I'm not actually going to write a concert review right here, It's too late.
I'll write one tomorrow or maybe the next day.
I'm beat...
but I will provide a few clues...
George Clinton once asked the question....
"Is there FUNK after death"?
Well my friends.
Tonight THE REBIRTH came into town and KILLED PHILADELPHIA
(so I guess the answer to George's question is YES????)
I mean they dropped an ATOM (funk) BOMB on the city tonight.
2 weeks ago I reviewed their CD.
I thought it was great.
Now I have seen them live and I'm telling yall...
THEY KICKED
MUCHO
MACHO
BE-HIND
In the review I wrote of their CD I compared them to artists like Roy Ayres,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Norman Connors/Micheal Henderson, Bobby Humphries
After seeing them perform live I would have to say that I shortchanged them.
What they really are is not easy to categorize.
It's kinda like pieces of everything that you like about Soul and Funk and
Jazz, both seperately and combined together.
It's like Mandrill without a horn section
or maybe EWF's first two albums
or a little Rotary Connection
or Brand New Heavies
or Sade
or the Blackbyrds
or Rufus
or the whole damn CTI label
not seperately, but all mixed together
strong musicianship
strong singing
a truly "unified band"
I'm not even sure at this point
All I know is that I had my mind blown tonight and I felt like I had been a
part of a historic event
Tonight I felt at times like I had discovered something that had been lost.
Or perhaps it wasn't really lost.
Just hidden from our collective view and waiting for exactly the right set
of individuals to give it life once again.
Perhaps it really is time for a REBIRTH of our music?
All I can say at this point is that if you are anywhere near NYC you need to
take your be-hind over to:
WED, MARCH 1@ 900pm
WEDNESDAY , MARCH 1
NEW YORK CD RELEASE PARTY FOR " THE REBIRTH"
FIRST NEW YORK PERFORMANCE IN BROOKLYN @ the SOUTHPAW 125 5th AVE BKLYN ,
NEW YORK 718-230-0236
special guest MONET and DJ SPINNA
Don't miss it
I'll have more on THE REBIRTH, including a more coherent concert review + an
audio interview with them.
And thanks to our friend, DJ Junior of recordbreakin.com for pulling
together everything tonight
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Bob Davis
earthjuice_at_prodigy.net
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Received on 2006-02-28 07:36:30