Apparently, these were minimally advertised gigs to try out new material in a duo format.
Van Hunt: guitar/vocals
Ruthie Price: drums/vocals

I got invited to attend these shows by Foley who was in town for a few days.


The first gig was Monday night (6/18) at...

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If Robert Christgau is right and D'Angelo is indeed the R&B Jesus, then Van

Hunt is the Holy Spirit.

Voodoo and Popular are the best Soul albums of the past 30 years.

Kinda sparse isn't it?

I wish I will have the chance to see Van Hunt live one day...

duccichucka said:

If Robert Christgau is right and D'Angelo is indeed the R&B Jesus, then Van

Hunt is the Holy Spirit.

Voodoo and Popular are the best Soul albums of the past 30 years.

I love that

BTW Neal, what did you think of his last album?

duccichucka said:

If Robert Christgau is right and D'Angelo is indeed the R&B Jesus, then Van

Hunt is the Holy Spirit.

Voodoo and Popular are the best Soul albums of the past 30 years.

That's funny. But wait a minute, who is God the Father then?

...

Kool, I dig the stripped down duo idea!

You got to chat with King?!!? Niice!!! (I hope that album's still in the works!!!)

...

He's playing in San Francisco tonight.

I saw him live last fall and I hope to see him really soon.

Musicslave said:

duccichucka said:

If Robert Christgau is right and D'Angelo is indeed the R&B Jesus, then Van

Hunt is the Holy Spirit.

Voodoo and Popular are the best Soul albums of the past 30 years.

That's funny. But wait a minute, who is God the Father then?

His name rhymes with Schmarvin Schmaye.

ABeautifulOne said:

I saw him live last fall and I hope to see him really soon.

I saw Van Hunt tonight and he was terrific. It was a really small venue and I don't think it was well advertised at all--maybe he wanted it that way. It was just him on guitar and his sister on drums with one dancer at the beginning. Then, it was just the two of them. He played some songs off his old albums, then a couple of covers, including a Billie Holiday song, and then he played songs off his new album. Van Hunt was terrific! I thought I liked him on CDs but live...he kills it. He was so funny riffing off the audience, too. I hung around afterward, grabbed a couple of flyers, and one of his entourage took it back for him to sign it. I didn't look at it until I got home--it says "Stop Stealing Posters!"

silkman said:

I'm so glad he still has homegirl drumming for him. She is tight !!!

She's damned good on those drums, for real!

For those who haven't you HAVE to download Van's Daytrotter session. It's siiiick!! (and free!)

http://www.daytrotter.com...6-37383027

set list:

Hey (Pixies cover)

Designer Jeans

Plum

Willie The Pimp (Frank Zappa cover)

The Sincere L of P

Who Will Love Me In Winter

Watching You Go Crazy Is Driving Me Insane

Cross Dresser

A Time Machine Is My New Girlfriend (Acoustic)

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purplethunder3121 said:

P2daP said:

Designer Jeans is off the fucken hook. The guitar tone

reminds of ol' Keef playing a Telecaster. Nice.

But I wish he had written a bridge for the transition

from the verses to the chorus. And the keyboard

solo at the end is gratuitous. (EDIT, I'm referring to

Plum).

Watching You Go Crazy...is the best punk/funk song

I've ever heard; hell, it's the only punky-funk song

I've ever heard.

I still think Popular is a better album. I don't like the

fact that What Were You Hoping For? doesn't have any

low end.

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silkman said:

P2daP said:

For those who haven't you HAVE to download Van's Daytrotter session. It's siiiick!! (and free!)

http://www.daytrotter.com...6-37383027

set list:

Hey (Pixies cover)

Designer Jeans

Plum

Willie The Pimp (Frank Zappa cover)

The Sincere L of P

Who Will Love Me In Winter

Watching You Go Crazy Is Driving Me Insane

Cross Dresser

A Time Machine Is My New Girlfriend (Acoustic)

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Thanks for this.

Nastiness.......this is better than the live cd he just released.

Thanks times 6ixx.

This is the BEST I've ever heard Van live. He is doing the damn thing..................HAWT!

Listened to the Daytrotter sessions.

Fuck D'Angelo and Fuck modern day Prince.

^

I said that because D'Angelo allows himself to be saddled with

that unnecessary duty of being the successor to Prince and Marvin,

and other soul predecessors who he feels he belongs to. And Prince

lost the Holy Ghost after Sign O' of the Times. Prince belongs to the

spectre of his past which he is either unwilling or can't reclaim.

Van Hunt belongs to Van Hunt.

duccichucka said:

^

I said that because D'Angelo allows himself to be saddled with

that unnecessary duty of being the successor to Prince and Marvin,

and other soul predecessors who he feels he belongs to. And Prince

lost the Holy Ghost after Sign O' of the Times. Prince belongs to the

spectre of his past which he is either unwilling or can't reclaim.

Van Hunt belongs to Van Hunt.

Agreed.

Harlepolis said:

BTW Neal, what did you think of his last album?

First i've gotta give him credit for not making the same record over and over again.
Certain tunes I liked right away (Falls, Moving Targets, It's A Mysterious Hustle) others didn't initially resonate.

The instrumentation of the "secret" shows was a bit odd.

And the poor sound mix (especially the second location) didn't help.

However, Ruthie Price can definitely play and you adjust to the duo format quickly.

Nice guy also.


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