theAudience said:

Identity said:

Thanks for answering my query regarding the name of the guitar maker and model. Ok, I can clearly see the two covered humbucking pickups.

You're welcome.
I've seen someone else use that guitar, just can't remember who at the moment.


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I think Jesse Johnson did a commercial clip of this guitar about a year before his comeback.

Can't find it now on youtube tho so I'm not sure

/peace Manki

theAudience said:

Identity said:

What make and model of guitar is that? Do I see three pickups?

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Make: Minarik
Model: Diablo

Based on the inlay work (headstock) and truss rod cover of the one in the D'Angelo pic, might be a customized version.

There are two humbucking pickups.

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Jesse Johnson endorses these Guitars.......bet He gave it 2 Him!!!!!

Roberta Flack cover.

[Edited 2/3/12 6:02am]

Jesse Johnson

http://www.youtube.com/wa...20jGqTmzgE

Thanks. Here's the embedded clip featuring Jesse Johnson on guitar.

Thanks for the clips ID! I might have to camp out here for the rest of the day. Didn't realize how much I missed his music. He'll be well received by the time he hit the States. I wish him well. So far, so good!

I can't imagine how good he feels to get that kind of feedback from the crowd. He's probably thinking, "Damn, it's like that? Maybe I should've came back sooner."

It ain't nothin' but a party!

J.B. style screams and shouts are the order of the day to keep it funky!

D'Angelo is on a roll and he's enjoying a well deserved resurgence.

Did someone say Jesse Johnson????

CynicKill said:

Did someone say Jesse Johnson????

Cut' em Jesse!

D and Jesse rocking out.

Identity said:

D and Jesse rocking out.

D'Angelo And His Mojo Make A Comeback

Febraury 3, 2012

Link

A solo artist can't exactly split up and reunite with himself, but D'Angelo's appearance at Brixton Academy this evening is as hotly anticipated and as downright unlikely as any of the big-name band reformations of recent times.

The Beatles released everything they ever recorded in less time than it has taken the Virginia soul singer born Michael Archer to come up with a third album. Two World Wars were wrapped up more quickly. In fact, since Voodoo, D'Angelo's second long-player, was released in January 2000, he seems to have done little but flit between arrests and court appearances.

n 2006 there were reports of attempts by his manager to get him to attend a rehab facility for alcohol addiction. In 2010, a mugshot was released to the media after he was arrested for attempting to pay $40 (£25) for oral sex to an undercover police officer in New York. He looked fat and sleepy, a world away from the lip-licking beefcake with the Action Man torso who appeared apparently naked in the notorious video for his 2000 single Untitled (How Does it Feel) - a smouldering clip still considered so raunchy that you have to confirm you're over 18 before you watch it on YouTube.

Arrests, addictions - he's the R&B Pete Doherty, right? Wrong. People are genuinely excited about tonight's reemergence (so much so that a second show has been added tomorrow evening) because before he disappeared, D'Angelo, now 37, was looking very much like his generation's Prince or Marvin Gaye. He was the real deal, a great soul voice backed by funk and jazz instruments at a time when hip hop's lazier sample culture, personified by Puff Daddy, had attained commercial dominance. Even more impressively, he wrote all the songs and played most of those instruments himself, making him a rounded music auteur of the type that comes along all too rarely. He led the way for the neo-soul movement of the late Nineties and beyond - singers such as Erykah Badu, Maxwell and Jill Scott producing complex, authentic soul music.

If he had a flaw musically, it was sounding too much like Prince. He even covered Prince's She's Always in My Hair on the Scream 2 soundtrack in 1997. But taking inspiration from such a lofty idol proved worth it in the early part of the last decade, when he took the Voodoo album on tour reworked as a fiery soul revue. It cemented his reputation as an essential live act, something that he's only now getting the chance to reconfirm.

On record, his sound is more restrained and deeply sensual. Stick on either of his albums, Voodoo or 1995's debut Brown Sugar, in the company of your partner and you'll probably be expecting a baby by track three. On Lady, his biggest hit, he assures you: "There's no other lover for you or me/You're my Lady". Amid the finger clicks and funk guitar of Left and Right, he offers to "Smack your ass/Pull your hair/And I even kiss you way down there".

The six-minute Feel Like Makin' Love speaks for itself. If all this sexy stuff tempts a snigger, be assured that it comes from a serious place. D'Angelo's explanation for the five-year gap between his two albums to date was writer's block, which was cured by the birth of his son by his ex-girlfriend and fellow singer Angie Stone. "I realised that everything that exists, all music, comes from Africa," he told Vibe magazine at the time. "I started to see all the connections of music pointing back to Africa, and I wanted to express all those genres. Like what Sly [Stone] was trying to do, like what Prince was trying to do, and Jimi [Hendrix] too."

But after Voodoo the album and tour were finished, there were other, less savoury reasons for his absence from the music scene. In November 2002 he was charged with resisting arrest, aggressive driving, assault, curse and abuse and disorderly conduct after a row with a woman at a petrol station in Virginia.

In 2005 he was pulled over in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia and charged with drunken driving, possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance (believed to be cocaine). Just a couple of weeks after getting a three-year suspended sentence for that one, he crashed his Hummer while not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the vehicle, sustaining minor injuries. Then there was that paying a policewoman for sex thing.

Now, thankfully, all signs point to a return to professionalism, and the release later this year of a new album that was threatening to rival Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy on the painful gestation front.

We knew he still had the voice from guest appearances on Common's Finding Forever album in 2007, Q-Tip's The Renaissance in 2008 and Mark Ronson's Record Collection in 2010. Ronson has reportedly been involved with D'Angelo's new album, James River, which still has no release date. Eighteen months ago Ronson claimed: "I know he's been working nonstop. It's not like they've been sitting on their asses."

A long-term collaborator, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of hip hop band The Roots, gave an attention-grabbing interview to Pitchfork just two months ago, in which he said that the new album was "97 per cent done" and likened it to The Beach Boys' Smile, Sly & The Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On and Miles Davis's on the Corner - no pressure then. "He needs somebody to smack him and take the record away from him because it's pretty much finished," he added.

But if anything's going to reassure his patient public it's these concerts. He's already been seen in Stockholm, Paris and Amsterdam, looking a good deal trimmer than in that mugshot and receiving enthusiastic reviews for sets that are more intimate than the Voodoo tour but still feature epic musical workouts such as a 20-minute Shit, Damn, Motherfucker.

The airing of two new songs, ''The Charade'' and ''Sugar Daddy'', are the most concrete proof that this wayward legend really is back.

Identity said:

D and Jesse rocking out.

OMFG!!!!

Identity said:

D'Angelo And His Mojo Make A Comeback

Febraury 3, 2012

Link

The airing of two new songs, ''The Charade'' and ''Sugar Daddy'', are the most concrete proof that this wayward legend really is back.

Why is his other new song ("Another Life") ignored?

Shango said:

Identity said:

D'Angelo And His Mojo Make A Comeback

Febraury 3, 2012

Link

The airing of two new songs, ''The Charade'' and ''Sugar Daddy'', are the most concrete proof that this wayward legend really is back.

Why is his other new song ("Another Life") ignored?

Also "Ain't that easy".

Phishanga said:

Shango said:

Why is his other new song ("Another Life") ignored?

Also "Ain't that easy".

oops missed to hear & see that one

Shango said:

CynicKill said:

Did someone say Jesse Johnson????

Cut' em Jesse!

OMBEJESUS!!!!!!

Identity said:

Oh I love this....

Yes, yes, yes. His vocals on "Another Life" are magnificent and the song is dreamy. I want a new album like now.

D in HD with Jesse on guitar.

Identity said:

D in HD with Jesse on guitar.

I'm so fucking jealous. I WANT TO BE THERE WATCHING WITH MY OWN EYES!!!!!

Identity said:

Very nice.

Blogger's Review of Concert

Feb 3, 2012

The worry when any beloved artist disappears into obscurity for an extended period of time, is that once returned their careers will forever be overshadowed by former glories.

Last night at Paradiso, a suitably old church turned into a concert hall in Amsterdam, D’Angelo put all concerns to rest and performed one of the greatest shows we’ve witnessed live. Returning to the stage after a 12 year absence with an exceptionally tight backing band, last night Michael Archer let us know exactly what he’d been up to all this time – our guy was simply away getting better.

And yes, as impossible as it may sound – D’Angelo has returned better than when he left…

Performing with a noticeable smile stretched across his face – energy, passion and charisma combined the absurdly cool prowess of his ‘peak’ years with the mature dynamism of this current phase he inhabits as a weathered genius.

Grooving to rhythms both old and new, he was instantly forgiven for leaving us all for so long. ‘Brown Sugar’, ‘Shit, Damn, Motherfucker’, ‘Chicken Grease’, ‘Devil’s Pie’ – songs that we grew up on by an artist we’ve been starved of was more than my feeble mind could handle.

His infamous chords, basslines and swings were played to perfection, only this time with a noticeable Prince and James Brown inspired spirit engraved. I wonder if at any point he’d felt like the fallen hero, come to reclaim his place amongst the greatest – he certainly kicked his heels and screamed like it.

Even more promising though is the multi-instrumentalist’s new material. As if ‘R&B Jesus’ physical presence returning to stage wasn’t enough, we’re now safe in the knowledge that the material forthcoming from him is as good or potentially better than his earlier offerings.

A staggering statement and an optimistic presumption, but judged on what we heard – that modern folklore legend that is the James River album has potential to be opus number three.

Why he left for such a long time is yet to properly unravel, but what’s certain is – based on last nights show, he took the time he needed and returned at precisely the time he was supposed to.

The only thing more exciting than the memories made at Paradiso, is that on Friday we get to experience the bravura all over again, only this time it’ll be in our London with a long line of hometown friends and fam. We hope for their sake they’re ready.

This is what comebacks are made of.

http://pinboardblog.com/2...rdam-2012/

Identity said:

Damn

Identity said:

D'Angelo at the Paradiso Grote Zaal in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Anybody now the name of the song they play after MJ?

^

"So In Love" by Jill Scott and Anthony Hamilton. It's on her last album, Light of the Sun.

missfee said:

Identity said:

Oh I love this....

Oh. Fuck. Yes.

theAudience said:

Identity said:

Thanks for answering my query regarding the name of the guitar maker and model. Ok, I can clearly see the two covered humbucking pickups.

You're welcome.
I've seen someone else use that guitar, just can't remember who at the moment.


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Jesse Johnson ironically was endorsing Minarik guitars a few years ago.

http://www.google.com/img...amp;zoom=1