MORRIS DAY & THE TIME
At B.B. King's Blues - NYC (2/28/03)
Jerome Benton, the crazy sidekick of Morris Day!!!
The
ultra-cool funky outfit from Minneapolis, Morris Day & The Time, rolled
onstage at 8:05pm and fired up the audience on some "Wild &
Loose", featuring the synthesizer funk of Monte Moir and Chance Howard!
The synthesized funk of Monte was extra-thick on "The Stick", but the
next song "My Drawers" was a piece of funk-rock geniuses....Morris
Day never sounded so great! Great synthesized funk on "Fishnet" was
followed by "The Oak Tree" and "Jerk Out", featuring the
funky, funky bass of Freeze!! Jerome Benton was the usual nut walkin' around in
the audience talking to some girls and askin' one to "Get It
Up"........that song was followed by "C-O-O-L" (that spells
"Cool").......a crowd pleaser with a lot of audience participation!
"777-9311" and "Gigolos Get Lonely Too" were followed by
the music of "If The Kid Can't Make You Come (Nobody Can)", over
which Morris and Jerome decided to fuck with the audience, saying stuff like
"Since y'all ain't gone talk shit about us, we gonna have to talk shit
about y'all!" Morris and Jerome picked on a few people in the audience, including
a waiter! The duo quizzed members of the audience on the type of shoes and
pants that they were wearing.........answer is (of course): "Stacy
Adams" and "a fresh pair of baggies"!!! (One person answered
(just) "baggies"....he only got partial credit......."funky
baggies" was no better!) "The Bird" was a funky jam that got
everybody (I mean "everybody") out of their seats!! Jellybean Johnson
was da man behind the hard-hitting "skins". Audience members were allowed
onstage to jam with the band, including one Dr. Brookenstein stepping with
Morris and Jerome! Of course, the encore featured Jerome getting every audience
member going "Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh aah aah aah aah aah aah aah
aah", sounding so ridiculous! Morris came out and demonstrated the correct
way to do it......it was on to "Jungle Love" (OH-EE-OH-EE-OH!!) The
ending to this absolute funk feast was Tori Ruffin's pyrotechnic guitarisms,
which set everyone on Cloud 10 (forget Cloud 9)! The first show was over at
9:25pm.
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