2/16/08 - I arrived late, this time it was the police that made me do it. but thats onto another story.

So I finally arrived at the show and Prolyphic is performing “Artist Goes Pop”, great song, real live energy, and to boot Sage Francis is doing hype man role (this is something I never expected). I think that by him doing so he was taking away from the performance, since he is much more known and people might have been just focusing on him the entire time but thats just a thought.

Telephone Jim Jesus was up next, he does live (not sure on this one) programming or mpc’ng. I am really not sure what he was doing considering all I could see was a laptop and once in awhile his head came bobbing out from it but I think he had a keyboard also, If I was on drugs this would have probably been my highlight (this is assuming the drugs helped) his music was very trance-like and techno-E (can I even say that?) I think the music was good but its not very entertaining to watch, I was falling asleep the entire time while the people with me were vibing out.

Next up were The Apes, These guys were great! they weren’t rappers but a great show nonetheless. The music reminded me of some funk/psychodelic/rolling stones/hardcore stuff. seriously a great performance! every single one of them were so into what they were doing that I had to jam out!

so its getting late now and on comes sole and the skyrider band. They had some great chemistry on stage, but the music live didn’t really sound like the tunes on the album, which disappointed me a lot, but he played some classics from live from rome and that made it all better.

overall I had a decent time I just wish sole would tour with more rappers similar at least to him (ahem Brzowski from Maine!) I just wish people would realize that sole is killing it past, present, and future. Give respect where respect is due.