Word: funking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Friday night before he and bandmates Billy Martin and John Medeski launched into a blazing version of Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic." Belting out Jimi's funky lines on bass, drums, and organ, respectively, Medeski, Martin and Wood finished off a night that had been a whirlwind tour of jazz, funk, rock and pure abstract experimentalism...
From then on it was time for a first-rate showcase of Maas' signature "wet, hard funk," a genre-defying dance floor assault whose defining characteristic is its ability to create mass gyration on the dance floor. The basic tools-sirens, cricket chirps, claps and Maas' favorite sound effect, the synthesizer growl were not especially deft or inventive in themselves, but the insistent bass and driving beats kept the crowd eager for more. The stabs at drama, such as cutting the strobes to frame Maas between two columns of red light, were simple at best, but enthralling nonetheless...
...course, "wet, hard funk" has a way of piling up on itself, a tendency that a well-placed vocal mix can alleviate. Maas was often a bit stingy in this department; although he was quite an affable presence in the DJ booth, the same personal touch of vocals would have provided an interesting counterpoint to his occasional minimalist proclivities. The set was generally straightforward and built around the usual throbbing 4/4 rhythms (Maas had promised earlier that evening that his set would be "a bit rougher" than his in-store performance at Allston's Sound Factory), but he threw...
...that Gore must challenge Clinton if he was to become the "alpha male" in the presidential contest. The revelation that the Vice President harbored a feminism expert on his staff gave the late-night joke writers a month of material and sent the Gore operation into a deep, dark funk...
...blue light specials at the local K-Mart-though it might be settled by the time this goes into print. One thing seems certain, though. The new president will probably have worse musical taste than the outgoing one. Just think about it. Clinton shares the last name as P-Funk lead George. Bush is just the name of a weak British band that wants to sound like it comes from Seattle (see picture below). And Al Gore '69 shares the same last name as...um, that woman who made record companies stick Parental Advisory warning labels on objectionable records...