Live at The Bitter End, NYC@ The Bitter End, NYC
I wasn’t sure what to make of these guys as they took forever to set up. A beat eventually came from the drummer who looked like the old hippy father of Joe Walsh. Off to the side a DJ started scratching. This was getting interesting. The band eventually grew bigger with the addition of a large 70s rock lookin’ dude on guitar. We called him Leslie East. Then came the horns as the funk grew funkier.
More kept coming and I realized my first impression of them being some jammy blues band was way off. In came this tall Asian guy with a bass kicking into a serious slap solo. The funk grew funkier still.
In came more guitars, horns and this one cat that I thought was simply the emcee of the night started wailing on a sax. Up walked a vocalist and by this time there were ten guys on the small Bitter End (147 Bleecker St, NYC) stage.
A girl at the bar told me that they were this Prince meets Wilson Picket cover band. I thought she was pulling my leg until their jam flew into a seriously hot version of ‘Sign O’ The Times’.
As much fun as this was, by 2:00am, I really had to get home to sleep. On my walk to the train, I wondered how long they’d keep playing. It seemed as though they could go all night.
