Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Princeton: P-Funk, Sheryl Crow and theWallflowers
...were to take a spring tour along the East Coast, stopping at many of the top colleges along the way, your weekend festivities would range from trendy bigname concerts, to unstructured parties and games, to a two-day musical extravaganza capped by a funk festival...
...concert, planned by the Tufts Concert Board, will feature rap superstar L.L. Cool J, with jazz-funk artist Maceo Parker and ska band Less Than Jake opening. In the past, the Spring Fling has featured such well-known bands as George Clinton and P-Funk All-Stars, Barenaked Ladies and A Tribe Called Quest...
Next up was the David Lewis Funk Band jammingout on a few covers of songs by such jazz greatsas Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. Overall, theLewis Band was a mixed bag: the trumpet andsaxophone players were smooth and swank, thekeyboard player tried too hard to be hip, and theelectric guitar performance was the best effortfrom anyone in the group. Though the Lewis Bandwas enjoyable and coherent, it did little to rileup the listeners...
...Side quickly remedied the situation and couldpossibly be the panacea for any level of boredomor depression. Kicking the audience into actionwith a cool pairing of freestyle rap and funk,B-Side infused the Pforzheimer dining hall withmood melody like it had never experienced before.Key to B-Side's performance were the sleekstylings of the Rhodes keyboard player, the punchytones of the upright bass and the drivingexactness of the percussionist, all infused with afreestyle rap intuition that few groups can calltheir...