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george clinton shows up and overlays p-funk lyric and chant over the existing music energy. 

blackbyrd and frankie singing.blackbyrd played and sang a popular oldie rock song i know but cant recall the name. maybe the first time in years ive seen them actually sing. 

the mics were very badly mixed. el grace seemed to have a funky vibey sound but you couldnt feel it cause the mix was so bad. 

kim manning did a sped up version of "never gonna tell it." kendra did "bounce to this." 

i think i heard the mc say that they hadnt even rehearsed and i believe that. it was good and entertaining to hear musicians with so much talent play together and to see frankie, lige and blackbyrd sing. but a little bit more organization could have helped. and ofcourse i say they could have played all p-funk. 

most high was a vibey mexicanish rap group who sang songs about smoking and had a nice vibe. el grace i think would have been very very good too but the mix was horrendous.

shonda clinton did "sumn stank" and she looked good. that brown brown skin, no make-up, black hair...god she was cute with all that ass in them jeans. cute brown female she is...

debbie allen was there and i believe we vibed in the rhythm. it was funny too cause i always say to my sister that ms allen is one of those loud outspoken spirited black females that i love so much. well the first i saw her she was spirited loud and i laughed. she was cute too. her and norm nixon looked good together just chillin. then she was showing this white dude how to do the snake like in the commercial and i really laughed cause i love that commercial but had forgot about it. she casually danced to the house music as i vibed it and her too...

titus fotso's band was pretty good. what i noticed about this music was that it had no aggressiveness. it was totally happy. almost a sappy happy. then i pondered about the existence of a people who never learned anger or developed an aggressive nature. i pondered more about music that is almost apologetic. funk is not that way at all- it is very aggressive and has tons of attitude. there is a spirited "meanness" to funk. 

oh mr fotso's black female dancers were wonderful. i vibed them and theor spirit deeply. they were a cute sexy. dressed in loose fitting dance clothing with bellybuttons showing but not all dressed alike.

the afterparty or the usual century club dance thang on sunday nights was very vibey and groovin. good looking young semi-upscale black crowd. folx just bobbin their heads and enjoying the music. lots of black female. good spirit. music was not hardcore rap and i dont remember any cussin, but it had a nice smooth hard tone.

shelia, mallia, belita, shonda in the house sunday night...

Posted by jeffery on 10/15/2002, 5:54 pm

mallia franklin did bits of peek-a-groove shonda clinton (who was looking extra cute with that soft brown-brown skin, black hair and motor booty in them jeans) did sum'n stank... shelia horne got hers too and played with bounce to this belita woods also did her thang vocally all this did over the bands existing non-p-funk groove "let us in we'll turn this mother out" cd release party for titus fotso and the next thang you know the special guest has the stage full of his folx fotso's band didnt quite slow down to a hard funky groove so the p-funkish vocal style didnt quite get it george even tried to slow it down by vocaling the synth to mothership connection, but they didnt get there then i realized this was a cd release party for someone else and the p-funk was just guesting- but it was too late double g, "weapon of choice" horns did sumn debbie allen was cute and having fun with her man norm nixon in the house. look over and seen her showing a white dude how to do the snake. i laughed cause i love that commercial!!! lotta p-funk folx in L.A. just out havin fun i guess... george basically came out and did p-funk lyric over the existing bands groove- up for the downstroke, we want the funk type chants, etc. shonda clinton looked really really good to me

bowlingforcolumbine.com

lockheed martin, littleton, co
southpark creators were from littleton "painfully ordinary & average"

killers came from a place in michigan where guns are plentiful

rampant fear in america

music builds under narator's voice, music climaxes to silence-
narator: "but one thing that will never go away and there's always plenty of: white america's fear of the black male"

southpark type cartoon started with the pilgrims fleeing england in fear. they get here and in fear they kill all the indians (savages). then when all the indians are gone they have a fear of witches so they killed them (started killing themselves basically). then they had a fear of work (lol) and imported african slaves (blacks). then in some places the black slaves heavily outnumbered the whites and about that time the revolver was developed (a gun that could rapid fire). then laws were passed that it was the right of every white man to bear arms. there was other stuff that lead to the whites moving in fear to the suburbs with houses with many locks and news coverage promoting fear that went into the inner city to show violent blacks. 

showed news clips of how the media markets fear. how a dozen news crews show up in the hood for an inner city black crime story for the news

and how canadians dont lock their doors

showed a guy from the aerospace military industry lockheed martin explaining his reasoning for the columbine shootings with a huge missile in the background.

the heaviest u.s. bombing in the korsovo war was done 1 hour before the columbine shootings. president bill clinton was involved in the war in korsovo.

marilyn manson was interviewed and he was good, articulate. explaining his thoughts and defending how he was incorrectly blamed for the shootings cause of his lyrics and music.

movie showed the connections between columbine, the 9-11 attacks, cia, slavery, etc

also showed how the u.s. military and cia did covert operations in multiple countries supporting and funding war. that we helped sadamm hussein. that we gave osama bin laden $3 billion. the cia involvement with noriega, vietnam, etc was also shown.
http://bowlingforcolumbine.com/involved/wonderful/index.php

showed blacks being arrested in cops, talked to one of the creators of cops about how they overwhelmingly show minorities

interviewd charleton heston at his house. i thought heston said "the right of every able bodied white man to bear arms." he then went on to say when asked that the reasin the murder rate was so high was because of the multiple ethnicity. and the fact that there are different races.

widespread issue of the news media spreading fear. 

other countries dont have the high murder rate like u.s.
they have the violent past and other things. u.s. 11,000 murders, canada less than 100, germany and other countries also

the nra and the kkk started in the same year

http://theoryofuniverse.com/philosophy/bowlingforcolumbine

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

met stozo, really enjoyed seeing overton's work; paintings, and different versions of the motor booty sir nose cover. pedro bell's art stuff was good too. 

The Art of Funk...Posted by Lamar... on 11/8/2002, 5:01 am

GC& the P in SF...Posted by Lamar... on 11/8/2002, 5:36 am ,
in reply to "The Art of Funk...

vagenus was a band led by a skinny white girl with voice. not quite a voice a man could worship (the peak show) but along those lines. i was intrigued by her extremely caucasin features and body. their music was almost vibey not quite soul but soulful like. her voice is nicely heavy. everybody seemed to have fun saying the name vagina, va geena, etc...her, voice ad

the groove syndicate had good grooves and rap. the energy of the group is a smallish cute chubby black girl (as opposed to a tallish skinny white girl). her voice and head bobbin energy vibe was good. i wonder if you could call this music neo-soul. its soulful, but is very "sterile" and clean which kinda makes it not soulful. but the movement and music had me groovin. they have horns, bass, keyboards, drums, guitar- a full band. i really enjoyed them. i hadnt been out to hear live music in a long time, and even longer since i been to mi fave local, so i was ready. and it felt good.

it had been a while since i had been out so i was ready. get there late (had just left my x-mas party) and she was already playin, but the bouncer told the ticket girl to let me in free, sayin i spent enough money in the past going up in there. then when i turned the corner and saw how packed it was, i understood why. mi fave place was over-packed and i dont like that, but i dealt with it. in fact, i had groove that needed exercising so i didnt care about the non-dancin young white kids around me. i did my thang with aggressive outloudness. the beat feel good and getting into a grrove i danced like ive heard this band many times, never missin a beat. it was almost with malice that i danced. with a "look what i can do and you cant" type aire. and at times i meant it. at other times i was hopingto show folx how to groove. either way, it felt good to let it out.

leaving the place i saw her, we made eye contact and i lit up. she saw me so she was ready as immediately turned to her extending my hand. i smiled and shook her hand and said it was a pleasure to be in a room with someone else who could find the beat. she laughed and so did her asian friend, who actually could dance fairly well compared to the rest of the non-rhythmics. but she couldnt come close to the little black girl with rhythm.

he was groovin wth two dudes who had sandwich names. one on drums and one with one of those accordian thingys. the accordian guy was funky. his first riff over lonnies beat had a really funky groove to it. he definitely funked up that accordian thing.

the a ways into it, lonnie asked for requests and i said hyperspice. he played this with bass and beat only and it moved. i was impressed (and told him afterwards) with how good that bass line was. without any other instruments, it moved. 

he played a nice long chunk of funkentelechy. beat and gutiar riff created with his electronic gizzardy then he sampled a bass line over that. it wasnt a lot of insturmentation, but you could tell and feel it was funkentelechy. he then got behind the drum kit and sang over these samples. and i sang from my seat on the floor, it was good. 

he said funky dollar bill

he chanted "shake what ya brought wit ya, you know what its gonna get ya" from silly millimeter

he sang cholly and heard me singing the lead and ask/said i would sing and he play the drums. lonnie motioned to me and when he did i was like "hell no" and broke for the rear. all in fun, and i really didnt, but i still enjoyed it immensely. then as i was standing up dancin back towards the rear 

after the set meganut told me he sang on joe strummers first record. he dedicated and mentioned mr strummer several times during the early set. i believe him to be the guy from the clash who just passed.

andy tubman was a whiteboy with a good voice who sang with a cool whiteboy style. it wasnt soul or rock, but it had a mellowness to it. he vibed and flowed nicely, and it was cool cause it came off as totally caucasian. he wasnt trying to sound black or anything else. he was solo and played several guitars and piano. 

Posted by STEELERFUNK1 on 12/24/2002, 10:41 am

cody chestnutt sang over a cd, as he was listed as "acoustic." every other word he used was either god or jesus. i even thought he praised jesus and talked about stealing in the same sentence. mi fave place got too crowded and he said jesus one too many times during his set provoking my early exit. 

leaving early i cruised to home in pasadena via wilshire blvd to the 110 fwy. beautiful mellow ride thru beverly hills and etc into downtown los angeles. 

i remember naturez dezigned from the watts festival, they were vibey with like 3 good tunes that i remembered. la tanya lockett was trippy with her comments about driving from san diego and traffic and there only being 10 people in the joint. they were almost subtle but in the end she said she liked the place (i guess). they were a full band with latanya singing lead with female back-up. it was cool vibing a black band and the semi-soulful ways of such.

the music was good and moved me but the thing this night was race and rhythm. i was the only black person in the place. i sat and watched the 25-30 people on the dancefloor and NONE OF THEM WERE ON ANY BEAT. there were no sustained patterns of motion that could be seen as rhythm. most of them were not only completely off-beat, but the patterns were "broken." they would stop and start arbitrarily at any given time. and im not commenting on style of dance (which was some of the most white people bad dancin ive seen) or the coolness or appearance of the moves. i just refereing to if these moves were on any kind of beat.

but thats not what was really amazing. this is incredibly rhythmic music that has many rhythmic patterns which provide many different opportunities to find a beat. but not only were none of the 30 or so dancers not on any of these beats, they also were not in any kind of time with each other! so basically, there were 30 people on 30 different beats. no one was in time with anyine else or the music. as i thought about it, this in itself is an accomplishment. how do you dance so close to external influences and not be effected by them? 

seems you would kinda find a groove with people in your area if not with the music. are they not feeling it? are they deliberately finding a pattern that makes their movements unique? there definitely was a flow of motion with a kind of timing with the group as a whole though.

then the girl from the opening band joined cubensis and she was on beat. it made me feel so good to dance in my chair keeping time with her that i almost cried. she was on a different time (say 4 beats for every two of mine) but we were on beat together.

she had two black female singers on stage with her but one in particular moved me. she was light skinned and kinda tall singing and playing different kinda electronic instruments. then she laid down a sample and began dancin to it. and this touched me. no one can move like black american female. the combination of sexuality and strength. the inherent african rhythm and vibe with western attitude, uninhibitness and sexuality. power, grace and beauty. she was wearing like an african burka but when she started doing her dance she pulled it up to reveal a tight stomach and low riding jeans and a body beautiful. oh the way she moved.

though i was completely not motivated, it was a pleasure to be around so many black females. on stage and off. just looking at them and being around them. black female.

robert walters was a full band that i felt prolly would do better on a better night. they were good, but seemed to be "coasting" at times. still good jambandish type music. there were good moments though.

the dj, carlos nino i think, played some really really good music. very, very good beats with intricate meditative grooves. i was entranced more than once by his groove. his dj music was so good it made me stay as i was contemplating leaving. sitting there i thought how good the music is in this place. and how ive never heard most of the music i hear played here before, and the high quality of that music. and yes, once again i was almost the only in a crowd of young white. and yes, i thought about how these whiteboys got such good music. yesterday i also thought about how i see very very few female djs.  ran into and said whattup to keaton simons.

the rest of the night though was on hit. spirit level and burning star drew a much more diverse crowd than the templebar usual. these groups have a vibey hip-hoppish spiritual funk groove. each were full bands, lots of percussion, guitar solos, bassy and burning star had hip-hop rap. the crowd was all skinny white girls. there were thick big bootie hispanic females in low-riding jeans wearing and belly's showing groups.  there even were sistas in on the groove!! and they had rhythm. even the white girls this night had rhythm. this filled me with energy and i let it out. i was on and took it to a higher level. this was my 3rd night in a row in groove and i realized that this enabled me to go deeper. like i was primed. 

made me wonder if the funk crowd is largely semi-rhythmless and white. cause every funk show i go to is filled with non dancers. maybe i can find groovers with the beat at shows with groups like this. 

burning star was full band with percussion and hip hop type rap. but there were good periods of music groovin with no rap, with allowed for trance. i digged the dudes doing the rappin and their message for the most part. it was kinda simplistic and felt it was forcing the spirituality a little too much. emphasizing the spiritual aspects just a little too much. both spirit level and burning star did this, but not to the point were it was bad.

at times i could turn in any direction and see/feel people on beat. there were lots of attractive girls with big booties. i had a very, very , very god time. i waded in euphoria from dancing with attractive females all around me. one after the other female after female came close enough to feel my vibe. 

i dont get kei key bu, i dont get her appeal or talent for that matter. but every year here she is doing this thang with sonny cool (who's mic is always too loud). blackbyrd was scheduled but didnt show. kei key did a few songs, but didnt headline. one song was very similiar too "p-funk" and another was very, very similiar too maggot brain. kim manning and mallia franklin sang back up. kim manning was allowed to "scream" during a song and she did maybe better than ok. this may have been the first time i was able to hear her sing full out like that, and even with the not so perfect mic mix she sounded good. it was good hanging out as always in hollywood on sunset strip. that in its self to me and an empty freeway ride home with my car running the best it has in a long time was very pleasurable.