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rhythm room allstars jan 6, 2002 templebar i didnt feel a good bit of the opening act derf reklaw. i wasnt getting the rhythms at all. it was so bad at one time i jumped up to see what was wrong, it seemed that off. like i told dj haul, i can dance to the sound of running water but i aint feeling this. then they played a funk tune with rhythms i was sure of and they hit it. i thought this because derf was singing and not playing. it was very strange cause as long as ive been going to the temple bar this felt like the first "bad" band i had heard. but they kinda recovered, but still very strange beats to say the least.and ofcourse the people in there were mostly white and young so i didnt expect them to know if this mostly percussion band was bad. i usually applaud when something good happens and that may not necessarily be when a break occurs. even if the music is bad, the music or band has parts when its an obvious time to clap, and the crowd responded at these times. maybe they felt it and i didnt. looking around the room, maybe 2 people out of 70 showed a rhythmic response to the music, the rest just sat there like white people do i couldnt tell if it was the music or the people. once again, dont get me wrong- i love white people. i love everybody but i do recognize the differences and can point them out.  the rhythm room allstars made up for it though. they bounced me back into it. dj mason and dj haul scratchin to a full band doing comlpicated rhythms riding on music with good positive movement. double g (weapon of choice) on horns, jose lopez (i think) is the bare foot guitarist with toe ring who ripped it up with trulio disgracias there before. dave on percussion. good strong positive music. and afterwards me and all my 20 sumn white friends (ok, mostly girls) danced and vibed to dj mason who was spinning a very very good groove.at first i was feeling old and black with all them 20 sumn's, i was the only black male in the joint other than derf reklaw's band who were close to my age and race. but afterwards all that went away as i vibed out to the music. and i got deeply lost in the music enjoying the freedom of rhythmic dance expression, sweaty, eyes closed and letting the music take me anywhere we (me and the music) wanted to go.  then every so often i would come back and peep the floor of 20 sumn girls vibin out and that was good. i danced a 15 minute stretch with my t-shirt wrapped around my eyes as a blindfold very close to the speaker. it was just me and the music and i got lost in it . in that freedom. i thought again, i hope I NEVER loose the ability to vibe out like this. never get to the point where i feel too self conscious to dance it out. it felt like it had been a long time since ive done this and it felt good. oh yeah, it was also the first time that i saw aron (temple bar's sound guy) dance, it was cool he had a nice little bounce and i told him...

maceo parker jan 18, 2002 house of blues hollywood maceo pointed at me in my pfunk1 jersey and said "you're numba one, huh?" i said "hell yes" and danced around dead on beat so he could see da p funk on my back. as i finished  my dance spin i saw him pointing and laughing. thats how the show started. ran into greg thomas preshow. also a cool polish dude i met before who i drop science with and learned that everywhere else in the world the devil is black. he said he wondered why when he came to this country the devil was red.  when the show got cookin good and after greg thomas did sum'n funky with maceo on a soprano sax he had in his car, mr george clinton comes out and the place goes crazy. the house's energy and mine went through the woof. at that point it beacme a funk show. maceo was saying lyrics from live p-funk albums he did in the past. it was really cool to here them live after hearing them so many times on tape. funny part was they didnt fit into what was going on, but they sounded soooo good. maceo was also funny when he said about george that you would ask him a question and he would just bark at you. maceo said what a deep and interesting concept to just bark at someone when they ask you somethin. that was funny and the way he said it still makes me laugh.  greg boyer, rodney skeet curtis , greg thomas, maceo and george on the stage together playing was cool.

living colur allstars jan 19, 2002 house of blues disneyland i got there late, after living colour had finished their set. talley had my ticket so i had to get inside to get him to get it. so as the crowd waited around i was buzzing back and forth in my pfunk1 jersey trying to find him and get the ticket. i know the crowd was aware of me. shelia e, vernon reid, corey glover and others start the groove for the song "i not always there when you call, but im always on time" and it was smooth. as thangs got started george came out and the energy again (just like last night) went through the woof. george did his thang and eventually settled in to "red hot momma" and the band grooved. it was funky.  corey glover (living colours lead singer) then morphed that into "we want the funk." george had left the stage and thats when corey did his thang where he walks thru the crowd singing. by this time i got my pfunk1 jersey off waving it as a flag wearing my homemade "kordell"headband (the steelers had a big playoff game the next day against baltimore, we spanked them) and the corey comes over to me. i see him coming and enjoyed every moment. i was able to maintain my groove on beat knowing everybody was watching. i spun around dancing on beat enjoying and anticipation coming up and groovin with mr glover. when i saw living colour a few months ago i liked when mr glover climbed the balcony with the mic and sang from there. so it was like all so good when i knew i was gonna be able to groove with a little mo spotlight. i cant remember exactly what i did as we danced and grooved but i know i was on it. i felt the music and i enjoyed the extra eyes on me. plus the fact that i genuinely liked corey's persona and the way he grooves made it even better. i dont know what i did i just know i funked the hell out of the moment.

clinton newstars jan 22, 2002 dragonfly dragonfly hanging with mike ledton horn player who played in the living colour allstar set and was singing "let us in we'll turn this mother out refrain" while airbody else sang "we want the funk" he said he was living colours original lead singer before corey glover somehow i had trey lewds attention and i started singing one of his lyrics that had been in my head for a couple days. i didnt even say hi or whattup i just started singing it and he gave me much love for it. i could tell he was touched as he explained how that lyric originally just happen to come out and how he didnt even know how he did it. hanging cute light skinned singer and dude who was making a movie. they were so cool and had so much imagination. i told them that i work with computer people im not use to being around people with so much imagination.  i was just sitting there minding my own biznness and folx started coming around, next thing i know its a conversation party. we were on the back patio deck of the place. first night didnt work but the second night we went off!!! when secret agent bill played this night folx left. the floor actually became empty. but when the funk came out the crowd returned. 1650 this was an experiment in not only music but culture. sean healy mixed bands and followings from very different cultures. crazy punk, metal, rock and the cool thing was these local groups brought their followings.  the first band were white dudes with crazy costumes who passedout twinkies and twizzlers during the show. i liked how their memebrs danced all over the auditorium. they were like punk metal or sumn. so was the next band as i recall. but the music played in between bands was hip-hop and everybody, even the white people seemed to vibe ok to that.  there was a black gangsta rap group that kept it real. these boys came out cussing, using the word nigga and talking bout pussy. in fact they had a song called "pussy popping." there uncensored rawness is umn white groups dont have or dont do as readily. it was about 8 young black dudes just coming out and talking dat shit like it was no thang. the audience was mostly white but they used the word nigga like a pronoun. i thought this very cool.  one of the coolest things was the black female dancer the rap group had. man she could move. i forget how sensual and sexy black female can be. this girl made me forget all the dancing white girls ive seen over the last year. her dancing made them seem like kids playing. she was cute rhythmic and i could feel her feeling it. man she was cute i think it was malia franklin who was there singing on stage and vibin me giving the "4 the funk" sign back george sang hot sauce by thomas dolby, a very obscure song i had just been listening too overton was running around the place he did a sign "an experiament gone strong" which i had to have an got towrds the end of the show i danced behind the crowd to the open floor, but my stuff down and just grooved around it dancing in a circle. george doing the sir nose lyrics from aqua boogie secret agent bill very diverse groups. punk, crazy metal, hardcore westcoast rap.  last night the show didnt work, but this night it did. secret agent bill is a punk band that george seems to be working with. blackbyrd and frankie shared drum and guitar duties with them and also mixed funk with punk that settled into a funky type groove.

studio rehearsal - headphonesinger jan 25, 2002 sound arena this was my first time in a real music rehearsal studio. it was a building with a bunch of semi soundproofed rooms of different sizes with drums, guitar amps, monitor speakers, mics with stands, etc. it cost like $16hr and we had it from 8-12pm. its cheaper during the day. anyways i ran into p.tracey at the clinton newallstars show and he told me they had rented studio time and if i wanted i could drop in and play a bit. we thought it was scheduled for thursday but it ended up being friday so thursday i ended up over p.traceys with him and john d. and we just fooled around with the music. john d is a drummer and he had a snare and used the base the mic stand for foot producing a nice bass drum. p.tracey played rhythm guitar and i just rapped talked. we each had headphones on and could hear each other. i love the sound of my voice. i deeply love it.  listening to the recording we made a day later i relaized how good john and phillip really were. while doing it ya feel it and not observe it so it was all good. but the next day listening i wa like these dudes held it down very nicely and i realized that just cause i had the mic and did most of the talking that i was as much a follower of the music as i thought i was the creator. ptracey put down some very cool gutiar riffs that i flowed to and john d would catch it then maybe take the lead. this was my first time doing anything with live musicians and i was very very excited, like a little kid. i wanted everything recorded and one time after i laid down a serious vocal rap style i wanted to be sure we were recording. i asked ptracry to double check and sure enough, we werent recording. i was slightly upset cause i was hurt that we didnt get my performance which may have been one of the best in my life and definitely the first of me doing a style i may have invented. anywayz i say all this to say this; much much much love to ptracey and john d for inviting me and allowing me to be a part of this. i think they are much better than they will admit and it was a pleasure for me to experience them doing their thing... one thing i liked about this whole thing was that i remained totally open and uninhibited. i was able to comfortably express my passions and thoughts freely and at will. we were recording and i was able to allow any feeling i have inside of me come out.

wendel-mendel feb 2, 2002 templebar willow is a band with white girl lead singer on guitar. she was a thin-wrist smallish brunnette with a very powerful voice. like a cross between american country and ireland. i enjoyed watching her play a strong steady guitar in her female way. she wasn't so much cute, but very attractive cause of her way of being a plain female white girl with a controlled powerful voice and music.  electric fans is a group from amsterdam who played music at a techno frequency with fairly traditional instruments. one dude had a mouth harp connected to what looked like guitar wah wah foot pedals on a table. the music was kinda upbeat dance trance played live i guess. the funny thing about this was the crowd that was dancing. i dont usually laugh at white people dancing but tonight what these people were doing on the dancefloor could only be called chaos. it was a group of about 9 barely 21 white girls and at any given time none of them were on beat. i literally laughed out loud watching some of the "moves" these young girls were attempting. there was no rhythm or harmony to what they were doing. they all seemed to be dancing to their own music and not what was being played.  wendel was a mellowy soft jazz kinda thang. full band with a smooth percussion, very mellow.

weapon of choice feb 10, 2002 templebar mason played trouble funk's drop the bomb, funk u up by sequence, arcade funk and to top it off a remix of parlet's play me or trade me. when i heard parlet i spun around and hurriedly walked over to him and screamed "HELL NO!!!" he immediately smiled and laughed and seemed to know exactly how i felt. earlier i was telling kareem and them i have been blessed to have good djs in my life. how lucky i was to have a place like the temple bar that plays the kind of music i love so much. i even chatted with my fave cutie waitress about how ive been spoiled by the quality of music here. it had been so long since i heard mediorce music that when i did it was trippy.  i also thought how ive grown to take for granted my fave local band weapon of choice. humans become numb with familiarity. lonnie and them are good and as a band i probably see them the most. and i see a lot of damn good bands. anywayz tonight again i tripped out as mi fave place once again tripped me out with its ultra diversity. white white people playin funk. and i mean white white not just in color, but in ethnicity. a 20 sum'n girl and a middle aged male and female. female (elizabeth) on trombone was funky and balding chris on sax was too. so funky in fact the contrast in physical appearance and spiritual vibe tickled me. i love the horn in woc music, it adds a cool dimension. i was ready for the short set so it didnt hurt so bad this time when it ended. josh? on guitar was spirited tonight. the keys can make sounds with a tight control of frequency that no other instrument can. im very very spoiled ...

love hurts feb 15, 2002 magic johnson's theaters bootsy, bernie, maceo, mudbone, mike hampton,  garry shider, fred wesley live nyc 9-28-90 Posted by PFUNK1on 2/16/2002, 4:45 am 95% of the 90 minute movie "love hurts" was live concert footage. it had a very loosely based storyline. this film screened tonight at the pan african film festival in L.A. and 80% of the concert footage was of bootsy's show in nyc 1990. they played a bunch of stuff in the film including a complete version of cosmic slop. (garry & gary if ya hear me!!) when they started to get p-funky garry took off his pants to reveal diaper... maceo, garry, mike h all looked so different (11 yrs ago) (mr hampton is so spirited and into the music that he is jumpin up and down while playing) telephone bill munchies for your love rather be with you bernie solo maceo solo bootsy solo lots of mr shider's singing, voice mike h did a spirited cosmic garry & gary was good lots of overton earthmon graphics funkin for fun (album version as background music) lots of other songs & funk funkadelic flag on a characters bedroom door the audio and video had a "raw" feel to them. lots of unconventional camera angles (updside down, extreme closeups, etc). the rawness worked for me as i feel some stuff is too polished. it feels more real the less edited and manipulated it is. i liked the "dirtyness" of the concert footage a good portion of teena marie footage deja vu and others live pfunk1.com very cool evening, hung out with overton and talked funk before the show. got some very interesting insight into funk. p-funk productioin manager and his wife (one of the sexy p-funk dancers), frankie waddy, etc in attendance. the movie was created by darryl mccane who is a real cool funky dude (but a raider fan). ive seen him at alot of shows and i knew he had video of me from over the years. so i asked him about it at a show and he told me of screening. i love black people i was spose to have like a cameo in the movie's concet footage, but all i saw was "Jeffery" in the credits and that was kool-aid with me.

henry s. johnson book signing feb 16, 2002 hollywood park casino i love black people and the way we do it with so much style, flair and coolness. compared to white people its like black people are showing off at everything they do. maybe cause we do everything with so much pride, enthuiasm and excitement. dr johnson wrote a book about the oj simpson conspiracy in which he brings up points about the evidence and other things that he feels clearly show that the whole trial was a sham and a frame-up. bubba smith was there. it was held in a rather sizable banquet room at the hollywood park casino and there was a live acid jazzy band.  it was good to see black people and especially black girls. but ofcourse, white female definitely represented. dr johnson's wife was white and his kids were mixed and just gorgeous. (seems like mixing of breeds produces beautiful offspring). they are from brentwood or sumn so there were those santa monica type young white girls there alongside urban black females. very diverse setting. very nice layout with food and stuff. dr johnson spoke about his book with so much excitement mixed with black coolness that it reminded me of me. style and funkiness mixed with information and a serious subject matter. when i shook his hand he said to me something like "you seen me up there.." and he did like a little shoulder shake dance move and i was like yeah! me and him definitely had extended eye contact through his speech and at times it seemed as if he was looking directly at me for long periods of time. (im use to this. having a speaker speak directly to me when im in a crowd). he had charisma and i felt he could see things in people that i can cause he knew i digged that dance thang

tarzans nightclub mar 1, 2002 laughlin, nv the club this night and till around april is free and no dresscode. i was tired and not really feeling it as i had just drove from 5 hours but stopped in cause it was free and had no dresscode. other than the bass player i was the only black person in there, but for what ever reason i was relaxed with aggressive confidence that im sure could be seen in my walk and disposition.  the club this night was filled with drunk non dancing white folx out for a good time. i aint hatin on nobody, but watching i saw no one with any rhythm or any type of sustained dance groove. the one semi-nicely thick white girl with an almost decent move did that same move all night. at first it was sexy, then it became funny as she applied the same move to every groove. then it became irritating. but one thing about white girls they can be openly playfully sexual, black girls are more sensual. these girls was just drunk and being free. i like this. forget the dance moves, these people just wanted to rub body parts together in public, be sexually stimulated and arouse each other. very playful. couple of cutie in there but nothing that motivated me. the band, afterplay, was a tad below mediorce. the bass player was good, the white female britney type but more soulful funky singer was good and kinda cute, but the rhythm guitar and drums made mistakes and missed beats all night. hey, call me spoiled but im use to world class bands so i notice miscues.

lobsterbar at tarzans mar 2, 2002 laughlin, nv because mommy had so much comp $$ from being rated when gambling, she got like $900 worth of food credit. so when we hit this place its basically "give me two of 'em." i ate so much crab legs and  lobster tails that i was about to bust. the 50 sumn waitress we had last time remembered me from the last time i was here and that made me feel good.

the peak show mar 7, 2002 templebar i spent my $7 this night to see and hear live the person responsible for this magnificient voice. i recored to cassette a previous temple bar performance so i was fairly familiar. this girl has a voice a man could worship. energy, tone or whatever to me its special. the drummer was very very impressive also. it was good to sit in mi fave place anticipating seeing for the first time the creature which could create sounds like this. she sang a jackson five song. they seemed to play a more rock type set vs the temple bar set. regeardless i was honored to stand there in the presence of that voice. definitely want more.  pleasure club was like a rock-n-roll punk funky band. they were good and had good movement. the music had strange energy because of the mix of a punk tone over rock-n-roll played very funkily. the lead singer had good vocals and kept the music moving. om trio was drums, bass and keyboards. very very electronicly jambandish funky. keyboard was tight and played with steady tight repitive rhythms. so tight they could entrance.

politically incorrect mar 18, 2002 cbs studios bill maher seemed disgusted and frustrated. his tone and everything suggested that there was something he was an injustice he was struggling against. kinda like a disgruntled worker he just did what he was suppose to do and nothing above that. the only spontaneous line he delivered to the audience (there was supose to be a question and answer period that never happened) roughly  said something about the "fucking little guy" getting a break.  florence henderson and tom greene were the celebrity guests. florence and maher had on tons of tv make-up. the topic was about the consequences of eating meat. like it takes 16lbs of grain to produce 1 lb of meat, the grain could be used to feed people. an there is tremendous amounts of waste from cows that needs to be disposed of. got there at 3:15 to stand in line, cbs studios. the "price is right" people were there too taping. we stood in lines, were informed and entertained until we got in our seats around 4:30. then a cool funny guy in the studio did jokes and explained things and tried to get the crowd going. one thing i noticed was this wasnt a "g" rated thing. there were a number of casual references to some pretty racy things regarding sex and drugs.  it was cool thing to do, a bit too touristy and i really dont like being part of a hearded crowd. i didnt like being one of many and non-distnguished even though i was in a "dont bother me" mood.