| date | event | location |
| 01-28-03 | kei kei bu preston g-spot |
the key club – west hollywood, ca |
| 01-26-03 | television: superbowl XXXVII | claim jumpers – buena park, ca |
| 01-24-03 | burning star spirit level optic nerve |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 01-23-03 | eric mcfadden | fais do-do – los angeles, ca |
| 01-22-03 | robert walters 20th congress kudu |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 01-18-03 | erykah badu | house of blues – las vegas, nv |
| 01-14-03 | cubensis baggy pants |
kozmos – huntington beach, ca |
| 01-14-03 | mother jones | pershing square – downtown los angeles |
| 01-12-03 | lord of the rings: the two towers |
redlands cinema – redlands, ca |
| 01-06-03 | elephonic subthunk |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 01-04-03 | trulio disgracias naturez design la tanya lockett |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 01-03-03 | modern groove assembly cody chestnutt |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-28-02 | natural afrodisiac modern groove syndicate jabudah |
kozmos – huntington beach, ca |
| 12-27-02 | venice beach boardwalk | venice beach, ca |
| 12-23-02 | meganuts one nut stand andy tubman |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-23-02 | television: steelers vs buccaneers |
yankee doodles – santa monica, ca |
| 12-19-02 | homestyle pidegon john |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-14-02 | weapon of choice kim hill fanny franklin |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-12-02 | orgone | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 12-07-02 | goapele | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 11-24-02 | television: steelers vs bengals | cheers – moreno valley. ca |
| 11-21-02 | the groove syndicate love balm vagenius |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
| 11-19-02 | movie: the ring | pacfic hastings – pasadena, ca |
| 11-17-02 | television: steelers vs titans | cheers – moreno valley. ca |
| 11-09-02 | slapbak | bb kings citywalk – universal city, ca |
| 11-07-02 | p-funk allstars | bridges auditorium – claremont, ca |
| 11-06-02 | p-funk allstars | ruby skye – san francisco, ca |
| 11-06-02 | the art of funk | studio z – san francisco, ca |
| 11-03-02 | p-funk allstars | ucsb – santa barbara, ca |
| 11-03-02 | television: steelers vs browns | the 35er – old town pasadena, ca |
| 11-02-02 | p-funk allstars | house of blues – hollywood, ca |
| 10-31-02 | p-funk allstars | house of blues – disneyland, ca |
| 10-30-02 | p-funk allstars | belly up tavern – solana beach, ca |
| 10-29-02 | lion king | the pantages theater – hollywood, ca |
| 10-22-02 | movie: bowling for columbine |
rialto theater – south pasadena, ca |
| 10-19-02 | b & r old fashion burgers |
gardena, ca |
| 10-18-02 | boardwalk11 | los angeles, ca |
| 10-13-02 | titus fotso cd release party special guest: george clinton |
the century club – century city, ca |
| 10-13-02 | television: steelers vs bengals | the 35er – old town pasadena, ca |
| 10-12-02 | nu-phound nation wylde bunch man vs machine most high el grace |
1650 – hollywwood, ca |
| 10-12-02 | greuze | the getty museum – los angeles, ca |
| 10-08-02 | eric mcfadden love sick lunatics |
the mint – los angeles, ca |
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| eric mcfadden oct 8, 2002 the mint very spirited guitar playing, hard to categorize. but the energy and movement is very good. he played one song that had like a light-funky funk with spanish overtone. strong melodies and rhythms. his set was with drummer and upright bass (as i recall). good positive movement in his music but its not sappy happy. i love the different rhythms over the solid beat. |
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| nuphound nation oct 12, 2002 1650 nuphound nation is frankie waddy, lige curry & blackbyrd mcknight. they headlined a sean healy show that consisted of many bands of different genres. from hardcore get high rap to vibey white soul. there were ghetto niggas in there with skinny white girls. as i think about it, i dont rememebr too many black females, but there were a few. i love the mixing of cultures at these sean healy events. george clinton shows up and overlays p-funk lyric and chant over the existing blackbyrd and frankie singing.blackbyrd played and sang a popular oldie rock the mics were very badly mixed. el grace seemed to have a funky vibey sound kim manning did a sped up version of “never gonna tell it.” kendra i think i heard the mc say that they most high was a vibey |
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| 35er oct 13, 2002 pasadena sunday morning in an empty bar in old town pasadena to watch my steelers. started my day on the jukebox with fleetwood mac “dreams”, creed’s “faceless man” & “inside us all” and parliament’s nite of the thumpasourass people. i danced and vibed very deeply this music. then i watched my steelers kick some serious bengal ass… |
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| titus fotso cd release party oct 13, 2002 century club forgot this was a titus fotso thang after george came out cause he took over. mallia franklin sang parts of “peek a groove” over the music. shelia horne, shonda clinton did “sumn stank” and she looked good. that brown debbie allen was there and i believe we vibed in the rhythm. it was funny titus fotso’s band was pretty good. what i noticed about this music was oh mr fotso’s black female dancers were wonderful. i vibed them and theor the afterparty or the usual century club dance thang on sunday nights was shelia, mallia,
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| b&r old fashion burgers oct 19, 2002 ya got to go to the hood to get food like this. real homemade style hamburgers served hot. the french fries were some of the bets i ve ever tasted and they were hot out of the grease. real potatoes cut straight and thick with seasoned salt. they was so good i went back again later that evening. i ordered a burger and a wing dinner (it was so inexpensive i had to) and when they brought it to me they were so surprised i ordered two that even customers lit up. then one of them cute soft brown brown girls that was back there cooking came out to see. me and jessie had a good time. i love black people. |
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| bowling for columbine oct 22, 2002 lockheed martin, littleton, co 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- southpark type cartoon started with the pilgrims fleeing england in fear. showed news clips of how the media markets fear. how a dozen news crews and how canadians dont lock their doors showed a guy from the aerospace military industry lockheed martin the heaviest u.s. bombing in the korsovo war was done 1 hour before the marilyn manson was interviewed and he was good, articulate. explaining his movie showed the connections between columbine, the 9-11 attacks, cia, also showed how the u.s. military and cia did covert operations in multiple
showed blacks being arrested in cops, talked to one of the creators of cops interviewd charleton heston at his house. i thought heston said “the widespread issue of the news media spreading fear. other countries dont have the high murder rate like u.s. the nra and the kkk started in the same year |
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| the art of funk nov 6, 2002 san francisco, ca met stozo, really enjoyed seeing overton’s work; paintings, and different The Art of Funk…Posted
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| p-funk allstars nov 6, 2002 ruby skye san fancisco, ca GC& the P in
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| slapbak nov 9, 2002 bbkings universal city walk met jara, bought cd. they played the dog, we want the funk, some of their stuff. good music with good movement. i told him after the show i had just seen p-funk 6 times and they still had me groovin. came back from car during break and the house music was aqua boogie. i danced and found out it was the disco version too. after that they played knee deep. all of knee deep, the whole 15 minute song loud crisp and strong. |
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| the ring nov 19, 2002 pacific hastings this was a damn good movie, maybe too good. watching the flick im wondering how they were gonna explain all that has happened. the story stuck so close to reality and believabilty that i waited for the moment when it had to either come up with a very cleaver plot twist or leave reality to complete and explain the story. the moment came and it was kinda trippy, but fairly well done. |
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| groove syndicate, love balm, vagenius nov 21, 2002 templebar love balm did good. well, i guess im tryin to say i felt them better this time than ever before. the idea of creating the synced beats live on stage with electronic gadetry is kinda cool. it takes awhile for the song to settle into a good groove, but when it does it works. gabby even did good (yeah, i mean better) with her voice, rap and chorus. maybe for the first time they had me really groovin. vagenus was a band led by a skinny white girl with voice. not quite a voice the groove syndicate had good grooves and rap. the energy of the group is a |
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| goapele web dec 7, 2002 templebar she was cute and had a very refreshing style of soul. her music was good, her voice was very stimulating and i really enjoyed her vibe. it was deep dark soul, maybe a neo-soul. it wasnt down home soulful, it was like a modern- cleaner- smarter type soul sound. her and her band vibrated within a black soulful range with more complexity, rhythms and information. there also was a nice funky-vibey guitar solo that may have almost took me away. i was very impressed with goapele. it had been a while since i had been out so i was ready. get there late |
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dec 12, 2002 templebar the special about this night was a little black girl with rhythm. i sat and leaving the place i saw her, we made eye contact and i lit up. she saw me |
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| homestyle, pidegon john dec 19, 2002 templebar during one of the low-mid tempo dj break intermissions, an ill-inserted blast |
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| yankee doodles dec 23, 2002 santa monica the thing about this night was that it was all about me and my team. i felt good and was ready to celebrate my steelers and i did regardless of the crowd. |
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| meganuts one nut stand dec 23, 2002 templebar meganut created beats and riffs using electronics on stage and the played bass, guitar, drums and sang over this music. he was groovin wth two dudes who had sandwich names. one on drums and one the a ways into it, lonnie asked for requests and i said hyperspice. he he played a nice long chunk of funkentelechy. beat and gutiar riff created he said funky dollar bill he chanted “shake what ya brought wit ya, you know what its gonna get he sang cholly and heard me singing the lead and ask/said i would sing and after the set meganut told me he sang on joe strummers first record. he andy tubman was a whiteboy with a good voice who sang with a cool whiteboy |
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| venice beach boardwalk dec 27, 2002 hung out and talked to flattop for about an hour. good conversation about race, sex, gender, rhythm, dance, etc. specially our takes on black female. gave him my card & phone. |
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| modern groove assembly jan 3, 2003 templebar my infatuation runs rampant for the cutey singer from modern groove assembly. i remembered her from the watts festival and how attractive i imagined her personality and energy. she organized the watts festival and i thought this admirable. and she is cute as hell. i grooved deeply with her and the band. after the show i was face to face with her numerous times but just gave a smile of appreciation, no words. she is cute. full band with 3 female singers up front. cody chestnutt sang over a cd, as he was listed as “acoustic.” leaving early i cruised to home in pasadena via wilshire blvd to the 110 |
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| trulio disgracias jan 4, 2003 templebar overton showed up. tori ruffin on guitar. literally ran into norwood before the show. lonnie and mark all up in the mix. jellybean be groovin, i like how she shakes to the beat. shook mallia franklin’s hand after show. i remember naturez dezigned from the watts festival, they were vibey with |
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| subthunk, elephonic jan 6, 2003 templebar the voice and vibe of ms anne elizabeth montone. non-blonde white female who was not your typical tall skinny and who had a funky little rhythm about her. and a beautiful voice. her voice was so refined and pristine and enunciated that ever thing she said sounded angelicly exaulted. she said “i would like to send a shout out” and shout out was said so perfect it was funny. this happened enough times that i think that even she realized how perfectly enuniciated she is. elephonic is a another white girl on keyboards and a white dude on turntables. they play a very vibey almost middle-eastern type of meditation music. i tell ya, these white kids are catching on. |
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| i got a really cool e-mail from eddie barajas (dj for elephonic) who in a very cool way let me know that i was in error in describing his ethnicity. he told me that he is latino and that jen, the keyboardist, is half columbian. he wasn’t trippin on it or nothin and came of with such spirit that im inspired to write this, first ever update/addendum to one of my “reviews.” www.elephonic.com |
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| subthunk was 3 white dudes; drums and 2 guitars and electronic gadgetry that created basslines. some times you could tell it was programmed as the musicans had to “wait” on the groove. other times the funk-vibey sythesizer type bassline with other cosmic effects flowed very well. funk mellowy evening. |
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| lord of the rings: the two towers jan 12, 2003 redlands, ca this was a very, very good movie. for a quick second it could have been almost the best movie i had ever seen. even though it was completely caucasian, extremely caucasian. the effects, the story, the characters, all were excellant. smeltly (or whatever) was mi fave. |
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| mother jones jan 14, 2003 pershing square caught this lunchtime set, nothing spectacular. nice day to be outside in downtown la, got pizza. band may have been religious, music was rockish/pop/plain and safe. white group. |
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| cubensis jan 14, 2003 kozmos good grateful dead jamband music that seems like every instrument is the rhythm guitar, even the drums. very, very rhythmic. opening band was named “baggy pants” or sumn like that and they were also jambandish and led by a asian/fillipino female who could find the beat. the music was good and moved me but the thing this night was race and but thats not what was really amazing. this is incredibly rhythmic music seems you would kinda find a groove with people in your area if not with then the girl from the opening band joined cubensis and she was on beat. it |
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| erykah baduh jan 18, 2003 house of blues, las vegas got there 10 minutes into the show and it was packed. was satisfied in many ways and had no desire to fight the crowd so i ended up standing in a place that was comfortable, but my view of ms badu was obstructed. but i could see ms badu in her super big afro via the monitors. her music is a good soulful rappish sound. her persona, which surprised me, was playful and fun. she retained a sense of black female strength without being all overly serious. she danced and sang in 1 foot high silver platform shoes. her dress was like a black hippie funky. she even fell off her shoes and her wig came off (not sure if this wasnt staged) and she sang laying on her back with her legs spread, feet in the air with them big silver shoes on. she took them off and had another pair of sheepskin platforms handy. she had two black female singers on stage with her but one in particular though i was completely not motivated, it was a pleasure to be around so |
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| robert walters 20th congress jan 22, 2003 templebar kudu was a drummer with electronics and a female singer. very good vibe. kinda soulish with a jazz tinge to it. she kinda has a voice like randi crawford or somebody who sings jazz, but they do it more soulful and vibey being a teeny weeny bit hip-hopish. she has a very robert walters was a full band that i felt prolly would do better on a the dj, carlos nino i think, played some really really good music. very, |
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| eric mcfadden jan 23, 2003 fais do-do mcfadden/curry do maggot brain. manning remains on sidelines… Posted by PFUNK1 on 1/24/2003, 10:08 am
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| burning star, spirit level, optic nerve jan 24, 2003 templebar i came this night to enjoy the talents of one of my favorite infatuations, audra and her band optic nerve, she and mark are from weapon of choice. i was hoping the groove to be as good as audra’s usual energy, but it wasnt. in fact, the word i used to describe them was rotten. sure i used the word rotten more for effect, but optic nerve was not hittin at all. i told my buddies that the songs they sang sounded like they were written by teenagers in love in the seventies. very sappy soft pop. no edge, hardly no groove. they even used outdated words that arent cool or used anymore. they sounded like a mediocre 70’s white throwback band playing for a church crowd. plain, flat and ungroovy. fanny franklin is also in the group. funny thing too is that mark is funky, audra is funky and i saw fanny franklin solo and she was funky. but coming together as optic nerve missed sum’n severe. i still love you though audra, and your energy. the rest of the night though was on hit. spirit level and burning star drew made me wonder if the funk crowd is largely semi-rhythmless and white. burning star was full band with percussion and hip hop type rap. but there at times i could turn in any direction and see/feel people on beat. there |
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| superbowl xxxvii jan 26, 2003 buena park an incredibly gorgeous day in the 80′. i rode down to san diego to see if i could come up on some tickets or sum’n cool. got down there are and all i saw was “need tickets” signs. rode thru the gaslamp district and while doing so ran into cmtalley. the thing about this day was how many attractive and cute females were in the gaslamp district to celebrate the game. more black females than ive seen in a long long time. and they was looking good. lots of black and silver fans wearing raider. lots of sexy dress. at one point i was spun completely around twice by a succession of females passing me in every direction. there was a black female with body, face and complexion that made me gasp, stop and gawk. as she walked closer to me i backed away to keep a good viewing distance from her. saw her again later down the street and did the same. this place was fit for a party but i wasnt prepared. didnt feel like hustling to find a place or dealing with a crowd. just wanted to watch the game and be mellowed out during the commercials. so i left and headed for pasadena but realized i wouldnt make it. so i went as far as i could and ended up at the claim jumper in buena park across the street from the super8 motel i spent new years eve at. i watched the game alone with $38 of appetizers and ribs. probably just how i would have wanted it i thought to myself as i sat there alone. thinking to myself undisturbed, enjoying my own thoughts. alone with ribs is where i wanted to be. |
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| kei key boo jan 28, 2003 key club stage was set for a good night. i walk in and greg “p-funk horns” thomas was on stage backing up a group who included pam from weapon of choice. then i though i saw shonda clinton (i think). then i saw p-funk moive maker daryl mccane, he told me george may not still be in town and we talked of the raiders. outside i saw sonny cool. i dont get kei key bu, i dont get her appeal or talent for that matter. but |
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never have i been so high
-jeffery scott mitchell
