CURT CHAMBERS'S FRANKLIN BRIDGE
At the Five Spot - Philly (1/27/06)
Aaron, Curt Chambers and Wayne!
At
11:45pm, Curt Chambers and his group, Franklin Bridge, started their set with a
hip-hop beat instrumental which went into the full rock blast of "Rock
With You". Lead guitarists Curt and Ray Ray set the Five Spot afire with
some fiery guitar wailing (which reminds me of a phrase that I have coined a
while ago......."BEWARE
OF BLACK GUYS WITH GUITARS!!! )
The song featured the melody of Funkadelic's "Cosmic Slop", a piece
of Outkast's "Hey Ya!" and a first verse & chorus of Prince
"Let's Go Crazy"!!!
A group called UNITED SOUL came to the stage to perform with Curt. The first
song (I think it's called "Reservations") was a love ballad, but
better was the funkier, uptempo song that followed. Franklin Bridge went into a
song called "What If", featuring the heavy electronic drum pounding
of Aaron....the guitar sound was just too powerful on this song. A few ballads
were performed, including one that went into straight-up rock during the
choruses.....amidst the chorus of "OOH-OO WOAH!" from Curt AND the
audience, the drummer Darryl was killing those drums (my eardrums are still
throbbin' from that!) and the bass riffs (by Wayne) were very heavy!!!
I believe this was the song where Curt had step into the audience and laid
on the floor, playing the guitar like crazy. "Incredible" was
just TOO INCREDIBLE, with hard-rock guitarisms and good synthesizer riffs by
Blackstar. The Franklin Bridge set was over at 12:40am.
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