| date | event | location |
| 01-03-02 | bcs national championship game | rose bowl – pasadena, ca |
| 01-02-02 | food bowl | oldtown – pasadena, ca |
| 12-28-01 | medusa and feline science | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-27-01 | fishbone stolen babies killem gilliam |
key club – west hollywood, ca |
| 12-22-01 | tre kofy brown kevin sandbloom |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-21-01 | the lord of the rings (movie) | ua valley plaza – north hollywood, ca |
| 12-17-01 | jack bruce and the cuicoland express | house of blues – west hollywood, ca |
| 12-15-01 | soulive | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-14-01 | soulive | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-09-01 | weapon of choice | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-07-01 | slapback | bb kings citywalk – universal city, ca |
| 12-06-01 | mandrill | bb kings citywalk – universal city, ca |
| 11-23-01 | the wild rabbit | redlands, ca |
| 11-22-01 | devices of wonder
posing for posterity manuel alvarez bravo |
the getty center – los angeles, ca |
| 11-18-01 | chicago brothers and sisters band | venice beach boardwalk – venice beach, ca |
| 11-13-01 | toddy | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 11-03-01 | p-funk allstars | house of blues – las vegas, nv |
| 10-29-01 | visual arts center of northwest florida |
panama city, fl |
| 10-07-01 | woc (makeshift jam band) | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 09-21-01 | vinyl | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 09-08-01 | soulive
kudo |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 09-07-01 | soulive
kudo |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 09-01-01 | club c2k | venetian casino – las vegas, nv |
| 09-01-01 | fantasy football league draft | the plaza – las vegas, nv |
| 08-25-01 | queen mary | long beach, ca |
| 08-25-01 | long beach harbor cruise | long beach, ca |
| 08-24-01 | fishbone | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
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| fishbone aug 24, 2001 templebareven though i was tired and half out of it (i was thinking about leaving early i was so tired), i still had a good night. i met the owner of the templebar, one of the waitresses, both bouncers and i chatted briefly with my fave cutey waitress. i got to hear spacey-t rip an eddie hazel like guitar solo. he dedicated the song to eddie saying that all of this kinda guitar music stems from mr hazel. my fave place was not its usual self, it was setup for the larger than normal crowd. there was a serious mosh pit and body surfing and a very uncharacteristic large percentage of males. the energy of the males moshing and banging was good. non-personal aggression. non malicous aggressive physical banging. testosterone. hard physcial energy explosions. FISHBONE AT THE TEMPLE BAR, 8.24.01 Nuttmeg soldiers filled up the temple bar last They had a 5 camera video crew filming the show Plainield, NJ native Spacey T is one of the most NORWOOD FISHER…”I just wanna know who in the I can’t remember too many of the new song titles After about a 2 hour set, FISHBONE adjourned to I looked for PFUNK1, butt he had already hit the Don’t get me wrong, we still need a LEFT COAST ¿Wish you were here? fly on… www.lamarmiles.com |
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| c2k sep 1, 2001 las vegas, nvas the warm vegas night breeze blew in over the balcony, my homey pondered on his connections and how far they could take him. in his mind he logically his network and enjoyed the far reaching possibilities. the las vegas |
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| vinyl sep 21, 2001 templebaronce again as i danced and vibed to the funky jazzy sound of vinyl, i hoped very deeply that i would always be able to this. i hoped that i would never get too famous, too popular or be too much of a “celebrity” to go to a normal club and just dance and sweat and trip out and vibe and freak the girls and just be completely free with the music. there are things i do publicly at these events that arent necessarily illegal, but wild and crazy. sometimes when i get lost in the music, eyes closed, upfront at the stage vibin deep for all to see, i look around and openly lust at all the young white girls dancin, i wonder how this looks me being a big 40 year old black man. i hope that i can always be completely uninhibited publicly no matter my age or if im the only black man in the building. its the music and the vibe that i get into. there may be clubs with folx more my demographic with the same positive all around me. and this night i mean they were VERY pretty. i hope a ceo of a company or too “high up” in a public position of authority out and be completely uninhibited. |
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| woc makeshift jam band oct 7, 2001 templebarthe jam band was lonnie, gabby, keaton, dave? (on percussion), a new drummer dude and norwood crashed the party and did a few raps at the end. gabby did this tai-chi yoga shiva type dance that i thought really cool, she was good. hung out with lamar and kareem a bit…it was cool, didnt get really deep down nasty funky but had many good moments. i almost forgot- at the end of the next to last song, lonnie started singing flashlight. i heard and recognized the music but it didnt hit me till a second later. “thats flashlight!” i smiled and looked up at lonnie and he was smiling back at me. its these little things that mean so much… |
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| p-funk allstars nov 3, 2001 house of blues las vegasi rented a car and me and jessie rode up. george held the mic while billy bass got to sing, his voice is still there. rapped with baby payne in the audience and after show. the last song “a whole lot of shakin goin on” turned into a fressstyle jam that went on for 10 minutes maybe. most of the mob had left and chuck (roadie), mike h, billy and mcfadden were playin it. the rest of the mob, including george and blackbyrd, were on stage and vibin the energy. brian (the drifter) was there and before the show a 30 sumn white drunk female started talking to us and i kinda passed her off to him, she was cool. me, jessie and the drifter hungout and we gave him a ride to the bus station. also after the show me and jessie chilled with this sister who said she was a stripper at the spearmint rhino. her and jessie talked while i danced to the house of blues house music. cloned maggot was there with his boys and he was feelin good cause he hit a slot machine for a couple grand. we stayed at the howard johnsons on tropicana. the band was good, maybe kinda too good. maybe slightly a little too Posted by bfunkey on 11/17/2001, Tracey Jammin’/ Funkentelechy/ Bop
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| toddy, abbey booth, jennifer barragan nov 13, 2001 templebarabbey booth has a cute white female 20 sum’n drummer. she used different percussions and electronics to create complicated beats. chris pierce joined them for a song and he played harmonica. tonight was flat ass night, i saw one girl who had no ass. she was wearing low riding tight jeans and when she got close i could see how her hip bone became what was suppose to be her ass. jennifer barragan was coool (though she was flat too) and played lke a blues- rock-white soul type music. her guitarist was really good and she sported a stand-up bass in the band. toddy was ok. seems like nothing really exciting happened. i saw double-d, weapon of choices horn there. all 3 groups played a bluesy-rock music and used electric acoustic guitars. toddy was really good with what he did with his electric acoustic guitar. |
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| mandrill dec 6, 2001 bb kings universal city walkhooked up with talley for this. since i am broke he said he would help me out money wise. because of how unorganized this place is we ended up not having to pay. whole night cost me $8. anywayz, mandrill is truly funky. to me this music sounds like it predates the funk i was raised on. more so than the james brown stuff. the crowd was stuffy at first, very stuffy. the band members were very warm, shook hands with a couple of them before and after the show. they made their way to the stage from their dressing room jamming percussion instuments. flattop, a cool dude who ive seen perform on venice beach before danced for a good while during a couple of songs on stage and he was jammin. crowd loosened up and we got funky. my vibe was on and i went off and away many times. saw a roadie dude i thought i remembered and i asked him to find out he did abbey booth at the temple bar when i was there. mandrill was funky funky specially when they stretched out a funky groove. |
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| slapback dec 7, 2001 bb kings universal city walkwe went off this night. it was p-funk tribute night. slapback’s lead singer asked for requests and folx (not me) was hollering “p-funk.” bb kings is completely unorganized; no current info on website or outgoing message via phone and even when we got there no one knew how much to charge us. both nights we got a different answer to the same questions. i told the cute waitress from mississippi of this unorganization and she wrote it down. i aint complaining though, we wasnt charged last night and $5 cover this night. when they went into cosmic slop i fell out, literally. i was laying MANDRILL to SLAPBACK, Posted by PFUNK1 on 12/8/2001, 64.160.144.189 funk for me started with mothership so that is the sound on which i mandrill’s music sounds like the before “my funk.” i can hear the how it influenced “my funk.” like “god made me funky,” i think of as the roots of funk than james i am still learning music histoy constructive info on this subject now slapback sounds like funk that their sound is lighter, more fun has a brighter energy than parliament less dark than funkadelic. last night slapback played: tear the roof off thumparoarus peoples atomic dog cosmic slop (guitar solo part as finish of a song) one nation mothership connection pumpin it up flashlight disco to go outro insurance man for the funk lyric of da-da, you can be sure when with the funk” over another song fire slide skin tight thank you for letting me be myself oooops up side yo head they played p-funk music with less when the mob does it. but it wasnt or generic, the music retained with a more energetic bounce to when i looked around and saw non-funk to mothership connection it moved a funk crowd but the music had vibe for them to feel it while “pumpin it up” was done very well wasnt snippets of songs. they played and some were even stretched out. the 20 sum’ns play music differently play music differently than the 20yr old energy is different than is different from 60yr old energy. funk encompasses all the energies 7 roses music to saturday afternoon by most of all wefunk pfunk1.com |
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| weapon of choice dec 9, 2001 templebarWeapon OC at the Temple Bar last night…Posted by Lamar… on 12/10/2001, 4:04 pm 64.24.190.32 hey airbody… Meganutt and co. tore shyt up last peace mollyfocks… |
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| soulive dec 14-15, 2001 templebari love the temple bar and i love white people. but my fave place was too crowded with too many young white people. i dont like my place when its too crowded. funniest thing, i was standing in there with maybe 500 others and the only black folx in the joint was me, the 5 performers and 2 bouncers and fisher p plays james brown’s say it loud, im black and im proud. it more than just struck me funny i exploded with laughter. and it was the scratchy original version lp with that steady flat bass line and tight drums. it was bumpin. the soul of john black quoted george clinton between songs “we’re |
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| jack bruce and the cuicoland express dec 17, 2001 house of blues hollywoodjack bruce was rotten. (rotten may be too rough and dramatic a word). his bass playing skills though 100 times better than mine were way below what im use to seeing in concert. his singing was subpar, he struggled to keep up with his own band constantly. its been a long time since i saw a performance that i thought was bad. scooped up talley standing on sunset blvd and we went to wendys so he JACK BRUCE’s Cuicoland Express Feat. Posted by Pfunkjazz on 12/18/2001, It was an interesting night of rock-funk Bernie was to my left on organ Once again (from previous PFUNK Bernie was stellar on organ. I cheered Vernon was really a different kind As I mentioned there were two drummers Since I was really unfamilar with Afterwards, I talked to Vernon and |
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| kofy brown, tre, kevin sandbloom dec 22, 2001 templebar i came to this place this night to see kofy brown. i was in the mood for some blackness. my fave place struck me as funny again as i looked around at all the white people. looking around i didn’t see anyone who had rhythm. or at least the beat of the rhythm that me, the band or the music was on. lotsa friendly young white girls just having a good time. kofy brown was good with her skinny left handed self, we grooved. definitely felt her vibe. her keyboards was trying to get funky too. chillin for the next band, tre, i saw mark (weapon of choice’s keys) and then i saw keaton simons (woc’s guitar). then i saw mark moving keyboards. i had no idea they was in tre. keaton was spirited with his guitar playing and short hair look. i always enjoy mr simon. mark was good on the keys and the band vibed out more than once with solos between the raps and singing. cute skinny mixed female with voice also in the group, she sang a bit. kevin sandbloom was guitar-bass-percussion with a good upper mid tempo movement. he has a good voice (like hootie and creed dude). i think i need to be around some black people. (less the traditional black people rules, roles and protocols). as always i had a good time, i love the temple bar and all it seems to be about… |
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| fishbone dec 27, 2001 keyclub this place this night was 14 & over so there were alot of young white kids there early to see the opening bands. in fact i felt very old for awhile. though i dont fully vibe fishbone’s punk/ska energy, i can still feel it. as the show was going on i looked around and noticed how these mostly white kids feel the music- how many were dancing, head bobbing and what beat they seemed to be on. i tried to sync with the bounce and beat they were on to see what part of the music they were responding to. i think i found alot of the music was not rhythmic at all. i think the music is designed not to have a central beat. most of the energy is expressed in the mosh pits and that needs no rhythm, just chaotic energy. spacy t was good on guitar as always. i think it was sarah, norwood’s girl who was having a good time releasing energy, stage dived and went into the crowd with aggressive physical energy. the thing about her is that she is an attractive black girl with a nice booty. ok, the booty part may have nothing to do with it but to see a black female that attractive express semi-angry aggressive non-personal violent physical energy was very refreshing. i mean she crowd surfed like a whiteboy, hit the floor, jumped up and banged some more. lonnie from weapon of choice was in the house. they played dirty walts stuff before the fishbone set and it was really funky.as i was vibin’ the house music between sets in the back of the club a girl started to feel the music behind me. i noticed out of the corner of my eye that she was rockin out. then she playfully and very friendly points out to me a crazy video that was showing on the many video screens. she was full of energy and cute, then as she walked away i saw them jeans she was wearing and i remembered feeling her energy from outside the place. during the show she got up on stage (the only one at that time from the crowd) and angelo let her stay as she asked if sh could dance to the next song. she did and though her rhythm could have been better, her energy was good. she really got into it and at times shook it kinda right in them tight jeans she was wearing. her name was reagan and she was cute. |
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| medusa and feline science dec 28, 2001 templebar ok, im writing later but i had to at least mention this. my fave place trips me out again in the culture crossing department. im standing there listening to a black bi-sexual female talk about how much she loves black men in packed house of 20 sumn white people who are deep into the music. the temple bar was unusually packed this night due to medusa’s following and it tripped me out (again) to see white people embracing music that is intentionally and philosophically black. maybe there is something im not seeing or know yet and thats cool cause im always learning. in fact, as i type this i got the idea of asking these kids about their motivation towards this music the next time it goes down. i definitely should at least ask dj haul and dj mason where they get it from cause they play music that is deeper than what i got!!! another cool thing this night was seeing keaton simons playing with the band. i was like “is there a band he doesnt play with???” i got home and researched and found he is medusa’s musical director. the more i see mr simons the more i like him. |
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| food bowl jan 2, 2002 pasadena, ca even gospel gives up the funk… Posted by jeffery on 1/2/2002, 10:41 pm 63.206.235.170 im kickin it in oldtown pasadena at the “food bowl” -a pre bcs championship game street food festival- and im listenin to the bands. when this small gospel band and choir breaks off into the (not just)knee deep “oh oh oh…” chorus. the band already had my head bobbin’ but when i am constantly amazed how wide spread p-funk is. the theory is my thang… pfunk1.com |
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| bcs national championship rose bowl pictures jan 3, 2002 rose bowl
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