I arrived at the Lucky Dog Music Hall around 9:30pm, with a surprise
for the fellas of SUGAR DADDY.....I brought along a new artillery for my funky
gear....a brand new blue-colored long wig. Lead vocalist/guitar Cashton Keyes
and bassist Dr. Longstroke got a real kick out of it!! They gave a free SUGAR
DADDY T-shirt and shotglass, as compensation for a screw-up on a Sugar Daddy
merchandise item during the summer months!!
Sugar Daddy got down to business with some serious
funk at 10:45pm. "Drippin' Down" featured some seriously freakish
keyboardisms by Sweetstick (a la Bernie Worrell)!! "Buried
Sunshine" was very good, as was
"Grudge" (a new song that's featured on the CD single that Sugar
Daddy was selling that night)......it's a slow-grinding, sleazy, funk-rock tune
with a chant from Funkadelic's "Funk Gets Stronger (Killer-Millimeter
Longer)"....."It's gotta be funky....everything I do from now
on!" No one in the audience of 20 people could resist the irresistible
groove!! (20 people?? What the hell is goin' on in Worcester, MA???? Is
everybody too busy sleeping to get their funk on??? Were a lot of the Worcester
folks hiding in their houses from the possibility of Taliban retaliation
tactics?? I found that weak audience turnout shit un-freaking-believable!!) "Interplanetary Freak" featured some super-strong,
smelly bassisms by Dr. Longstroke!! "When
You Were Funky" was followed by a one-minute version of Funkadelic's
"Hardcore Jollies".......great funk bass & rock guitar
combination! There was a new song that Sugar Daddy featured after
"Hardcore Jollies" (the name......I don't know)! "Ain't a Thang" featured some funky scratch
guitarisms by Cashton Keyes and a heavy drum solo by The Candyman!! The show ended at 11:35pm.
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