ORIGINAL PFUNK
At B.B. King's Blues Club in NYC - 7/03/02

 


 

At 8:30pm, Original PFunk set it off with some serious funkativity.....funkatizing the fans with some "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples".......the earthquakic bass riffs of Derrick Davis shook the entire club!!!! Derrick showed his funky attitude again on "Standing on the Verge of Gettin' It On", which featured the band's own chant "The Funk is in the House" (as proclaimed by the crazy Fuzzy Haskins on vocals......by the way, Fuzzy.....if you're gonna shake your groove thang like that, don't wear those see-thru pants.....some fans and I nearly had cardiac arrest!!) "Tear the Roof Off the Sucka" was a Ray Davis highlight, as well as his excursion into his best highlights, like "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" (by The Temptations), "I Can Make You Dance" (by Zapp), "Pumpin' It Up" and a General Caine track! "Up For the Down Stroke" and "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" were good, but "Bop Gun" was better with the strong, funky vocals of Douglas Knight-Smith!! "Cosmic Slop" featured Gene Thomas on lead vocals and a fiery lead guitar intro by Billy Mimms......it was Gene that took the fiery lead guitar spot in the breakdown portion and smoked every inch of B.B. King's Blues!! "Atomic Dog" was the point where 30 people were brought onstage.....mostly women. "Maggot Brain" was da shit with some tripped-out, monstrous lead guitar strokes, courtesy of Gene!! "Mothership Connection" featured Douglas doing the "I can hear the mothership coming" portion that Glenn Goins was famous for!! "Knee Deep" featured some tight scat vocals by Douglas! "One Nation Under a Groove" featured the OP girls (Emerald Davis, Jackie Love and De'Jean) doing the Kirk Franklin song, "Stomp"! "Flashlight" shined the funk on anyone left who was still not mesmerized by the Original PFunk!! The show was over at 10:15pm.



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