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vendredi 2 avril 2010

SLASH, entire solo album available for streaming

Do you want to listen to Slash entire new solo album ?

It's HERE

Maceo Parker @ Casino de Paris April 1st 2010

Maceo Parker @ Casino de Paris
Paris, April 1st 2010

After seeing The Four Tops & The Temptations for some SOUL music in this very same beautiful theatre yesterday night ( click for review & videos).
Today we're back with a vengeance for some FUNKY music with Maceo Parker.

The show is long Sold-out, the tickets were at a fair price : less than 40 euros.
French & sexy female singer Sophie Delila is opening, she's hot and has a very beautiful voice unfortunately the music she's playing sounds like Ayo and Ayo is a bit boring. But she did well.

Then we have master of the saxophone himself and former player for Mr James Brown ( as well as Martha High who's singing backing vocals ).
As you can guess lots of Funky music and lots of sax.
" We're gonna make it Funky" aww right man !
There were very good parts ( when he's playing the sax ) and some others less interesting (when there's the same rythm over and over for 15 min or when Maceo is repeating every 2 min " Give the band a round of applause") It tends to get on my nerves.

Maceo is doing a very good James Brown impersonator during the set, he even did a Ray Charles imitation that was breathless, including the voice.
Martha came to sing one down the front ( here on video).
Very Funky 2 hour set.

Maceo Parker & Martha High " think":

jeudi 1 avril 2010

Metallica's "Enter Sandman" Smooth Jazz version

It's fool's day so let's have some fun

Jane's Addiction Performs first gig with Duff McKagan for Perry Farrell 51st birthday

Pic courtesy of © Todd Newman

Yesterday night at the " Les Deux" club in Los Angeles , Jane's Addiction performed for the first time with former Guns'n Roses and Velvet Revolver bass player Duff McKagan.
It was Perry Farrell 51st birthday party.

Happy Birthday Perry !!!

More Pics from the gig and Duff rehearsing with Jane's Addiction HERE

"Whole lotta love" Birthday cake HERE

The Temptations & The Four Tops @ Casino de Paris, Paris March 31 2010

The Temptations & The Four Tops
@ Casino de Paris in... Paris, March 31 2010

Soul Music , that's the way we like it, Han Han !
REAL Soul Music, not that shit from Destiny's Child & Co even though Beyonce is much more sexy than all past & present members of The Four Tops & The Temptations put together.

They may be called The Four Tops but they could be re-christened The One Top as there's only one original member : Abdul « Duke » Fakir.
The Motown Quartet from... Detroit, famous in the 60's for their Doo-wop, jazz , Soul & even disco music is still active and doing good... very good indeed.

Abdul « Duke » Fakir, if there is one...

Can't be wrong with all these HITS : "Bernadette", "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", "It's the Same Old Song", "Standing in the Shadows of Love" and many others I can't remember.

shake it man !

GREAT 45 min set, I mean really GREAT !

Otis Williams ( right)

20 min intermmission to get a drink and check all the pretty girls at the bar and it's time to get back into this beautiful théatre that's nearly sold-out tonight with VERY expensive tickets ( Of Course, it's a Gérard Drouot Prod° ) between 70 & 95 Euros.

Same thing with The Temptations, there's only one original member :Otis Williams.
The Temptations are headlining which they already did when both bands played together in Paris @ the Olympia theatre a few years ago

Once again nothing can go wrong with a HITlist like they have : " My Girl", "Get ready", "I can't get next to you", "Papa was a rolling stone", "Just my Imagination", "Ball of confusion"... and many others.
It's simply unbelievable Hits after Hits...

The new guys have a great voice and the Temptations have always been one step above all the other Motown bands simply because the songs are great and they've played many different styles of music all along their career : Doo-wop, Jazz, soul, Rock Psyche, funk...