He did NOT pick up a single fan from that performance.

Graycap23 said:

workingupahiyellasweat said:

I hear Britney Spears puts on a perfect performance key wise. How can she not with her lip syncin skills? I'd take Bilal posessed by some scary ass spirit bein moved in his craft than a boring ass perfectly preened fake ass bitch.

I think my favorite part is right at the Jimi Hendrix riff after the 2 screams and he just raises his hand to the holy ghost and lets out that bellow. He is feelin that shit hardcore

Oh this is nothing compared to the concert I went to a couple of years back of his. (I've told that story here before numerous times ) He was even MORE fucked up on that night. We were laughing so hard we all had tears running down our faces.

I liked his performance

minneapolisgenius said:

Find the thread or tell the story again

BlaqueKnight said:

Dag. Did I write that?

Word.

I don't know anything about "his demons", as others here have posted... I don't know if he's "on something", as others have posted.

Sure he was off slightly on the Leno show... And? Does that warrant total judgement?

ALSO... Do some of U find it disturbing 2 see an R&B artist getting a little out there? I hate 2 say it... but what if it were a... ahhh forget about it...

Did U all check out the 2nd link someone posted here to a realplayer clip of him live?

I had a friend tell me a while ago that Bilal needed some new material, and he would hook us up. I shoulda done something about that.

I never heard "1st Born..."

At least Bilal plays with his voice, and isn't afraid 2 really vocalize.

U all realy have 2 check out that second link... here... I'll go find it 4 U...

Anywho... BLAQUEKNIGHT... U R dead on with this one.

Peace.

G.
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SPYZFAN1 said:

Yeah, me either. But still, I'm like "Go head bro! Do your thang!" Wasn't crazy about the brother's solo (he was a brother right?) but at least he can play. The Purple Haze bite coincides with the latest Chilli Pepper song which bites on Purple Haze as well. I see the stage is being set for things to come.

blackguitaristz said:

That was a bad performance, stop copping please for Bilal. I posted a goo performance from him on another thread.

workingupahiyellasweat said:

well go back to your thread then. Bilal was feelin his shit and I'll take that over perfection any day

Graycap23 said:

I'd never seen or heard him till now, and while I'm not a fan yet, I was kinda intrigued by that wacko.

BlaqueKnight said:

that is SOOOO TRUE! I am so tired of over-the-top-too-slick choreography. What ever happened to just letting the music take your body where it wants to?

Co-Sign Dude can't carry a tune and his antics only make things worst.
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workingupahiyellasweat said:

laurarichardson said:

then i'd suggest going back and listening to that boring ass RnB y'all love so much.

blackguitaristz said:

I wasn't crazy about that solo either - it wasn't anything to brag about. Eubanks was probably guffawing about it in the corner. But make no mistake about it: Bilal is one of my favorite vocalists.

sinisterpentatonic said:

That's a trip because if Thom Yorke, Beck or Paul McCartney did it he'd be foaming at the mouth over it.
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chuckaducci said:

I can dig it. I can get with what he's doing, overall, cuz he's an artist. I'll support homeboy if for no other reason than the fact that he's a brother doing his thing. And not all of that other fabricated, copy cat, no real instrument having in their music, sounding just like every other knucklehead shit that's passing for r&b today.

I wish goes would stop copping pleas for Bilal, and making excuses for these guys that act a fool on TV, Bilal needs Kells to write him some tracks.

jojofran said:

Exactly!

I remember when he did this, it was a few years back. There was a reason he picked this song.

Bilal had just did a free concert at the south street seaport. He was a BRAND NEW artist then. Even I, a mucisian that always kept his ear out for fresh new music only hear like one of his songs. When he went through most of his songs he was constantly seeing how the audience was reacting to hearing his stuff for the first time and how it went over live. There was a time during a slow song he stopped the band because he felt the crowd was bored. (we screamed for him to keep playing) And another time someone blew up a beach ball and sent it out into the crowd. Bilal immediately stopped the song he was doing and asked what kind of concert did we think it was. And wouldn't continue until the beach ball was removed. The best crowd reaction came when he did "Fastlane", with his guitarist going into the Jimi song, I think he felt that would go over well on Leno.

Also, don't forget Dr. Dre produced this song. One of the conditions of giving Bilal this song could have been that he had to do it on air at Dre's request.

CalhounSq said:

amen. i just can't hang with people who like/watch Leno. it's creepy to me. is it that hard to switch over after the local news to watch Letterman?

(unless it's that 3 a.m. re-run of Leno they show every night. sometimes i watch that, just because there's nothing else on)