HOB ANASLIME by Lamar... The finale of four funkdafied nights in a row with the FUNK MOB...Kareem, Jeffrey (PFunk1) and I drove straight from SIN CITY to ANAHEIM. We were followed by BFUNKEY Brian (we call him THE DRIFTER), a knowledgable, real cat we hooked up with at the HOBLV show. Jeffrey and I sneaked into the main room & caught the sound check for a minute...Once there, we immediately found CMTalley and his nephew groovin' to the sound system & chanting as the DJ mixed it up nice. . The MOB came on at 10:00, Funkadelic stylee. The band was on, the crowd was hyped and ready to give up the FUNK. Highlights: a full blown MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION, HIT IT & QUIT IT, a tasty Razor Sharp solo, and the new Blackbird joint. No Sonda or Trey Lewd tonight, butt lots of fat BOOTY... During KneeDeep, George broght out a cat named T-Low from Methods of Mayhem (Tommy Lee's project that GC guested on). Dude was a freak, dude always missin' the beat, yeah yay...Seriously though, he caught a cadence when they went to the bridge. Before Michael's guitar solo, about 1:30, HOB pulled the curtain and the plug. GC and others peeked their heads out. No Dog or FYM. We chanted Ain't No Party...until the gorillas in yellow shirts rudely told us to split. setlist: Mommy What's A Funkadelic? Goodies Soul Mate Bop Gun Cosmic Slop I'm the Slime Hit It & Quit It Tear The Roof Off (chant) Up For the Down Stroke Player Of The Year/Hollywood(chant) Razor solo Crackrock hoodrats/somebdy let the monkeys outta their cage...(chants) Mothership Connection teasers: Everything Is On the ONE, Dr. Funkenstein Booty (no stank) Mathmatics Dope Dog Maggot Brain New Blackbird One Nation Under a Groove Flashlight Knee Deep (w/ T-Low from Methods of Mayhem--why???)
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HOB Anaslime 2/24 Getting there.... by CMTalley All day, Friday and Saturday was spent recuperating from Thurs night. I had it off cuz I had to take care of a bunch of affairs. Had to make sure i spent quality time with my shortdawgs cuz they was wonderin' why I was out all night. Laid back at a Sat afternoon matinee with 'em , watching "RECESS". Nappin' and they were pumpin' a 60s retro vibe. Some "Purple Haze" and "Dancin' In the Streets", so it was all cool. Got everyone home and a little bit wet (rained all day and night) and it was off to AMTRAK to scoop up my nephew at 6pm for da show. Had time to grab some tacos and beer before his train hit, then we pulled up to DOWNTOWN DISNEY parking lot and got our "minds marinated" listening to 420 DRIVE TIME. We hiked a good distance from lots up to HOB. We were first in line, (it was around 7:15) but they weren't letting anyone in. I'm used to gettin' in for a sound check if I'm this early, so when the door was unguarded I slipped in and got some. This joint was laid out kinda like the LA unit; except the restauarant don't swing out. You come in on 2nd level and look down on the quad where all around this level it's like church pews where like the local raido station had roped off seats. On stage they were warmin' up and clownin' a bit. Greg was wailin' on some gospelish spiritual riff while Blackbyrd was hittin' drums. Some other dude came up to me and we were checkin' the layout and sound of things. PA was fine and dandy. I got down to the floor by stageand place was fillin' up. There was one bruh hangin' with us who hit Thursday's show plus a couple of hardcore Maggots. Some older white dude with GEORGE CLINTON for PRESIDENT shirt and pony tail. PFUNK1 showed up, as did Lamar and Karim. There was some Hispanic dude kep starting each sentence with "Back in da day...". Yeah he was cool and maybe a little too hyped. Seemed all the hardcore was off to the left. (facing stage). The house DJ (maybe just cds?) got shy bumpin' right with a lot of old school. some Fred Wesley "House Party", Isleys "Who's That Lady?", Lynn Collins "Think", Curtis "Superfly", War "Me and Baby Brother". Nice match with the show. Usually they dropping stupid pop at HOB. Everyone was getting tehir groove on. My nephew, cloned and Peeed on in '96, was clearing some space with his freestyle dancin'. Young dude can kick it. Folks wuz checkin' him out like straight outta "Sat Night Fever". Mostly non-black, in attendance, this was the 'Nilla suburbs but these folks like to turn out for DA MOBB. From behind the curtain, roadies and bandmembers was checkin' it out. Grinnin' like they knew it was all gonna be good. We threw off a copule of chants (Hispanic dude threw off my cadence on "We WANT THE FUNK" hittin' a beat tooearly)and got a good taste of Clips "DRUGSZ" project. We need some of this stuff y'all. HOB Anaslime 2/24 The show... by CMTalley Lights dimmed and place darkened. Someone called out from onstage "Sounds like y'all having a party out there". We roared in agreement then he did "Calling on the FUNK", but i noticed mostly our side was leading the chant. Like the right side of the room was shy. They statred the show the right way (at 10:06). Well, at least what I wanted. First 40 minutes of Funkadelic guitars and vocal hamonies with Garry Shider, Boogie, Lige, Blackbyrd and Frankie Kash on drums. Eric McFAdden was there too. "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?", "Soul Mate" and others. Clip went strolling left to right like a pimp with some WG in tow. He put her up on the bandstand behind him. I'm yellin' "WE WANT DRUGSZ, muthafukka!!!!". Yeah he hopped back to a open mike; talkin''bout this ain't that show. LOL it's all good! Clip then did his voice over as WFUNK dj. Next they came out with "Bop GUn" which was missed from Thursday show. Steve BOyd was out and Bellita had joined him. They threw in a bit of "Gainin' On Ya" an f the right side of the room was goin' "Sir NOse" when Carlos strutted out. Kidd was gettin' i ttogether and the launched into "Tales of Kidd Funkadelic" adding with Bellita's kittenish purrs and growls as she sang. Greg was on the mike too. "Cosmic Slop" hit and raised the energy level. GC came out wearin' that tunic with "the big-eyed alien that looks like a brotha peeping out of the Statue of Liberty's Crown". This is the way it's supposed to be, try experimenting with some other part of the show. Things blurred by quickly. "Hit IT and Quit it", then "**** Godddamn chant" (someone said to watch profanity "this is DIsneyland!"). LIge came back out to lead us in "Ain't no party" and "When i say "P"..." chants. GC brought us to "We Want da FUNk" and somebody threw in it Bootsy's "Wind ME up". During "Up for the Downstroke" more chants from Bootsy songs popped up. "Mothership Connection" hit with a real slow draggy beat. Bellita sang "Swing Down, Sweet Chariot" off it. Soon, the PFUNK guitar army had revved this up to sonic assault level. Lige, Byrd, Kidd Eric McFAdden Boogie and Billy. Crankin'. Bbass was rumblin' up from floor. I felt vibrations thru my testicles. My nephew had coralled an Asian babe and a WG over by us. I whispered to the Asian babe if she felt the "earth move". She blushed, raised her hand to her mouth and opened her eyes. Musta taken her a while to get my drift (or she was still feelin' it). "Sometimes these realities run together like MC Escher" by CMTalley that ain't a quote, that's some original shyt!!! Anasliem Show by Ron McGinnis Hey CM, I was at the same show and came away with the same feeling that you did. I also wondered what the heck did that "Yellowman" add to the set. I don't know if he was nervous or couldn't remember his rapp. What about Eric on the Mandolin?? I couldn't even hear him! Did you also notice the unreleased P-Funk that they played before the show? I rapped to one of the hanger ons and he told me that some of those are tracks for the Mammoth project and the rest was misc! I told him they should be selling that stuff along with those high ass shirts that he had on the table. One of those tracks had the same exact intro as Nappy Duggout! Overall I thought that they played tooo many slow tempo songs and the crowd was getting bored. Did OC add $5 again? by CMTalley Last time Sun Theatre made 'em raised prices by $5 on shirts to $25. LA was $20. Frankly, shirts need a more radical design. I wasn't hip to PA music being Mammoth project; just thought it was all DRUGSZ. hmmmm I FELT Eric on mandolin. Can't say I heard him, though. It's cool, but it gets drowned out. I can see crowd getting restless. MEGA 92.3 knows "Flashlight" "One Nation" "Tear the Roof Off", but they can't get with the lp-cuts and concert faves. Depends on the promotion by CMTalley Yeah Vega$ was gonna be touristy so just crank out da hits in 4-5 minute segments. As many as they can get through. SAme thing on a multi act bill. The shows where you gonna get hardcore Maggot turnout make 'em like we want 'em IE: play whatever they wannna. Honestly, that's the PR game. You get caught up in pleasing the crowd, the fans might split or lose interest. We've already proven we gonna come out and see 'em no matter what.