GEORGE CLINTON & THE P-FUNK ALLSTARS
At the Trocadero Theater - Philadelphia, PA
(9/22/04)
At 9:45pm, George Clinton & the P-Funk Allstars
got off to a great start with some good ole "Funkentelechy" (or
"FUNK-EN-TE-LE-CHY"), with some NASTAY funk bass by the O.G. bassist,
Billy Bass Nelson (somethin' stinks and it smells good!) and some outstanding
synthesizer work by Jerome Rodgers!! "Bop Gun" was Steve Boyd's lead
vocal spotlight, while I loved the tight horns (Bennie Cowan & Greg Thomas)
on "Gamin' on Ya"! "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples"
featured a red-hot, fierce lead guitar solo by the guitar-slayer Blackbyrd
McKnight, while "Flashlight" was da bomb with the tight horns
stinking up the Trocadero, along with some good vocals by the one and only
George "Dr. Funkenstein" Clinton!!!!!!! "Electric Spanking of
War Babies" was (of course) a snippet featured in "Flashlight",
along with a Shonda Clinton musical moment.....Shonda did her signature song
"Somethin' Stinks and I Want Some", along with the pornographic
"Hard as Steel"...."hard as steel
and still get harder"!! Jerome's
synthesized riffing on "Knee Deep" was great, and hearing Belita
Woods singing "Sentimental Journey" (along with the WOOing
synthesizer sounds of The Wizard of WOO, Bernie Worrell) (YES!) was the best
shit I ever heard! After the "Rubber Duckie" snippet and the
"Disco-To-Go" horn riffing, it was time to get "Up For the
Downstroke"....the middle part of the song featured Belita singing the
Jimmy G & The Tackheads stuff called "Slingshot" (the chorus
part). Poo-Poo Man made the P-Funk show into a
JB (James Brown) thang with the songs "Payback" and "Sex
Machine"....all he needed was some splits and George puttin' a cape over
him.....very funny and interesting stuff. The
slow part of the show was Kendra Foster's performance of "Bounce To
This", but it sounded better everytime the band (especially the monstrous
bass-ous Lige Curry & heavy drumming Frankie Kash Waddy) kicked it into
rock mode!! "Maggot Brain" featured (of course) the soaring, fiery,
electrifying lead guitar solo of the Master of The Axe, Mike "Kidd
Funkadelic" Hampton!!!!! After the fast-tempo rock ending of "Maggot
Brain", Garry Shider did his soulful vocals over a slow version of
"One Nation Under a Groove"! The regular cut "One Nation Under a
Groove" was tight, but better was seeing & hearing Garry actually
doing the lead vocals to.........."I'm Never Gonna Tell It"! (WHOA!)
Although the song was done at too slow a speed to be funky, it was a big step
for the band!! "The Hall of Fame" riff was followed by the corny
"Whole Lotta Shakin' On"......that's enough of that song, George! The
show was over at 1:00am.
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