At
8:00pm, the New Orleans funk began with the Neville Brothers doing The Meters's
"Fire (Fiyo) on the Bayou"........lots of churning funk organ (by Ivan
Neville), fiery lead guitarisms, and tight drumming!! Ivan, Aaron, Cyril and
Charles Neville all handled vocals for half of the songs in this show! More
organ funk was the order on The Meters's "People Say"! The next Crescent City funk song
featured a solid bass line with a guitar solo. Aaron provided his fluttery lead
vocals on "Fever", featuring sax riffs by Charles and some good
percussion by Cyril! The next song "Wildflower" (originally by New
Birth) featured Aaron again on lead vocals with a reggae-style breakdown! The
Carribean/calypso rhythm took over as the audience's earholes were dazzled by
the sounds of "Iko Iko", mixed with the N'awlins lullaby "They
All Ask'd For You" (too hilarious, as Ivan mentioned all of the exotic
foods that N'awlins offer: crawfish, beignets, gumbo, creole soul food,
po'boys, tomato paste) and some of that "Jambalaya"!!! For the next
tune, Charles did a long sax solo against a backdrop of Latin rhythm &
percussion, sounding like the War tune, "Beetles in the Bog"! Aaron
did his famous cover of the Main Ingredient's "Everybody Plays the
Fool". Charles did another song, this time in the vein of some mellow
jazz. Cyril did the lead vocals on the funky Jimi Hendrix tune "Foxy
Lady".....Cyril has a great voice!
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