d'angelo - voodoo - classic or dud?

he hasn't played a show in over a decade? too bad you can't have a low-profile warm up show these days.

I was expecting something more low-key tbh! not this sort of classic soul revue schtick

well that's what he did (prince/jb worship) for the whole voodoo tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jajpnAAXJaI

i did wonder if he'd go back to it tbh, or do a brown sugar-era sitting-at-the-rhodes thing.

I love how the guitarists in these kinds of bands are always like statues

fwiw jesse johnson (of The Time) was supposed to play guitar on this tour, but i guess he had something else to do. so they got the dude with the most similar name, jef lee johnson.

lol

yeah I thought Jesse left the Time tour to do this...?

i'm just going off this: http://www.okayplayer.com/news/dangelo-2012-tour-diary-pt-1-he-got-on-the-plane.html (lol first time i've looked at okayplayer in years).

Then there’s the newbies; Chris Dave – Rick Rubin’s favorite drummer (sacrilegious I know); Ray Angry – our boy from The Roots who’s subbing for Cleo Pookie Sample (gotta love a n**ga named Pookie). Jesse Johnson; who’s a beast but had another commitment so we have Jeff Lee Johnson–killing it.

I'm glad he's actually working but... kinda weak tbh. he can't really do that James Brown showman stuff with any dexterity.

you're crazy, this is fucking great

so is "charade"

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/01/dangelo_stockholm_new_songs.php

aw man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_2JKTHYJU

here's good audio of "sugar daddy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMS3pEIxDZo

I will pay top dollar to see this man.

Good to see Pino is still on bass.

oh shit

otm

piano medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu1etLden10

and uh bowie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Sw5Pl3mQY

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/mixtape-mondays-sam-champ-x-okayplayer-dangelo-live-mixtape.html

is that new live stuff or old?

think its all old

holy shit he's looking good, looking happy

this one is killing me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw4zJN-r_VM

Seeing him Friday night...looking forward to it but methinks he's been studying Prince a little too hard...

guys, you're getting me excited here.

methinks he's been studying Prince a little too hard

nothing new there!

please to be posting in this thread if anyone hears about D playing NYC; he is a big bucket list musician for me to see live.

Seeing him Friday night...looking forward to it but methinks he's been studying Prince a little too hard...

― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:17 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too! i am so excited it is absurd. i think 'one mo gin' is my favourite song ever made, so if he doesn't play it i'll be disappointed

hype hype

damn, ilx london fap at d'angelo -- i'm jealous

if u see a 7 foot goonish looking german guy with diamond earrings by all means say hi

money boy in the building

lol

i didn't see this thread til now, i am totally going tonight - feel free to holla at me, anyone else who's going

been immersing myself in voodoo & brown sugar today :)

so rum is what you're saying?

that was last night :(

haha forks

half my twitter timeline reads "d'angelo"

i am so hyped! i have 45 minutes in which to coax my body into moving now

really really wish i was in britain right now and i NEVER say that

hah

the piano section was.............!!!!!

lmao still @ his outfit

lex we need to meet at one of these shows sooner or later!

so utterly jealous of you guys

OTM

fucking fucking FUCK

to make matters worse i actually was in brixton last night and still didn't go :(

so utterly jealous of you guys

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 4 February 2012 03:20 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

sad otm :(

the piano section was.............!!!!!

so lol. he's such a tease, all those false endings. how you gonna do the entire brown sugar album as a medley though!

lmao still @ his outfit

a swiftly divested jacket, a vest so oversized that it looked like a dress, and so low cut (well beneath the pecs) that he might as well not have bothered. girl next to me kept talking to herself between every song, "please let him take off his clothes please let him take off his clothes".

lex we need to meet at one of these shows sooner or later!

yes! god, getting there was such a trial for me though, nearly went to the O2 instead because i...hadn't bothered reading anything properly beforehand. then when i got to the venue just before his stage time was sent on a wild goose chase to like 3 different places to pick up press tkts. it was all good though cuz he came on half an hour late anyway (and played well beyond the 11pm curfew, haw - only other artist i've seen do that is erykah, naturally).

um anyway amazing show! that version of "shit, damn, motherfucker" was kind of epic. "devil's pie" another definite highlight. the new song "sugar daddy"!!!!! omg such fun to dance to, you felt your feet making all sorts of moves within four bars. i didn't quite expect him to be so RAW live - his seduction is so smooth on record and then live he's just wild.

to make matters worse i actually was in brixton last night and still didn't go :(

to make matters worse (for you), between us melissa and i had three spare +1s that the stupid PR neglected to inform us about, and i only realised when i was literally picking my tickets up (and was rushing to get inside before he came on). ugh so many people i know would've loved those

Tpp seven foot goonish type? I said hello and you blanked me! Unless there was a few different giants there. Was near the back. Couldn't see lex but never saw the thread when you posted, so I wasn't looking.

Omg the show was amazing. I went in just thinking I'd be glad if he was looking healthy and hadn't ruined his voice but god damn! He killed it. I've never seen someone have such control over the crowd. And voice was incredible, and sustained all night.

Otm on the shit damn motherfucker. Also he seemed to have been watching a lot of James brown and... Zeppelin maybe? That kind of wall of amplified blues guitar on some of the Voodoo stuff, plus the solo-ing stuff made me think of them anyway.

Great night, hope I don't have to wait twelve years to do it again.

He seemed to be really enjoying himself which made it even better, knowing the troubles from the Voodoo tour.

yeah he was totally full of life and seemed to be having a ball

some incredibly funky guitar riffs too - that live version of "brown sugar", the crowd had slightly thinned at that point (lucky i'd stuck around, i didn't think he was gonna come out again) so there was lots of room to dance

i was front right, good vantage point even if i did have to put up with some bad behaviour as detailed in show etiquette

Yeah had a pretty good time...Jesse Johnson was a pretty inspired choice as guitarist...he was great...some of the new material was great but I did feel like he was trying to mimic a Prince gig from '83 he's not quite in that league...got the feeling that great swarthes of the crowd weren't up for a 10 min drum solo and P-funk guitar theatrics when they paid to see some 90's neo soul loverman soul...and Brown Sugar don't work as a James Brown funk workout...The Parliament cover and solo piano section (very very Prince) was good though...

Yeah the people I went with weren't really down for the massive solos while I was lapping it up.

I was stood by a short dude w/ a fro, who I think was pilled off his face so you weren't the only one dealing w/ show etiquette bullshit lex. Amusingly he went for a piss and came back, losing his girlfriend and standing 10 feet from her/us, spending the rest of the show confused as to where she was despite being plainly right next to him.