LIVING COLOUR!!!!
At CBGB's - NYC (12/21/00)
Fiery guitarist VERNON REID with the hardcore rock vocalist COREY GLOVER!!!
This show started out to be just Headfake (Doug Wimbish, Wil Calhoun and
Corey Glover), but a very special guest helped make history by turning it into
a TRUE Living Colour show.......that very, very special guest was the one and
only Vernon Reid!!!!!!!
The
Headfake trio started the show at 10:30pm with the nasty, smelly bass
riffing of Doug Wimbish on "Cycles" (??), followed by the Corey
vocal tracks, "Worship" and
"Trance"......."Trance" featured the voice-over of Jungle
Funk's vocalist, Vinx! The bass work on "Trance" was so strong
that it could melt the speakers!! Doug added some background vocals for
both "Worship" and "Trance".
COREY GLOVER has been "barcoded" by an oppressive society!!!
Around 10:45pm, Vernon Reid was brought to the stage
and HEADFAKE was done.....LIVING COLOUR stepped in for a reunion show (it's
been seven years now)......the band rocked the
shit out of CBGB's (their starting place in their career) with "Go
Away".......the raw, fiery grunge-rock brought the temperature of the club
to about 1000 degrees Fahrenheit with wild guitar licks (by Vernon) tossed
about, hard-pounding drumming (by Wil), odorious & crushing bass lines (by
Doug), and aggressive vocals (by Corey)!!
"Middle Man" was good, but "Time's Up" was more
interesting, with instances of drumming madness........a very chaotic rock tune
with some more hardcore guitarisms!! "Cult of Personality" was
followed by "Bi", with some Doug's smotherin' bassisms & more
pronounced guitarisms by Vernon!!! "Memories Can't Wait" was
followed by "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" with funkafied rhythms on
Doug's upright bass and fancy lead guitarisms!!! Living Colour started
their next song, "Type"...."Type"
was a fast-paced rock tour-de-force with Vernon's funky guitaring......the
chant "Everything that goes around....comes around" was accompanied
by a slower pace
in the rock groove!! The most interesting was the third chorus, which was done
acapella........Corey's dialogue & attitude (NOT singing) sounded very
bland, if he wasn't feeling this song!! The wet bass sounds of Doug were
excellent, towards the end of the song!!Corey
provided some powerful vocals to "Open Letter to aLandlord". The show
ended at 11:55pm, with an encore performance at 12:00 midnight........the
encore song was Jimi Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic". The powerful
raw guitar was matched by the asphyxiating bassline!! The drumming was very
good, as the audience participation with the chorus!! The show ended at
12:05am.
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