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LIVE REVIEWSLive from Tobacco Road: Shows in and around North Carolina |
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Funk pioneers Parliament/Funkadelic are making the rounds on the club circuit under a new name--The Original P. Although George Clinton isn't on this tour of duty, the Original P prove that the funk can go on without their spiritual leader. On October 6th, the band tore the roof off the Cradle in Chapel Hill. The Original P hit the stage dressed in their wacky-1970s-meets-2070s garb. The stage seemed to buckle as the thirteen band members piled on top of it. The group then ripped through Parliament/Funkadelic classics like "Tear the Roof Off," "Flashlight," and "Up For the Down Stroke." Many of these tunes were stretched out into extended jams that went miles beyond the original studio recordings. The band also played some George Clinton solo tunes like the crowd-favorite "Atomic Dog." Another unexpected treat was "Maggot Brain"--an instrumental psychedelic rock-funk piece from the 1971 Funkadelic album of the same name. The four original Parliament/Funkadelic members have fattened up the band's ranks with a young army of supporting musicians. Although the new guys are amazing musicians, the elder statesmen proved that they still had the funk as they flexed their stage stamina for the crowd. One of the old-timers even straddled his microphone stand like a twenty-year-old Mick Jagger! The Original P is a spectacle that's well-worth seeing. You'd have to be dead not to have some sort of viceral response to the band's music--it's nearly impossible to keep the body still when bombarded with such fat grooves. And even a dead person would sit up and take notice of this wacky circus stage-show. Andrew Helminger
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