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estanley1
21 posts
Sep 12, 2008
9:32 PM
Maybe it is just me, but I think the two current tracks @ 2% on the poll will absolutely KILL live. (Devil You Know/Higher You Climb) They seem to lend themselves perfectly to the "rough and raw" JJ style show we all love. Any thoughts on why they are not more well received...other than the fact that all the other tracks are so damn good?

E.
mofrofans1
Admin
375 posts
Sep 16, 2008
9:14 PM
Hey estan, nobody wants to comment on your post. I'm into lists tonight, so I'm guessing nobody has because:

1. It's lame
2. You're lame
3. People don't like the songs
4. People don't like you
5. None of the above
6. All of the above
7. 2 and 4 from above

Personally I think it's none of the above (well, maybe #4). Mebbee people just ain't sure. I thought (still do) that it's a good question. And I agree. It will be interesting to see how they handle Devil You Know without the ladies vocals. One thing I anticipate is that some harp is going to show up on some songs where it's not on the album. The lack of the ladies vocals and strings may leave a lot of room for some improvising and jamming.

That's part of the fun of being a Mofro fan...watching how recorded songs evolve in live performances. Junior's a perfect example; the live version they do now has a totally different beat than the recorded version. To bring it back around, I agree that both of those are going to be great live.
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Last Edited by on Sep 16, 2008 9:14 PM
antsyashley
147 posts
Sep 17, 2008
2:02 PM
I will comment that Higher You Climb is fantastic live! I found myself capturing it on video more than the other songs. It was so fun to watch JJ play around with the mic with his mouth and switch to the talkbox. Then he sings into it and you get that awesome sound! And he is just jammin on the piano and movin' to the groovin'. I was terribly impressed and blown away. Check out the videos on youtube.

It's gettin' to the point where these guys have so much material that you want to hear EVERY song they have recorded, PLUS lots of awesome covers -- like Hoochie Coochie, Tupelo Honey, some Otis Redding, and anything else that suits their fancy (and ours!) -- that you wish the break before an encore was really just an intermission. We need double the Mofro!!

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estanley1
22 posts
Sep 17, 2008
7:43 PM
Yeah, I was beginning to think I was stinky...but that'd just be my pocket. To hell with all ya'll...those 2 are near the top of my list...but you are absolutely right, Mr. Clay...interpretation is he beauty of the 'Fro.

When I see all of you at Skipper's dancing to the songs in question, my question's worth will be realized.

Thanks Clay...I was gonna go hide.

Dave's Friday for Turkey, perhaps?

Clay?
Dude?
Liz?
mofrofans1
Admin
381 posts
Sep 17, 2008
8:11 PM
Actually, I've been holding back. I voted for WYLF myself. I think it's the funkiest tune on the CD. And yeah estan, if people don't agree they must have poor taste huh? Or is it us? Nah, can't be us man, you think?

Can't do Friday. MikeP asked me if we were going to Skipper's cause they've got a good show going too. We have to drive across the state sat a.m. for an overnight visit with the inlaws. Considering I limit those visits to like 4 a year, I can't really get out of it (dammit).

(You can go hide now.)

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Last Edited by on Sep 17, 2008 8:13 PM
estanley1
23 posts
Sep 17, 2008
8:30 PM
I can identify with and appreciate the WYLF reference. Definite 70's funk-soul-groove-thang going on on that one.

I got no jokes for in-laws...that I can post anyway...cause I met your trophy wife.

Too bad about Friday...we'll have about a dozen or so in-tow in the Burg. The NT boys gave the obligatory ass-bustin, sweat-slingin', soul singin' blues treatment to all us lucky Vipers at Yeoman's.

E.
mofrofans1
Admin
382 posts
Sep 17, 2008
9:08 PM
Ohhhh man, you're just teasing me now. I take it Ernie was shooting quarters from his belly button too? Damn!

Ah come on...if you only knew my father in law. I'm not joking. I'd rather do 20 to life than to hang with him more than a few minutes at a time. (Hmmm; I guess I feel that way about most people though.)


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estanley1
24 posts
Sep 18, 2008
11:09 AM
A wise man once said, "the more people I meet, the more I like my dog".
mofrofans1
Admin
386 posts
Sep 18, 2008
11:14 AM
Very wise indeed. Another very wise man once said..."If I only had a brain."

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mofrofans1
Admin
392 posts
Sep 18, 2008
10:37 PM
I did and now I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy.
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skotdee
82 posts
Sep 19, 2008
8:58 AM
funkier than on fire? hmmmm... don't know about that.
mofrofans1
Admin
396 posts
Sep 19, 2008
10:30 AM
Oh yeah, funkier than On Fire, but in a 70s sort of way. You're too young to remember the 70s skot...other than your birth year was somewhere in there.

In my junior high and high school years--before disco came along and fked it all up--that was decade of funk. Talking about bustin a hip (course back in those days the girls lined up on one side and the guys lined up on the other facing them and that's how we danced. Hey, we were teens, it was the 70s, what can I say?)

The groove on WYLF reminds me of some of that stuff...check out some stuff from back then from George Clinton, the Ohio Players, the Brothers Johnson, Narada Michael Walden, AWB, Tower of Power, hell even Wild Cherry. If you want to sweat and drip in funk, check out George Duke's 70s stuff. If "Dukey Stick" don't get you up and moving, you be dead. And his collaboration with Stanley Clarke--can't remember album name but it was late 70s--my gawd Stanley sounds like he'll break the neck on his bass he's plucking that mother so bad.

On Fire reminds me of countrified funk. Say what? Well, that's what I call it. And I listened to that shit too (I worked in a record store from when I was 14 to 18.) On Fire reminds me more of some of the funky shit Jerry Reed laid down in the 70s. Tom T. Hall, Roy Clark, many others dabbled with a country funk sound, not their mainstay but they loved to do it.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it (even though it could be totally wrong. Nahhhh. Maybe. Nahhhh.)

OH, almost forgot...shout out to Estanley: Another wise man once said "You may step in dog poo and get your shoes to clean up, but the smell will remain with you for all of your days"
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Last Edited by on Sep 19, 2008 10:35 AM
FireFly
27 posts
Sep 19, 2008
11:21 AM
personally i think WYLF is the funkiest,can't wait to hear it live,and there better be some men around that know how to dance.!!!
otherwise my fav right now are,
orange blossoms
WYLF
good is bad
i believe
the truth
movin on
mofrofans1
Admin
399 posts
Sep 19, 2008
11:27 AM
And yet another wise man once said "...only daincin' I can do is the box-step causin I learnt it from my daddy throwin' knives at ma feet."

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skotdee
83 posts
Sep 19, 2008
11:31 AM
c'mon now Clay, I may be young ('73 is the year for me) but I've studied enough 70's funk for a PHD.

Ah yes, the Duke/Clarke Project, great stuff! Billy Cobham also comes to mind when mentioning duke & clarke. And don't forget about the GODFATHER! Good GOD! Hard Funk. Some of James' more obscure stuff, with the JB's, is not to be missed...

Also how about
Curtis Mayfield
Sly & The Family Stone
Billy Preston
Donny Hathaway
Earth Wind & Fire
Funkadelic
Ike Turner

also the Jazzy funk like Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Smith, Groove Holmes, Grant Green, Rueben Wilson, Lou Donaldson, and all that blue note stuff...

Just a few off the top of my head, we should probably start a "funk thread" this could get good.

back to the subject, don't get me wrong, I've been wanting them to play WYLF again for years and LOVE it, but my money's still with On Fire...

Last Edited by on Sep 19, 2008 11:31 AM
mofrofans1
Admin
402 posts
Sep 19, 2008
12:01 PM
The Duke/Clarke Project...that's it. Great shit. Whoa, pretty impressive skot. And you're only 2 years older than my trophy wife. Wow.

I figured the Godfather and Sly were givens. I totally missed Cobham, Mayfield and especially Preston (and yes, it WILL go round in circles.) Hathaway I might put in another category.

EWF I only left off because I thought young whipper snappers like yo self would think of them as pop, and not realize their roots were solidly in funk.

I saw twice in the late 70s (at the Lakeland Civic Center!) and one of them was one of the most amazing shows I've still ever been to.

How could I leave off another show at the LCC in, oh, about 1977. Rufus and Chaka Khan (sp?). Holy shit. She was in her prime and to this day...I just got chills thinking about it. The funk was flying off the stage and her voice seemed to lift you up off the floor (or was that the shrooms?)

Me and my buddies were amongst the 50 or so white guys in a crowd of a couple thousand people. May not sound like much to ya'll, but I was from a small town in rural central Florida. I literally saw segregated water fountains as late as when I was about 12 or 13 (1971 or 1972; not at schools but at citrus and vegetable packing houses, some of them not 20 miles or so from Lochloosa.)

I was 17 years old, and we ain't sitting up in the seats or nothing, we're down on the floor. It was a real eye opener to me. Everybody was there as a family for the music, man. It was a big party, but I had never felt the feeling of a minority before. Here I am in a small minority, and nobody gave a shit. They were lighting up...uh, cigarettes, yeah cigarettes...and passing them (to the left) for anybody that, uh, smoked of course. Everybody was partying and dancing and screaming and hugging. Goddam! I came away from that night not only experiencing a real muscial event, but also something that started (thankfully) to nibble away at the senseless racism I grew up around. I can't hear Chaka Khan to this day without remembering that night 31 years ago.

BUT, skot, WYLF is funkier than On Fire. You're wrong, I'm right. So there. End of story. Who's next?


Oh, but I AM impressed with your knowledge of funk. I bow down to you on that.
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Last Edited by on Sep 19, 2008 12:05 PM
skotdee
84 posts
Sep 19, 2008
12:59 PM
Wow Clay, great concert story! I was all of 4 years old and you were already gettin yer funk on. Tell me something good indeed.

Yeah, you're right about Donny, probably more Soul/R&B than Funk. But everything is everything is fuuuuunky, I love when the boys play it...

Oh, and its cool, you're entitled to your wrong opinion :)

and I forgot about the Isley Brothers, can't leave them out.

Last Edited by on Sep 19, 2008 1:25 PM
galyoungin
5 posts
Sep 19, 2008
8:02 PM
hey clay! next time the guys play WYLF, i'll do the funky 4 corner for ya! hahaha!
mofrofans1
Admin
406 posts
Sep 19, 2008
8:21 PM
You better be taking video galyoungin!
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