HUMP with Doug Wimbish (left), the 13-year-old guitar virtuoso (in the green dress) and Nova Wimbish (7-year-old girl, 2nd from right)!
I saw a local act called HUMP, a four-girl folk band that included a guitarist, bassist and percussionist…all the girls are singers and the performance included a performance by two additional people, a little 7-year-old girl named Nova Wimbish (Doug’s daughter) and a 13-year-old female guitar virtuoso. The set was over around 9:05pm.
At 10:30pm, it was time to check a funk-rock artist named Jamie Brennan. The first song “After You” was a little taste of Jimi Hendrix-style stuff, with some heavy bass playing & red-hot Hendrix guitar blazing! “Rock ‘n’ Roll Chick” was a funk groove with the band jumping in hard rock mode twice during the song. “California Day” was good, but “Are You Lonely” was another nasty rock tune where the drummer went totally off on his solo! “Now You’re in My Heart” was followed by the mellower “Young & Beautiful”, which featured a lead guitar solo by Jamie Brennan himself. The Jamie Brennan set was over at 11:00pm.
Kitty Kitty Bang Bang came out at 11:25pm and did a 20-minute set of some good rock music. At this time, I cannot recall anything substantially great about this band, but the song set list was “Polish”, “Bored”, “Special Interest”, “Appetite for Love”, “Down the Drain” and “I Hope You’re Real”.
Doug Wimbish came out with Wil Calhoun around 12:00 midnight, a keyboardist and a guitarist to perform a 20 minute set…it was a long jam that featured some of Doug’s nasty psychotic, mind-bending bass riffs (sometimes some hardcore slap-bass, sometimes more lead guitar-sounding, sometimes more like Bernie Worrell’s insane WOO sounds). Match that with Wil’s powerful drumming and some deliciously wild lead guitaring and you have a serious funk-rock jamming…and let’s not forget the few moments of some good organ playing!!
Red Lotus came out at 12:40am and performed five songs, most of them were some straight-up intoxicating funk-rock stuff, like the first song. “Superwoman” was straight up hardcore rock with the powerhouse vocals of Rozz Nash, lead guitar fire of Jean-Marx Santel, good bass riffs of Aalics Bronson, and moments of powerhouse, banging drumming by Gavin Glenn!! “Running” was almost equally powerful. “Firecracker” was slightly more mellow, but still had a rock edge to it. Their set was over around 1:10am.
Around 1:25am, Tackhead (featuring Little Axe himself Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish and Keith LeBlanc) came out and performed the Jungle Funk song “Trance”, an experience to be seen and heard with the mind-bending bass riffing of Doug, some standout guitar effects by Little Axe and solid drumming by Keith! The real kick to this performance was the inclusion of three horn players (trombone, trumpet and saxophone)!! After another song, the band went into Sugar Hill territory with the Sugar Hill Gang sang “Rapper’s Delight” (featuring the music of none other than Chic’s “Good Times”)…there were three white rappers onstage during the old-school hip-hop stuff. Unfortunately, the fun had to end around 2:00am. The biggest complaint about this set was that they should have played more of the Little Axe/Tackhead stuff.