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titsworth_courier from washington, dc on 2002-01-12 07:53 [#00068720] | |||||||||
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copied from my site (offline at the moment). GREAT show, if you ever get the chance go see them, they are stellar performers. -------- What's up, fellas? I just got home from seeing the world famous Roots, and wow what can I say? Probably the most versatile live act I've ever seen. A great concert, right up there with GYBE!, Air, Mogwai, NIN, and Radiohead. First a short list of minor complaints. It would've been cool if they had someone like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, or Common open up for them, but they scheduled their protege R&B singer Jaguar Wright who they are really selling hardcore like they did Jilly from Philly (sister Jill Scott). Next complaint? Jaguar didn't even show up! What the hell? Also, the Roots were without brothers Malik B. and Rahzel. Anything else I need to say? They didn't do "Adrenaline" or "What They Do" or the closing part of "You Got Me" (the live drum 'n' bass madness). But what I can say is they played 2 hours of top notch high adrenaline hip-hop. Truly awesome performers, every single one of them. I had no idea Black Thought was such an entertaining personality. Brother ?uest is the undisputed leader and spokesman for the band, but Thought is of course the emcee. He has amazing stage presence. Tons of fun that guy was. Their songs all sound really good live, and really different. Without any female singer whatsoever, "You Got Me" was instrumentally kind of surfer punk during the verses, switching to a slower album version for the chorus with completely different words ("Should I go, should I stay or leave?", I think). As I said, they cut the coda and for a long time I waited for them to switch back to it but I finally gave up. Instead they did a 30 minute Introducing The Roots highlight of each member of the band via solos. As I said, they are all high quality performers. Brother Hub did a scorching 80's hair metal guitar solo on his bass (via heavily processed distortion). There were tons of covers, including among many, many more Busta's "What It Is Right Now", Ludacris' "Southern Hospitality", Fabolous' "Keepin' It Gangsta" (you know howwwwwww weeeeee doooooooo), Run-DMC's "It's Like That", Jay-Z's "Jigga That Nigga", Guns N' Roses' "Welcome To The Jungle" (Thought tore that shit up!), and "Dueling Banjos" from the movie Deliverance. Old school hip-hop, metal, punk, psychedelic rock, reggae, country, and all bases in-between were put it down by the legendary Roots crew. They played a bunch of songs of theirs that I didn't know, but it could be from the first two albums that I don't own or vastly rearranged songs on the two albums I do own. They also said they'd be playing some new "jawns" at these two DC shows. I think I spotted some okayplayers in the crowd. A good mix of people, but too many damn WG's (white girls). Anyway, as I was leaving I was handed a flyer for a show tomorrow night (tonight) at the Nation with Mos Def featuring his band Black Jack Johnson. I could hardly believe my luck. I think goat boy (Nick) will scream when I tell him I get to see Mos and he doesn't. I don't know how much it costs yet but I intend to buy my ticket tomorrow (in a few hours). The flyer described the performance as "classic hip-hop and ghetto metal." |
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Archrival on 2002-01-12 13:17 [#00068761] | |||||||||
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I love the Roots they one of my favourite bands. |
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