ORIGINAL P & MICHAEL HENDERSON
At the Stone Soul Picnic (in Druid Hill Park) -
Baltimore, MD (8/18/07)
The funky Michael Henderson on bass & vocals!
At 4:45pm, Michael Henderson started his set with an
estimate of 50,000 to 100,000 people checking out the show (including a lot of
young people). The first song was a funk showstopper called "Wide
Receiver/Hot Dog", featuring some of the nastiest slap-funk bass riffs by
Michael himself! (CAN YOU SAY "PHUNKY?!!!"...the backing band was
jamming as hard as Michael was. After a ballad, it was on to a very familiar
ballad called "You Are My Starship" (and some of the fans were
singing the chorus along with Michael). "Valentine Love" was some
serious baby-makin', slow-n-tender love music with some good saxophone riffing.
"Take Me, I'm Yours" was the finale to the set , with a good funky
guitar melody. The Michael Henderson set was over at 5:15pm.
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Original "Sir Nose" Larry Heckstall, with the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of
Fame Parliament vocalist Fuzzy Haskins!
At 6:40pm, Original P came to the stage to summon the
Mothership by funkatizing the funkateers with a hefty dose of "Night of
The Thumpasorus Peoples". Fans old (through the VERY YOUNG too) were
totally under the spell of the P!! THIS WAS FUNK HEAVEN, BABA!! "Standing
on the Verge of Gettin' It On/The Funk is in the House" sounded so good
with the lead vocals of legendary Parliament vocalists Fuzzy Haskins and Grady
Thomas (whom some people thought was George Clinton)....the song featured a
little bit of "Pumpin' It Up" featuring Gene Thomas on the deep bass
vocals (like the late Parliament vocalist Ray Davis used to do it)....as a
matter of fact, even with all of this funky music, it just didn't feel right
without Ray being there! "Tear the Roof Off the Sucka", "Up For
the Down Stroke" and "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" were
followed by "Cosmic Slop", featuring Kevin "K-Star" Shider
on lead vocals and Gene on co-lead vocals (done in a Ray Davis tone)....close
to 100,000 fans had to take cover when Gene cut loose on a flaming lead guitar
solo! Talk about riffs dangerous enough to turn an average niteclub into a
smolderin' heap of rubble!! The funky bass riffs of Derrick Davis dominated on
"Atomic Dog"! "Flashlight" was the finale to this funk fest
with Fly providing some standout funky synthesizer riffs! The show was over at
7:45pm.
The
Original P Players:
1. Fuzzy Haskins - lead vocals
2. Grady Thomas - lead vocals
3. Derrick Davis - bass
4. Gene Thomas - lead guitar, lead & backing vocals
5. Kevin "K-Star" Shider - guitar, lead vocals
6. Billy Mimms - guitar
7. Pete Piscarzyk - keyboards
8. Fly - keyboards
9. Chyp Davis - percussion
10.
Ben Powers, Jr. - drums
11.
Emerald Davis - backing vocals
12.
Rose - backing vocals
13.
Charlene - backing vocals
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of Original P
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