Thread: Funky Meters and Chuck Brown @ Strathmore 11/10

Holy shit I didn't even know this was coming up, my cool wife took me on our Anniversary (today), I had no idea where we were going 'cause the she wanted it to be a surprise. (Strathmore is this cool new venue my county built, it's about ten miles outside DC, beautiful place, holds about 5,000).

Meters: Hot set, some confusion from time to time. Apparently (that's what they said, I just know it's been a while) the first Meters set in two years. I wish to hell I had known I was going, I could've rigged up some sort of taping rig. As it was I wandered around and didn't see a single person taping that I could tell. Which sucks, kinda. I guess I should pay more attention to the music listings in the paper, but then who would I blame for shit gone awry? Moi? INCONCEIVABLE!

Art fell off his bench at the end of the main set, which was pretty damn alarming, he didn't move for a while (the roadie/stage hand guys I talked to said the bench just fell apart) but came back to play the encore just fine, ending with a Fiyo on the Bayou/Ain't no sunshine/Fiyo jam that rocked, ending with a rousing "Hey Pocky Way" that had the DC crowd (most of whom had come to see Chuck Brown) boogieing. (boogying? how do you spell that?)

Chuck Brown: If you don't know Chuck Brown and you don't know Go-Go, well, you ain't from DC and I venture to say you don't know shit. Chuck rocked the house, starting with a 20-minute Jam on the "Godfather" theme (he's the Godfather of Go-Go, duh) and then he just rocked from there. The guy's like 74 and HE FEELS LIKE BUSTIN' LOOSE!

Seriously, Chuck Brown is amazing. It was cool to have all of Steel Pulse there to check the show, they were digging it, those are some SERIOUS dreads the fellas are sporting.

The cool thing about a Chuck Brown show (or a Trouble Funk (SAY YEAH!) show or a Rare Essence show, is they NEVER STOP. The music is great, the crowd is great, but the whole show is basically one piece of music, it never stops.

Chuck had two keyboards, three horns, a KICKASS drummer (shout out to the Meters drummer, too, Mr. Batiste is ON it), a congo player (I don't know his name but he's been with Chuck 20 years, he kicks it), two backup singers, an emcee, his daughter (meh), and an assorted cast of other characters.

If you think you know music, especially American music, but you don't know go-go in general and Chuck in particular, well, you don't know what you think you know.

I swear i won't use any parentheses for the next week (I mean it).

I love The Meters, thought they were basically the Neville Bros. these days. You do realize you called your wife "cool" don't you? Shouldn't that be "hot"? Freudian slip?

so cool she's hot.

the lineup last night was, as it pretty much has been for quite a while, Art Neville, George Porter jr., Russel Batiste and Brian Stoltz, so that's not the Nevilles.

sounds awesome


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nice dude. the meters rule.

Cool wife
Good Tunes
and a b-lated happy aniversary bump
You should take your sweetie on a romantic vacation to someplace like the Bahamas
Send the kids out to stay w/ me

Originally Posted by skifishbum

Cool wife
Good Tunes
and a b-lated happy aniversary bump
You should take your sweetie on a romantic vacation to someplace like the Bahamas
Send the kids out to stay w/ me

Heh, don't ask twice man or I might take you up on it! Thanks for the congrats. Did you ever open that box? Your Hestras are in there.