A Nice D'angelo Page That I Stumbled Upon... Ladies Enjoy!

http://funkyeahdangelo.tumblr.com

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Finally downloaded the album after the hype blew over... been jammin' out to it the last day!

I honestly had given up hope, but I'm glad he has emerged from whatever dark place he was in, and is back making music.

The Vanguard has landed in Zurich. Time 2 get Funky..............

You heard it here first, y'all:

Black Messiah is winning Album of the Year for next year's Grammy Awards.

Cinny said:

You know, I usually blame the performances on the bad sound mixing on SNL, but it turns out you just need a full band and talented group to fill out all the sounds properly and be great.

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A few months ago, I got to visit the SNL sound mixing studio in Rockefeller right next to the stage where they shoot. They were just about finished installing a brand new state of the art setup, which sounded like it was going to be used only for mixing the SNL music. So I'd expect/hope that they'll be having much better sounding performances from now on.

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One interesting thing I found out was that they fine tune the music mix for west coast audiences (and repeats) straight after airing live on the east coast.

So watch the west coast feed for the better sounding music mix

nd33 said:

Cinny said:

You know, I usually blame the performances on the bad sound mixing on SNL, but it turns out you just need a full band and talented group to fill out all the sounds properly and be great.

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A few months ago, I got to visit the SNL sound mixing studio in Rockefeller right next to the stage where they shoot. They were just about finished installing a brand new state of the art setup, which sounded like it was going to be used only for mixing the SNL music. So I'd expect/hope that they'll be having much better sounding performances from now on.

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One interesting thing I found out was that they fine tune the music mix for west coast audiences (and repeats) straight after airing live on the east coast.

So watch the west coast feed for the better sounding music mix

I didn't know SNL tweaked the mix between broadcasts! I always catch the live show (I think).

I highly doubt that.

duccichucka said:

You heard it here first, y'all:

Black Messiah is winning Album of the Year for next year's Grammy Awards.

If that happens, we will have to hear everyone and their mama on Twitter asking who D'Angelo is.

As it is, I doubt Black Messiah will win any Grammys. The album was not the sonic boom I hoped it would be and mainstream media is not hyping it. That may be due to the fact that D is not talking to the media at all.

I am hoping the tour turns things around, but I doubt it. Black Messiah seems to have caught on only among 90s heads and crate diggers and hipsters. It's not been embraced wholly by the mainstream.

Cinny said:

nd33 said:

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A few months ago, I got to visit the SNL sound mixing studio in Rockefeller right next to the stage where they shoot. They were just about finished installing a brand new state of the art setup, which sounded like it was going to be used only for mixing the SNL music. So I'd expect/hope that they'll be having much better sounding performances from now on.

.

One interesting thing I found out was that they fine tune the music mix for west coast audiences (and repeats) straight after airing live on the east coast.

So watch the west coast feed for the better sounding music mix

I didn't know SNL tweaked the mix between broadcasts! I always catch the live show (I think).

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They may have only started doing this recently...not sure...but it certainly helps that they have all their studio rooms updated and intricately connected. Looked like a dream to work in.

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scriptgirl said:

If that happens, we will have to hear everyone and their mama on Twitter asking who D'Angelo is.

As it is, I doubt Black Messiah will win any Grammys. The album was not the sonic boom I hoped it would be and mainstream media is not hyping it. That may be due to the fact that D is not talking to the media at all.

I am hoping the tour turns things around, but I doubt it. Black Messiah seems to have caught on only among 90s heads and crate diggers and hipsters. It's not been embraced wholly by the mainstream.

Neither everyone and their mama knew that Beck's Morning Phase would win this year's Grammy.

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Fucking Sony took down all the apollo vids-royally pissed, cause I want to see Prayer and alright.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/02/09/d_angelo_apollo_show_review_first_u_s_show_since_black_messiah_s_release.html

D’Angelo’s Return to the Apollo Was Joyful, Humble, and Triumphant

D'Angelo performs his first U.S. show since the release of Black Messiah at the Apollo Theater.

Photography by Mark von Holden/SA PRO, Inc.

The most perfect thing about D’Angelo’s show Saturday night in New York—currently the only United States appearance that’s been announced in support of his 2014 album of the year Black Messiah—was the venue: the Apollo Theater in Harlem. There might not be any better venue than the Apollo for someone whose flair for performing is balanced with world-historic resistance to being a commercialized celebrity. It’s probably the world’s premiere showcase for the soul/funk/R&B entertainment tradition D’Angelo is a part of—a place, therefore, to make a big statement—but it is also, for all the size of its reputation, very intimate in practice, allowing a crowd of only 1,500 to curl up and around the stage. I’d never been to the Apollo before, and now I understand why its amateur night (which D’Angelo won as a teenager) is so famous—while the stage’s history and grandeur demand an epic effort from anyone who appears on it, the tight dimensions also demand that those performers win over each member of the audience on an almost one-on-one basis. You’ve got to balance the big and the small, and you can’t coast on reputation.

D’Angelo met the challenge, though, with a demeanor that was endearingly and perhaps surprisingly low-key for someone who just labeled his long-awaited return to his job with the word messiah. For all D’Angelo’s virtuosity, he is also someone who very evidently appreciates a stark riff, a repeated groove, and the visceral power of a band finding a few bars that it likes, turning the dials up, and playing the bejeezus out of those four bars until it’s time to go home. In line for a drink, I overheard—from someone who at least wanted to project the appearance of knowing what she was talking about—that he’s trying to put together more American tour dates with his new band, the Vanguard. (He’s got a number scheduled in Europe.) I’m not surprised: He may have recently gone 12 years without performing, but on Saturday D’Angelo seemed like someone having enough fun to keep playing.

After a dramatic solo opening performance of “Prayer” from the new album, the vibe on stage was, happily, more “catching up with an old pal” than “hip big-city music-industrial buzz-event.” Almost all of the seven band members and three backing vocalists present were D’Angelo veterans who have played past gigs with him and contributed to the new album, and though this was his first full show since the album’s release, the group handled their front man’s characteristic deliberate rhythms with confidence. For someone with such a delicate falsetto, D’Angelo also has a very effective full-throat roar, and he used it percussively throughout the night to match the band as songs like “Sugah Daddy,” “Left and Right,” and “Chicken Grease” were drawn out into full-volume, electric guitar-led jams. As the musicians circled around uncomplicated but satisfying patterns, their idolized and scrutinized lead singer, the meticulous genius, was happy to punctuate the downbeat with exclamations like “yeah!” and “clap your hands!” Decades of practice, experience, and thought had gone into what were seeing on the stage, but a five-year-old could have understood why we liked it.

D’Angelo finished the night alone again playing “Untitled (How Does It Feel),” a moment that might have seemed perfect for the narrative of the dramatic comeback, since the way he was objectified by audiences after the release of the song’s sexy video is commonly thought be one of the reasons he spent so long after 2000’s Voodoo hiding from the spotlight. But the mood in the room was not heavy or portentous. Like the rest of the show, it was light—less a statement than a collaboration, with D’Angelo encouraging the crowd to join in and sing the chorus with him a capella.

Several times during the night he reached out to touch the hands of the people in front rows, men and women alike. Not in a coy or exaggerated way, but instead more like he was giving them the kind of handshake or high five you give someone after a team you're both watching scores a touchdown. Things were rolling, and all of us were glad to be along for the ride.

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Vid from Zurich show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLgtSxLwGRc

http://www.dailymotion.co...o/x2gqf5w]

Morgan James sucks. The end. Soul lite.

More vids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIljQHhKI58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC--SuybjIc

Morgan James RULES! Yeah!

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Where is the new Material live?

Looked like a great show!!!

Ego101 said:

A Nice D'angelo Page That I Stumbled Upon... Ladies Enjoy!

http://funkyeahdangelo.tumblr.com

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Beautiful black man here, sexi!

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So conversation seems to have dropped off here over the last few days, but I just thought you guys would like to know that audience recordings for the two European shows have turned up on the internet, apparently the Apollo is also floating around as well, but I haven't been able to find it personally. I'm going to see him tomorrow, and judging from this fantastic recording of the German concert it's going to be incredible, can't wait!

I think all the vids of the apollo show were taken down. If there is a souncloud made of the Apollo show, please post it.

scriptgirl said:

I think all the vids of the apollo show were taken down. If there is a souncloud made of the Apollo show, please post it.

D has learned well from

I think it has more to do with Sony than D. After all, his European concert gigs are up now on Youtube and keep pouring in. Only the Apollo ones were taken down. Why?