p-funk tour feb 2001
im writing this almost a month later. i had such a good time that i was
too stimulated to record and write down stuff while it was happening, so
here is what i can remember...it started riding to san diego on 2-21. got
to the city early so i could hit a few museums; museum of man- which was
really good and the museum of photographic arts. both are in balboa park
which is like a spanish styled museum compound. i danced on the ride down,
in the museums and even while i had a sushi lunch between museums.
i left there feeling good and go to the place where the show is gonna be, i
walk right in as if i belong and peep the place. i run into a dude who had
on a long sleeve black shirt that had "p-funk" and the numeral
one ont he back. he said trey lewd gave it to him. im there too early so i
go find get a motel 6 room and dance and chill gabbin with the cute young
hispanic girls at the desk. get back to the show and my vibe is on fool!!
im dancing constantly now. walking across street, in front of the place,
at atm teller. most of the folx just look and i just keep dancing to funky
music being played by the local radio staion truck. run into gruverboy who
is too young to get in and i cop him a p-funk bandana. ran into talley
nephew and we grooved for about a hour before the show. i danced into the
place to a spot in the wide open middle and kept dancing dead on beat.
jesters hat and pfunk1 jersey for all to see-
show was good. clip sang the opening funkadelic songs on the floor leaning
on the stage and the band was tight. except for mike hampton who was
either messed up or pissed off. my vibe was on and it seemed every
funkadelic who came oput to sing, sang to me. directly to me. at one point
i saw a guy turn around and look at me to see who everyone was singing to.
met carlos mccurray and he said the music that played pre-show was his and
it was funky.
ran into lamar and kareem also before show and we decided to hook-up and
ride to vegas after the LA show tomorrow...
LA show was a mess. most of the funkdelics seemed too messed up to
perform. george took the stage first, no warm up and no entrance during
cosmic slop. balckbyrd came in late with guitar in case with george on
stage trying to get things started. nobody sang that nite. mike h was so
messed up or pissed he didnt play cosmic slop, blackbyrd played it off to
the side. lydia started to play maggot brain and it was bad. gary did no
singing. there were at least 2 points in the show where it literally
almost fell apart. where there was no one on stge to lead or determine
direction. no vocal leadership. it was bad and i had never seen them like
this before. it was so bad i thought about skipping vegas.
but i didnt. kareem and lamar hit my crib and we was off to sin city.
groovin listening to weapon of choice we gets there and go right to the
show. im there 10 minutes when a guy sees my house of blues wrist-pass and
says i can go upstairs vip. im up there 5 minutes when i meet these sistas
and they go screaming "jeffery jeffery." i felt good and i knew
i felt good. i was on. the vegas show was much better than the LA show
yesterday, mike h looked like a kid who had gotten in trouble and he
played well.
during the show lamar and them met a guy called brian and he came back to
the hotel with us and we ordered 3am hotel delivered pizza. he was cool
and so many things he said were reveleant to me that it was scary. right
down to the fact he mentioned the earth magnetic poles reversing at one
time- i had just been researching that. anyways i tagged him "the
drifter" and he came back to our room the next day and follwed us to
anaheim for that show.
by this time i was on. i vibe energy was as high as its ever been. people
from all over were coming up to me and saying hi. seemed like everybody
was there, all my buddies and i got the room's vibe up high. music was
good and everybody was dancing. we was partying and i started the chant:
lets get, this mothafocka started" (it was tight too!!!) all kinds of
girls and positive vibe. everybody knew me. everybody could feel my
positive vibe.
overton giving me first poster megan showed up looking really really good.
hugged and kissed her. george started doing the dance (swim type groove) i
was doing by bar flying from balcony during end of knee deep giving
blackbyrd pictures i printed ate at mad greek on way home kareem pulled
out sade promise cd and then we saw funkadelic bus snuck into sound check
in anaheim
so many good things happened. we had a really really good time.
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