Taragirl
started at 9:00pm in grand fashion, boldly performing the Lyn Collins signature
hit "Think (About It)"...Taragirl has a soulful voice that worked
well with the song and the band was kicking out some funk. The only thing
that was missing was probably a real horn section for this song. The next
four songs were Taragirl originals, including "Stop Holdin' On"
featuring a good bass line. The third original song had a little more of a rock
influence. The Taragirl set ended at 9:30pm.
At
9:55pm, the Brand New Heavies came out and started performing the funky, funky
"Right On" (with the lyrics "Bring back the funky music")...this
is like some JB's style funk with lead vocals by the beautiful N'Dea Davenport,
some lead guitar fire by Simon Bartholomew and some blazing solos on trumpet
and trombone!!! "Dream on Dreamer" was good, as well as the standout
organ work on "Daybreak". The fans were finally starting to rid
themselves of the Sir Nose disease and began to dance...butts were shaking to
the upbeat "Get Back to Love", featuring some lead vocals by drummer
Jan Kincaid!! OH YES!! The
funk bomb dropped when the band started doing the title track to their new
album "Get Used To It"...talk about dark, moody bass riffs by Andrew
Levy (I mean some funky stuff) matched with scratch-style lead guitar riffing
& distorted guitarisms (both by Simon)...this stuff reminded me of War back
in the mid 70's (the closest thing that I can think of right now is War's
"Sun Oh Son")
"I Dont Know Why (I Love You)", a remake of The Jackson 5 classic,
featured N'Dea doing her most emotive vocals...girl can SANG! "Spend Some
Time" was another crowd favorite, but better was the performance of the
encouraging "Brother Sister" (suggested by me and three other female
fans), where the band went into a good funk jam featuring a hot muted-trumpet
solo!!! The encore included the first hit for the band "Never Stop"
and "Dream Come True", two hot songs that got everyone dancing
about...if the f**kin' security guards weren't so uptight, a lot of folks
would have been partying in the aisles and airthang else! THESE BOYZ CAN
DEFINITELY JAM!! The Brand New Heavies set was over at 11:15pm.
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