggot Brain. Funk is it's own reward! | |
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Still sounds like a good show.....  | |
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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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Yeah it sounds like a good time was had & I knew Bernie wasn't going to be there because a few wks. ago on the one nation board where many Pfunk alumni's post, Bernie's wife/manager stated clearly that they knew Bernie was not going to be there because of things that we're not ironed out but they still advertised the show with his name. don't know about Michael though. The next night's show sounded even funkier. Raphael Saadiq joined the Children Of Production in doing some Funkadelic classics, even Friday August 14 - True Pfunk heads will know that jam. | |
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