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10-02-2007, 02:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Seattle | | | Kool and the Gang Live...worth it?
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Kool and the Gang are playing a free show At the Seattle Sheraton (an anniversary celebration) this thursday lunchtime. I know that "Kool" is the bassist...anybody recommend this? |
10-02-2007, 02:45 PM
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10-02-2007, 04:50 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | Oh yeah! Robert Bell is one of the great purveyors of economy
of notes in funk groove! Should be great!
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10-02-2007, 04:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Newcastle/England | | | you should deffinitly go, on a random channel, i cant remember which one, but it sometimes has random concerts on, and has played kool and the gang a few times and they were really good, you say its free aswell, what you got to loose |
10-02-2007, 06:22 PM
| | | I saw there show last year at a local Casino, I would see them again, if I had a chance,at one point of the show I counted 15 people onstage......Kool has a very large Gang....  |
10-02-2007, 07:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | Worth it???? It's free. Duh.  |
10-04-2007, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Seattle | | thanks for encouraging me to check it out.
It was great! Tight band, had the crowed wrapped around their finger. The proof is always in a smiling, dancing audience.
Robert Bell plays a Zon, FYI |
10-04-2007, 02:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | |  easy on the old wallet!
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Originally Posted by fenderhutz  Worth it???? It's free. Duh. | Sure! take a chance, invest some time and your curiosity in that band/show. Let us know what kind of gear everyone was using too. |
10-04-2007, 02:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | If you want to see one of the great funk bassists and band leaders of all time, go to the show! Robert Kool Bell was throwin' it down long before 80% of TB members were born. Heck, Marcus Miller lists him as a major influence. What more do you need? 
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10-04-2007, 04:06 PM
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10-05-2007, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Seattle | | | show report
I had a short lunch break, so i only caught the end of the set. I arrived in time to hear Ladies night, get down on it, celebration, and a few ones I hadn't heard. Naturally, Celebration was the finisher.
They're an excellent crowd pleaser, that's for sure. They had a lot of showmanship, when the horn players weren't singing or blowing they were doing some fun choreographed moves to the songs. They fed the crowd lots of call and response stuff too.
Bell opened Get down on it with a pretty slappy/poppy bass solo, but most of the time he just laid back and made the rest of the band sound great.
He played a Zon bass of somekind - laminated hardwood natural finish, dual soapbars. I saw no amp, I think he just used the monitors and mains.
I always like to check out those veteran acts, the ones that have been working steadily since their "hit" way back when. Good stuff! |
10-05-2007, 03:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | That sounds great, too bad you didn't get to hear them play Funky Stuff that is a classic bass line simple and Funky as it gets.
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10-05-2007, 08:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | Here's a Youtube clip of Kool & the Gang doing "Funky Stuff" from this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi8Um...elated&search=
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10-05-2007, 09:50 PM
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10-05-2007, 11:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese | Cool video a lot o funky stuff.
If I remember the record had like two or three tracks of bass. The main line and one or two tracks of little fills here and there. The live video looked like there was two bass players. Kool doing the high part of the line and the guy in the back left with the blue bass playing the low part that hits those upbeats with the bass drum. I love to go hear them looks like it would be a big partay.
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10-06-2007, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Norway | | Kool & The Gang is great live They actually came to Norway(!!) in august, and it was a great, great show. Can't say that kinda artists come here too often....But it's been a good year, Victor Bailey came in may, and Marcus Miller's coming this month |
10-06-2007, 03:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Portland, Oregon | | | Their bass player is awesome. Did some stuff with Jimmy Cliff back in the '80's too. |
10-06-2007, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese | There's your Pocket 
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10-06-2007, 04:32 PM
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My band plays, ''Get Down On It'' and ''Hollywood Swinging''. Always crowd pleasers.
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