FUNKFACE
At The Delancey - NYC (6/15/07)
Funkface's lead vocalist Luqman Brown with Living Colour's Corey Glover!
OKAY, OKAY, OKAY!!!! This is the part of the review where Dr. Brookenstein gets
to rant and rave again! What is up with some of this
"hole-in-the-wall" clubs??!!!! I was attempting to enter The Delancey
but according to some regulation, you cannot enter with drinks (soda, water....whatever
non-alcoholic) AND you cannot enter with solid foods. OK...this is a
PIECE-OF-SHIT, FUCKED UP LIL' PISS-ASS HOLE IN THE WALL CLUB THAT WOULD MAKE
CBGB'S LOOK LIKE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN! YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS
THE BLUE NOTE or ROSELAND BALLROOM! Ok, maybe there's something to the no-drink
policy, but no solid food???? (I was in possession of one banana) This
PIECE-OF-SHIT place doesn't serve food, so WTF??! If anything, if you eat
enough food, you WOULD want to buy a drink at the bar. The "bouncer"
offered to hold my contraband, but I said that I would ingest it right there
(lucky for him he didn't discover the small can of peanuts in my bag, otherwise
I'd ask him to HOLD MY (DEEZ!) NUTS!!!! As far as the bathroom, WELL....
(THAT'S ANOTHER STORY!)
At
12:00 midnite, Funkface began their set with the funk-rock nastiness of
"Down in The Bayou", featuring gritty, insane vocals of Mr. Luqman
Brown (aka The Vitamin Luqee) and a sizzlin' rock guitar solo by one and only
Jerome Jordan! The Bad Brains's original "I Against I" was some
heavy-duty punk-rock stuff, made perfect with the backing vocals of drummer
Ramsey Jones and guitarist 40 oz. Jeff...also great was the crushing guitar
army of bassist Frankiebeans, 40 oz. Jeff and Jerome! "Broken Toys"
featured some insane lead guitar shredding by 40 oz. Jeff! After the performance of "Time",
Luqman joked that the next song was going to be Nirvana's "Smells Like
Teen Spirit"...he bragged about how good those guys were, until somebody
in the audience praised rock group Soundgarden...then, it was "Fuck
Nirvana"! Anyway,
the band went into "Something's Going On". Luqman announced the next
song by saying that it's about eating ass (and even asked if anyone tosses
salads)....this led into the lethal rock song, "Lick Shot".
Luqman with the SHUT
skateboard!
Luqman announced that he was giving away a SHUT skateboard to one lucky
skateboarder....this guy:
got the skateboard. This was the same white guy that was responsible for
starting a 3-man moshpit during the performance of the show's finale "Zoo
York City", where Ramsey was tearin' up some drums fiercely! (of course,
what would you expect from Ramsey?) The show was over at 12:40am.
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