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Saturday, February 03, 2007

02.02.2007 The Roots

i don't care about local hip hop. so i didn't really pay attention to the openers.

The first hour of the roots' set was pure brilliance. they started out at the back of the room and marched in processeion through the crowd playing their instruments, then broke into game theory and proceeded to jam. and jam they did. some songs sounded better than they did on album, (game theory, the seed..) others like 'don't say nuthin', were kind of disappointing. just too much jamming. they played 2 and a half hours, about 2 hours longer than the last hip hop show i saw. one of the highlights of the night was their version of dylan's masters of war performed by ?uestlove and their guitarist kirk douglas. when people mention the roots, douglas is normally comes to mind after ?uestlove and black thought, but he's talented enough to form his own band. he can sing and do the guitar thing. their covers jam was also pretty cool. wu tang, james brown, JT, salt n' pepper, immigrant song and 2 unlimited were all represented. it's not that i didn't like the show or the jamming, it's just that i felt that the jamming was too much.

$100/0

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