BERNIE WORRELL & THE WOO WARRIORS
(with the JOHN HICKEY BAND)
At NXNW (North by Northwest) - Philly (10/14/05)
The Perkulator himself, Billy Perk Puryear!!!
At 9:30pm,
the John Hickey Band started with the funky white boy, John Hickey, on lead
vocals and guitar, doing his best original stuff, like "Means of
Production" and "I Do What I Wanna Do".....with backing vocals
by Gregg Fitz and the beautiful Cissy Fitz. Following that was a new song that
featured some serious WOO-style synthesizer riffs by Gregg Fitz! "Down
With the Ship" was a nice slice of futuristic funk with some great
drumming by Troy White, followed by the funky rocker "Know Me Better".
The Perkulator, Billy
Perk Puryear, began brewing some serious funk on standout bassisms, for the
country/funk tune "Pot Top"! "See a N" was a mixture of powerful drumming,
heavy bass, nasty synthesizers and lead guitar wailing at breakneck pace!
"Funk With a Capital 'G' " (a Quazar funk jam) featured a funky
synthesizer freakout as the intro and Gregg's lead vocals!! "The
Goose" was the highlight of the show, featuring some burning lead
guitarisms, meaty bass ruffs and colossial synthesizer riffing by both Gregg
and the Wizard of WOO, BERNIE WORRELL!!!!!!!!! The John Hickey Band was
over at 10:15pm.
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John Hickey Band
The Fellas: friend Kevin, Kidd Funkadelic, Bernie Worrell, friend John Wesley
and Dr. Brookenstein!!!
At
10:55pm, the WOO Warriors began with the Bootsy funk jam "Stretchin' Out
in a Rubber Band", featuring the lead vocals and excellent scratch guitar
riffs by Scott Free (who was wearing a white feather hat (looking a rhinestone
rockstar monster of a doll, baby baba.....a doll for all seasons, a family
doll, baby baba!)!!! "Stretchin' Out" also featured some solid bass
playing by Ms. Lady Bass, Donna McPherson. "WOO Together" was
followed by "Super Stupid", which started out with a slight different
arrangement and some different lyrics....after a few minutes, the band went
into the actual song....John Hickey set the room afire with some slammin' rock
guitarisms and Keith LeBlanc was a BAD MOFO on the drums! (Keith LeBlanc is
from the funk/rock band TACKHEAD) "Funkentelechy" was a super-funky
bass workout (with Donna playing a part from the Ohio Players's
"Fire")....and Bernie added some comical B-3 organ stuff (the song
"Life Goes On")!
Kidd Funkadelic
is.....BAD!! (The boy is BAD!)
"Alice in My Fantasies" was killin' with the sonic guitar blasts, but
"Cosmic Slop" was the true treat with guest guitarist Mike "Kidd
Funkadelic" Hampton blasting eardrums with his fiery guitar madness!
Bernie played a little bit of Genesis's "That's All", before the band
went into "Maggot Brain", a showcase of Kidd Funkadelic's axe-slaying
skills! "Red Hot Momma" was the hardcore funk-rock ending to this
show, which concluded at 12:20am.
WOO FAN PHOTOS:
Dr. Brookenstein (baby baba!) with Scott Free!!!
Friend John Wesley, Kidd Funkadelic and Larry
Larry and his lady
Click here for pictures of Bernie Worrell
& the WOO Warriors
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