okay.
the nyc concert review almost scared the shit outta me cause we put so much effort into following high voltages's advice on "winging it" like the very successful essence fest some weeks back (i was calling songs out hoping mofos remembered shit)---shit almost got ruined by that first post about the great 20 buck mystery

"panic" had a nice run. might think of a way to flip it. nowadays i only use it to stall in case there is a problemo with my monitor wedge and i need a few seconds to fix something (we jam a long time before riq starts first verse)

"what they do" makes sense to bring in since we have a guitar player to freak spanky's part--so no need to list that.

we had a laugh in rehersal as riq got mad at himself for saying so many cotdamn words when he wrote shit like "DYWM"; and "sections"

"hypnotic" seems like a loooongshot. but being as though we are doing one the the most important gigs of our career since lincoln center (we doing philly's kimmel center---our version of carnegie....we will be the first rap negros in the spot and they letting us get away with murder: orchestra, deer hoof and fishbone as openers--) and i wanna pull a good 10 never heard befoe classics out the closet.

Poll result (130 votes) respond/react (15 votes) Vote push up ya lighta (10 votes) Vote concerto of the desperato (44 votes) Vote clones (18 votes) Vote no alibi (10 votes) Vote the hypnotic (33 votes) Vote

You have no idea how long I been waitin to hear concerto live. Its a must that yall do that song

Next time yall come to detroit, Ima beg for a whole week that yall throw that shit in, even if its just the first verse.

matter fact, make hub dust off the cello for that joint, lol

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hypnotic could provide a BIG moment if a certain someone came out and sat at his rhodes. shit, just shock value alone would make it worth it. even though everyone anticipating him, no one's expecting to see him for a long time. Niggas would lose it. maybe could even go into that version of "break you off" that people were scrambling to download.

"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns"...Mario Puzo

YEAH! i like the Hypnotic, but it wouldnt be at it's best without D. Aiyyo ?uest, where yo boy at? We need D!!
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Jazzanova
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if you guys rock that one with some really high energy, put it in right after the kirk solo, get the crowd jumping, i know i'd really enjoy that

we doing philly's kimmel center---our version
>of carnegie....we will be the first rap negros in the spot and
>they letting us get away with murder

not to rain on your parade quest but Thee Phantom out of philly was the first EVER hip-hop act to rock Kimmel Center. And that was soon after it opened.

www.theephantom.com
www.myspace.com/theephantom

Yeah I might consider going to this kimmel center affair if yall bring out some bangers off DYWM, and Illadelph. I didnt live in philly during yall grind period (got here in 99), so I missed the album release events and such during the early days. BRING IT BACK! FOR OLD TIME'S SAKE!

oh yeah for the record I would want to hear all of those songs with the exception of 'no alibi' it wouldnt be right without malik. Concerto is definitely #1 tho, Push up ya lighter would be crazy too but only if bahamadia was involved.

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Thee Phantom out of
>philly was the first EVER hip-hop act to rock Kimmel Center.
>And that was soon after it opened.

check the resume

organix-93
(from the ground up)-94
do you want more?!!???!-95
illadelph halflife-96
things fall apart-99
(the legendary)-99
the roots come alive-99
phrenology-2002
the tipping point-2004
(the roots present...) 2004
homegrown: the beginne

> Thee Phantom out of
>>philly was the first EVER hip-hop act to rock Kimmel Center.
>>And that was soon after it opened.
>

Ouch! I get it. Roots >>> Phantom. Was a fan up to that point. However the case may be, young Tec is correct. First ever Hip-Hop artist to perform at the Kimmel Center in 2002-2003. Ja-Rule was even there after that. LOL! Not too much space between the bush and the swelled head I see.

take it as tongue and cheek.

actually i thought the previous poster was pulling my leg. being as though kimmel management told us we were the first...

oh well can't have em all i see...

lol

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>take it as tongue and cheek.
>
>actually i thought the previous poster was pulling my leg.
>being as though kimmel management told us we were the
>first...
>
>oh well can't have em all i see...
>
>lol

Man. I was all ready to call up my printer and get some "vengefuljawn" and "Dissed by ?uest" t-shirts printed up. Next I thought you were gonna tell me that Thought was the first cat to rock a widows peak. Then I would've had to crash thru the Kimmel's glass ceiling and do some Run's House shite in the middle of your set. LOL.

It's all good.

Yeah Phantom performed in front of a sold out crowd at the Kimmel Center .. and did his thing too. Maybe you should check out one of the SOLID PHILLY ACTS, he's definetly better than most that are doing it locally.

>we doing philly's kimmel center---our version
>>of carnegie....we will be the first rap negros in the spot
>and
>>they letting us get away with murder
>
>not to rain on your parade quest but Thee Phantom out of
>philly was the first EVER hip-hop act to rock Kimmel Center.
>And that was soon after it opened.
>
>www.theephantom.com
>www.myspace.com/theephantom


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cause the 50 jawn was a joke...
but don't misrepresent this either.

now yall mean to tell me....

that phantom menance ALL BY t/HIM self....performed a concert ALL BY themself/himself (pardon the ignorance but there isnt even website info i can even find about pm) and the shit was sold out? as in

guy1: hey molly i copped 4 tix to the phantom menace show at the kimmel next week wanna go?

molly dodd: oh god jason of COURSE i wanna roll to this i couldn't find tix for days!!!!

again...

we were told we were the first hip hop act to play here.

now i dont know if they mean "all you guys alone" not like "can black thought perform at this benefit we got for the democrats with springsteen, pavoratti, costello, and tom petty"--i mean technically i played tamborine at carnegie hall with chapelle in 2002---but i aint goin around saying "well i did a gig at the hall"

pm, i aint tryna belittle ya. and i also refuse to believe that what you once thought was dope (MUSIC of the roots) suddenly became undope cause i told a snide inside jay z joke. sorry for the tasteless snide---just take it from my view. ( i still dont know if this was a joke or not--i mean its like if someone told jerry rice that bert convoy from the special olympics tied his TD record for the super bowl---i mean congrats and all...but i never heard of this group---

so lets make this positive.

educate me. who knows i may even love the material.

im open

hit me.

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I doubt he was headline status as the Roots are going to be, he could give the details better than I can.

He performs with a live orchestra, and it's pretty dope. Alot of the live strings are incorporated into his recordings. His website - http://www.theephantom.com is under construction, however he has music on myspace -
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you must have really gotten to him.

>cause the 50 jawn was a joke...
>but don't misrepresent this either.
>
>now yall mean to tell me....
>
>that phantom menance ALL BY t/HIM self....performed a concert
>ALL BY themself/himself (pardon the ignorance but there isnt
>even website info i can even find about pm) and the shit was
>sold out? as in
>
>guy1: hey molly i copped 4 tix to the phantom menace show at
>the kimmel next week wanna go?
>
>molly dodd: oh god jason of COURSE i wanna roll to this i
>couldn't find tix for days!!!!
>
>again...
>
>we were told we were the first hip hop act to play here.
>
>now i dont know if they mean "all you guys alone" not like
>"can black thought perform at this benefit we got for the
>democrats with springsteen, pavoratti, costello, and tom
>petty"--i mean technically i played tamborine at carnegie hall
>with chapelle in 2002---but i aint goin around saying "well i
>did a gig at the hall"
>
>pm, i aint tryna belittle ya. and i also refuse to believe
>that what you once thought was dope (MUSIC of the roots)
>suddenly became undope cause i told a snide inside jay z joke.
>sorry for the tasteless snide---just take it from my view. ( i
>still dont know if this was a joke or not--i mean its like if
>someone told jerry rice that bert convoy from the special
>olympics tied his TD record for the super bowl---i mean
>congrats and all...but i never heard of this group---
>
>so lets make this positive.
>
>educate me. who knows i may even love the material.
>
>im open
>
>hit me.

I actually performed at the Kimmel's Summer Solstice Celebration in 2002 and 2003. I rocked with a few members of the Philly Orch. and Chamber Orchestra of Philly in the Perelman Theater for an hour. Shockingly, they told me I drew more people than Itzhak Perelman himself at the same event an hour later. We may have actually worked with some of the same people. Gloria Justen who co-composes with/for me was supposed to do the Jay-Z Unplugged with you. She also records a lot for Larry Gold.

The stuff on the myspace site is a little elementary compared to what Gloria and I are writing now from the ground up. Also, the "A Million MC's" was played by a gentleman named John Levis who plays for PhilDanco and Penn. Ballet.

Not trying to run this in the whole but I found some archived press. My name is in there somewhere. LOL. Lots of turnover at the Kimmel since 2002. The cat who booked me there is named Tom Warner and he's still with them.

http://www.kimmelcenter.org/news/item.php?item=2003-06-02
http://citypaper.net/articles/2002-06-20/beatbox.shtml
Old Press: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/print_friendly.php?id=1756

concerto doesnt seem like a good live song,,
its a good album track,

you're wrong..check out the versions on therootslive.com...the concerto of the desperado...r double o t s rock the show..if you know like i know then you know the motto...there ain't nothin like...HIP HOP MUSIC (crowd cue)...that shit is nuts from experience

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And gets more cheese than Doritos, Cheetos or Fritos..
Slip like Freudian
Your first and last step to playin' yourself like accordion"-masked villain

Kamal playin guitar (!!!)

the call and response went over very well with the crowd, so thats a sign it works live.

if you havent heard this version, it will be added to the archives when therootslive.com relaunches on Friday.

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is what i want. that has and always will be one of my favorites
....forever...


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when is this show??

into no great pretender (new verses from thought perhaps?)

id love to hear that shit get the live treatment from you guys...

peace,
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that would be dope

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>fishbone as openers--) and i wanna pull a good 10 never heard befoe classics out the closet.

I NEED to be @ this show, what's the date?

And you HAVE to bring Norwood & Angelo on stage with the band to do a song...on some medley type shit...

Do snippets of "Rockstar", "Sunless Saturday", "Bonin in the Boneyard" segue into "Cholly" (for the big booty hoes), "Lemon Meringue" closing with "Properties of Propaganda" (have Riq do Busta's rap in that tune) BAM!! Muhfucka's would be losing it...

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>>fishbone as openers--) and i wanna pull a good 10 never
>heard befoe classics out the closet.
>
>I NEED to be @ this show, what's the date?
>
>And you HAVE to bring Norwood & Angelo on stage with the band
>to do a song...on some medley type shit...
>
>Do snippets of "Rockstar", "Sunless Saturday", "Bonin in the
>Boneyard" segue into "Cholly" (for the big booty hoes), "Lemon
>Meringue" closing with "Properties of Propaganda" (have Riq do
>Busta's rap in that tune) BAM!! Muhfucka's would be losing
>it...

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at least bring them out for some P-Funk ish.

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to me. i'd rather hear hypnotic.

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member performin wit peas in fitz feildhouse, Pitt campus in the "01"?!?!?!! That was when I was goin' there. Great show, I FINALLY got to hear dem iladelph joints, like 4 in the set..only problem was, there was some stupid BS about some power issuses and they (you all) had to cut the show short. BT was all like "yea well we would usualy rock out for anotha half hour - 45 minutes, but...."

o well o and PERFORM HYPNOTIC! lol


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anyways..

as in the 3-person-band-with-squealing-japanese-girl deerhoof? and fishbone?

thats dope. congrats on getting the kimmel center.

"concerto" would be illin.

(and ?, listen to the sufjan stevens records: seven swans, michigan, illinois. they're fantastic.)

i know audience will be annoyed (ala atari teenage riot in 94 tour) but fuck it.

if i don't take a risk who is?

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It'z kewl dat Blackthought haz to rhyme all Malik'z versez but to do her verze juz seemz weird to me, I'm glad I'm not a big fan of concertz.

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Hypnotic.. one of my fav tracks and every live version i have is on. Play this every UK show!

and bring D out.

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malik has never done a show
neither has d
--sheeit
sometimes WE wern't even there..(anybody knows where Broke from seatlle is? he turn 21 yet? lol)

trust me.

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I've been to about 25 or so Roots shows dating back to right before TFA dropped, and think that unquestionably my favorite show opener is when they set it off with Respond React (saw that at Lincoln Center). Here's a ysi link to what I'm talking about:
hxxp://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2TT70TZS36X4C1NP0DQKB3VXJ7

It's just ridonc how you (?uestlove) switch up the beat thrice; especially with that sorta nonsensical mumbling before you switch the beat and Riq starts with his, "I'm just a lyricist a chemist of the hemp." Similarly, the "watch the sound of they dynasty chant...", that beat switch up is nuts. I love those keys.

So i vote for opening with this. It is epic and energizing and I think a great way to set it off. I wish I could go to this. Damn.

I also gotta give my vote for the version of You Got Me where Ris does his, "Yo, can I trust her? Is she my chick for real? (and then y'all pause.) then Riq screams you know relationships get ill and you do your quasi heavy metal break down only to abruptly switch it back up to either the so fresh and so clean beat or the normal one (I prefer the normal one though).

On the topic of You Got Me, I think it's done best when y'all speed it up a bit and Riq pauses at different places that normal. Here's my example from memory:

Somebody told that this planet was small,
we used to live in the,
same building on the same floor,
and never met before until I'm,
over seas on tour,
and peeped this ethiopian,
queen from philly taking,
classes abroad,
she's studying,
film, photo-flash focus record,
says she's working on a flic could my click do the score,
says she's loved my show in paris at <whatever>,
and that I,
stepped off the stage and took a,
piece of her heart

Anyway, not sure if that is at all clear but I vote for doing YGM in this fashion.

i'd have to say the best opener ive seen in the past 10 years were 1) when they opened with respond/react, but playing motherless child behind it, and 2) when they used to open with without a doubut, comin thru the crowd with cowbells and stuff. anybody remember those free lil shows they was doin in record stores and stuff back then?? i know that was back in 96....

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Def the openings with cowbells through the crowd were dope.

What about when they opened in slow motion; I remember ?uest putting on white gloves or something and he did it all exaggerated-like and ultra slow.

They're just a really good live show is what it boils down to.

Probably my least favorite of their openings is the newer one with web->boom or web->whatever that tipping point song is. I mean, still incredible no doubt, but I prefer the TFS era openings.

Come to Edinburgh guys! (before Aug 24th please).

bring back the cowbells... and then jump into the version of Web they did on Jimmy Kimmel (after they did star) with the cowbells. that shit was crazy!

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Was gonna post this somewhere else, but as that kimmel performance has come up, anyone have the video of this?

I did have the audio but it cut off halfway through web. Would love to see the whole performance.

Also if you were to perform hypnotic, I think riq should use the lyrics from 'the notic' coz think that some of the best stuff he's written.

I didn't know if you posted this by mistake or just wanted to use it as an example. Either way that shit was bananas, especially when they switched to the Burn beat before the Malik B verse. That show as whole was sick. Perhaps their Best DC appearance not withstanding the epic ?uestless show in 94/95(?), I've been hearing about for years, where Rhazel beatboxed the whole show through. Now, I would kill to get my hands on that tape!


>I've been to about 25 or so Roots shows dating back to right
>before TFA dropped, and think that unquestionably my favorite
>show opener is when they set it off with Respond React (saw
>that at Lincoln Center). Here's a ysi link to what I'm talking
>about:
>hxxp://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2TT70TZS36X4C1NP0DQKB3VXJ7
>
>It's just ridonc how you (?uestlove) switch up the beat
>thrice; especially with that sorta nonsensical mumbling before
>you switch the beat and Riq starts with his, "I'm just a
>lyricist a chemist of the hemp." Similarly, the "watch the
>sound of they dynasty chant...", that beat switch up is nuts.
>I love those keys.
>

Still my favorite opener as well. I still remember the lincoln center show when they opened up with that and performed the whole song in pitch black.

Whole audience was rocking but u couldn't see anything.

"Push Up Ya Lighta" has been my jawn since day one. Gotta have Bahamadia on it though. Who else can throw Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportainon Authority in a rhyme and make it sound hot?

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anyway, i voted for concerto, even though i'll never hear it live. i once found the live vesion on the net on which they used nas' affirmative action beat. that was great!

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I need to hear this live once before I die!

Seeing as though you're going to be at home, might as well get Dice, Mars and them together and close the show with the IHL classic. That jawn always gets the hairs on the back of my neck standing. It's always ill when you get other guests rock on that shit too.

downunder?

c'mon man...push the lighta up...

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not for nuthin' quest, but i wanna know two things right 'bout now:

1)when is this jawn gonna go down?

2)and who do i hafta make a deal with to get tix?

now with that said, i say that the one classic roots joint that should
be done is(drum roll): CONCERTO OF THE DESPERADO!!!!!!!

that joint has cellos and arias all up in it...

the new sig-

"When you know that the life and spirit of others depend on your life and spirit, you have no right to be afraid - even when you are terribly afraid."

-Sembene Ousmane

WHICH JUST MEANS THAT THE ROOTS NEED TO START PERFORMING THIS WHOLE ALBUM AGAIN!!!!!!(J/K) BTW (ITS MY FAV ROOTS ALBUM) TOO BAD WE'LL PROBABLY NEVER HEAR "NO GREAT PRETENDER" EVER AGAIN!!!! IT'S REALLY A SHAME B/C ITS SUCH A GREAT SONG!!! OH WELL.

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One of those rare "perfect beats" in my opinion...

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that was a special night in HipHop....u had to be there to experience that...

I aint seen yall in a second (I was at the Summerfest show in the rain last year, but I aint stay for the whole thing, my girl was with me, you already know, lol)

But if yall aint rockin Section you should be...

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Im gonna have to go with Concerto.

For everyone asking, its September 16th. I c a n n o t wait for this shit, finally my first Roots show.

...Concerto

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complete with the opera sangin' chick and orchestra. Would be appropo for the venue, methinks...


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