SAM KININGER
At the North Star Bar - Philly (7/6/07)
Saxman Sam Kininger!!
At
11:45pm, Sam Kininger and his band started with some Soulive stuff called
"One in Seven", with some jazzy organ riffs by Amy and a great sax
performance by the great Sam Kininger! "Ain't It Funky Now" (the
James Brown tune) was next and it was JAMMING...especially the nasty-funky
keyboard solo portion! "No War for Oil" (from the Sam Kininger
self-titled release) featured some nice "vibes" synth riffs over a
funky melody provided by the sax (Sam) and the bass (Aaron)! The intro to the
next song was this thunderous clashing of the drums & cymbals (Eric), mixed
in fast bass rhythms and snythesizer riffing with Sam playing his sax....it
would be been the "storm before the calm".....BUT NO! The interlude
led into the Graham Central Station funk party classic, "THE
JAM"!!!!!! The groove was funky, even though the organ riffs were nothing
close to as funky as the original, and the strong bass slapping was there!! Big
Ben Hillman took over on keyboards (Ben is originally from the Boston-based
R&B/funk band, Blacksnake [aka Michigan Blacksnake]). Ben did some good
snythesizer soloing on War's "The World is a Ghetto" and the drummer
Eric was kickin' butt on this, too. The Sam Kininger set ended after a worthy
encore at 1:15am.
Guest keyboardist, Big Ben Hillman!
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the Sam Kininger Band
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